(A) Rules of procedure. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms shall be adopted in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association, the American Waterworks Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation, as set forth in 40 C.F.R. part 136. Water constituents and characteristics shall be measured by Standard Methods, or in such other method established by state or federal regulatory agencies. Monitoring and metering will be carried out by customarily accepted methods.
(B) Definitions correspond. The definitions contained in this section shall have the same meaning in this chapter and in Chapter 52 of this code, and the definitions contained in Chapter 52 of this code shall have the same meaning in Chapter 52 of this code and in this chapter.
(C) Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AMMONIA NITROGEN or NH3N. The same as ammonia nitrogen measured as nitrogen. Laboratory determination shall be made in accordance with Standard Methods. Standard Methods shall mean the laboratory procedures set forth in the latest edition, at the time of analysis, of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage and Industrial Wastes, prepared and published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Waterworks Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
BENEFICIAL USES. These include, but are not limited to, domestic, municipal, agricultural and industrial use, power generation, navigation and the preservation and enhancement of fish, wildlife and other aquatic resources or reserves, recreation, aesthetic enjoyment and other uses, both tangible and intangible, as specified by state or federal law.
BOD or BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND. Of sewage, sewage effluent, polluted waters or industrial waste, means the quantity of dissolved oxygen in milligrams per liter required during stabilization of the decomposable organic matter by aerobic biochemical action under standard laboratory procedures for five days at 20°C. A laboratory determination of BOD shall be made in accordance with procedure set forth in Standard Methods, therein and conventionally referred to as BOD.
BUILDING DRAIN. The lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage system which receives the discharge from soil pipes, waste pipes and other drainage pipes inside a building and conveys it to a point outside the building.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and stormwater or surface water.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANTS. Wastewater having or containing:
(a) Biochemical oxygen demand;
(b) Suspended solids;
(c) pH;
(d) Fecal coliform bacteria; or
(e) Additional pollutants identified or defined in the town’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit or by the state or Town Council.
CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS (OF WASTE WATER). The chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological properties, including volume, flow rate and such other properties, which serve to define, classify or measure the contents, quality, quantity and strength of wastewater.
EFFLUENT. The water, together with any wastes that may be present, flowing out of the drain, receptacle or outlet.
GARBAGE. Any solid waste from the preparation of or cooking or dispensing of food or from the handling, storage or sale of produce.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANTS. Any pollutants which are not compatible pollutants.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or form of energy discharged that is permitted to flow into or enter the sewage system or ground from an industrial, manufacturing, commercial or business process, or from the development, recovery or processing of any natural resource carried on by any person, and shall further mean any waste from an industrial use, but not including sanitary sewage or stormwater.
INFILTRATION. The water entering the sewage system directly or via private sewers, building drains, building sewers connected therewith or from the ground through such means as, but not limited to, defective pipe joints, connections or manhole walls.
INFLOW. Water other than wastewater entering the sewage system from sources such as liters, cellars, yard areas and foundation drains, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole areas, cross-connections between storm and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, stormwater, surface runoff and street wastewater or drainage.
INSPECTOR. A person authorised by the Town Council or the Superintendent to perform inspection duties assigned to him or her by the Town Council or Superintendent.
LATERAL SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the sewage system or other place of disposal.
MAY. Is permissive.
NORMAL DOMESTIC SEWAGE. Sewage such as is discharged by residential users with a BOD concentration not in excess of 200 milligrams per liter and a suspended solids concentration not in excess of 200 milligrams per liter.
NPDES PERMIT or NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMIT. The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit now or hereafter held by the town and setting forth conditions for the discharge of any pollutants or combination of pollutants.
NUISANCE. Any substance which is injurious to health or offensive to the senses or any obstruction to the free use of property so as to interfere with the comfort or enjoyment of life or property.
PERSON. Any natural person, or public or private corporation, or any other entity whatsoever.
pH. The conventional scientific measure of the degree of acidity of alkalinity.
POLLUTION. An alteration of the quality of water by waste, contaminants or pollutants to a degree which renders such water unfit for beneficial uses.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer owned by the town.
SANITARY SEWAGE. Sewage such as, and having the characteristics of, the domestic sewage of dwellings, including apartment houses and hotels, and office buildings, factories or institutions, which is free from stormwater, surface water and industrial wastes.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer intended to carry only sanitary or sanitary and industrial wastewaters from users.
SEWAGE. The water-carried waste from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, singular or in any combination, together with such groundwaters, surface waters and stormwaters which may be present.
SEWAGE SYSTEM. The network of publicly owned sewers and appurtenances used for the collection, transporting and pumping of wastewater to the wastewater treatment plant or lagoons and the wastewater treatment plant and sewage lagoons themselves.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit laid for carrying sewage or other liquids and solids suspended or entrained therein.
SHALL. Is mandatory.
SHREDDED GARBAGE. Garbage that is shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely in suspension under the conditions normally prevailing in the sewer system, with no particle being greater than one-half inch in dimension.
S.S. or SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids which either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water sewage or other liquid and which are removable by laboratory filtration. Their concentrations shall be expressed in milligrams per liter.
STORM SEWER. A sewer intended to carry only stormwater, surface runoff, street wash water and drainage.
TOWN. The Town of Patriot, Indiana.
TOWN COUNCIL. The Patriot Town Council, acting as the Municipal Works Board.
USER. A person who introduces into or discharges into, including both the owner and occupant of real estate from which is introduced or discharged into the sewage system, any substance whatsoever.
USER CLASSES. The division of sewage treatment customers by source, function, waste characteristics and process or discharge similarities.
(a) COMMERCIAL USER. Transient lodging, retail and wholesale establishments or places engaged in providing merchandise for personal, household or industrial consumption and/or rendering services to others.
(b) GOVERNMENT USER. A user engaged in legislative, judicial or administrative activities of federal, state and local governments, such as courthouses, police and fire stations, town halls and similar governmental users.
(c) INDUSTRIAL USER. Any user who discharges industrial waste, as defined herein.
(d) INSTITUTIONAL USER. A publicly or privately owned school, hospital, nursing home, prison or other similar institution whose wastes are segregated domestic waste.
(e) MULTIPLE USER. A user who introduces only normal domestic sewage from multiple-family dwellings, such as duplexes, apartment houses or condominiums, where the quantity of water is measured by a single meter.
(f) RESIDENTIAL USER. A user who introduces only normal domestic sewage from a single-family dwelling into the sewage system and where the quantity of water usage is measured by a single meter, or whose water usage is not metered in such a manner that adequate measurement is not available to the sewer utility.
WASTE. Sanitary sewage and any and all other waste substances, liquid, solid, gaseous or radioactive, associated with human habitation, or of human or animal origin, or from any producing, processing, manufacturing or industrial operation of whatever nature, including such waste placed within containers of whatever nature prior to and for the purpose of disposal.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement or devices or structures or lagoons used by the town for the treatment and disposing of sewage, sludge and other sewage constituents and products.
(Ord. 91-2-09, passed 10-2-1991)