As used in this chapter:
(1) ACT: means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act and Public Law 92-500, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251, et seq.
(2) APPLICABLE PRETREATMENT STANDARD: means the pretreatment limit or prohibitive standard (Federal and/or local), deemed to be the most restrictive, with which nondomestic users are required to comply.
(3) APPROVAL AUTHORITY: means the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(4) AUTHORITY: means New Carlisle, Ohio, acting through its designated representatives for all areas in New Carlisle included in the respective sewer district tributary to the Authority's WWTP.
(5) AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER: means a principal executive officer of at least the level of vice president, if the industrial user is a corporation; a general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively; or a duly authorized representative of the individual designated above, if such representative is responsible for the overall operation of the facilities from which the discharge originates.
(6) AVERAGE MONTHLY DISCHARGE LIMITATION: means the highest allowable average of daily discharges over a calendar month, calculated as the sum of all daily discharges measured during a calendar month divided by the number of daily discharges measured during the month.
(7) AVERAGE WEEKLY DISCHARGE LIMITATION: means the highest allowable average of daily discharges over a calendar week, calculated as the sum of all daily discharges measured during a calendar week divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that week.
(8) BENEFICIAL USES: means, but is not limited to, domestic, Municipal, agricultural, industrial, power generation, recreation, aesthetic enjoyment and navigation uses, and the preservation and enhancement of fish, wildlife and other aquatic resources or reserves, and other uses, both tangible and intangible, as specified by State or Federal law.
(9) BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD): means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter, under standard laboratory procedure, in five days at twenty degrees Centigrade, expressed in terms of weight (parts per million) and concentration (milligrams per liter (mg/l)). Laboratory procedures shall be in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods.
(10) BUILDING DRAIN: means that 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 a building and conveys it to the sewer, terminating three feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(11) BUILDING SEWER: means the extension from the building drain to the Municipal sewer or other place of disposal.
(12) CAPACITY CHARGE: means the charge levied on new users in the system to help fund future POTW expansions as the new users reduce existing plant growth capacity. The capacity charge is based on the EDU of the new user at the rate in effect at the time of permit application.
(13) CAPITAL COST: means that portion of the cost of the sewage treatment system which is directly attributable to the cost of principal and interest obligations issued to finance acquisition and construction of the wastewater system.
(14) CARBONACEOUS BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (CBOD): means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter, not including nitrification, under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees Centigrade, expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams per liter (mg/l)). Laboratory procedures shall be in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods.
(15) CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS: means the National Pretreatment Standards of the Clean Water Act specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants which may be discharged to a treatment plant by specific discharges.
(16) CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD): means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures, expressed in terms of parts per million by weight in accordance with procedures set forth in the latest edition of Standard Methods.
(17) CHLORINE REQUIREMENT: means the amount of chlorine, in parts per million by weight, which must be added to sewage to produce a specified residual chlorine content or to meet the requirements of some other objective, in accordance with procedures set forth in the latest edition of Standard Methods.
(18) CITY: means New Carlisle, Ohio, acting through its duly authorized officials and employees.
(19) CLEAN WATER ACT: See ACT.
(20) COMBINED SEWER: means a sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
(21) COMMERCIAL USER: means any aggregation of space, offices, laundries, restaurants, stores, taverns, shops, and other like units, which is equipped with one or more water fixtures draining into the wastewater disposal system, separate and distinct from other users of service. In office buildings or other premises containing more than one tenant, only those tenants shall be classified as users of service who occupy space equipped with a distinct opening or fixture or set of fixtures for the use of water separately from other tenants and with waste draining into the wastewater disposal system. “Commercial user” is further defined as any user of the sewage system not specifically categorized as residential or industrial and generally classified in the Standard Industrial Classification (S.I.C.) Manual of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget in Division F - Wholesale Trade; Division G - Retail Trade; Division H - Finance, Insurance and Real Estate; portions of Division I - Services; and Division J - Public Administration.
(22) COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT: means BOD, suspended solids, phosphorous, ammonia, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the Authority's NPDES permit, if the treatment works was designed to treat such pollutants and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree.
