For the purposes of this article, and unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(a) BOD. (denoting “biochemical oxygen demand”). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five days at twenty degrees Centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(b) Building drain. 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 building sewer, beginning five feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
(c) Building sewer. The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal; also called house connection.
(d) City. The City of New Martinsville, West Virginia.
(e) Combined sewer. A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
(f) Commercial user. A user of the city sewerage system in a location where a trade, business, profession or occupation is carried on or where a service is rendered.
(g) Common council or council. The Mayor and six ward Councilmen of the City of New Martinsville, West Virginia, constituting the governing body of the City.
(h) Domestic user. Each family unit which uses the sewerage system of the City, which family unit may consist of one or more persons; where there is more than one family unit using water from the same water meter or under the same roof, each family unit shall be considered a separate domestic user.
(i) Easement. An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by another or others.
(j) Floatable oil. Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable oil if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system.
(k) Garbage. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(l) Industrial user. A user of the City sewerage system, such as a factory or a similar organization, where more than ten persons are employed.
(m) Industrial waste. The wastewater from industrial processes, trade or business, as distinct from domestic or sanitary strength wastes.
(n)\ May. Denotes permissive, as opposed to mandatory.
(o) Natural outlet. Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(p) Occupied building. Any structure erected and intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which sanitary sewage or industrial wastes is or may be discharged.
(q) Person. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(r) pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen-ion in grams per liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of 7 and hydrogen-ion concentration of 10-.
(s) Premises accessible to the sanitary sewage system. Any real estate which adjoins, abuts or is adjacent to the city sanitary sewerage system and which can be connected to such system by the construction of a lateral or private sewer of not more than one hundred feet in length.
(t) Properly shredded garbage. 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 flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
(u) Public sewer. A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public utility.
(v) Public user. A governmental, educational, church, charitable, benevolent, civic, service or similar unit or organization which is a user of the city sewerage system.
(w) Sanitary sewage, or sewage. The normal, water carried, household and toilet wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, industries and commercial establishments, exclusive of storm water runoff, surface water or ground water. Also, the spent water of a community. The preferred term is wastewater.
(x) Sanitary sewer. A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with minor quantifies of ground, storm and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
(y) Sewer. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
(z) Sewage treatment plant. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
(aa) Sewage works. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
(bb) Shall. Denotes mandatory, as opposed to permissive.
(cc) Slug. 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 and adversely affects the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
(dd) Storm drain, or storm sewer. A drain or sewer for conveying surface water, ground water, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source.
(ee) Superintendent. The duly appointed superintendent of the City of New Martinsville water and sanitary sewer board, who is charged with the responsibility of the day-to-day operation of the wastewater facilities, or his board-authorized deputy, agent or representative.
(ff) Suspended solids. Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in water, wastewater or other liquids, that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in "standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater;" also referred to as "nonfilterable residue."
(gg) Unpolluted water. Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
(hh) Wastewater. The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with any ground water, surface water and storm water that may be present.
(ii) Wastewater facilities. The structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
(jj) Wastewater treatment works. An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "waste treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "water pollution control plant."
(kk) Water and sanitary sewer board, or board. The public body created under the authority of W. Va. Code§ 16-13-1, et seq., as amended, and charged with the administration of the municipal waterworks and sewage system.
(ll) Watercourse. A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water, either continuously or intermittently.
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