(a) For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(1) “Beneficial uses” means uses of the waters of the State that may be protected against quality degradation, including, but not limited to, domestic, Municipal, agricultural and industrial supply, power generation, recreation, aesthetic enjoyment and navigation, the preservation and enhancement of fish, wildlife and other aquatic resources or reserves, and other uses, both tangible or intangible, as specified by Federal or State law.
(2) “Biochemical oxygen demand” or “BOD” means oxygen utilized in the bio chemical oxidation of organic matter. The values shall be as determined in Test No. 507 of the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
(3) “Building drain” means 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 a building and conveys it to the building sewer. The building drain shall extend to three feet outside the building wall.
(4) “Building sewer” means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(5) “Chemical oxygen demand” or “COD” means the oxygen equivalent to that portion of the organic matter that is susceptible to oxidation by a strong chemical oxidant. The values shall be as determined in Test No. 508 of the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
(6) “Clean waste waters” means those liquid wastes which meet the criteria established by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for effluents discharged to the particular water courses receiving the discharge.
(7) “Combined sewage” means a combination of sanitary sewage and surface or storm water, with or without industrial wastes.
(8) “Combined sewers” means public sewers designed to receive combined sewage.
(9) "Commercial user" means a retail or wholesale business establishment or any service oriented establishments, such as automotive service businesses, food handling businesses, beauty salons and barber shops, laundries and dry cleaning establishments, hotels and motels, and professional offices.
(10) “Compatible pollutant” means biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, phosphorus, pH and fecal coliform bacteria.
(11) “Contamination” means an impairment of the quality of the waters of the State by waste, to a degree which creates a hazard to the public health through poisoning or through the spread of disease. “Contamination” includes any equivalent effect resulting from the disposal of wastewater, whether or not waters of the State are affected.
(12) “Cooling water” means the water discharged from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling, refrigeration, etc., and which is free from odor and oil and contains no polluting substances.
(13) "Debt service" means the average principal and interest payments necessary to retire outstanding revenue bonds or other long-term capital debt issued by the City to construct wastewater treatment facilities.
(14) “Discharge” means sanitary sewage leaving the premises.
(15) "Equipment replacement category" means a separate category into which an established amount is placed annually and held until needed for replacement of worn out or malfunctioning parts of the wastewater treatment and collection facilities.
(16) "Equivalent Dwelling Units (EDU)" or "Equivalent Single-Family Unit" means the unit of measure defining the lowest common denominator of usage which is employed for the equitable rate calculation of higher volume or unmetered users of the system.
Example: 1 ESFU = 185 gal/house * 30 days/month = 5,550 gal/month.
(17) "Extra strength charge" means an additional charge which is billed to users for treating sewage wastes with an average strength in excess of "normal domestic wastewater."
(18) “Federal Act” means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) as amended by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (Public Law 92-500) and Public Law 93-243.
(19) “Federal grant” means the obligation of the United States to pay the Federal share of the allowable project costs for the treatment works in accordance with the Federal Act.
(20) “Garbage” means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(21) "Governmental user" means any Federal, State, Township or local government user of the wastewater treatment works.
(22) “Holding tank waste” means any waste from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum pump tank trucks.
(23) “Incompatible pollutant” means any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined in paragraph (a)(10) hereof.
(24) “Industrial plant” means any facility which discharges industrial wastes. Associated service industries shall be considered industrial plants if they discharge industrial wastes.
(25) "Industrial user" means any customer whose discharges are that of, pertaining to, or derived from, industry.
(26) “Industrial wastes” means the liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trades or businesses or from the development, recovery or processing of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
(27) "Institutional user" means any establishment involved in social, charitable, religious and/or educational functions, such as hospitals, nursing homes or schools.
(28) “Major contributing industry” means an industrial user that:
A. Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day;
B. Has a flow greater than five percent of the flow carried by the Municipal sewage system;
C. Has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under Section 307(a) of the Federal Act; or
D. Is found by the permit issuing authority, in connection with issuance of an NPDES permit to the Municipal treatment works receiving the waste, to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the treatment works or upon the quality of the effluent from the Municipal treatment works.
(29) “Mass emission rate” means the weight of material discharged to the sewer system during a given time interval. Unless otherwise specified, "mass emission rate" means pounds per day of a particular constituent or combination of constituents.
(30) “Mg/l” means milligrams per liter.
(31) “Natural outlet” means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(32) "Normal domestic wastewater" means wastewater with characteristics and strength no greater than that discharged by the average residential user. That strength has been determined to be no greater than 200 milligrams per liter of BOD and 300 milligrams of suspended solids.