(23) COMPOSITE SAMPLE: means a sample which contains a minimum of eight discrete samples taken at equal time intervals over the compositing period or proportional to the flow rate over the compositing period. More than the minimum number of discrete samples will be required where the wastewater loading is highly variable.
(24) CONTROL MANHOLE: means a structure which provides access to a building sewer. A control manhole may be used as an inspection chamber and may contain certain testing equipment.
(25) COOLING WATER: means the water discharge from any use such as air- conditioning, cooling, or refrigeration, or during which the only constituent added to the water is heat.
(26) DAILY DISCHARGE: means the discharge of a pollutant measured during a calendar day, or any twenty-four hour period that reasonably represents the calendar, for purposes of sampling.
(27) DEBT SERVICE: means the funds used for the retirement of and interest on bonds and/or notes authorized and issued by the Authority to construct sewage system facilities.
(28) DEBT SERVICE CHARGES: means charges resulting from the capital investment in the wastewater system, consisting of the annual principal and interest payments and other amounts required in connection with the issuance and sale of bonds to provide the funds for construction.
(29) DIRECTOR: means the Director of Public Service of the City of New Carlisle or his or her authorized representative.
(30) DOMESTIC SEWAGE: means sewage derived principally from dwellings, business buildings, institutions, and the like, which originates within the building, including the waste from kitchens, water closets, lavatories, bathrooms, showers, and laundries.
(31) EASEMENT: means an acquired legal right of the specific use of land owned by others.
(32) EPA OR U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY: means the United States Environmental Protection Agency and may also be used, where appropriate, as a designation for the administrator or other duly authorized official of such agency.
(33) EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT (EDU): means the measurement of a home equivalent based upon a flow rate of 175 gallons per day. Apartments, homes, trailers, cottages, and other single residential structures shall be considered as one EDU each, regardless of flow rate.
(34) ETHER-SOLUBLE MATTER: means oil and grease which is soluble in ether, as measured in the laboratory procedure followed in accordance with the method set forth in Standard Methods.
(35) FECAL COLIFORM: means any number of organisms common to the intestinal tract of man and animals, whose presence in sanitary sewage is an indicator of pollution.
(36) FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ACT: See ACT.
(37) FLOATABLE OIL: means oil, fat, or grease in a physical state, such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
(38) FOUNDATION DRAINS: means subsurface drains laid around the foundation of a building, either within or outside of the building foundation, for the purpose of carrying ground or subsurface water to some point of discharge.
(39) GARBAGE: means solid wastes from the preparation and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(40) GOVERNMENTAL USER: means any user discharging wastewater from premises utilized by public political units, including Federal, State, County, and local units.
(41) GRAB SAMPLE: means a sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one- time basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of time.
(42) GREASE AND OIL: means a group of substances, including hydrocarbons, fatty acids, soaps, fats, waxes, oils, or any other material, that is extracted by a solvent from an acidified sample and that is not volatilized during the laboratory test procedures. Greases and oils are defined by the method of their determination in accordance with Standard Methods.
(43) GREASE AND OIL OF ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE ORIGIN: means substances that are of a less readily biodegradable nature, such as are discharged by meatpacking, vegetable oil, fat industries, food processors, canneries, and restaurants.
(44) GREASE AND OIL OF MINERAL ORIGIN: means substances that are less readily biodegradable than grease and oil of animal or vegetable origin and that are derived from a petroleum source. Such substances include machinery lubricating oils, gasoline station wastes, petroleum refinery wastes and storage depot wastes.
(45) GROUND GARBAGE: means the residue from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely in suspension under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
(46) INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT: means any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined herein.
(47) INDUSTRIAL USER: means a person or organization who or which discharges to the Authority's wastewater disposal system liquid, solid or gaseous wastes resulting from the processes employed in industrial or manufacturing activities or from the development, recovery, or processing of any natural resource. “Industrial user” is further defined as any nongovernmental user of the publicly owned treatment works identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under the following divisions: Division A - Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing; Division B - Mining; Division D - Manufacturing; Division E - Transportation, Communication, Electric, Gas and Sanitary Service; and Division I - Services. A user in the division may be excluded if it is determined that it will introduce primarily segregated domestic waste or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(48) INDUSTRIAL WASTE: means any liquid, solid or gaseous substance or form of energy, or combination thereof, resulting from any process of an industrial, commercial, governmental and institutional concern, or manufacturing, business, trade or research, including the development, recovery or processing of natural resources, or from sources other than those generating waste defined as “normal domestic sewage” herein.
