For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOD or BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND. The same meaning as defined in the sewer use ordinance.
COMMERCIAL USER. Any establishment involved in a commercial enterprise, business, or service which, based on a determination by the town, discharges primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
COUNCIL. The Town Council of the town, or any duly authorized officials acting on its behalf.
DEBT SERVICE COSTS. The average annual principal and interest payments on all outstanding revenue bonds or other long-term capital debt.
EXCESSIVE STRENGTH SURCHARGES. An additional charge which is billed to users for treating sewage wastes with an average strength in excess of normal domestic sewage.
GEORGETOWN SERVICE AREA. The area coterminous with the corporate limits of the town.
GOVERNMENTAL USER. Any federal, state, or local governmental user of the wastewater treatment works.
INDUSTRIAL USER. Any manufacturing or processing facility that discharges industrial waste to a publicly owned treatment works.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The wastewater discharges from industrial, trade, or business processes as distinct from employee wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
INSTITUTIONAL USER. Any establishment involved in a social, charitable, religious, and/or educational function which, based on a determination by the town, discharges primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
MAY. The action referred to is permissive.
NH3 or AMMONIA. The same meaning as defined in the sewer use ordinance.
NORMAL DOMESTIC SEWAGE.
(1) For the purpose of determining surcharges shall mean wastewater or sewage having an average daily concentration as follows: BOD not more than 225 mg/l, and S.S. not more than 225 mg/l.
(2) As defined by origin, wastewaters from segregated domestic and/or sanitary conveniences, as distinct from wastes from industrial processes.
NPDES (NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM) PERMIT. The same meaning as defined in the sewer use ordinance.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS. Include all costs, direct and indirect, necessary to provide adequate wastewater collection, transport, and treatment on a continuing basis and produce discharges to receiving waters that conform with all related federal, state, and local requirements. (These costs include replacement.)
OTHER SERVICE CHARGES. Tap charges, connection charges, area charges, and other identifiable charges, other than user charges, debt service charges, and excessive strength surcharges.
P or PHOSPHORUS. The same meaning as defined in the sewer use ordinance.
PERSON. Any and all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm, company, municipal or private corporation, association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency, or other entity.
REPLACEMENT COSTS. The expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which the works were designed and constructed.
RESIDENTIAL USER. A user of the treatment works whose premises or building is used primarily as a residence for one or more persons, including all dwelling units, and the like.
SEWAGE. The same meaning as defined in the sewer use ordinance.
SHALL. The action referred to is mandatory.
S.S. or SUSPENDED SOLIDS. The same meaning as defined in the sewer use ordinance.
TOWN. The Town of Georgetown acting by and through the Council.
USER CHARGE. A charge levied on users of the wastewater treatment works for the cost of operation and maintenance of those works pursuant to § 204(b) of Pub. L. No. 92-500, being 33 U.S.C. § 1284.
USER CLASS. The division of wastewater treatment customers by source, function, waste characteristics, and process or discharge similarities (such as, residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, and governmental in the user charge system).
(1) Commercial user. Any establishment involved in a commercial enterprise, business, or service which, based on a determination by the town, discharges primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(2) Governmental user. Any federal, state, or local governmental user of the wastewater treatment works.
(3) Industrial user. Any manufacturing or processing facility that discharges industrial waste to a publicly owned treatment works.
(4) Institutional user. Any establishment involved in a social, charitable, religious, and/or educational function which, based on a determination by the town, discharges primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(5) Residential user. A user of the treatment works whose premises or building is used primarily as a residence for one or more persons, including all dwelling units and the like.
(2005 Code, § 53.120) (Ord. G-92-03, passed 6-15-1992)