For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the “The Clean Water Act”, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 466, as referred to in I.C. 13-1-4-1.
APPLICABLE PRETREATMENT STANDARDS. Any pretreatment limit or prohibitive standard (federal, state and/or local) contained in the ordinance and considered to be the more restrictive with which non-domestic users shall be required to comply.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD). The quantity of dissolved oxygen, in milligrams per liter, required during the stabilization of the decomposable organic matter by aerobic biochemical action of sewage, sewage effluent, polluted waters or industrial wastes under standard laboratory procedures for five days at 20°C. The laboratory determinations shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
BUILDING (OR HOUSE) DRAIN. The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage system that receives the discharge from soil, waste or other drainage pipes inside walls of the building and conveys it to a point outside the foundation wall of the building.
BUILDING (OR HOUSE) DRAIN CONNECTION. The point where the building (or house) sewer is connected to the building drain at a location approximately three feet outside the foundation wall of the building.
BUILDING (OR HOUSE) SEWER. The pipe which is connected to the building (or house) drain at a point three feet outside the foundation wall of the building and which conveys the building’s discharge from that point to the public sewer or the place of disposal.
BUILDING (OR HOUSE) SEWER CONNECTION. The point where the building sewer is connected to the public sewer. This connection to the public sewer may be accomplished as follows.
(1) Where a tap-in connection is employed, the point of connection shall be where the end of the building sewer meets the inside face of the sewage system and the tapping “saddle and/or joint” shall be considered part of the building sewer.
(2) Where fittings (Ts or Ys) are employed, the connection shall be where the end of the first pipe meets the end of the fitting and the said T or Y fitting shall be considered a part of the building sewer.
BULK WASTE. Any containerized solid, liquid or gaseous substance discarded or to be discarded as worthless, defective or of no use to the person discarding said substance.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD). A measure of oxygen equivalent to that portion of the organic matter in a sample of sewage, sewage effluent, polluted waters or industrial wastes that is susceptible to oxidation by a strong chemical oxidant. The laboratory determinations shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
CITY. The City of New Haven, Allen County, Indiana.
CLASSIFICATION OF USERS.
(1) DOMESTIC CLASS USER. A user discharging only “normal domestic sewage”, as herein defined, into the system.
(2) COMMERCIAL CLASS USER. A user falling within Division G of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, United States Office of Management and Budget as currently amended and supplemented. A copy is on file in the office of the city’s Clerk-Treasurer.
(3) INDUSTRIAL CLASS USER. A user falling within Division A, B, D, E or I of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, United States Office of Management and Budget, as currently amended and supplemented. A user described in the divisions listed herein may be excluded if it is determined, by the city, that such user will introduce primarily segregated domestic waste or waste from sanitary conveniences. Users not listed therein may be included in this class of customers because of the production of excess strength of waste or toxics in excess of limits described hereinafter.
CONTROL AUTHORITY. City of Fort Wayne.
DWELLING. A building, or portion thereof, under one roof used primarily as the abode of one or more persons, but not including hotels, motels, lodging or boarding houses or tourist homes.
EFFLUENT. The water, together with any wastes that may be present, flowing out of a drain, sewer, receptacle or outlet.
EMERGENCY. An unforeseen circumstance or combination of circumstances that may cause an eminent endangerment to the health and/or welfare of persons, the environment or which may interfere with the operation of the sewer collection system or the water pollution control plant.
GARBAGE. Any solid wastes from the preparation, cooking or dispensing of food or from the handling, storage or sale of produce.
GROUND GARBAGE. Garbage that is shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely in suspension under the conditions normally prevailing the public sewers, with no particle being greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
GREYWATER. All wastewater generated in households or office buildings that does not contain fecal contamination. Sources of GREYWATER include sinks, showers, baths, clothes washing machines, dishwashers or water softeners.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or form of energy discharged, permitted to flow or escape from an industrial, manufacturing, commercial or business operation or process from the development, recovery or processing of any natural resource carried on by any person.
INFLUENT. The water, together with any wastes that may be present, flowing into a drain, sewer, receptacle or outlet.
