(a) Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(1) "City" means the City of Greenfield, Ohio.
(2) "County" means Highland County, Ohio.
(3) "Facilities Planning Area" or "Service Area" means the area which has been delineated by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for sanitary sewer service, and which is shown and fully described in the Greenfield Regional Facilities Plan.
(4) "Segmented Facilities Planning Area" means a sub-area or portion of the Facilities Planning Area, generally associated with a specific drainage area.
(5) "Sewer District" means any of the sanitary sewer districts and their extension or extensions and/or any drainage area or areas now existing or subsequently created by Council or by the Board of County Commissioners of the County and covered by contract providing for City service to the area under contract.
(6) "Agreement" means any and all agreements, including amendments thereto, between the City and Highland County for cooperative action in the planning, financing, design, construction and operation of sewerage facilities.
(7) "Director" means the Safety-Service Director or his designated representative.
(8) "Superintendent" means the administrator and chief operator of the water and wastewater treatment facilities of the City, or his designated representative.
(9) "Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group. In case of a corporation, a person shall be a company officer directly in charge of discharges to sewers.
(10) "Owner" means any person in title or having any interest in real property in the Facilities Planning Area, including any of the sanitary sewer districts and their extensions and/or drainage area or areas now existing or subsequently created by the City and/or County, or covered by contract providing for City service to the area under contract.
(11) "Department of Public Service" or "Department" means the Department established by the City responsible for managing and operating the water works and sewage works of the City.
(12) "Water Works" or "System" means all facilities for water supply, filtration plant, pumping plant, storage reservoirs, water lines and services and booster stations for obtaining, treating and distributing potable water.
(13) "Sewage" or "Sewerage Works" or "System" means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of wastewater, including industrial wastewater.
(14) "Wastewater Treatment Plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating wastewater both domestic and non-domestic.
(15) "Influent" means wastewater, raw or partially treated, flowing into any wastewater treatment device or facilities.
(16) “Effluent” means wastewater, water or other liquid, after some degree of treatment, flowing out of any treatment device or facility.
(17) “OEPA” means the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(18) "USEPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(19) “Federal Act” means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 Public Law 92-500, and any amendments thereto, including the Clean Water Act of 1977 (P. L. 95-217); as well as any guidelines, limitations, and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
(20) “NPDES permit” means the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.
(21) "Wastewater" 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 plants, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may be present.
(22) “Sanitary or Domestic Wastewater" or "Sewage" means a combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, commercial, industrial and manufacturing establishments contributed by reason of human occupancy.
(23) "Industrial Wastewater" or “Process Wastewater" means the liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business establishments, or from the development, recovery, or processing of natural resources, as distinct from "Sanitary or Domestic Wastewater".
(24) "Normal Strength Wastewater" as defined for the purpose of determining surcharges, means wastewater having an average daily suspended solids concentration of not more than 250 mg/1, an average daily BOD5 of not more than 200 mg/l, an average daily concentration of not more than 10 mg/1, and containing not more than 100 mg/1 of Freon soluble matter (grease and oil).
(25) "Clean Wastewater" or “Unpolluted Water" means water of a quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria established by the OEPA, or water that would not cause violation receiving water quality standards and would not be improved by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
(26) "Cooling Water" means the water discharged from any system of condensation, air cooling, refrigeration, or other sources. It shall be free from odor and oil and shall contain no polluting substances. Cooling water shall be considered Industrial Wastewater if it is discharged to the sanitary sewer system.
(27) "Pollutant" means dredged spoils, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge, munitions, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, Municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water.
(28) "Compatible Pollutant" means BOD5, 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:
A. COD;
B. Total organic carbon;
C. Phosphorus and phosphorus compounds;
D. Nitrogen and nitrogen compounds;
E. Fats, oils and greases of animal or vegetable origin; except as limited under Section 915.06
(f).
(29) "Incompatible Pollutant" means any pollutant which is not a "compatible pollutant" as defined in subsection (28) hereof.
(30) "Toxic Pollutants" includes but is not necessarily limited to aldrin-dieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) and toxaphene. Pollutants included as "toxic" shall be those promulgated as such by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(31) "Garbage" means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
(32) "Properly Shredded Garbage" means 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 one-half inch in any dimension.
(33) "Sewer" means any pipe or conduit for conveying wastewater.
(34) "Public Sewer" means a sewer which is owned and controlled by a public authority.
(35) "Sanitary Sewer" means a sewer which carries wastewater and to which storm, surface and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
(36) "Storm Sewer" or "Storm Drain" means a sewer which carries storm, surface waters and drainage, but which excludes sanitary wastewater and industrial wastewater, other than unpolluted wastewater and cooling water.
(37) "Combined Sewer" means a sewer which is designed to carry sanitary wastewater, industrial wastewater and storm water runoff.
(38) "Interceptor sewer" means a sewer which receives wastewater from one or more lateral or local sanitary sewers.
(39) "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system carrying wastewater which receives discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building, and conveys it to the Building Sewer, which begins five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(40) “Building Sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, also called "House Connection".
(41) "User" means any person or premises receiving wastewater treatment services.
(42) “Industrial Plant” means any facility which discharges industrial wastewater. Associated service industries shall be considered as industrial plants. For example, commercial power plants (electric), commercial laundries, restaurants, hotels, filling stations, water works or other establishments having dan industrial wastewater discharge.
(43) “Major Contributing Industry” means an industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that:
A. Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day;
B. Has a flow greater than five percent (5%) of the flow carried by the Municipal system receiving the waste;
C. Has in its waste, a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under Section 307(a) of the Federal Act; or
D. 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.
(44) “Significant Contributing Industry” means an industrial user which contributes greater than ten percent (10%) of the design flow or design pollutant loading of the treatment works.
(45) “Pretreatment” means the treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into publicly owned wastewater treatment facilities.
(46) “Control Manhole” means a structure that is accessible for the purpose of observing, measuring and sampling the wastewater flow in a building sewer. A control manhole may be used for inspecting and/or maintaining the building sewer.
(47) “Slug” means any discharge of water or wastewater 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 facilities.
(48) “Standard Methods” means the laboratory procedures set forth in the latest edition, at the time of analysis, of “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater” prepared and published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
(49) “EPA Methods” means “Methods for Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes”, 1971, Environmental Protection Agency, Analytical Quality Control Laboratory, Cincinnati, Ohio.
(50) “mg/l” means milligrams per liter.
(51) “ppm” means parts per million by weight or milligrams per liter.
(52) “Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD5) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five days at 20oC, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(53) “Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)” means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of inorganic and organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
(54) “Suspended Solids” means total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in “Standard Methods” and referred to as “Nonfilterable Residue”.
(55) “Total Solids” or “Total Residue” means the sum of suspended and dissolved solids.
(56) “pH” means the logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution. Low values indicate the presence of acids or acid forming salts. High values indicate the presence of acids or acid forming salts. High values indicate the presence of alkaline material. A pH or 7.0 is considered neutral.
(57) “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.
(58) “Grease” and “Oil” means any material which is extractable from an acidified sample of a wastewater by Freon, Hexane, or other designated solvent.
(59) “Volatile Organic Matter” means the material in the wastewater solids transformed to gases or vapors when heated at 550 degrees C. for fifteen to twenty minutes.
(60) “Watercourse” or “waterway” means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(61) “Natural Outlet” means any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
May is permissive; shall is mandatory.