For the purpose of this subchapter and §§ 51.16, 51.18, and 51.20, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
“BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD).”The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20ºC., expressed in milligrams per liter.
“BUILDING DRAIN.”That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from the soil, waste, and other drainage pipe inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, which begins five feet 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, including septic tanks or other storage facilities which are a part thereof, also called “house connection.”
“CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD).”The quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
“COMBINED SEWER.”A sewer intended to receive both sanitary wastewater and storm or surface water.
“COMMERCIAL UNIT OR CLASS.”A discharge unit which is a building or part of a building used by one commercial, private, or public enterprise for uses other than as a dwelling, but not classified as an institutional or industrial unit.
“COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT.”BOD, suspended solids, pH, and fecal coliform bacteria plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit. Examples of such additional pollutants may include:
(1) COD;
(2) Total organic carbon;
(3) Phosphorous and phosphorous compounds;
(4) Nitrogen and nitrogen compounds; and
(5) Fats, oils, and greases of animal or vegetable origin except as prohibited under § 51.36.
“COOLING WATER.”The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling, or refrigeration, during which the only pollutant added to the water is heat.
“DEBT SERVICE CHARGE.”The charge levied on users of the system principal and interest payments due on debt issued to pay cost related to the system.
“DISCHARGE UNIT.” Any residential, commercial establishment, industry, or private or public facility generating, accumulating, and/or otherwise discharging liquid waste into the system.
“DOMESTIC SANITARY WASTEWATER.”A wastewater discharge having the average characteristics equivalent to 250 mg/l BOD and 250 mg/l suspended solids concentrations.
“ENGINEER.”The village's consulting engineer as designated by Council.
“FEDERAL ACT.”The Federal Water Pollution Contract Act Amendments of 1972 and 1977; Public Law 92-500 and any amendments thereto; as well as any guidelines, limitations, and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Federal Act.
“FLOATABLE OIL.”Oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
“GARBAGE.” The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and serving of food.
“INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT.”Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined above in this section.
“INDUSTRIAL USERS OR CLASS.”
(1) Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of the system which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day (gpd) of sanitary wastes and which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented under one of the following divisions:
(a) Division A. Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing;
(b) Division B. Mining;
(c) Division C. Manufacturing;
(d) Division D. Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, and Sanitary Services; or
(e) Division I. Services.
(2) Industrial users shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) Manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substance into other products. These activities occur in establishments usually described as plants, factories, or mills and characteristically use power driven machines and material handling equipment.
1. In determining the amount of an industrial user’s discharge, domestic wastes or discharges from sanitary conveniences may be excluded.
2. After applying the domestic sanitary wastewater exclusion in division 1. above of this section (if the village chooses to do so), discharges in the above divisions that have a volume exceeding 25,000 gpd or the weight of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) or suspended solids (SS) equivalent to that weight found in 25,000 gpd of sanitary wastes are considered industrial users. The strength of residential discharges is herein defined as BOD less than or equal to 250 mg. per liter and suspended solids less than or equal to 250 mg. per liter.
(b) Any nongovernmental user of the village's treatment works which discharges wastewater to the treatment works containing toxic pollutants or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to contaminate the sludge of the village's sewerage system, or to injure or to interfere with any sewage treatment process, or which constitutes a hazard to humans or animals, creates a public nuisance, or creates any hazard in or has an adverse effect on the waters receiving any discharge from the treatment works, and
(c) All commercial users of an individual system constructed with grant assistance under Section 201 (h) of the Federal Act.
“INDUSTRIAL UNIT OR CLASS.”Hospitals, nursing homes, schools, village, county, state or federal buildings or facilities not engaged in profit oriented business that discharge wastewater into the system.
“INDUSTRIAL WASTES.”The wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or business as distinct from domestic sanitary waste water.
“MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY.”An industrial user of the system that:
(1) Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more on an average work day;
(2) Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow carried by the system;
(3) Has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under Section 307 (a) of the Federal Act; or
(4) Is found by the permit issuance authority in connection with the issuance of an NPDES permit to the system to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the system or upon the quality of effluent from that treatment works.
“NATURAL OUTLET.”Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water.
“NPDES PERMIT.”The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit.
“OPERATION, MAINTENANCE AND REPLACEMENT COSTS.”All costs associated with the operation, maintenance and replacement of the system as well as costs associated with periodic equipment replacement necessary for maintaining capacity and performance of the system.
“PERSON.”Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
“pH.”The reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution. Natural water, for example, has a ph value of 7 and a hydrogen ion concentration of 10-.
“POLLUTANT.”Dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge, munition, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into the water.
“PRETREATMENT.”The specified treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into the system.
“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 public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch (.127 centimeters) in any dimension.
“PUBLIC SEWER.”A common sewer controlled by the village.
“RESIDENTIAL UNIT OR CLASS.”A discharge unit which is a principal family residence or habitation classified as a single family, multi-family or apartment dwelling.
“SANITARY SEWER.”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 water that is not admitted intentionally.
“SEPTIC TANK.”A septic tank approved by the Superintendent and complying with Ordinance No. 989, passed February 3, 1969, as amended from time to time, located on a building sewer before discharge is made to a village sanitary sewer.
“SEWER SERVICE CHARGE.”The sum of debt service charges and user charges.
“SLUG.”Any discharge of water or wastewater 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 of flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the village's collection system and/or performance of the village's wastewater treatment works.
“STATE.”The State of Ohio.
“STORM DRAIN” or “STORM SEWER.”A drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source.
“STORM WATER.”Any flow occurring during or immediately following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom. Water originating from precipitation which is captured in roof drains and downspouts, footer and foundation tiles, ground drainage tiles and catch basins and which does not undergo any use or contamination prior to disposal.
“SUPERINTENDENT.”The Village Administrator or the Superintendent of Utilities of the village or their designees.
“SUSPENDED SOLIDS.”Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering, as prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and referred to as non-filterable residue.
“SYSTEM.”The village's sewerage system, as presently constituted and hereafter improved, which is designed and operates to collect, treat and dispose of wastewater and storm water.
“TAP CHARGE.”The charge levied by the village pursuant to Ordinance No. 2310, passed December 6, 2004, as amended from time to time, on new users connecting to the village's sewerage system, which is charged to maintain equitable capital recovery amounts for use of the system by new connections.
“TOXIC POLLUTANTS.”Include but are not necessarily limited to aldrin-dieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, DDT-endrin, mercury, poly-chlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) and toxaphene. Pollutants included as “toxic” shall be those promulgated as such by the U.S. EPA.
“UNPOLLUTED WATER.”Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standard and would not be benefitted by discharge into the system.
“USER CHARGE.”The charge levied on the users of the system to generate funds to pay costs of operation, maintenance, and replacement of the system.
“VILLAGE.”The Village of Leipsic.
“WASTEWATER” or “SANITARY WATER.”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 ground water, surface and storm water that may be present.
“WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT.”An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with “treatment plant” or “wastewater treatments works” or “water pollution control plant.”
(Ord. 1498, passed 7-21-86; Am. Ord. 1816, passed 3-21-94; Am. Ord. 1845, passed 9-19-94; Am. Ord. 1871, passed 4-3-95; Am. Ord. 2583, passed 6-15-09)