Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used herein shall be as follows:
(a) “B.O.D.” or ‘Biochemical Oxygen Demand”. The quantity of oxygen expressed in milligrams per liter, utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matters under standard laboratory procedures of five days at 20 degrees Centigrade.
(b) “Building drain”. That part of the lowest piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the buildings and conveys it to the customer service line, and/or to the lateral sewer.
(c) “Building sewer”. The extension from the building drain to the customer service line and/or lateral sewer.
(d) “Town”. The Town of Granville, Monongalia County, West Virginia, a municipal corporation incorporated under the laws of this state.
(e) “Combined sewer.” A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
(f) “Customer”. A customer is a person, corporation, partnership or association and is that party whether owner or tenant, utilizing sewer service furnished by the Town to a property.
(g) “Customer service line”. The extension from the building drain of any structure to the lateral of a sanitary sewer controlled by the Town.
(h) “Garbage”. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(i) “Governing body”. The Mayor and Council, together, who are charged with the responsibility of enacting ordinances and determining the public policy for the Town.
(j) “Improved property”. Any property located within the Town upon which there is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes are or may be discharged.
(k) “Industrial waste”. Any garbage, refuse or sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility and other discarded material including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows.
(l) “Lateral”. That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer located in the street to the curb line; or, if there shall be no curb line, to the property line; or, if no such lateral shall be provided, then “Lateral” shall mean that portion of, or place in, a sewer which is provided for connection of any customer service line.
(m) “Natural outlet”. Any outlet including storm sewers and combined sewers, which flows into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or groundwater.
(n) “Owner”. Any person, corporation, partnership or association vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, in any real property.
(o) “Person”. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, partnership or group.
(p) “pH”. The reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution.
(q) “Public sewer”. A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and that is controlled by the Town.
(r) “Right-of-way” or “Easement”. An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
(s) “Sanitary sewage”. Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any improved property. The preferred term is wastewater.
(t) “Sanitary sewer”. A sewer controlled by the Town that carries liquid and water- carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(u) “Sewer”. Any pipe or conduit that carries wastewater, domestic drainage, sanitary wastes, or industrial wastes.
(v) “Sewer system”. All wastewater facilities, owned by the Town, for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage or industrial wastes.
(w) “Significant industrial user”. Any industrial user that will contribute greater than ten percent (10%) of the design flow or design pollutant loading of the wastewater facilities.
(x) “Single Family Dwelling”. Any room, group of rooms, house trailer or other enclosure occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by a family or other group of persons living together, or by persons living alone.
(y) “Slug”. Any discharge of wastewater which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen minutes and is more than five times the average twenty-four hour concentration of flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performances of the wastewater facilities.
(z) “Storm sewer; storm drain”. A sewer which carriers storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
(aa) “Superintendent”. The superintendent of sanitary sewer and wastewater facilities for the Town, or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
(bb) “Suspended solids”. Those solids which are visible and in suspension in the water. Included are the larger floating particles consisting of sand, grit, clay, fecal solids, paper, sticks of wood, particles of food and garbage, and similar materials.
(cc) “Wastewater facilities”. The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry and treat domestic and industrial wastes and to dispose of the effluent.
(dd) “Watercourse”. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Passed 1-8-85)