(49) INDUSTRIAL WASTE PERMIT: means a formal permit to deposit or discharge industrial waste into any sanitary sewer, as issued by the Authority.
(50) INFILTRATION: means water other than wastewater that enters a sewer system (including building sewer connections and foundation drains) from the ground through such means as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manholes. Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.
(51) INFLOW: means water other than wastewater that enters a sewer system from sources such as, but not limited to, roof leaders, cellar drains, yard drains, area drains, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections between storm sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, storm waters, surface runoff, street wash waters or drainage. Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.
(52) INFLUENT: means the water, together with any waste that may be present, flowing into a drain, sewer, receptacle, or outlet and then to the sewage treatment plant.
(53) INSPECTION FEE: means the amount charged by the Authority to inspect and issue a permit for new users to verify proper construction procedures and materials.
(54) INSTITUTIONAL USER: means any person discharging wastewater from premises serving educational, social or eleemosynary purposes, including, but not limited to, private schools, hospitals, nursing homes, churches and charitable organizations.
(55) INTERFERENCE: means the inhibition or disruption of sewage treatment processes or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirements of the Authority's NPDES permit. The term includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the treatment plant in accordance with Section 405 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1345) or any criteria, guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substance Control Act or more stringent State criteria (including those contained in any State sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV of the Solid Waste Disposal Act) applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the Authority.
(56) MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY: means any user of the Authority's wastewater disposal system which has a disposal flow of 25,000 gallons per average workday, has a flow greater than five percent of the flow in the Authority's wastewater disposal system, has in its wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to Section 307 of the Act, or has significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater disposal system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality or air emissions generated by the system.
(57) MAXIMUM DAILY DISCHARGE LIMITATIONS: means the highest allowable daily discharge.
(58) NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS: means any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307 (b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1347) which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
(59) NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT: means a permit issued by the State of Ohio EPA or the U.S. EPA, pursuant to the Clean Water Act, for the purpose of regulating the discharge of sewage, industrial wastes and other wastes, as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations, 40 CFR Part 125, and under the authority of Section 402 of the Clean Water Act, into navigable waters of the United States.
(60) NATURAL OUTLET: means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(61) NEW SOURCE: means any source of wastewater, the construction of which is commenced after the publication of regulations prescribing an applicable Section 307(c) (33 U.S.C. 1317) Categorical Pretreatment Standard is promulgated in the Federal Register.
(62) NONRESIDENTIAL USER: means commercial, governmental, institutional and industrial users in the aggregate and all other users not considered under the residential user category.
(63) NONSANITARY FLOW: means storm water originating from downspouts and storm water, ground water and foundation drains.
(64) NORMAL DOMESTIC SEWAGE: means average wastewater which, when analyzed, shows by weight a daily average of not more than 250 parts per million of suspended solids, not more than 200 parts per million of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), ten parts per million of phosphorus and 100 parts per million of freon-soluble matter (grease and oil), and which is discharged principally from dwellings such as residences, apartments, trailers, etc.
(65) NPDES PERMIT: See NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMIT.
(66) ON-LOT SYSTEM: means a privately owned system located on private property, together with all appurtenances thereof.
(67) OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS: means the current, reasonable and necessary costs of operation and maintenance of the wastewater disposal system, paid or incurred, determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, including replacement costs, but excluding payments of principal and interest on obligations issued to finance the costs of acquisition and construction of the treatment works. In other terms, it shall mean the costs incurred in the act of keeping all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage in a good state of repair and functioning properly, including the replacement of said facilities when necessary.
(68) OWNER: means any person in having title to or any interest in real property in the facilities planning area, including any of the sanitary sewer districts and their extensions and/or drainage areas now existing or subsequently created by Council, or covered by a contract providing for Municipal service to the area under contract.
(69) PARTS PER MILLION (ppm): means a weight-to-weight ratio. The parts per million value multiplied by the factor 8.345 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons of water. Milligrams per liter (mg/l) is a synonymous term.
