Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
ACT: The Federal Water Pollution Control Act entitled Public Law 92-500, and its amendments as administered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD): The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees centigrade (20°C), expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
BUILDING DRAIN: 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 five feet (5') outside the inner face of the building wall.
CITY: Refers to the City of Idaho City, Idaho.
FLOW: The volume of sewage being discharged into the sewage system.
GARBAGE: Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL COST RECOVERY: Financial recovery by the City, from the industrial users of the sewerage system, of that portion of the present worth value of the treatment facilities allocable to the treatment of wastes from such users.
INDUSTRIAL USERS: A. An "industrial user" is defined as follows:
1. A nongovernmental, nonresidential user which discharges more than the equivalent of twenty five thousand (25,000) gallons per day of sanitary waste and which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual under divisions A, B, D, E and I;
2. A user which discharges any wastewater containing toxic pollutants or which has any other adverse effect on the treatment works; or
3. A commercial user of an individual system.
B. A user in the divisions listed may be excluded if it is determined that it will introduce primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES: The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
MULTIPLE BUILDING DEVELOPMENT: Includes the various types of developments that would have common or joint ownership areas such as condominiums, townhouses, mobile home parks or courts, shopping centers, etc.
NATURAL OUTLET: Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
OWNER: A person owning real estate which is, or proposes to be, connected to the sewage system.
pH: The negative logarithm of the hydrogen-ion concentration measured in grams per liter of solution.
PERSON: Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE: 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 (1/2") in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER: A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER: A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not admitted.
SERVICE CONNECTION: The point at which the building sewer connects to the public sewer.
SEWAGE OR WASTE MATTER: A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT OR WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY: Any device and system used in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of Municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature.
SEWER: A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWER USER: Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group owning real property who has applied for, been accepted and is currently connected to the sewerage system for the benefit of that real property.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM: All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SHALL: "Shall" is mandatory. "May" is permissive.
SLUG: Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes for more than five (5) times the average twenty four (24) hour concentration of flows during normal operation.
STORM DRAIN (Sometimes Termed Storm Sewer): A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted water such as cooling water.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS: Solids, organic or inorganic, that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in "Standard Methods For The Examination Of Water And Wastewater" and referred to as nonfilterable residue.
WATERCOURSE: A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (Ord. 183, 10-24-1984; amd. 2000 Code; Ord. 330, 2-24-2010)