Terms used in this chapter shall have the meanings herein given to them:
APPROVING AUTHORITY: The water/wastewater superintendent of the city or his or her duly authorized deputy, agent or representative.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (Abbreviated As BOD): The quantity of oxygen, expressed in parts per million by weight, utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory determinations made in accordance with procedures set forth in standard methods.
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 the building and convey it to the side sewer which begins outside the outer face of the building wall.
CITY: The City of Orofino, Idaho.
CHLORINE REQUIREMENT: The amount of chlorine, in parts per million by weight, which must be added to the sewage to produce a specified residual chlorine content, or to meet the requirements of some other objective, in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
COMMERCIAL BUILDING OR UNIT: Any structure or part of a structure used for the purpose of providing goods or services to the public through one facility including, but not limited to, stores, service stations, schools, hospitals, rest homes, State, County or Federal offices or buildings or any structure used for the manufacture of goods. Commercial building or units also include any property requiring water service to provide goods or services to the public that has no structure on the property including, but not limited to, parks and rock crushing sites or for any type of business or enterprise not otherwise described or covered under definition of Dwellings.
COMMERCIAL USER: All persons not specifically classified as domestic or as an industrial waste contributor.
DWELLINGS:
Multi-Facility Dwelling Or Unit: Any building, apartment, office complex, mobile home court, business complex or other structure, or any combination thereof, owned by one person or entity and occupied by two (2) or more separate families, businesses, offices, persons, or entities, or combination thereof, which shall include townhouses or condominiums.
Single-Family Dwelling Or Unit: Any building, home, trailer house, mobile home, or structure used as a residence occupied exclusively by one family for living or sleeping purposes, and having one kitchen or set of cooking facilities.
GARBAGE: The residue from the preparation and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of food products and produce.
GROUND GARBAGE: The residue from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely in suspension under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers with no particle greater than one-half inch (1/2") in any dimension.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE: Any flow discharged to the wastewater treatment system identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, and amended and supplemented under the following divisions:
A. Division A - Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
B. Division B - Mining
C. Division D - Manufacturing
D. Division E - Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitation Services
E. Division L - Services
MG: Million gallons.
MGD: Million gallons per day.
NATURAL OUTLET: Any outlet into a watercourse, pond or ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water developed by naturally occurring process of nature.
pH: The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration expressed in moles per liter and is a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution. It shall be determined by one of the procedures outlined in Standard Methods.
PARTS PER MILLION: A weight-to-weight ratio: the parts per million value multiplied by the factor 8.345 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons of water.
PERSON: Any individual, firm, company, association, society or group, or other entity.
PRIVATE SEWER: A sewer serving two (2) or more buildings, residences or properties, constructed by private contract outside of the public right of way and remaining under private ownership and jurisdiction and which shall be maintained by said private owners. Private sewers shall be designed, constructed and maintained by said private owners to the same design, construction and maintenance standards as are public sewers.
PUBLIC SEWERS: A sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the City. It shall also include sewers within or outside the City boundaries which serve one or more persons and ultimately discharge into the City sanitary sewer system, even though those sewers may not have been constructed with City funds. All public sewers shall be located in dedicated public rights of way or easements and shall have a manhole or lamp well on the end for inspection and maintenance by the City. Public sewers shall be at least eight inches (8") in diameter unless the Superintendent deems otherwise.
REPLACEMENT: Any expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance" includes replacement.
SANITARY SEWAGE: Wastes that are derived principally from dwellings, business buildings, institutions and the like, exclusive of storm and surface waters and industrial waste.
SANITARY SEWER: A sewer which conveys sanitary sewage or industrial wastes, or the combination of the two (2) and into which storm, surface and ground waters or unpolluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
SERVICE CHARGE: The charge levied on all users of the sewage system for the purpose of repayment of City indebtedness for the construction and installation of the system and for its efficient maintenance and operation, and in establishing such rates and charges the City has taken into account the cost and value of the system, operation and maintenance expenses, possible delinquencies, proper allowance for depreciation, contingencies and any amounts necessary to retire all bonds payable from net revenues and the reserve required for these.
SERVICE CONNECTION: A sewer line connected to the sewer main.
SEWAGE: Wastewater.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT: Wastewater treatment plant or other like facilities.
SEWER: Any pipe or conduit used for conveying wastewater or any other waste liquids, including storm, surface and ground water drainage.
SEWER MAIN: Pipe laid in a street, road, alley or easement for the collection of wastewater from the customers, and which is owned, operated and maintained manhole to manhole or lamp well by the City.
SIDE SEWER: The extension from the building drain to the public sewer and is sometimes referred to as the sewer connection or the sewer service line.
STANDARD SEWER: Sewage and acceptable wastes that are within specifications regarding pH, BOD, dissolved oxygen, suspended solids and grease.
STORM DRAIN: Any pipe or conduit conveying storm, surface and ground water drainage, but excluding sewage and industrial wastes.
STORM WATER RUNOFF: That portion of rainfall that is drained into the storm sewer system.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS (Abbreviated As SS): Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage or industrial waste and which are removable by a laboratory filtration device. Quantitative determination of suspended solids shall be in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
SUPERINTENDENT: The Water/Wastewater Superintendent of the City of Orofino.
UNPOLLUTED WATER: Any water or liquid containing none of the following: free or emulsified grease or oil; acids or alkalis; substances that may impart taste, odor and color characteristics; toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution; odorous or otherwise obnoxious gasses. It shall contain not more than thirty (30) parts per million each of SS or BOD. Analytical determinations shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
WASTEWATER: The water-carried human, animal or household wastes in a public or private sewer, but excluding ground water infiltration, surface drainage and industrial wastes.
WASTEWATER COLLECTION AND TREATMENT SYSTEM (Also Termed Sewage Collection And Treatment System): All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of domestic, commercial and industrial waste, and includes sewers as well as the wastewater treatment plant.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT: An assemblage of devices, structures and equipment for treating domestic, commercial and industrial wastes.
WATERCOURSE: A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (Ord. 655, 9-27-1994)