MAJOR INDUSTRIAL USER. A user of the city’s sanitary sewerage system that:
(1) Has a flow of 50,000 gallons of water or more per average work day;
(2) Has a flow of waste greater than 5% of the flow carried by any part of the city system receiving the waste;
(3) Has in its waste, a toxic pollutant in amounts as defined in standards issued under § 307(a) of the Federal Act; or
(4) Is found by the state’s Department of Environmental Management, in connection with the issuance of the NPDES permit to the City of Fort Wayne’s treatment works receiving the waste, to have significant impact whether singularly or in combination with other contributing industries, on that treatment works.
MAY. The act referred to is permissible.
NORMAL DOMESTIC SEWAGE. Sewage having an average daily suspended solids concentration of not more than 300 milligrams per liter, an average daily BOD concentration of not more than 300 milligrams per liter and an average daily phosphorus concentration of not more than ten milligrams per liter and an average daily ammonia concentration of not more than 15 milligrams per liter.
NPDES PERMIT. The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit issued by the state’s Stream Pollution Control Board for discharges of waste waters to navigable waters of the United States.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS. All costs direct and indirect other than debt services including replacement costs, as defined herein, necessary to ensure adequate wastewater treatment on a continuing basis conforming with federal, state or local requirements and to ensure long-term management.
OUTLET. Any outlet, natural or constructed, which is the point of final discharge of sewage or of treatment plant effluent into any watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, partnership, company, municipal or private corporation, commercial establishment, association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency or other legal unit or entity.
pH. The logarithm (to the base ten) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration of a solution expressed on gram-atoms per liter of solution.
POLLUTANTS.
(1) COMPATIBLE POLLUTANTS. Waste containing biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen suspended solids, phosphorus, pH and fecal conform bacterial and ammonia.
(2) INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANTS. Wastes containing pollutants that are not “compatible pollutants”.
RECEIVING STREAM. The watercourse, stream or body of water receiving the waters finally discharged from the sewage treatment plant.
REPLACEMENT COST. The cost, stated in current monetary values, as an operating cost which represents and measures the day-to-day consumption and attrition of physical assets in rendering service to users.
SANITARY SEWAGE. Sewage discharged from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, apartment houses, condominiums, motels, hotels, lodging or boarding houses, office buildings, factories or institutions free from storm waters, service waters and industrial wastes.
SERVICE CHARGE. The basic assessment levied on all users of the public sewerage system for wastes which do not exceed in strength the concentration values above which a strength-of-waste surcharge will be made.
SEWAGE. The water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, singular or in any combination together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT or WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT. The City of Fort Wayne’s arrangement of devices, structures and equipment used for treating and disposing of sewage and sludge.
SEWAGE UTILITY. All facilities and systems for collecting, transporting and pumping of sewage, including the sewerage collection system.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage and other waste liquids as differentiated below.
(1) COMBINED OR COMBINATION SEWER. A sewer which carries storm, surface and ground water runoff as well as sewage.
(2) PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer to the use of which all owners of abutting property have equal rights and is controlled and maintained by the city or other public authority.
(3) SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sanitary sewage and to which storm, surface, ground waters and unpolluted industrial waste water are not intentionally admitted.
(4) STORM SEWER. A sewer which carries storm, surface and ground water drainage, but excludes sanitary sewage.
SEWER ENGINEER. The city’s Director of Engineering or his duly-authorized representative.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM. The network of sewers and appurtenances used for collecting, transporting and pumping sewage.
SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
STANDARD METHODS. The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the most recent edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published jointly by the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
STRENGTH-OF-WASTE SURCHARGE. The additional charge for sewage service collected from users discharging sewage into the system having a strength measurement in excess of the limits imposed by the provisions of this chapter.
SUPERINTENDENT. The Utility Superintendent of the municipal works of the city or his or her authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids which either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquid and which are removable by laboratory filtration. Their concentration is expressed in milligrams per liter. Quantitative determinations are made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
WASTE SURVEILLANCE CHARGE. A monthly charge collected from users, qualifying as industrial or commercial class users, to defray the cost of evaluating the user’s waste by metering, sampling, laboratory analysis and/or other methods deemed necessary. Said charges are set forth in this chapter.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously or intermittently.
(Prior Code, § 51.01) (Ord. G-93-5, passed 6-8-1993; Ord. G-17-4, passed 9-12-2017; Ord. G-18-12, passed 6-26-2018)