Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(a) “Biochemical Oxygen Demand (B.O.D.)” means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under laboratory procedure in five (5) days at 20°C, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(b) “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 the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning three feet from the building wall.
(c) “Building sewer or lateral” means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(d) “Combined sewer” means a sewer which conveys both sanitary wastes and storm water. This type of sewer is prohibited.
(e) “Domestic” means a residential user of the wastewater treatment works.
(f) “Normal domestic wastewater” means wastewater that has a B.O.D. concentration of not more than 200 mg/l, a suspended solids concentration of not more than 240 mg/l and a phosphorous concentration of not more than 10 mg/l.
(g) “Industrial wastes” means the wastewater from industries as distinct from segregated domestic wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(h) “NPDES Permit” means the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for the Sewer Subdistrict Wastewater Treatment Plant.
(i) “Private sewer” means any extension of the wastewater treatment works which is not a public sewer.
(j) “Public sewer” means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
(k) “Sanitary sewer” means a sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes discharged from residences, commercial buildings, industries and institutions, together with minor quantities of ground, storm, and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
(l) “Sanitary Sewer Charges” means the aggregate of various components of billing charges and user charges.
(m) “Sanitary wastes” means the combination of liquid and water-carried wastes discharged from sanitary plumbing facilities and conveniences by reason of normal human and domestic activities.
(n) “Sewer” means a pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
(o) “Slug” means any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentration of any given constituent or in any quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen minutes more than five times the average twenty-four hour concentration or flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the wastewater treatment works.
(p) “Storm sewer” means a drain or sewer for conveying water, ground water, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source.
(q) “Suspended solids” means total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" and referred to as nonfilterable residue.
(r) “User” means any building, structure or other facility either directly or indirectly connected to the New Washington Sewer System.
(s) “User charge” means a charge levied on users of the Village of New Washington Wastewater Treatment Works for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement of such works.
(t) “Village” means the Village of New Washington.
(u) “Wastes” or “wastewater” means 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, industries and institutions, together with any ground water, surface water, and storm water that may be present.
(v) “Wastewater facilities” means the structures, equipment and processes required to collect and carry away domestic and industrial wastes of the Village.
(w) “Wastewater Treatment Plant” or “WWTP” means the sewage lagoons and appurtenances constructed by the Village to receive, treat, and dispose of wastewater.
(x) “Natural outlet” means ditch, stream, river or other method of surface or subsurface drainage, including any sewer tributary thereto.
(y) “SLLC” means a sudden concentrated discharge of waste of a quality and quantity sufficient to disrupt the sanitary sewers, pump stations, or wastewater treatment plant. (Ord. 781. Passed 12-13-99.)