For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APARTMENT. Any building containing two or more single-family dwelling units and having one sewer connection for all dwelling units.
APPROVING AUTHORITY. The Water and Sewer Department of the city.
BOD or BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND. Expressed in parts per million by weight, the calculated pounds of oxygen required to satisfy the five-day oxygen demand of a million pounds of domestic sewage or industrial wastes, or a combination of both when tested in accordance with the procedures given in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Sewage, published by the American Public Health Association.
BUILDING. Any improved property containing a structure which meets any one of the classifications herein.
BUSINESS. Any building used by the occupant for amusement, entertainment, service, professional, retail trade or any other similar purposes except as defined under “commercial” and “industrial.”
CITY. The City Council or any duly authorized officials acting in its behalf.
COLOR. The “true color,” due to substances in solution which cause any variation in the hue of the receiving stream and is expressed in wave lengths of light.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
COMMERCIAL. Any hotel, motel, lodge, tourist home, efficiency apartment, house or similar building operated primarily as a commercial enterprise for the purpose of rental and lodging on a daily or weekly basis. For determination of rates, each room or series of rooms made available to the general public as a separate entity for overnight accommodation shall be classified as a “rental unit.”
CONDOMINIUM. One or more buildings containing two or more single-family units owned individually and not provided with access by public streets or roads and having one sewer connection for all units.
DEVELOPMENT. Any residential subdivision, real estate development, commercial, industrial or institutional complex.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE. Liquid waste from bathrooms, toilet rooms, kitchens and home laundries.
EQUIVALENT UNIT. Equal to that number of single-family dwelling units. For purpose of estab-lishing tap fee and billing cost, the following equivalents shall be used. For purpose of establishing tap fee and billing cost, the following equivalents shall be used:
Description Equivalent Unit
(a) Single-family dwelling unit 1.0
(b) Condominium dwelling unit 1.0
(c) Townhouse dwelling unit 1.0
(d) Apartment unit 1.0
(e) Hotel or motel
Per room without restaurant 0.25
Per room with restaurant 0.425
(f) Camp area-fixed unit
Temporary site (daily or weekend
rentals) 1.0
(g) Restaurant per seat 0.175
(h) Business or institutional:
12,000 gallons/month 1.0
(i) Bars/Taverns
Per seat or stool 0.15
(j) Laundry mat, per machine 1.0
(k) Boarding house with kitchen,
per resident 0.25
(l) Churches 0.5
(m) Marinas, per slip 0.075
(n) Schools, day care, per person 0.025
(o) Grocery store (per 1,000 square
feet) 0.5
(grocery store shall have a
minimum of one ERU)
(p) Non-profit organizations with
a 401(3)(c) status 1.0
GARBAGE. The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The liquid wastes from commercial and industrial processes and operations, as distinct from domestic sewage.
INDUSTRIAL. Any building used by the occu- pant to manufacture, assemble or process goods classified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual.
INSTITUTION. Any building used as a hospital, church, school or similar public facility.
MAY. The act referred to is permissive.
MOBILE HOME PARK. Land used for the purpose of providing space to park mobile homes whether on wheels or a foundation, designated to serve as living quarters, whether permanent or occasional.
MOTEL BEDROOM UNIT. Each room in a motel or hotel or similar building operated primarily as a rental unit or lodging on a daily or weekly basis normally used for sleeping.
MULTIPLE-FAMILY DWELLING UNIT. Any building containing two or more single-family dwelling units and having individual sewer con-nections to each dwelling unit.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
PPM. Parts per million by weight expressed in pounds. One million pounds of water or sewage equals approximately 120,000 gallons.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, association, corporation, institution or group.
pH. The logarithm (base ten) of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution. A pH valve of 7.0 is considered neutral. A stabilized pH will be considered as a pH which does not change beyond the specified limits when the waste is subjected to aeration. pH below 7.0 is acid, above alkaline.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has been shredded to a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers with no particles greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties shall have equal rights, and which is controlled by public authority.
RECEIVING STREAM. The body of water or stream of watercourse receiving the discharge waters from the sewage treatment plant or formed by the discharge of the sewage treatment plant.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage or polluted industrial wastes and to which storm, surface and ground waters or unpolluted industrial waste are not intentionally admitted.
SEPTIC TANK. A private domestic sewage treatment system consisting of an underground tank, distribution box and drain field designed and constructed in accordance with any or all existing local and state requirements.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement or device and structures for treating sewage.
SEWAGE. A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with ground, surface and storm water as may be naturally present.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM. All facilities for collecting, conveying, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING UNIT. Any building, house or apartment unit, occupied for living purposes by a single family and owned or leased by the occupant on a continuing basis for 30 days or more per year.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN. A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted wastes.
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.
TOWNHOUSE. One or more buildings containing two or more single-family units owned individually and provided with, or adjacent to, public streets or roads and having one sewer connection for each unit.
(`95 Code, § 4-2-1) (Ord. 20-00, passed 9-26-00; Am. Ord. 19-01, passed 9-18-01)