For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOD (denoting biochemical oxygen demand). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under the standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C., expressed in parts per million by weight. ('80 Code, § 13.28.020) (Ord. 4-1965, passed - -65)
BENEFICIAL USES. Uses of the waters of the state that may be protected against quality degradation include, but are not necessarily limited to, domestic, municipal, agricultural and industrial supply, power generation, recreation, aesthetic enjoyment, navigation, and the preservation and enhancement of fish, wildlife and other aquatic resources or reserves, and other uses, both tangible or intangible as specified by federal or state law. ('80 Code, § 13.28.030) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
BUILDING DRAIN. The 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 outside the inner face of the building wall. ('80 Code, § 13.28.040) (Ord. 4-1965, passed - -65)
BUILDING SEWER. A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user to a community sewer. ('80 Code, § 13.28.050) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage. ('80 Code, § 13.28.060) (Ord. 4-1965, passed - -65)
COMMUNITY SEWER. A sewer owned and operated by the town, a city or other public agency tributary to a treatment facility operated by the town. ('80 Code, § 13.28.070) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacterial, plus additional pollutants identified in the town's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit if the publicly owned treatment works was designed to treat such pollutants, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree. ('80 Code, § 13.28.080) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
CONTAMINATION. An impairment of the quality of the waters of the state by waste to a degree which creates a hazard to the public health through poisoning or through the spread of disease. Contamination shall include any equivalent effect resulting from the disposal of wastewater, whether or not waters of the state are affected. ('80 Code, § 13.28.090) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
FEDERAL ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, PL 92-500, and any amendments thereto, as well as any guidelines, limitations, and standards promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act. ('80 Code, § 13.28.100) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce. ('80 Code, § 13.28.110)
HOLDING TANK WASTE. Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum pump tank trucks. ('80 Code, § 13.28.120)
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined in this section. The pretreatment standards for incompatible pollutants introduced into a publicly owned treatment works by a major contributing industry not subject to section 307© of the Federal Act shall be, for sources within the corresponding industrial or commercial category, that established by a promulgated effluent limitations guideline defining best practicable control technology currently available pursuant to sections 301(b) and 304(b) of the Federal Act, provided, that if the publicly owned treatment works which receives the pollutants is committed, in its NPDES permit, to remove a specified percentage of any incompatible pollutant the pretreatment standard applicable to users of such treatment works shall be correspondingly reduced for that pollutant; and provided further than even when the effluent limitations guideline for each industry category is promulgated, a separate provision will be proposed concerning the application of such guideline to pretreatment. ('80 Code, § 13.28.130) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The liquid waste or liquid-borne waste resulting from any commercial manufacturing or industrial operation or process. ('80 Code, § 13.28.140) (Ord. 12-1973, passed - -73)
INSPECTOR. A person authorized by the town, through the Town Council to act on behalf of the town in the administration of this chapter. ('80 Code, § 13.28.145)
INTERCEPTORS or SEPARATORS including GREASE, OIL SAND INTERCEPTORS (CLARIFIERS). A device designed and installed so as to separate and retain deleterious, hazardous or undesirable matter from normal wastes and permit normal sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into the disposal terminal by gravity. ('80 Code, § 13.28.147) (Ord. 1989-7, passed - -89)
MAJOR CONTRIBUTION INDUSTRY (MCI). A user who is required to obtain a permit, as defined in § 51.046(A). ('80 Code, § 13.28.150) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
MANAGER. The President of the Town Council or the Town Council's designated representative. ('80 Code, § 13.28.160) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
MASS EMISSION RATE. The weight of material discharged to the sewer system during a given time interval. Unless otherwise specified, the mass emission rate shall mean pounds per day of a particular constituent or combination of constituents. ('80 Code, § 13.28.170)
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater. ('80 Code, § 13.28.180) (Ord. 4-1965, passed - -65)
NPDES PERMIT. Any permit or other docu-ment issued under the authority of and pursuant to the national pollutant discharge system, being the Federal Water Pollution Control act as now or hereafter amended. ('80 Code, § 13.28.185)
