(a) Abbreviations. The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
(1) CFR: Code of Federal Regulations
(2) DEP/WVDEP: the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
(3) EPA/USEPA: the United States Environmental Protection Agency
(4) FOG: fats, oils and grease
(5) POTW: Publicly Owned Treatment Works
(6) PUB: Parkersburg Utility Board
(b) Definitions. The meaning of terms used herein shall be as follows:
(1) Board/Utility Board: The Utility Board of the City of Parkersburg
(2) Brown Grease: spent fats, oils and greases retained by food service grease traps and generated from the cleaning of equipment and utensils used in the preparation and serving of food. This material is considered adulterated and not fit for recycling as a result of contact with detergents and other cleaning solutions.
(3) City: The City of Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia, a municipal corporation
(4) Control Authority: the Parkersburg Utility Board
(5) Customer: an individual, person, tenant, property owner, corporation, partnership, association or group utilizing POTW services furnished by the Board to a property.
(6) FOG: FATS, OILS AND GREASE: Any fats, oils and grease generated from the food preparation process as identified by the most current EPA method listed in 40 CFR 136.6.
(7) FOG Interceptor / grease trap. An approved passive tank installed outside a building and designed to remove fats, oil and grease from flowing wastewater while allowing wastewater to flow through it into the POTW collection system.
(8) Food Service Facilities: Establishments engaged in activities of preparing, serving, or otherwise making available for consumption foodstuffs and discharge wastewater to the POTW. Including restaurants, motels, hotels, cafeterias, hospitals, schools, bars, and any other facility that in the Manager’s opinion would require a FOG interceptor.
(9) Garbage: Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(10) Governing Body: The mayor and council, together, who are charged with the responsibility of enacting ordinances and determining the public policy for the City.
(11) “Under-the-Counter” grease traps: designed to be install inside a building as close to the source of the wastewater as possible to remove fats, oil and grease while remaining accessible for maintenance.
(12) User: a “customer” of the POTW permitted to discharge wastewater, into the collection system
(13) Yellow Grease: the inedible and unadulterated spent fats, oils and greases resulting from the preparation of food and is typically generated from bulk deep-fryer operations and water/oil separator units. This material is typically recycled for reuse in some form.
(Ord. 1395. Passed 6-14-11.)