As used in this chapter, unless the context specifically indicates otherwise:
(a) "City" means the City of Medina, Ohio, represented by the Director of Public Service or his authorized superintendent of sewers, superintendent of the sewage treatment plant, or the County Health Department with whom the City is under a contractual agreement.
(b) "Owner" means the owner of the real property on which the building or structure is located for which a sewer is proposed.
(c) "Municipal wastes" means a combination of the water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm water as may be present.
(d) "Sanitary sewage" means domestic wastes contributed by reason of human occupancy containing not more than 300 parts per million (ppm) of suspended solids and 240 ppm of B. O. D., as determined by Standard Methods Examination of Water and Sewage Treatment, and free from storm or surface water and industrial wastes.
(e) "Industrial wastes" means liquid, gaseous or solid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.
(f) "Normal sewage" shall be regarded as "normal" for the City if analyses show by weight, a daily average of not more than the following, each per million gallons of daily flow:
2,500 pounds (300 ppm) of suspended solids 2, 000 pounds (240 ppm) of B.O. D. 417 pounds ( 50 ppm) of soluble matter pH of 5.5 minimum or 9.5 maximum Phenols, .5 ppm maximum |
(g) "Unpolluted waters" or "unpolluted wastes" means cooling water or water containing none of the following:
Emulsified grease or oil Acid or alkali Phenols or other substances imparting taste or odor in receiving waters Toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution Noxious or odorous gases B.O.D. and suspended solids |
(h) "Cooling water" means the water discharged from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other, but which shall be free from odor and oil. Cooling water shall contain no polluting substances which would produce B.O.D. or suspended solids.
(i) "Garbage" means solid wastes from the preparation of cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage or sale of produce.
(j) "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.
(k) "B. O. D. " (Biochemical Oxygen Demand) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20 degrees C., expressed in parts per million by weight.
(l) "pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(m) "Sewage treatment plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
(n) "Sanitary sewers" means the public sewers in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, which are designed to carry Municipal wastes, and to which storm, surface or ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(o) "Storm sewers" means sewers, pipes, tile or conduits which carry storm and surface waters and drainage, but exclude Municipal wastes.
(p) "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives and discharges wastes from soil, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning three feet outside the building wall.
(q) "Building sewer" means the extension of the building drain from three feet outside the building wall to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(r) "Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(s) "Waters of the State" means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems and other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, which are situated wholly or partially within or border upon this State or within its jurisdiction, except those private waters which do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters.
(t) "Health Department" means the County Health Department which, by contractual agreement, represents the City in health matters.
(u) "Ohio Water Pollution Control Board" is a board with administrative regulatory and quasi-judicial powers created by the Water Pollution Control Act of Ohio, passed by the Ohio General Assembly in 1951.
(Ord. 43-61. Passed 1-8-62.)