Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
BOD (DENOTING BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND): 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), as outlined in Standard Methods, expressed in milligrams per liter.
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 sewer extension from the building drain or property drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
COMBINED SEWER: A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
DEPARTMENT: The water and sewer department.
GARBAGE DISPOSAL: Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES: The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
mg/l: Milligrams per liter.
NATURAL OUTLET: Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
ppm: Parts per million.
PERSON: Any individual, partnership, copartnership, company, limited liability company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, political subdivision, or any other legal entity or their legal representatives, agents or assigns.
pH: The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution, as outlined in "standard methods".
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 the public sewer, with no particle greater than one-half inch (1/2") in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER: A sewer owned or controlled by the city or other public authority and to which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights.
SANITARY SEWER: A sewer which carries sewage and in which stormwater, surface water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted and which is so designated by the superintendent.
SEWAGE: A combination of the water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be present.
SEWAGE PUMPING STATION: A subsidiary local structure and equipment for forcing or lifting sewage to points where gravity flow can carry it to a sewage treatment plant.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT: Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS (Sometimes Termed "SEWERAGE WORKS"): All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER: A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SHALL; MAY: "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
SLUG: 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, more than five (5) times the average twenty four (24) hour concentration of flows during normal operation.
STORM SEWER (Sometimes Termed "STORM DRAIN"): A sewer or drain which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
SUPERINTENDENT: The superintendent of the water and sewer department of the city or his 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.
WATERCOURSE: A channel in which flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (1996 Code § 30-92; amd. 2010 Code)