NUISANCE. Anything which is injurious to health or is indecent or offensive to the senses or an obstruction to the free use of property so as to interfere with the comfort or enjoyment of life or property or which affects at the same time an entire community or neighborhood or any considerable number of persons, although the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted upon individuals may be unequal. ('80 Code, § 13.28.190) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
PERSONS. Any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation or public agency including the state and the United States of America. ('80 Code, § 13.28.200) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
POLLUTION. An alteration of the quality of the waters of the state by waste to a degree which unreasonably affects such waters for beneficial use or facilities which serve such beneficial uses. Pollution may include contamination. ('80 Code, § 13.28.210) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
PREMISES. A parcel of real estate including any improvements thereof which is determined by the agency to be a singular user for purposes of receiving, using, and paying for service. ('80 Code, § 13.28.220) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
PRETREATMENT. Treatment of wastewater by the user before introduction into the “sewage works” and shall include all applicable rules and regulations contained in the code of Federal Regulations as published in the Federal Register, under section 307 of Public Law 92-500. ('80 Code, § 13.28.225)
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 in any dimension. ('80 Code, § 13.28.230) (Ord. 4-1965, passed - -65)
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and which is controlled by public authority. ('80 Code, § 13.28.240) (Ord. 4-1965, passed - -65)
SANITARY SEWAGE. The waste from water closets, urinals, lavatories, sinks, bathtubs, showers, household laundries, basement drains, garage floor drains, bars, soda fountains, cuspidors, refrigerator drips, drinking fountains, stable floor drains, and all other water-carried wastes except industrial wastes. ('80 Code, § 13.28.250) (Ord. 12-1973, passed - -73)
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm waters, surface waters and groundwaters are not admitted. ('80 Code, § 13.28.260) (Ord. 4-1965, passed - -65)
SEWAGE. A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such groundwaters, surface waters and storm waters as may be present. ('80 Code, § 13.28.270) (Ord. 4-1965, passed - -65)
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage. ('80 Code, § 13.28.280) (Ord. 4-1965, passed - -65)
SEWAGE WORKS. Sewage treatment plants, intercepting sewers, main sewers, sub-main sewers, local sewers, lateral sewers, out-fall sewers, force mains, pumping stations, ejector stations and any other structures necessary or useful for the collection, treatment, purification and sanitary disposal of the liquid waste, solid waste, and sewage of the town. ('80 Code, § 13.28.290) (Ord. 1982-25, passed - -82)
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage. ('80 Code, § 13.28.300) (Ord. 4-1965, passed - -65)
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN. A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes. ('80 Code, § 13.28.310) (Ord. 4-1965, passed - -65)
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. ('80 Code, § 13.28.320) (Ord. 4-1965, passed - -65)
TOWN. The Town of Lowell. ('80 Code, § 13.28.330) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
UNPOLLUTED WATER. Water to which no constituent has been added, either intentionally or accidentally, which would render such water unacceptable to the agency having jurisdiction thereof for disposal to storm or natural drainages or directly to surface waters. ('80 Code, § 13.28.340) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
USER. Any person that discharges, causes or permits the discharge of wastewater into a community sewer. ('80 Code, § 13.28.350) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
USER CLASSIFICATION. A classification of user based on the 1972 edition of the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Manual prepared by the Executive Office of Management and Budget. ('80 Code, § 13.28.360) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
WASTE. Includes sewage and any and all other waste substances, liquid, solid, gaseous, or radioactive, associated with human habitation, or of human or animal origin, or from any producing, manufacturing, or processing operation of whatever nature, including such waste placed within containers of whatever nature prior to, and for purposes of, disposal. ('80 Code, § 13.28.370) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
WASTEWATER. Waste and water, whether treated or untreated, discharged into or permitted to enter a community sewer. ('80 Code, § 13.28.380) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
WASTEWATER CONSTITUENTS and CHAR-ACTERISTICS. The individual chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological parameters, including volume and flow rate and such other parameters that serve to define, classify or measure the contents, quality, quantity and strength of wastewater. ('80 Code, § 13.28.390) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. ('80 Code, § 13.28.400) (Ord. 4-1965, passed - -65)
WATER OF THE STATE. Any water, surface or underground, including saline waters within the boundaries of the state. ('80 Code, § 13.28.410) (Ord. 1976-22, passed - -76)