For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APPLICATOR. A land wastewater disposal site operator and its employees, or a person who applies wastewater to land.
APPROVAL. Written authorization from the Lake County Health Department.
DEEP INCORPORATION. Land application by subsurface injection or a furrow placement cover operation which incorporates the wastewater into the soil simultaneously with, or immediately following, application.
PERMIT. Written approval of the Lake County Health Department to apply wastewater to a wastewater disposal site or land.
SHALLOW INCORPORATION. Land application by surface spreading of wastewater followed by plowing, disking, or harrowing within 24 hours of application.
SITE. A wastewater disposal site or land where wastewater is being applied by an applicator.
SURFACE SPREADING. Land application by uniform distribution of wastewater on the ground surface which relies on the natural infiltrative or assimilative capacity of the soil for incorporation.
TRENCH BURIAL. Disposal of wastewater into prepared trenches which are subsequently covered with earth.
WASTEWATER. Human excreta, water, scum, sludge, and sewage from sewage disposal systems, retained contents of wastewater holding tanks or portable sanitary units, grease, fats, and retained wastes from grease traps, or interceptors, liquid wastes from ordinary living processes and incidental or accidental seepage from sewage disposal systems, such as septic tanks, wastewater holding tanks, sewage pits, cesspools, privies, facilities, or devices used to store, treat, render in offensive or dispose of human excrement or liquid wastes of a domestic nature.
(Prior Code, § 51.01) (Ord. 1040A, passed 10-13-1987)