Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(a) “Building Drain” shall mean 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 conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five (5) feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
(b) “Building Sewer” shall means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(c) “Combined Sewer” shall mean a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
(d) “Garbage” shall mean solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(e) “Industrial Wastes” shall mean the liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, or business as distinct from normal domestic sewage.
(f) “Natural Outlet” shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or groundwater.
(g) “Person” shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
(h) “pH” shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(i) “Properly Shredded Garbage” shall mean 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 (½) inch (0.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
(j) “Public Sewer” shall mean a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
(k) “Sanitary Sewer” shall mean a sewer which carriers wastewater and to which storm, surface, and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
(l) “Wastewater” shall mean a combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground surface, and stormwaters as may be present.
(m) “Sewer” shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
(n) “Shall” is mandatory; “May” is permissive.
(o) “Slug” shall mean any discharge of water, wastewater or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration of flows during normal operation.
(p) “Standard Methods” shall mean the examination and analytical procedures set forth in the most recent edition of “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage and Industrial Wastes”, published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Federation of Sewage and Industrial Wastes Association.
(q) “Storm Drain” (sometimes termed “storm sewer”) shall mean a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes wastewater and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
(r) “Wastewater Facilities” shall mean all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of wastewater.
(s) “Wastewater Treatment Plant” shall mean all facilities for pumping, treating, and disposing of wastewater.
(t) “Watercourse” shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 653. Passed 12-5-77.)