Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this subchapter shall be as follows:
BOARD. The Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of Monticello, Indiana, or any duly authorized officials acting in its behalf.
BOD (OR BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND). The same meaning as defined in the Use Ordinance.
CITY. The City of Monticello, Indiana, acting by and through the Board of Public Works and Safety.
DEBT SERVICE COSTS. The average annual principal and interest payments on all outstanding revenue bonds or other long-term capital debt.
EXCESSIVE STRENGTH SURCHARGES. An additional charge which is billed to users for treating sewage wastes with an average strength in excess of “normal domestic sewage.”
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The wastewater discharges from industrial, trade, or business processes as distinct from employee wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
NPDES (NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM) PERMIT. The same meaning as defined in the Sewer Use Ordinance.
NORMAL DOMESTIC SEWAGE. (For the purpose of determining surcharges), wastewater or sewage having an average daily concentration as follows:
BOD not more than 220 mg/l
S.S. not more than 230 mg/l
Phosphorus not more than 10 mg/l
Ammonia not more than 18 mg/l
As defined by origin, wastewaters from segregated domestic and/or sanitary conveniences as distinct from wastes from industrial processes.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS. Includes all costs, direct and indirect, necessary to provide adequate wastewater collection, transport, and treatment on a continuing basis and produce discharges to receiving waters that conform with all related federal, state, and local requirements. (These costs include replacement.)
OTHER SERVICE CHARGES. Tap charges, connection charges, area charges, and other identification charges, other than User Charges, debt service charges, and excessive strength surcharges.
PERSON. Any and all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm, company, municipal or private corporation, association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency, or other entity.
REPLACEMENT COSTS. The expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
SEWAGE. The same meaning as defined in the Sewer Use Ordinance.
SEWER USE ORDINANCE. A separate and companion enactment to this chapter, which regulates the connection to and use of public and private sewers.
SHALL is mandatory; MAY is permissive.
S.S. (SUSPENDED SOLIDS). The same meaning as defined in the Use Ordinance.
USER CHARGE. A charge levied on users of the wastewater treatment works for the cost of operation and maintenance of such works pursuant to Section 204(b) of Public Law 92-500.
USER CLASS. The division of wastewater treatment customers by source, function, waste characteristics, and process or discharge similarities (i.e., residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, and governmental in the User Charge System and as industrial and non-industrial in the Industrial Cost Recovery System).
(1) COMMERCIAL USER. Any establishment listed in the Office of Management and Budget's “Standard Industrial Classification Manual” (1972 Edition) involved in a commercial enterprise, business, or service which, based on a determination by the city, discharges primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(2) INSTITUTIONAL USE. Any establishment listed in the “SICM” involved in a social, charitable, religious, and/or educational function which, based on a determination by the city, discharges primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(3) INDUSTRIAL USER. Any manufacturing or processing facility that discharges industrial waste to a publicly owned treatment works. INDUSTRIAL USERS shall be identified in the “SICM” under Divisions, A, B, D, E, or I.
(4) RESIDENTIAL USER. A user of the treatment works whose premises or building is used primarily as a residence for one or more persons, including all dwelling units, and the like.
(Ord. 98-7, passed 3-2-98)