Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(a) "Biochemical oxygen demand" or "BOD" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five days at twenty degrees Celsius, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(b) "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from the soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of a building and conveys it to the building sewer, which begins four feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(c) "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, also called the house connection.
(d) "Chemical oxygen demand" or "COD" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(e) "Commercial unit or class" means a building or part of a building used by one commercial, private or public enterprise for uses other than as a dwelling, but not classified as an institutional or industrial unit.
(f) "Compatible pollutant" means BOD, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit if the publicly owned treatment works was designed to treat such pollutants and, in fact, does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree. Examples of such additional pollutants may include:
(1) COD;
(2) Total organic carbon;
(3) Phosphorous and phosphorous compounds;
(4) Nitrogen and nitrogen compounds; and
(5) Fats, oils and greases of animal or vegetable origin, except as prohibited under Section 1045.02.
(g) "Cooling water" means the water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, during which the only pollutant added to the water is heat.
(h) "Debt service charge" means the charge levied on users to make principal and interest payments and/or participation payments to OWDA required for the amortization of the cost of the wastewater collection and treatment facilities.
(i) "Discharger"; "Discharge unit" means any residence, commercial establishment, industry or private or public facility generating, accumulating and/or otherwise discharging liquid waste, either directly or ultimately, into any of the sewer systems of the Village.
(j) "Engineer" means the Village Engineer as designated by Council.
(k) "Federal Act" or "Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 and 1977, Public Law 92-500, Public Law 95-217, and any amendments thereto, as well as any guidelines, limitations and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) pursuant to the Act.
(l) "Floatable oil" means oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
(m) "Garbage" means the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of food.
(n) "Incompatible pollutant" means any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined in definition (f) of this section.
(o) "Indirect discharge permittee (IDP)" means any business that meets the definition of significant industrial user (SIU) and discharges into a publically owned treatment works (POTW) in which the community that owns the treatment plant does not have an Ohio EPA-approved pretreatment program. Said industry must receive written permission from receiving POTW and apply for and obtain an indirect discharge permit from Ohio EPA. The IDP business must comply with contaminant limits established by Ohio EPA and needs to report certain specifics to the POTW and Ohio EPA on a monthly basis.
(p) "Industrial wastes" shall mean the wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or business as distinct from sanitary wastes.
(q) "Institutional unit or class" shall mean hospitals, nursing homes, schools, Village, County, State or Federal Building, Government users, or facilities not engaged in profit oriented business that discharge wastewater into the public wastewater treatment system, works, and facility.
(r) "Loading" is the quantity of a pollutant in wastewater over a given period of time, calculated by the flow rate of the stream and the concentration of the pollutant in that stream.
(s) "Major contributing industry" shall mean an industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that:
(1) Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more than average work day;
(2) Has a flow greater than five percent of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste;
(3) Has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under Section 307(1) of the Federal Act; or
(4) Is found by the permit issuance authority in connection with the issuance of an NPDES permit to the publicly owned treatment works receiving the waste, to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on that treatment works or upon the quality of effluent from that treatment works.
(t) "May" is permissive; "shall" is mandatory.
(u) "Natural outlet" shall mean any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, or other body of surface or groundwater.
(v) "NPDES" permit shall mean the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.
(w) "Operation, maintenance, and replacement costs" shall mean all costs associated with the operation, maintenance, and replacement of wastewater collection and treatment facilities as well as costs associated with periodic equipment replacement necessary for maintaining capacity and performance of the wastewater collection and treatment facilities.
(x) "POTW" means a publicly owned treatment works.
(y) "Person" shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
(z) "pH" shall mean the reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH of 7 and a hydrogen ion concentration of 107.
(aa) "Pollutant" shall mean dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge, munition, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into the water.
(bb) "Properly shredded garbage" shall mean the wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have 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 ½ inch (.127 centimeters) in any dimension.
(cc) "Pretreatment" shall mean the treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into publically owned waste treatment facilities.
