(a) For purposes of this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings ascribed to them respectively.
(1) "ACT" The Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. SS 1251 et seq.), as amended. P.L. 92-500, and any amendments thereto, as well as any guidelines, limitations, and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protections Agency pursuant to the Clean Water Act.
(2) "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)." The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures as outlined in the Environmental Protection Agency "Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for Analysis of Pollutants" (Ref. FR 10-16-73, Vol. 38, No. 199, Part II), in five days at 20°C, expressed in parts per million by weight.
(3) "BUILDING DRAIN." The 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 outside the inner face of the building wall.
(4) "BUILDING SEWER." The part of the horizontal piping of a sanitary drainage system which extends from a point three feet outside of the building wall and which receives the discharge from sanitary conveniences, wastes, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the public sewer, private sewer, individual sewage disposal system, or other point of disposal.
(5) "CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS." The National Pretreatment Standards specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged or introduced into the sewage disposal system by specific industrial users.
(6) "CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD)." The quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
(7) COMBINED SEWER." A sewer intended to convey both wastewater and storm or surface water.
(8) "COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT." Includes biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH, and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the Village's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit, provided the Village's wastewater treatment plant is designed to treat such pollutants, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree.
(9) "COOLING WATER" or "INDUSTRIAL COOLING WATER." The unpolluted water discharged from any system of condensation, air-conditioning cooling, refrigeration, or other similar use which meets the criteria established by the OEPA for effluents discharged to water courses at the Village.
(10) "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.
(11) "GARBAGE." Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, or dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
(12) "PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE." The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that has 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 in any dimension.
(13) "INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT." Any pollutant which is not a "COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT" as defined above.
(14) "INDIRECT DISCHARGE." The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants from a source regulated under the Clean Water Act into the sewage disposal system.
(15) "INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGER." Any nonresidential user who discharges an effluent into a POTW by means of pipes, conduits, pumping stations, force mains, constructed drainage ditches, surface water intercepting ditches, intercepting ditches, and all other constructed devices and appliances appurtenant thereto.
(16) "INDUSTRIAL WASTES." The liquid wastes resulting from commercial, manufacturing, or industrial operations or processes as distinct from sanitary sewage or wastes.
(17) "INTERCEPTOR." A device designed and installed so as to separate or retain deleterious, hazardous, or undesirable matter from normal wastes, and that permits normal wastewater to discharge into the disposal terminal by gravity.
(18) "INTERFERENCE." A discharge which alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, both: (1) inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and therefore, (2) is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES Permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal.
(19) "MAY." Means permissive; "SHALL." Means mandatory.
(20) "NATURAL OUTLET." Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water.
(21) "NEW SOURCE." Any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is or may be the discharge of pollutants. Construction by an industrial user would be classified as a new source if: (1) the construction is carried out at a site at which no other source is located; (2) the construction totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at an existing source; or (3) the production or wastewater generating processes of the constructed facility are substantially independent of an existing source at the same site. Any construction at the site of an existing facility that does not meet the above criteria will not result in a new source.
(22) "NORMAL STRENGTH SEWAGE OR WASTES (as defined for the purpose of determining surcharge)." Sewage having an average daily suspended solids concentration of not more than 300 mg/l, an average BOD concentration of not more than 400 mg/l, and not containing any of the characteristics in excess of the limitations prohibited and established by Section 915.06
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(23) "NPDES PERMIT." The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit issued to the village's wastewater treatment plant by the OEPA.
(24) "OEPA." The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(25) "PASS-THROUGH." A discharge which exists the POTW into waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirements of the POTW's NPDES Permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
(26) "PERSON." Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
(27) "pH." The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(28) "POLLUTANT." Dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge, munition, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water.
(29) "POTW." See "WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. (WWTP)."
(30) "PPM." Parts per million by weight or milligrams per liter (mg/l).
(31) "PRETREATMENT." The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the sewage disposal system.
(32) "PUBLIC SEWER." A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public utility.
(33) "SANITARY SEWAGE." The waste from water closets, urinals, lavatories, sinks, bathtubs, showers, household laundries, cellar floor drains, garage floor drains, bars, soda fountains, refrigerator drips, drinking fountains, storerooms, and stable floor drains.
(34) "SANITARY SEWER." A sewer which carries sewage and wastes and to which storm, surface, and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(35) "SEWAGE." The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried waste from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and storm water that may be present.
(36) "SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM." All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
(37) "SEWER TAPPING." The construction of a building sewer or a building drain and connection to a sanitary sewer or a storm drain forming a part of the public sewer system.
(38) "SIC MANUAL." The Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented.
(39) "SLUG." Any pollutant, including oxygen demand pollutants (BOD, etc.), released in a discharge at a flow and/or pollutant concentration which will cause interference or pass-through with the POTW.
(40) "SPECIFICATIONS FOR MATERIALS." Standards of specifications identified by the following abbreviations.
A. "ANSI" American Standards approved by the American National Standards Institute, Inc., 1430 Broadway, New York, New York 10018.
B. "ASTM" Standards and tentative standards published by the American Society for Testing and Materials, P.O. Box 7510, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19010.
C. "CS" Commercial standards representing recorded voluntary recommendations of the trade, issued by the United States Department of Commerce and obtainable from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20234.
(41) "STORM DRAIN." A drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source, but excluding sewage.
(42) "STORM SEWER." See "STORM DRAIN."
(43) "STORMWATER RUNOFF." That portion of the rainfall that is drained into the sewers.
(44) "SUPERINTENDENT." The Administrator of the Village or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative; and the Wastewater Superintendent, or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
(45) "SURCHARGE." The fee in addition to the service charge which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration value established as representative of normal sewage.
(46) "SUSPENDED SOLIDS." 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," which is referred to as nonfilterable residue.
(47) "TOXIC POLLUTANTS." Includes but is not necessarily limited to aldrindieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's), and toxaphene. Pollutants included as "TOXIC" shall be those promulgated as such by the USEPA.
(48) "UNPOLLUTED WATER." Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause a violation of "receiving water" quality standards and would not be benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
(49) "UPSET." An exceptional incident in which a user unintentionally and temporarily is in a state of noncompliance with the standards set forth in the chapter due to factors beyond the reasonable control of the user and 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.
(50) "USEPA." The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(51) "USPH." The United States Public Health Service.
(52) "USER CLASS." The division of users within the Village's service area, by the origin of the sewage discharged and by the similarity of the function of such users. Stated in two general classes, they are:
A. "INDUSTRIAL USER" A person who discharges to the village's sewage disposal system industrial wastes as defined above.
B. "NONINDUSTRIAL USER." Single-family or equivalent residences and other persons which discharge only segregated domestic wastes from sanitary conveniences to the village's sewage disposal system.
(53) "VILLAGE." Village of North Baltimore or its duly authorized representative.
(54) "WASTEWATER." See "SEWAGE."
(55) "WASTEWATER FACILITIES." The structures, equipment and processes required to treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
(56) "WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. (WWTP)." An arrangement of devices and structures for treating and disposing of sewage and sludge.
(57) "WATERCOURSE." A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 11-06. Passed 5-3-11.)