(70) PERSON: means all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm, society, group, company, Municipal or private corporation, partnership, co-partnership, joint stock company, trust, association, institution, enterprise, governmental agency, the State of Ohio, the United States of America or other legal entity, or their representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine and the singular shall include the plural, where indicated by the context.
(71) pH: means the logarithm, base ten, of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration expressed in moles per liter. It shall be determined by one of the procedures outlined in Standard Methods.
(72) POLLUTANT: means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge, munitions, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, commercial, domestic and agricultural waste, which is discharged into water.
(73) POLLUTION: means an alteration of the quality of the waters of the State by waste to a degree which unreasonably affects such waters for beneficial uses or for facilities which serve such beneficial uses. Pollution is the man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological integrity of water.
(74) POTW: See PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS.
(75) PREMISES: means any piece of real estate having one or more sewers which may be connected either individually or through a common sewer and directly or indirectly to the wastewater disposal system.
(76) PRETREATMENT: means the process of reducing the amount of pollutants, eliminating pollutants or altering the nature of pollutant properties, in wastewater, prior to introducing such pollutants into the Authority's wastewater disposal system. The reduction, elimination, or alteration may be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, or by process changes or other means, except as prohibited by this chapter.
(77) PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS: means any substantive or procedural requirement relating to pretreatment, other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial user.
(78) PRIVATE ON-SITE TREATMENT FACILITIES: means any private sewage treatment facilities located at the site where wastewater is being generated, when such facilities are for the purpose of treating or pretreating the generated wastewater before it enters the public sewer.
(79) PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE: means 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 conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half of an inch in any dimension.
(80) PUBLIC SEWERS: means a sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the Authority on public or private property. “Public sewer” also includes sewers within or outside the Authority boundaries that serve one or more persons and ultimately discharge to the Authority sanitary sewer system, even though these sewers may not have been constructed with Authority funds.
(81) PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW): means all publicly owned (Authority owned) facilities for the collection, treatment, and disposal of wastewater.
(82) RECEIVING STREAM: means the watercourse, stream or body of water receiving the waters finally discharged from the wastewater treatment plant.
(83) REGULATED INDUSTRIAL CATEGORIES: means those categories regulated by the Clean Water Act.
(84) REIMBURSABLE EXPENSES: means those costs incurred by the Authority which are passed on to the users of the POTW on whose behalf the expenses were incurred. Included will be such items as sampling costs and laboratory fees.
(85) REPLACEMENT: means any expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. Such expenditures are also known as “equipment replacement costs.”
(86) RESIDENTIAL USER: means any user discharging domestic wastes from buildings or premises that are used as permanent places for human occupancy, such as single- family dwellings, rowhouses, townhouses, mobile homes, garden and standard apartments and high-rise apartments. Transient lodging, considered commercial in nature, is not included. In multi-use premises, only those divisions of the building utilized as domicile are considered residential users.
(87) SANITARY SEWER: means a gravity or pressure sewer which carries sanitary and industrial wastes and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(88) SERVICE AREA: means all users connected with the treatment works, including those in New Carlisle and outside of the City corporation limits.
(89) SEWAGE: means the water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, governmental buildings, industrial establishments, and institutions.
(90) SEWAGE SYSTEM: means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage to and through the sewage treatment or disposal works or extensions thereof. This shall not include plumbing inside or in connection with building services or service sewers from a building to the publicly owned sewer connection.
(91) SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT: means an assemblage of devices, structures and equipment for the treatment of sewage and industrial waste.
(92) SEWAGE WORKS: means facilities for sampling, collecting, testing and disposing of sewage.
(93) SEWER: means a pipe or conduit for carrying wastewater.
(94) SEWERAGE: means the system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation and pumping of sewage and industrial waste.
(95) SEWER SERVICE CHARGE: means an imposed charge upon all users receiving services from the Authority's sewerage system in a total amount sufficient to pay the costs of the system. Sewer service charges consist of a debt service charge, an operation, maintenance and replacement charge and surcharges (if applicable).
(96) SHALL, MAY: “Shall” is mandatory; “may” is permissible.
