For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOD or BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND. The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20°C expressed in milligrams per liter, mg/l, by weight.
BRANCH SEWER. A sewer which receives sewage from lateral sewers from a relatively small area.
BUILDING SEWER and HOUSE SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the building connection or other place of disposal.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
DEVELOPER. Any person engaged in the organizing and financing of a sewage collecting system within an area contributing to a trunk sewer of the town sewer system. Such may be either a subdivider or a legally constituted improvement district.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.
LATERAL SEWER. A sewer which discharges into a branch or other sewer and has no other common sewer tributary to it.
MAIN SEWER. A sewer which receives sewage from one or more branch sewer as tributaries.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, ditch or other body of surface water or ground water.
pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. Garbage 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 particle greater than one-fourth inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm waters, surface waters 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 ground waters, surface water 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 CONNECTION. The connection to the public sewer and the extension therefrom of the sewer to the property line at the alley or the curbline of the street, whichever is applicable, depending on the location of the public sewer.
SEWER CONNECTION FEE. The initial sewer connection charge as set forth in § 51.03.
SEWER DEPARTMENT. Those officers and agents of the town supervising sewer operations for the town.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN. A sewer which carries storm waters and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids that either float on the surface of water or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
TRUNK SEWER. A sewer which receives sewage from many tributary main sewers and serves as an outlet for a large territory.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously or intermittently.
(1996 Code, § 13.08.010)