For use in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall apply:
A. "BOD" means Biochemical Oxygen Demand, which is the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees Centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter.
B. "Building" means any structure used for human habitation, a place of business, recreation or other purposes.
C. "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer.
D. "Building sewer" means a sewer conveying materials from the premises of a user to a community sewer.
E. "Chemical Oxygen Demand" (C.O.D.) means the measure of the chemically decomposable material in domestic or industrial wastewater as represented by the oxygen utilized as determined by the appropriate procedure described in "Standard Methods."
F. "City" means the City of Gridley.
G. "City plumbing inspector" means the director of public works, or his designated representative.
H. "Combined sewer" means a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
I. "Community sewer" means a sewer owned and maintained by the city.
J. "Contractor" means any contractor licensed by the State of California to enter into contracts to perform the work of installing, repairing, replacing or relocating sewers under city jurisdiction, or the owner of private property doing his own house sewer work on his private property only.
K. "County" means the County of Butte, California.
L. "Domestic sewage" means sewage from residences, business, buildings and institutions as distinct from industrial waste.
M. "Industrial discharge" or "industrial wastewater discharge means the introduction of pollutants into the POTW from any non-domestic source regulated under Chapter 13.06 of the Gridley Municipal Code.
(Ord. 681 (part), 1998).
N. "Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface water or groundwater.
O. "Person" means any individual, firm, corporation, company, partnership, association, organization, or combination of more than one such entities.
P. "pH" means a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, expressed in standard units.
(Ord. 681 (part), 1998).
R. "Radioactive material" means material containing chemical elements that spontaneously change their atomic structure by emitting any particles, rays, or energy forms.
S. "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface water, and ground-water are not intentionally admitted.
T. "Sewage" means a combination of the water-carried wastes from residence, business, buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
U. "Sewage treatment plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
V. "Sewage works" means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
W. "Sewer" means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
X. "Shall" is mandatory. "May" is permissive.
Y. "Storm drain," sometimes termed "storm sewer," means a sewer which carries stormwater, surface water, and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
Z. "Street" means any public highway, road, street, avenue, alley, way, parking place, public easement or right-of-way.
AA. "Suspended solids" means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
BB. "Wastewater" means the same as sewage.
CC. "Watercourse" means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 539, (part), 1978).