For purposes of this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings ascribed to them respectively. Also see the Pretreatment Regulations section of this Chapter for additional definitions.
(a) "CITY." The City of Fostoria, Ohio.
(b) "COMBINED SEWER." A sewer intended to receive both sewage and storm or surface water.
(c) "COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT." Includes biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH, and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the City's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit, provided the City's wastewater treatment plant is designed to treat such pollutants, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree.
(d) "COOLING WATER" or "INDUSTRIAL COOLING WATER." The unpolluted water discharged from any system of condensation, air-conditioning cooling, refrigeration, or other similar use which meets the criteria established by the OEPA for effluents discharged to water courses at the City.
(e) "DIRECTOR." The Director of Public Service and Safety of the City or authorized deputy, agent, or representative, which may be the City Engineer or the Chief Operator of the Wastewater Treatment Plant.
(f) "FLOATABLE OIL." Oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
(g) "GARBAGE." Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, or dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce."PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE." The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such a 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 in any dimension.
(h) "INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT." Any pollutant which is not a "COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT" as defined above including non-biodegradable dissolved solids.
(i) "INDIRECT DISCHARGE." The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants from a source regulated under the Clean Water Act into the sewage disposal system.
(j) "INDUSTRIAL WASTES." The liquid wastes resulting from commercial, manufacturing, or industrial operations or processes as distinct from residential or domestic strength wastes.
(k) "INTERCEPTOR." A device designed and installed so as to separate or retain deleterious, hazardous, or undesirable matter from normal wastes, and that permits normal wastewater to discharge into the disposal terminal by gravity.
(l) "NATURAL OUTLET." Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface water or groundwater.
(m) "NORMAL STRENGTH SEWAGE OR WASTES (as defined for the purpose of determining surcharge)." Sewage having an average daily suspended solids concentration of not more than 250 mg/l, an average daily BOD concentration of not more than 200 mg/l, and not containing any of the characteristics in excess of the limitations prohibited and established by this Chapter.
(n) "PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)". A treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. section 1292), which is owned by the City. This definition includes any devices or systems used in the collection, storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature and any conveyances, which convey wastewater to a treatment plant.
(o) "SANITARY SEWAGE." The waste from water closets, urinals, lavatories, sinks, bathtubs, showers, household laundries, cellar floor drains, garage floor drains, etc.
(p) "SEWAGE." The spent water of a community. Preferred term is "Wastewater".
(q) "SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM." All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
(r) "SEWER" - a pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
(1) "Building Drain." - that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the building wall.
(2) "Building Sewer." - the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, also referred to as a house connection or service connection.
(3) "Collection Sewer" - a sewer whose primary purpose is to collect wastewaters from individual point source discharges and connections.
(4) "Combined Sewer" - a sewer intended to serve as a sanitary sewer and a storm sewer.
(5) "Force Main" - a pipe in which wastewater is carried under pressure.
(6) "Private Sewer" - a sewer which is not owned and maintained by a public authority.
(7) "Public Sewer" - a sewer owned, maintained and controlled by a public authority.
(8) "Sanitary Sewer" - a sewer intended to carry only liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions together with minor quantities of ground, storm, and surface waters which are not admitted intentionally.
(9) "Storm Sewer or Storm Drain" - a drain or sewer intended to carry storm waters, surface runoff, ground water, sub-surface water, street wash water, drainage, and unpolluted water from any source.
(s) "SEWER TAPPING." The construction of a building sewer or a building drain and connection to a sanitary sewer or a storm drain forming part of the public sewer system.
(t) "SPECIFICATIONS FOR MATERIALS." Standards of specifications identified by the following abbreviations.
(1) "ANSI." American Standards approved by the American National Standards Institute, Inc., 1430 Broadway, New York, New York 10018.
(2) "ASTM." Standards and tentative standards published by the American Society for Testing and Materials, P.O. Box 7510, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19101.
(3) "CS." Commercial standards representing recorded voluntary recommendations of the trade, issued by the United States Department of Commerce and obtainable from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20234.
(u) "SURCHARGE." The fee in addition to the service charge which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration values established as representative of normal sewage.
(v) "TOXIC POLLUTANTS." Includes but is not necessarily limited to aldrindieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and toxaphene. Pollutants included as "TOXIC" shall be those promulgated as such by the USEPA.
(w) "UNPOLLUTED WATER." Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause a violation of "receiving water" quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
(x) "UPSET." An exceptional incident in which a user unintentionally and temporarily is in a state of noncompliance with the standards set forth in this chapter due to factors beyond the reasonable control of the user and excluding noncompliance to the extent caused by operational error, improperly designed treatment facilities, inadequate treatment facilities, lack of preventive maintenance, or careless or improper operation thereof.
(y) "USER CLASS." The division of users within the City's sewer service area, by the origin of the sewage discharged and by the similarity of the function of such users.
(1) "RESIDENTIAL USER." Single-family, Two-Family and Three-Family residential units which discharge domestic wastes.
(2) "NONRESIDENTIAL USER." Apartment Complex, Nursing Homes/Assisted Living and Mobile Home Parks or similar uses.
(3) "COMMERCIAL USER." Retail and wholesale establishments or places engaged in selling merchandise, or rendering services.
(4) "GOVERNMENTAL/INSTITIONAL USER." Schools, churches, and governmental users or similar uses.
(5) "INDUSTRIAL USER." Establishments engaged in manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials into products.
(z) "WASTEWATER." The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and storm water that may be present.
(aa) "WATERCOURSE." A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 2014-09. Passed 3-4-14.)