For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
B.O.D. (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 milligrams per liter.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
COUNTY. Kosciusko County, Indiana.
DWELLING. Any house or place used or intended to be used by human occupants as a place of residence.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
HEALTH OFFICER. The Health Officer of the state, county or district.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INSPECTOR. The person duly-authorized by the town through its Board to inspect and approve the installation of building sewers, private sewer systems and/or their connection to the public sewer system.
MAY. The act referred to is permissive.
NATURAL OUTLET. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
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.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer and appurtenances owned and controlled by the town. In the events the easement described in § 51.16(J) of this chapter is granted to the town, the PUBLIC SEWER shall consist of sewer piping from the service connection to a grinder pump station, grinder pump, grinder pump tank, valves and electrical control panel, disconnect switch and all electrical wiring from the disconnect switch to the electrical control panel, power and control wiring from the control panel to the grinder pump, PVC service pipe, sewer piping from the grinder pump station to the collection system force main, including redundant check and ball valves, and the force main collection system, including cleanouts, line valves, air release valves, and manholes. In the event the easement described in § 51.16(J) of this chapter is not granted to the town, the PUBLIC SEWER shall consist of the redundant check and ball valve and the force main collection system, including cleanouts, line valves, air release valves and manholes.
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 within the town and other areas.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM. A system which is designed to receive sewage and transport the sewage to a proper sewage treatment system.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating.
SEWAGE WORKS. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER. A pipe and/or conductor for carrying sewage.
SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
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 longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
STORM SEWER. A sewer, which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
SUPERINTENDENT. The Superintendent of the sewage works of the town or the 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.
TOWN. The Town of Leesburg.
(1982 Code, Title VI, Ch. 2, § I) (Ord. passed 5-12-2008)