For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
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 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 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. |
BUILDING SEWER: | The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal. |
CITY ADMINISTRATOR: | City administrator or representative of the city administrator. |
COMBINED SEWER: | A sewer receiving both sewage and surface runoff. |
COMMERCIAL USER: | Any place of business, manufacturing facility, or other enterprise not primarily used as a residence, connected to the city sewage collection system, and which does not meet the definition of an industrial user. |
GARBAGE: | Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce. |
INDUSTRIAL USER: | A source of indirect discharge of effluent into the POTW by means of pipes, conduits, pumping stations, force mains, constructed drainage ditches, surface water intercepting ditches, and all constructed devices and appliances appurtenant thereto. This term includes federal, state, and local facilities as part of the regulated community, and shall not include “domestic user.” |
INDUSTRIAL WASTES: | The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewer. |
NATURAL OUTLET: | Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water. |
OWNER: | The person or entity who owns fee simple title to the real property being provided with wastewater collection and treatment services. |
PERSON: | Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group. |
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 preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such 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. |
RESIDENTIAL USER: | Any single- or multiple-dwelling unit connected to the city sewage collection system. |
SANITARY SEWER: | A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface, and ground waters are not intentionally admitted. |
SEWAGE: | 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: | Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage. |
SEWAGE WORKS: | All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage. |
SEWER: | A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage. |
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 more than fifteen (15) minutes and more than five (5) times the average twenty four (24) hour concentration or flow expected during normal operation. |
STORM SEWER OR STORM DRAIN: | A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes. |
SUPERINTENDENT: | The city, or its authorized deputy, agent, or representative. |
SUSPENDED SOLIDS: | 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. |
USER: | The person occupying or in possession of the real property to which wastewater treatment and collection services are provided and/or the person who has made application for the domestic water services provided to that real property. |
WATERCOURSE: | A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (Ord. 1203, 2021: Ord. 1076, 2010) |