(a) The following list of definitions and abbreviations is provided to aid in the general understanding of these Rules and Regulations; unless the context specifically indicates otherwise. The definitions and meaning of abbreviations shall be as indicated hereinafter.
(1) "Act" means the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 and Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Public Law 92-500 and any amendments thereto as well as any guidelines, limitations and standards promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
(2) "Air gap separation" means the unobstructed vertical distance through the free atmosphere between the lowest opening from any pipe or faucet supply water to a tank, plumbing fixture or other device and the flood level rim of the receptacle. The distance shall be twice the pipe diameter but never less than one inch.
(3) "Approved" means that a backflow prevention device or method has been accepted by the City Water Department and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency as suitable for the proposed use.
(4) "Auxiliary water system" means any water system on or available to the premises other than the public water system and includes the water supplied by the system. These auxiliary waters may include water from another purveyor's public water system; or water from a source such as wells, cisterns, lakes or streams; or process fluids; or used water. They may be polluted or contaminated or objectionable or constitute a water source or system over which the waterworks does not have control.
(5) "Backflow" means the flow of water or other liquids, mixtures or substances into the distributing pipes of a potable water supply from any source other than the intended source of the potable water supply.
(6) "Backflow prevention device" means any device, method or type of construction intended to prevent backflow into a potable water system.
(7) "City" means the City of Milford, Ohio.
(8) "City Manager" means the City Manager of Milford, Ohio.
(9) "Consumer" means the owner or person in control of any premises supplied by or in any manner connected to a public water system.
(10) "Consumer's water system" means any water system, located on the consumer's premises, supplied by or in any manner connected to a public water system. A household plumbing system is considered to be a consumer's water system.
(11) "Contamination" means an impairment of the quality of the water by sewage or process fluids or waste to a degree which could create an actual hazard to the public health through poisoning or through spread of disease by exposure.
(12) "Council" means the Council of the City of Milford.
(13) "County" means Clermont County, Ohio unless indicated otherwise.
(14) "Cross connection" means any arrangement whereby backflow can occur.
(15) "Curb stop" means a valve placed at the edge of right of way whereby water service can be shut off to a service line.
(16) "Degree of hazard" is a term derived from an evaluation of the potential risk to health and the adverse effect upon the potable water system.
(17) "Department" means the Water Department of the City of Milford, Ohio.
(18) "Director" means the Director of the Water Department of the City of Milford, Ohio and also is known as the Superintendent of Water/Wastewater Department.
(19) "Double check valve assembly" means an assembly composed of two single, independently acting, check valves including tightly closing shut-off valves located at each end of the assembly and suitable connections for testing the watertightness of each check valve.
(20) "Health hazard" means any condition, device or practice in a water system or its operation that creates, or may create, a danger to the health and well- being of users. The word "severe" as used to qualify "health hazard" means a hazard to the health of the user that could reasonably be expected to result in significant morbidity or death.
(21) "Interchangeable connection" means an arrangement or device that shall allow alternate but not simultaneous use of two sources of water.
(22) "Maintenance" means the keeping of the treatment facility and the distribution system in a state of repair and shall include expenditures necessary during the service life of the treatment works to maintain the capability for which the treatment works and distribution system were designed and constructed.
(Ord. 91-1404. Passed 11-5-91.)
(23) "Base fee service charge” means the minimum charge to be made to a system user for water service and credited to the total water service charge at the applicable rate as established by ordinance.
(Ord. 18-1342. Passed 2-20-18.)
(24) "Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water.
(25) "Nonpotable water" means water not safe for drinking, personal or culinary use.
(26) "Nuisance" means anything which is injurious to health or is indecent or offensive to the senses or is an obstruction to the free use of property so as to interfere with human comfort or enjoyment of life or property.
(27) "Operation, Maintenance and Replacement (OM&R)" means the cost of providing water service by the distribution system in accordance with design criteria, and sound economic practices. In particular "operation" means the means and methods used to facilitate the proper and intended usage of the treatment facility; "maintenance" means the general upkeep of the water system and "replacement" means the expenditures for procuring and installing equipment necessary for the efficient and proper utilization of the water system throughout the service life of such system.
(28) "Person" means any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any other legal entity or their legal representatives, agents or assigns.
(29) "Pollution" means the presence in water of any foreign substance that tends to degrade its quality so as to constitute a hazard or impair the usefulness or quality of the water to a degree which does not create an actual hazard to the public health but which does adversely and unreasonably affect such waters for domestic use.
(30) "Potable water" means water which is satisfactory for drinking, culinary and domestic purposes and meets the requirements of the Ohio Department of Health.
(31) "Premises" means a parcel of real estate including any improvements thereon which is determined by the Department to be a single user of the water system.
(32) "Private water" means a water that is controlled by the Department but owned, operated and maintained by others.
(33) "Process fluids" means any fluid or solution which may be chemically, biologically or otherwise contaminated or polluted in a form or concentration such as would constitute a health, pollution or system hazard if introduced into the public or a potable consumer's water system. This includes, but is not limited to:
A. Polluted or contaminated waters;
B. Process waters;
C. Used waters originating from the public water system which may have deteriorated in sanitary quality;
D. Cooling waters;
E. Contaminated natural waters taken from wells, lakes, cisterns, streams or irrigation systems;
F. Chemicals in solution or suspension; and
G. Oils, gases, acids, alkalis and other liquid and gaseous fluids used in industrial or other processes, or for fire fighting purposes.
(34) "Public water" means any publicly or privately owned potable water system subject to Ohio R.C. 6111.13.
(35) "Reduced pressure principle backflow prevention device" means a device containing a minimum of two independently acting check valves together with an automatically operated pressure differential relief valve located between the two check valves. During normal flow and at the cessation of normal flow, the pressure between these two checks shall be less than the supply pressure. In case of leakage of either check valve, the differential relief valve, by discharging to the atmosphere, shall operate to maintain the pressure between the check valves at less than the supply pressure. The unit shall include tightly closing shut-off valves located at each end of the device, and each device shall be fitted with properly located test cocks.
(36) "Service line" means that line extending from a service connection to the water meter inlet.
(37) "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
(38) "System hazard" means a condition posing an actual or potential threat of damage to the physical properties of the public water system or a potable consumer's water system.
(39) "Standard methods" means the laboratory procedures set forth in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, as prepared and published jointly by the American Water Works Association, American Public Health Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
(40) "State" means the State of Ohio unless indicated otherwise.
(41) "System user" means any user of the water system.
(42) "Pollution hazard" means a condition through which an aesthetically objectionable or degrading material not dangerous to health may enter the public water system or a potable consumer's water system.
(43) "Test procedures (analytical testing)" means all methods of sample collection, preservation and analysis as prescribed in the Federal Regulation 40CFR136, Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pollutants. Unless indicated otherwise, the test procedures employed by the Department shall conform to those described in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater. See subsection (a)(39) hereof.
(44) "User charge" (formerly known as tap-in fee) means the system access charge for providing water service and shall be established by ordinance as proportionate to the Department's cost for capital improvement.
(45) "Used water" means any water supplied by a water purveyor from a public water system to a consumer's water system after it has passed through the service connection and is no longer under the control of the water purveyor.
(46) "Water purveyor" means the owner or operator of a public water system.
(47) "Water constituents and characteristics" means 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 and quantity of water.
(48) "Waterworks treatment plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for the treatment of water.
(49) "Watercourse" means any channel in which the flow of water occurs either continuously or intermittently.
(50) "Waters of the State" means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private which are contained in, flow through or border upon the State or any portion thereof.
(Ord. 91-1404. Passed 11-5-91.)