Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms in this chapter shall be as follows:
(a) “Waste water works” means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of waste water.
(b) “Village Administrator” means the Village Administrator or his designated agent or representative.
(c) “Waste water” means a combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such other waters as may be present.
(d) “Sewer” means a pipe or conduit for carrying waste water.
(e) “Public sewer” means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
(f) “Waste water treatment plant” means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating waste water.
(g) “Sanitary waste” means the liquid waste of the community exclusive of infiltration, inflow and industrial waste.
(h) “Industrial wastes” means the liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary waste.
(i) “Unacceptable industrial wastes” means liquid wastes resulting from any commercial, manufacturing or industrial operation or process which will injure or interfere with any waste treatment process or require attention and expense at the waste treatment plant beyond that contemplated by the schedule of charges levied herein, as determined by the Village Administrator.
(j) “Garbage” means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of products.
(k) “Properly shredded garbage” means the wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditional normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/4 inch in any dimension.
(l) “Building drain” means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a 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, beginning 5 feet outside the inner face of the building wall. Such pipe shall be cast iron soil pipe.
(m) “Building sewer” means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(n) “B.O.D.” denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand, means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in 5 days at 20 degrees C., expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
(o) “pH” means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(p) “Suspended solids” means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, the waste water, or other liquids; and which are removable by laboratory filtering, expressed in mg/l.
(q) “Natural outlet” means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(r) “Watercourse” means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(s) “Person” means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(t) “Shall” is mandatory; “may” is permissive.
(Ord. 74-840. Passed 6-5-74.)