Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this
article shall be as follows:
(a) “Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)” shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at 20 deg. C, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(b) "Council" shall mean the Mayor and fellow Members of the City Council of Keyser, West Virginia as constituting the governing body of said municipality.
(c) "Building drain" shall mean 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 (5) feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
(d) "Building sewer" shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, also called house connection.
(e) "Combined sewer" shall mean a sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
(f) "Easement" shall mean an acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
(g) “Floatable oil" is oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system.
(h) "Garbage" shall mean the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and service of foods.
(i) "Industrial waste" shall mean the wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or business as distinct from domestic or sanitary strength wastes.
(j) “Manager" shall mean the duly appointed representative of the Keyser Utility Board, who is charged with the responsibility of the day to day operations of the wastewater facilities or his/her authorized deputy, agent or representative.
(k) “Utility Board" is the organization created by the City of Keyser by separate ordinance for the management, control and operation of the municipal waterworks system and sewerage system of the City of Keyser.
(l) "Natural outlet" shall mean any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or groundwater.
(m) "May" is permissive (see "Shall", within this Article).
(n) "Person" shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
(o) "pH” shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen-ion, in grams, per liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has 7a pH value of 7 and a hydrogen-ion concentration of 10 -7.
(p) "Properly shredded garbage" shall mean 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 ½ inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
(q) "Public sewer" shall mean a common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public utility.
(r) "Sanitary sewer" shall mean a sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions together with minor quantities of ground, storm, and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
(s) "Sewage" is the spent water of a community. The preferred term is “wastewater”, as hereinafter described.
(t) "Sewer" shall mean a pipe or conduit that carriers wastewater or drainage water.
(u) "Shall" is mandatory (see "May”, within this Article).
(v) "Slug" shall mean any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow excess 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 and adversely affects the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
(w) "Storm drain" (sometimes termed "storm sewer") shall mean a drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source.
(x) "Suspended solids" shall mean total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" and referred to as nonfilterable residue.
(y) "Unpolluted water" is a water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
(z) "Wastewater" shall mean the spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and storm water that may be present.
(aa) "Wastewater facilities" shall mean the structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
(bb) "Wastewater treatment works" shall mean an arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "waste treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or “water pollution control plant".
(cc) "Watercourse" shall mean a natural or artificial channel for the passage of water either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 252. Passed 9-9-99.)