For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AVAILABLE.
(1) Domestic sewage. The city sewer system shall be deemed available as defined in Chapter 10D, FAC, and when the following requirements are met:
(a) The system is not under FDEP moratorium.
(b) The sewer system has adequate hydraulic capacity to accept the sewage to be generated by the proposed customer.
(c) For estimated sewage flows of 600 or less gallons per day a sewage system shall be considered available if a sanitary sewer exists in a public easement or right-of-way which abuts the property, and/or if gravity flow can be maintained from the building drain to the sewer line.
(d) For estimated sewage flows exceeding 600 gallons per day, the city shall determine the availability of the system, taking into consideration the distance to the closest sanitary sewer, the flow, and the potential hazards to the city or the general public.
(2) Industrial and commercial sewage. The availability of sewer shall be determined by the city on a case-by-case basis.
BCDNRP. Broward County Department of Natural Resource Protection.
BCPHU. Broward County Public Health Unit.
CFR. Code of Federal Regulations.
COLLECTION SYSTEM. Wastewater lines and appurtenances, valves, manholes, pumping stations, and the like, required to collect wastewater from its point of origin and transport it for treatment and disposal.
CUSTOMER. Any person contracting (expressly or implicitly) with the City, having or using sewer connections with, or sewer taps to, the sewer system of the City and in obtaining, having or using water and other related services furnished by the City.
DIRECTOR. The Utilities Director of the City of Hollywood or his/her designee.
DISCHARGE. Any spilling, leaking, pumping, emitting, emptying or dumping.
EFFLUENT. Wastewater or other liquid, partially or completely treated, or in its natural state, flowing out of a point source, reservoir, basin, treatment plant, or industrial treatment plant, or part thereof.
EFFLUENT REUSE. The deliberate application of reclaimed water, in compliance with FDEP rules, for a beneficial purpose.
EFFLUENT REUSE END USER. The customer who receives reclaimed water from the effluent reuse system.
EFFLUENT REUSE SYSTEM. The storage, pumping and transmission systems along with all necessary appurtenances for delivery of reclaimed water to the end users.
EPA. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
FAC. Florida Administrative Code.
FBC. Florida Building Code, in effect in Broward County, Florida, as revised from time to time.
FDEP. Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
FLOATABLE OIL. Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
FORCE MAIN. A pipe which carries sewage under pressure.
GARBAGE. The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of foods.
GRAB SAMPLE. A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of time.
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE. A substance having radiological, chemical, physical or biological properties that are or could be dangerous to plant, animal or human life, or real property.
HEALTH OFFICER. The Broward County Public Health Unit Director.
INFILTRATION/INFLOW. Groundwater and surface water which leaks into the sewers through cracked pipes, joints, manholes, roof drains or other openings.
LIFT STATION. A small wastewater pumping station that lifts the wastewater to a higher elevation when the continuance of the sewer at reasonable slopes would involve excessive depths of trench, or that raises wastewater from areas too low to drain into available sewers.
NATIONAL POLLUTION DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM or NPDES PERMIT. A permit issued to the city by the EPA pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1342).
OIL-EFFLUENT WATER SEPARATOR. Any tank, box, sump or other container in which any petroleum or product thereof, floating on or entrained or contained in water entering such tank, box, sump or other container, is physically separated and removed from such water prior to outfall, drainage or recovery of such water.
OUTFALL. The point, location or structure where wastewater or drainage discharges from a sewer, drain or conduit into the receiving waters.
PASS-THROUGH. A discharge that exits the POTW and that causes or contributes to a violation of the POTW's NPDES permit or any other operating permit issued by a regulatory body.
PATHOGENS. Any organism capable of causing infection or disease, excluding total coliforms (for such as, bacteria, viruses, protozoans, and the like).
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, governmental entity or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents or assigns.
POINT SOURCE. A source generating a specific flow of wastewater which can be categorically defined.
POLLUTANT. Any dredged spoil, solid, incinerator residue, sewerage, garbage, sewage sludge, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water.
PPM (VOLUME). Parts per million by volume, or milligrams per liter.
PPM (WEIGHT). Parts per million by weight or milligrams per kilogram.
PUBLIC SEWER. A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public utility.
RECLAIMED WATER. Wastewater effluent that has received at least secondary treatment and is reused, after additional treatment including filtration and high level disinfection, in accordance with Chapter 17-610, FAC, as amended, treatment criteria.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer that carries by gravity, or under pressure, liquid and water-borne wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and other institutions.
SEPTIC TANK. A subsurface impervious tank designed to temporarily retain sewage or similar waterborne wastes together with:
(1) A sewer line constructed with solid pipe, with the joints sealed, connecting the impervious tank with a plumbing stub out; and
(2) A subsurface system of piping to drain the clarified discharge from the tank and distribute it underground to be absorbed or filtered.
SEWAGE. Liquid and water-carried industrial, domestic, medical, food, superfluous solid, gaseous material, holding tank, or other wastes from Customers, whether treated or untreated, which are discharged into the City's sewer system. The equivalent term is WASTEWATER.
STANDARD METHODS OR STANDARD METHODS FOR THE EXAMINATION OF WATER AND WASTEWATER. According to the most recent edition, as published jointly by American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Environment Federation.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. 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 for the Examination of Water and Wastewater” and referred to as nonfilterable residue.
SWDA. Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. 6901, et seq.
U.S.C. United States Code.
WASTEWATER, INDUSTRIAL. The wastewater from industrial, commercial and other establishments, as distinct from domestic wastes.
WASTEWATER, DOMESTIC. Wastewater discharged into the sanitary sewers in which the average concentration of total suspended solids and BOD is not more than 400 mg/l, total phosphorus is not more than 15 mg/l, total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN) is not more than 30 mg/l, COD is not more than 800 mg/l and TDS is not more than 2000 mg/l.
('72 Code, § 25-2) (Ord. O-88- 27, passed 5-18-88; Am. Ord. O- 91-23, passed 4-17-91; Am. Ord. O-92-20, passed 5-6-92; Am. Ord. O-93-42, passed 10-6-93; Am. Ord. O-94-09, passed 3-2-94; Am. Ord. O-99-45, passed 12-1-99; Am. Ord. O-2005-02, passed 3-2-05; Am. Ord. O-2019-17, passed 9-18-19)