As used in this chapter:
(a) "Abandoned well" means any producing well that has not been operated for six months and any drilling operation that has ceased for thirty consecutive days.
(b) "City" means the City of Olmsted Falls.
(c) "Deleterious matter" means any chemical, salt water, oil field brine, waste oil, waste emulsified oil, basic sediment, mud or injurious substance produced or used in the drilling, development, producing, transportation, refining and processing of oil or gas.
(d) "Permittee" means the person to whom a permit is issued.
(e) "Person" means and includes any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, trust, cooperative or other type of organization.
(f) "Pollution" means the contamination or other alteration of the physical, chemical or biological properties of any natural water of the City, or such a discharge of any liquid, gaseous or solid substance into any water of the City as will, or is likely to, create a nuisance or render such water harmful, detrimental or injurious to the public health, safety or welfare; to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational or other beneficial uses; or to livestock, animals or aquatic life.
(g) "Water" or "waters of the City" means all streams, ditches, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the City or any portion thereof.
(h) "Well" means any hole or bore, to any depth, for the purpose of producing and recovering any oil and gas.
(Ord. 29-83. Passed 3-29-83.)