Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND or 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 (mg/l).
BUILDING OR HOUSE 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 (1.5 meters) 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.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
COMMISSIONER. The Sewer Commissioner of the City of Loup City, or his or her authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
EASEMENT. An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
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. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system.
GARBAGE. 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.
LOCAL VENTING PIPE. Any pipe through which foul air is removed from a room or fixture.
MAY. The action referred to is permissive; the term SHALL is mandatory.
MUNICIPALITY. The City of Loup City, Nebraska.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or groundwater.
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER. Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than 300 mg/l and a suspended solids concentration of not more than 350 mg/l.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE. All expenditures during the useful life of the treatment works for materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary for managing and maintaining the sewage works to achieve the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
PARTS PER MILLION. A weight-to-weight ratio; the PARTS PER MILLION value multiplied by the factor 8.345 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons of water.
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.
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 (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
REPLACEMENT. Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which the works were designated and constructed. The term OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE includes REPLACEMENT.
RESIDENTIAL CONTRIBUTOR. Any contributor to the city's treatment works whose lot, parcel of real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes only.
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, together with such ground, surface, and storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLAN. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage
SHALL. The action referred to is mandatory; the term MAY is permissive.
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.
SOIL PIPE. Any pipe which conveys the discharge of water closets with or without the discharge from other fixtures to the house or building drain.
STANDARD METHODS. The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the most recent editions of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage, and Industrial Waste, published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
STORM DRAIN. Sometimes termed STORM SEWER, a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
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 Sewer Commissioner of the City of Loup City, or his or her 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 are removable by laboratory filtering.
TRAP. A fitting or device so constructed as to prevent the passage of air or gas through a pipe without materially affecting the flow of sewage or waste through it.
TRAP SEAL. The vertical distance between the crown weir and the dip of the trap.
TREATMENT WORKS. Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage, or liquid industrial wastes. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems. individual systems, pumping, power, and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions, improvements, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works, including site acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment (including land for composting sludge, temporary storage of such compost, and land used for storage of treated wastewater in land treatment systems before land application); or any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating, or disposing of municipal waste or industrial waste, including waste in combined storm water and sanitary sewer systems.
UNPOLLUTED WATERS. Water of quality equal or better than the effluent criteria in effect, or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
USEFUL LIFE. The estimated period during which a treatment works will be operated.
USER CHARGE. The portion of the total wastewater service charge which is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation, maintenance, and replacement of the wastewater treatment works.
VENT PIPE. Any pipe provided to ventilate a house or building drainage system and to prevent trap siphonage and back pressure.
WASTE PIPE. Any pipe which receives the discharge of any fixture, except water closets, and conveys the same to the house drain, soil pipe, or waste stack.
WASTEWATER. 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 stormwater that may be present.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES. The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
WATER METER. A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished and/or installed by the City of Loup City or furnished and/or installed by a user and approved by the City of Loup City.
(1990 Code, § 3-202) (Ord. 389, passed 11-17-1992)