As used in this chapter:
(a) "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drain-age system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drain-age pipes inside the walls of a building and conveys it to the building sewer beginning three feet outside the building wall.
(b) "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(c) "Combined sewer" means a sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
(d) "Commercial user" means retail or wholesale business establishments that discharge wastewater into the public wastewater treatment system, works and facility.
(e) "Foundation drains" means subsurface drains laid around the foundation of a building, either within or outside the building foundation, for the purpose of carrying ground or subsurface water to some point of disposal.
(f) "Garbage" means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the commercial handling, storage and sale of produce.
(g) "Industrial user" means users discharging waste resulting from manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substance into other products. Such activities occur in establishments usually described as plants, factories or mills, and characteristically use power-driven machines and material handling equipment.
(h) "Institutional/governmental user" means hospitals, nursing homes, schools and City, County, State or Federal buildings or facilities that discharge wastewater into the public wastewater treatment system, works and facility.
(i) "Natural outlet" means an outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(j) "NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) permit" means the same as such is defined in the Code of Federal Regulations, 40 CFR Part 125, and in Public Law 92-500, Section 402.
(k) "Nonsanitary flow" means storm water originating from downspouts, storm and ground water drains and foundation drains.
(1) "Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(m) "Public sewer" means any sewer owned by the Village, including storm, sanitary or combined sewers.
(n) "Residential user" means a principal family residence or habitation classified as a single-family, multifamily or apartment dwelling that discharges domestic sanitary wastewater, having characteristics of 350 milligrams per liter biochemical oxygen demand and 250 milligrams per liter suspended solids, into the public wastewater treatment system, works and facility.
(o) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which carries sanitary and industrial wastes, and to which storm, surface and ground water are not intentionally admitted.
(p) "Sewage" means the combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, including polluted cooling water.
(q) "Sewerage system" means the structures, equipment and process required to collect, transport and treat domestic and industrial wastes and to dispose of the effluent and accumulated residual solids, and shall be synonymous with "wastewater treatment system."
(r) "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
(s) "Storm sewer" means a pipe or conduit designed for the purpose of carrying storm, surface, cooling and drainage water from the point of origin to some point of disposal, but which is not intended to carry domestic or industrial sewage.
(t) "Slug" means any discharge of water or wastewater which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds, for any period of duration longer than fifteen minutes, more than five times the average twenty-four hour concentration of flows during normal operation.
(u) "User" means any person who discharges or causes or permits the discharge of wastewater into the wastewater treatment system.
(v) "Village" means the Village of Mt. Gilead, Ohio, acting through its duly authorized officials and employees.
(w) "Wastewater" means the liquid and water-carried waste from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions, together with any ground water, surface water or storm water that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is discharged or permitted to enter the wastewater treatment system.
(x) "Wastewater treatment system" means the structures, equipment and process required to collect, transport and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent and accumulated residual solids. The term is synonymous with "sewerage system" or "sewage system."
(Ord. 1066. Passed 5-5-86.)