For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOD (denoting BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C., expressed in parts per million by weight.
BUILDING DRAIN. That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drain pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five fee outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
COMBINATION SEWER or COMBINED SEWER. A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, processing, and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The liquid wastes, solids, or semi-solids from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a water course, pond, ditch, lake or other body of water, either surface or ground water.
pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The wastes from the cooking, preparation and dispensing of food that has been cut or 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 ½ inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer in which all owners of abutting property 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 intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE. Any liquid waste containing animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution, and may include liquids containing chemicals in solution.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS. All facilities for collection, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER. Any pipe, tile, tub or conduit for carrying sewage.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN. A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage but which excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids that either float on the surface of or are suspended in water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
SWRC. The State Water Resources Commission or any of their affiliates, the State Health Department, State Conservation Commission, Department of Natural Resources, or the State Highway Department, all being departments of the state.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 12.2, passed 12-1-56; Am. Ord. passed 1-13-82)