(97) SLUDGE: means any solid, semi-solid or liquid waste generated by a public, commercial or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility, or any other waste having similar characteristics and effects, as defined in the standards issued under Sections 402 and 405 of the Act and in the applicable requirements under Sections 3001, 3004 and 4004 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (PL 94-580).
(98) SLUG: means any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds, for any period of longer duration than fifteen minutes, more than five times the average twenty-four hour concentration or flow during normal operation.
(99) STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC): means the system that classifies industries pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, 1972, assigning a code (SIC Code) denoting the manufacturing process.
(100) STANDARD METHODS: means the laboratory procedures set forth in the most recent edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Federation of Sewage and Industrial Wastes Associations.
(101) STORM SEWER OR STORM DRAIN: means a public or private sewer and public ditch which carries storm, surface and ground water drainage from the point of origin to some point of disposal, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
(102) STORM WATER RUNOFF: means that portion of rainfall that is drained into the storm sewers or drains.
(103) SURCHARGE: means the assessment, in addition to the service charge, which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration values established as representative of normal domestic sewage.
(104) SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS): means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension or will settle in, water, sewage or industrial waste, and which are removable by a laboratory filtration device. Quantitative determination of suspended solids shall be made in accordance with the procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
(105) TOC: means the total organic carbon expressed in milligrams per liter.
(106) TOTAL SOLIDS: means the sum of suspended and dissolved solids.
(107) TOXIC POLLUTANTS: means concentration of any pollutant or combination of pollutants which, upon exposure to or assimilation into any organism, will cause adverse effects such as cancer, genetic mutations and physiological manifestations, as defined in the standards issued pursuant to Section 307(a) of the Act and which are considered priority pollutants by the U.S. EPA.
(108) TREATMENT PLANT: See SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT.
(109) UNPOLLUTED WATER OR UNPOLLUTED LIQUID: means any water or liquid containing none of the following: free or emulsified grease or oil; acids or alkalides; substances that may impart taste, odor or color characteristics; toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution; and odorous or otherwise obnoxious gases. It shall not contain more than 2,500 parts per million by weight of dissolved solids and no more than ten parts per million each of suspended solids (SS) or biochemical oxygen demand (BOD). Analytical determinations shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
(110) UPSET OR OPERATING UPSET: means an exceptional incident in which a discharger unintentionally and temporarily is in a state of noncompliance with the standards set forth in this chapter due to factors beyond the reasonable control of the discharger, excluding noncompliance to the extent caused by operational error, improperly designed treatment facilities, inadequate treatment facilities, lack of preventive maintenance or careless or improper operation thereof.
(111) USEFUL LIFE: means the estimated period during which a treatment works will be operational.
(112) U.S. EPA: See EPA.
(113) USER: means any person or property who or which discharges, or causes or permits the discharge of, wastewater into the wastewater treatment system.
(114) USER CHARGE: means the charge assessed users of the sewage system to recover the costs incurred in the act of keeping all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage in a good state of repair and functioning properly, including the replacement of said facilities when necessary, obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed, the funds used for the retirement of and interest on bonds and/or notes authorized and issued by the Authority to construct sewage system facilities, and acquiring all mandated discharge permits, and as well as the cost of rendering bills and collecting sewer service charges.
(115) USER CLASS: means a group of users that discharges, or causes or permits the discharge of, wastewater with similar characteristics into the sewerage system. All users shall be classified as nonresidential (commercial, governmental, industrial, and institutional) and residential users.
(116) VOLATILE ORGANIC MATTER: means the material in the sewage solids transformed to gases or vapors when heated at 500 degrees Centigrade for fifteen to twenty minutes, per Standard Methods.
(117) WASTEWATER: means the liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions, together with any ground water, surface water and storm water that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is discharged into or permitted to enter the Authority's wastewater treatment system.
(118) WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT: See SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT.
(119) WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM: See SEWAGE SYSTEM.
(120) WATERCOURSE: means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, whether continuously or intermittently.
(121) WATERS OF THE STATE: means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, 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 within, flow through, or border upon, the State or any portion thereof.
(122) WORKING CAPITAL: means a reasonable reserve of monies within the system operating fund to provide a margin of safety for fluctuations of the cash flow in the fund.
(Ord. 95-16. Passed 9-18-95; Ord. 2022-18. Passed 5-16-22.)