(dd) "Public sewer" shall mean a common sewer controlled by a government agency or public utility.
(ee) "Replacement" shall mean expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance" includes replacement.
(ff) "Sanitary sewer" shall mean pipe system that carries liquid and water carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with minor quantities of ground, storm, and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
(gg) "Sewer service charge" shall mean the charge levied on users for capital cost amortization (debt service charges) and for operation and replacement costs (user charges). Such sewer service charge includes debt service charges and user charges.
(hh) "Significant industrial users (SIU) or class" shall mean any industrial user of a publically owned treatment works which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day (gpd) of sanitary wastes and which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented under one of the following divisions:
(1) Division A: Agriculture, forestry and fishing;
(2) Division B: Mining;
(3) Division C: Manufacturing;
(4) Division D: Transportation, communications, electric, gas and sanitary services; and
(5) Division I: Services.
Industrial shall include manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substance into other products.
These activities occur in establishments usually described, but not limited to, plants, factories, or mills, and characteristically use power driven machines and material handling equipment.
(1) In determining the amount of a user's discharge, the grantee may exclude domestic waste discharges from industrial wastes.
(2) After applying the sanitary waste exclusion in paragraph (1) of this definition (if the Village chooses to do so), discharges in the above divisions that have a volume exceeding 25,000 gpd or the weight of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) or suspended solids (SS) equivalent to that weight found in 25,000 gpd of sanitary waste are considered industrial users. Sanitary wastes, for purposes of this calculation of equivalency, are equal to definition (ss) of this section called "sanitary wastewater". The strength of residential discharges is herein defined as BOD less than or equal to 200 mg per liter and suspended solids (SS) less than or equal to 240 mg per liter.
Any industrial user of a publically owned treatment works which discharges wastewater to the treatment works which contains toxic pollutants or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity either singly or by interaction with other wastes to contaminate the sludge of any municipal system, or to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, or which constitutes a hazard to human or animals, creates a public nuisance, or creates any hazard in or has an adverse effect on the waters receiving any discharge from the treatment works.
All commercial users of an individual system constructed with grant assistance under Section 201(h) of the Act and this subpart. See 35.918 (a)(3).
(ii) "Slug" shall mean a discharge of water or wastewater with pollutants high in organic loading which in concentration of any given constituent, or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen minutes more than five times the average twenty-four hour concentration, or flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
(jj) "Storm drain"; "storm sewer" means a drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source.
(kk) "Storm water" means any flow occurring during or immediately following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom. Water originating from precipitation which is captured in roof drains and downspouts, footer and foundation tiles, ground drainage tiles, catch basins and which does not undergo any use or contamination prior to disposal.
(ll) "Superintendent" shall mean the Village Administrator of the Village of Grafton or such other person as may be appointed by Council, or his authorized representative.
(mm) "Suspended solids (SS)" shall mean total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in the suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering, as prescribed in "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" and referred to as the nonfilterable residue.
(nn) "Tap charge" means the charge levied by the Village on new users connecting to the Village sanitary sewer system, which is charged to maintain equitable capital recovery amounts for use of the sewer system by new connections.
(oo) "Toxic pollutants" shall include but not necessarily be limited to aldrin-dieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and toxaphene. Pollutants included as "toxic" shall be those promulgated as such by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(pp) "User charge" is the charge levied on the users of the treatment works for the cost of operation, maintenance, and replacement of such works, pursuant to Section 204(b) of Title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-500) and amendments thereto.
(qq) "Unpolluted water" is water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria that is in effect, or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
(rr) "WQS" means water quality standards.
(ss) "Wastewater" (sanitary waste) means 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 plant and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and storm water that may be present. It means a wastewater discharge having the average characteristics equivalent to or less than 200 mg/l BOD and 240 mg/l suspended solids concentrations.
(tt) "Wastewater facilities" shall mean the structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
(uu) "Wastewater treatment works" shall mean an arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "waste treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "water pollution control plant".
(Ord. 13-032. Passed 11-5-13.)