Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used herein shall be as follows:
(a) “Board” means the duly constituted Sanitary Board of the City of Fairmont, West Virginia.
(b) “B.O.D.” or “biochemical oxygen demand” means the quantity of oxygen expressed in milligrams per liter, utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures of five days at twenty degrees Centigrade.
(c) “Building drain” means that part of the lowest piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the customer’s service line, and/or to the lateral sewer.
(d) “City” means the City of Fairmont, West Virginia.
(e) “Customer” means a person, corporation, partnership or association, whether owner or tenant, utilizing sewer services furnished by the City to a property.
(f) “Customer service line” means the extension from the building drain of any structure to the lateral of a sanitary sewer controlled by the City.
(g) “Garbage” means the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of foods.
(h) “Improved property” means any property located within the City upon which there is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary sewer and/or industrial wastes are or may be discharged.
(i) “Industrial waste” means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility and other discarded material including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows.
(j) “Lateral” means that part of the sewer system extending from a sewer located in the street to the curb line; or, if there is no curb line, to the property line; or, if no such lateral is provided, then “lateral” means that portion of, or place in, a sewer which is provided for connection of any customer service line.
(k) “Manager” means the superintendent of sanitary sewer facilities and of wastewater treatment works of the City, sometimes known as the Engineer/Manager, or authorized deputy, agent or representative.
(l) “Natural outlet” means any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewers, which overflows into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
(m) “Owner” means any person, corporation, partnership or association vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, in any real property.
(n) “Person” means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, partnership or group.
(o) “pH” means the reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams per liter of solution.
(p) “Right of way” or “easement” means an acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
(q) “Sanitary sewage” means normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any improved property. The preferred term is “wastewater”.
(r) “Sanitary sewer” means a sewer controlled by the City that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions.
(s) “Sewer” means any pipe or conduit that carries wastewater, domestic drainage, sanitary wastes or industrial wastes.
(t) “Sewer system” means all wastewater facilities, owned by the City, for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage or industrial wastes.
(u) “Significant industrial user” means any industrial user that will contribute greater than ten percent (10%) of the design flow or design pollutant loading of the treatment works.
(v) "Single-family dwelling" means any room, group of rooms, house trailer or other enclosure occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by a family or other group of persons living together, or by persons living alone.
(w) "Slug" means any discharge of wastewater which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen minutes and is more than five times the average twenty-four hour concentration of flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
(x) "Suspended solids" means those solids which are visible and in suspension in the water. Included are the larger floating particles consisting of sand, grit, clay, fecal solids, paper, sticks of wood, particles of food and garbage, and similar materials.
(y) "Wastewater facilities" means the structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry and treat domestic and industrial wastes and disposal of the effluent.
(Ord. 578. Passed 10-5-82.)
(Ord. 578. Passed 10-5-82.)