(1) “City" or "Municipality" means the City of Obetz, Ohio.
(2) "City of Columbus" means the City of Columbus, Ohio.
(3) "County" means Franklin County, Ohio.
(4) "Facilities Planning Area" or "Service Area" means all of the corporate area of the City which has been delineated as the Obetz 201 Planning Area by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for sanitary sewer service and which is shown in the Obetz Facilities Plan.
(5) "Administrator" means the Administrator or his designated representative.
(6) “Department" means the Sanitary Sewer Department established by the Village, responsible for managing the sewerage works of the Village.
(7) "Superintendent" means the administrator and chief operator of the wastewater collection facilities of the Village, or his designated representative.
(8) "Sewerage works" or "wastewater system" means all facilities within the Village for collecting and transporting of wastewater, including industrial wastewater.
(9) "Columbus Wastewater Treatment Plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating wastewater, domestic and nondomestic.
(10) "Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group. In case of a corporation, "person" means a company officer directly in charge of discharges to sewers.
(11) "Owner" means any person in title or having any interest in real property in the Facilities Planning Area.
(12) "OEPA" means the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(13) "U.S. EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(14) "Federal Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, Public Law 92-500, and any amendments thereto, including the Clean Water Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-217); as well as any guidelines, limitations and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
(15) “Influent" means wastewater, raw or partially treated, flowing into any wastewater treatment device or facilities.
(16) "Effluent" means wastewater, water or other liquid, after some degree of treatment, flowing out of any treatment device or facilities.
(17) "NPDES Permit" means the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Permit which has been issued to the City of Columbus by OEPA.
(18) "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, industrial plants and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may be present.
(19) "Sanitary or domestic wastewater" or "sewage" means a combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, commercial, industrial and manufacturing establishments contributed by reason of human occupancy.
(20) “Industrial wastewater", sometimes called "process wastewater", means the liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business establishments, or from the development, recovery or processing of natural resources, as distinct from "sanitary or domestic wastewater".
(21) "Standard strength" wastewater as defined for the purpose of determining surcharges, means wastewater having an average daily suspended solids concentration of not more than than 300 mg/l and an average daily BOD5 of not more than 250 mg/l.
(22) "Clean wastewater" or "unpolluted water" means water to which no constituent has been added, either intentionally or accidentally, which would render such water unacceptable for disposal to storm sewers or natural drainages or directly to surface waters.
(23) "Cooling water" means the water discharged from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other sources. It shall be free from odor and oil and shall contain no polluting substances.
Cooling water shall be considered industrial wastewater if it is discharged to the sanitary sewer system.
(24) "Pollutant" means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, waste water, garbage, wastewater sludge, munitions, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal and agricultural wastes discharged into water.
(25) "Compatible pollutants" means BOD5, suspended solids, pH, and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the Columbus NPDES Permit if the publicly owned treatment works was designed to treat such pollutants, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree. Examples of such additional pollutants may include: COD; total organic carbon; phosphorus and phosphorus compounds; nitrogen and nitrogen compounds; fats, oils and greases of animal or vegetable origin; except as limited under Section 1145.03 of Article 3, Columbus City Codes, 1959, as amended.
(26) “Incompatible pollutants" means any waste material that is harmful to or interferes with wastewater treatment processes, or is not susceptible to treatment by biologically based wastewater treatment processes, or that the presence of the material adversely affects the quality of the wastewater treatment plant effluent.
(27) "Toxic pollutants" includes but is not necessarily limited to aldrin- dieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) and toxaphene. Pollutants included as "toxic" shall be those promulgated as such by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(28) "Garbage" means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(29) "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 flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
(30) “Organic" means containing carbon compounds.
(31) “Pathogenic bacteria" means bacteria which may cause disease.
(32) “Sewers” means any pipe or conduit for conveying wastewater.
(33) "Public sewer" means a common sewer which is owned and controlled by a public authority.
(34) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which carries sanitary and/or industrial wastewater and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(35) "Storm sewer" or "storm drain" means a sewer which carries storm, surface waters and drainage, but which excludes sanitary wastewater and industrial wastewater, other than unpolluted wastewater and cooling water.
(36) "Combined sewer" means a sewer which is designed to carry sanitary wastewater, industrial wastewater, storm water and surface water run-off.
(37) “Interceptor sewer" means a sewer which receives wastewater from one or more lateral or local sanitary sewers.
(38) "Building drain" shall mean that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage system carrying wastewater which receives discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building, and conveys it to the building sewer, which begins five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(39) "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, also called "house connection" or "house sewer".
(40) “User" means any person or premises that discharges, causes or permits the discharge of wastewater into a public sewer.
(41) "Industrial plant" means any facility which discharges industrial wastewater. Associated service industries shall be considered as industrial plants. For example, commercial power plants (electric), commercial laundries, restaurants, hotels, filling stations, water works and other establishments having industrial wastewater discharge.
(42) "Major contributing industry" means an industrial user of a publicly owned treatment works that:
A. Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day;
B. Has a flow greater than five percent (5%) of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste;
C. Has in its waste, a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under Section 307(a) of the Federal Act; or
D. Is found by the permit issuance authority, in connection with the issuance of an NPDES Permit to the publicly owned treatment works receiving the waste, to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on that treatment works or upon the quality of effluent from that treatment works.
(43) "Significant contributing industry" means an industrial user which contributes greater than ten percent (10%) of the design flow or design pollutant loading of the Columbus treatment works.
(44) "Pretreatment" means the treatment of industrial wastewaters prior to introduction into the publicly owned sewerage system.
(45) “Control manhole" means a structure that is accessible for the purpose of observing, measuring and sampling the wastewater flow in a building sewer. A control manhole may be used for inspecting and/or maintaining the building sewer.
(46) "Slug" means 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 concentrations or flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the Columbus
wastewater treatment plant.
(47) "Standard Methods" means the Laboratory Procedures set forth in the latest edition, at the time of analysis, of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" prepared and published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
(48) "EPA Methods" means "Methods for Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes", 1971, Environmental Protection Agency, Analytical Quality Control Laboratory, Cincinnati, Ohio, or as amended and revised.
(49) "mg/l" means milligrams per liter.
(50) "ppm" means parts per million by weight or milligrams per liter.
(51) "Biochemical oxygen demand" (BOD5) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty-degrees Celsius, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(52) "Chemical oxygen demand" (COD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
(53) "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" and referred to as "nonfilterable residue".
(54) "Total solids" or "total residue" means the sum of suspended and dissolved solids.
(55) "pH" means the logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution. Low values indicate the presence of acids or acid-forming salts. High values indicate the presence of alkaline material. A pH of 7.0 is considered neutral.
(56) "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.
(57) "Grease" and "oil" means any material which is extractable from an acidified sample of a wastewater by Freon, Hexane or other designated solvent.
(58) “Violatile organic matter" means the material in the wastewater solids transformed to gases or vapors when heated at 550 degrees Celsius for fifteen to twenty minutes.
(59) "Biodegradable" means that the material is easily amenable to breakdown to acceptable levels by biologic processes present in the Columbus Wastewater Treatment Plant. The City of Columbus shall determine whether a material is biodegradable if such determination is required.
(60) “Radioactivity" means the spontaneous decay or disintegration of an unstable atomic nucleus, accompanied by the emission of radiation.
(61) "Watercourse" or "waterway" means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(62) "Natural outlet" means any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(63) "May" is permissive; "shall" is mandatory.
(Ord. 43-80. Passed 9-8-80.)