Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used herein shall be as follows:
(a) “B.O.D.” or “biochemical oxygen demand” means the quantity of oxygen expressed in milligrams per liter, utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures of five days at 20°C.
(b) “Building drain” means that part of the lowest 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 customer service line and/or to the lateral sewer.
(c) “Building sewer” means the extension from the building drain to the customer service line and/or lateral sewer.
(d) “City” means the City of Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia, a municipal corporation incorporated under the laws of this state.
(e) “Combined sewer” means a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
(f) “Customer” means a person, corporation, partnership or association and is that party whether owner or tenant, utilizing sewer service furnished by the city to a property.
(g) “Customer service line” means the extension from the building drain of any structure to the lateral of a sanitary sewer controlled by the city.
(h) “Garbage” means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(i) “Governing body” means the Mayor and Council, together, who are charged with the responsibility of enacting ordinances and determining the public policy for the city.
(j) “Improved property” means any property located within the city upon which there is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes are or may be discharged.
(k) “Industrial waste” means any garbage, refuse or sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility and other discarded material including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows.
(l) “Lateral” means that part of the sewer system extending from a sewer located in the street to the curb line; or, if there shall be no curb line, to the property line; or, if no such lateral shall be provided, then “lateral” means that portion of, or place in, a sewer which is provided for connection of any customer service line.
(m) “Natural outlet” means any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewers, which flows into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
(n) “Owner” means any person, corporation, partnership or association vested with ownership, legal, or equitable, sole or partial, in any real property.
(o) “Person” means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, partnership or group.
(p) “pH” means the reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution.
(q) “Public sewer” means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights that is controlled by the city.
(r) “Rights-of-way” or “easement” means an acquired legal right for the specific land owned by others.
(s) “Sanitary sewage” means normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any improved property. The preferred term is wastewater.
(t) “Sanitary sewer” means a sewer controlled by the city that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, and to which storm, surface and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
(u) “Sewer” means any pipe or conduit that carries wastewater, domestic drainage, sanitary wastes or industrial wastes.
(v) “Sewer system” means all wastewater facilities, owned by the city, for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage or industrial wastes.
(w) “Significant industrial user” means any industrial user that will contribute greater than 10% of the design flow or design pollutant loading of the wastewater facilities.
(x) “Single-family dwelling” means any room, group of rooms, house trailer or other enclosure occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by a family or other group of persons living together, or by persons living alone.
(y) “Slug” means any discharge of wastewater which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes and is more than five times the average 24-hour concentration of flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater facilities.
(z) “Storm sewer” or “storm drain” means a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
(aa) “Superintendent” means the Superintendent of sanitary sewer and wastewater facilities for the city, or his or her authorized deputy, agent or representative.
(bb) “Suspended solids” means those solids which are visible and in suspension in the water. Included are the larger floating particles consisting of sand, grit, clay, fecal solids, paper, sticks of wood, particles of food and garbage, and similar materials.
(cc) “Wastewater facilities” means the structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry and treat domestic and industrial wastes and to dispose of the effluent.
(dd) “Watercourse” means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.