The meanings of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows unless the context specifically indicates otherwise:
BOD (denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand): The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five (5) days at twenty degrees (20o) centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN: That part of the lowest horizontal 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 building sewer, beginning five feet (5') outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER: The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
COMBINED SEWER: A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
COMMERCIAL USER: Any place of business, manufacturing facility or other enterprise not primarily used as a residence, connected to the City sewage collection system and which does not meet the definition of an industrial user.
GARBAGE: Solid wastes form the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL USER: Any user connected to the City sewage collection system which meets or exceeds one or more of the following criteria:
A. A flow rate of 0.015 million gallons per day during any one day or a flow that will average over one million (1,000,000) gallons per day for a monthly period.
B. A BOD discharge rate exceeding fifty (50) pounds in any one day.
C. A TSS discharge rate exceeding fifty (50) pounds in any one day.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES: The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET: Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
pH: The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PERSON: Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE: The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch (1/2") in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER: A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by a public authority.
RESIDENTIAL USER: Any single or multiple dwelling unit connected to the City sewage collection system.
SANITARY SEWER: A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE: A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT: Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS: All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER: A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SHALL/MAY: "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
SLUG: Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any period of duration more than fifteen (15) minutes and more than five (5) times the average twenty four (24) hour concentration of flow expected during normal operation.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN: A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
SUPERINTENDENT: The City, or its authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS: Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
WATERCOURSE: A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (Ord. 395, 9-6-83)