Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
"BOD" (denoting biochemical oxygen demand) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure for five days at twenty degrees Celsius expressed in milligrams per liter.
"Capital charge" means that portion of the total waste water service charge which is levied for local capital costs, local investment in plant facilities and other local costs excluding operation, maintenance and replacement costs.
"City" means the city of Lovington.
"Commercial customers" means those customers which have three or more living units served by a single water meter, or which have one or more businesses served by a single water meter.
"Industrial customer" means any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of a publicly owned treatment works which discharges more than the equivalent of twenty-five thousand gallons per day of sanitary waste and which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual under divisions A, B, D, E, I. Any nongovernmental user which discharges wastewater which contains toxic pollutants, poisonous solids, liquids or gases in sufficient quantities to contaminate the sludge, injure or interfere with the treatment system process, or which constitutes a hazard to humans or animals, creates a public nuisance, creates a hazard or has an adverse effect on the receiving waters.
"Infiltration/inflow" means the total quantity of water other than wastewater from both infiltration and inflow without distinguishing the source from defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, manholes, roof leaders, cellar drains, yard drains, area drains, foundation drains, drains from springs and swampy area, cross connections, catch basins, cooling towers, stormwaters, surface runoffs, street wash waters, or drainage.
"Living unit" means a residential unit providing complete, independent, living facilities for one family, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, cooking, eating and sanitation.
"Municipality" means (1) a city, town, borough, county, parish, district, association or other public body (including an intermunicipal agency of two or more of the foregoing entities) created under state law having jurisdiction over disposal of sewage, industrial waste, or other waste; (2) a special district such as water, sewer, sanitary, utility, drainage or similar entity whose principal responsibility is the treatment, transport, or disposal of liquid waste of the general public in a particular geographic area.
"Normal sewage" means sewage which, when analyzed, shows by weight a daily average of not more than two hundred milligrams per liter of BOD and not more than two hundred milligrams per liter of TSS, and which is otherwise acceptable into the city's sanitary sewerage system.
"Residential customers" means those customers which have no more than two living units served by a single water meter.
"Surcharge" means a charge added to the normal user charge when the BOD, TSS, or
other pollutant concentration from a user exceeds the range of concentration of these pollutants in normal domestic sewage.
"Suspended solids" means 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.
"User charge" means that 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 and collection system.
"Wastewater treatment system" means (1) the transport of wastewaters from individual homes or buildings to a plant or facility where treatment of the wastewater is accomplished; (2) to remove pollutants, dispose, recycle, or reuse the treated wastewaters and residues which result from the treatment process, and can include one or more connected or integrated treatment plants. (Ord. 311 § 1, 1982)