Parameter
|
Mg/l |
Biochemical Oxygen Demand
| 200 |
Suspended Solids
| 300 |
Total Phosphorus, as P
| 10 |
Ammonia Nitrogen, as N
| 15
|
(33) “NPDES” means the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
(34) “Nuisance” means anything which is injurious to health or is indecent or offensive to the senses or an obstruction to the free use of property so as to interfere with the comfort or enjoyment of life or property or which affects at the same time an entire community or neighborhood or any considerable number of persons, although the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted upon individuals may be unequal.
(35) “OEPA” means the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(36) "Operation and maintenance" means the costs incurred in the act of keeping all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage in a good state of repair and functioning properly, including replacement of said facilities when necessary.
(37) "OM & R" means operation and maintenance costs and replacement costs. (See Sections 1054.01(a)(36) and (a)(46), respectively.)
(38) “Person” means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, group or government authority. “Government authority” includes the State of Ohio and its political subdivisions and the United States of America.
(39) “pH” means the logarithm base ten of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(40) “Pollution” means an alteration of the quality of the waters of the State by waste to a degree which affects such waters for beneficial uses. "Pollution" may include contamination.
(41) “Premises” means a parcel of real estate, including any improvements thereon, which is determined by the City Manager to be a single user for purposes of receiving, using and paying for sewer service.
(42) “Private sewer” means a sewer not owned by the Municipality or other public agency.
(43) “Properly shredded garbage” means the wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has 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 inch in any dimension.
(44) “Public authority” means any governmental agency having jurisdiction.
(45) “Public sewer” means a sewer owned and operated by the Municipality or other public agency.
(46) "Replacement" means expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories and appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
(47) "Residential user" means a principal family residence or habitation classified as a single-family, multi-family or apartment dwelling that discharges normal domestic sanitary wastewater having waste characteristics no greater than 200 milligrams per liter for BOD and 300 milligrams per liter of suspened solids into the public wastewater treatment system.
(48) “Sanitary sewage” means sewage containing a combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, contributed by reason of human occupancy.
(49) “Sanitary sewer” means a sewer which carries sanitary sewage and industrial wastes and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(50) “Sewage” or “wastewater” means a combination of liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with any ground water, surface water and storm water that may be present.
(51) "Sewer service charge" means the total charge to all users for wastewater treatment services and includes charges for operation, maintenance and replacement (OM&R) costs, and debt service, and extra strength charges when applicable. Definitions for operation and maintenance, replacement, debt service and extra strength charges are provided in Sections 1054.01(a)(36), (a)(46), (a)(13) and (a)(17), respectively.
(52) “Sewer system” means all facilities for collecting, pumping and transporting sewage to the treatment facilities.
(53) “Sewers” means any pipe or conduit for conveying sewage.
(54) “Shall” is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
(55) “Standard Industrial Classification” means a classification of users based on the latest edition of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual (SIC), Bureau of the Budget of the United States of America.
(56) “Storm sewer” or “storm drain” means a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but which excludes sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
(57) “Suspended solids” or “S.S.” means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, sewage or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering, expressed in milligrams per liter. The values shall be as determined in Test No. 20813 of the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
(58) “Tap” means the connection to the sanitary sewer collector line and the service line, also known as the lateral line, serving the sanitary sewer user.
(59) “Total solids” means solids that remain after all liquid has been evaporated, expressed in milligrams per liter. The values shall be as determined in Test No. 208B of the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
(60) “Toxic pollutant” means any pollutant or combination of pollutants which interferes with the proper operation of the treatment plant.
(61) “Treatment works” means all facilities for collecting, pumping, transporting, treating and disposing of sewage.
(62) “Unpolluted water” means water to which no constituent has been added, either intentionally or accidentally.
(63) “User” means any person that discharges or causes or permits the discharge of wastewater into a public sewer.
(64) "User charge" means the charge levied on users of the wastewater treatment and sewage collection facilities for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement (OM&R) of such works.
(65) “Waste” includes 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, manufacturing or processing operation of whatever nature, including such waste placed with containers of whatever nature prior to and for purposes of disposal.
(66) “Wastewater constituents and characteristics” means the individual chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological parameters, including volume and flow rate, and such other parameters that serve to define, classify or measure the contents, quality, quantity and strength of wastewater.
(67) “Wastewater treatment plant” means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
(68) “Waters of the State” means any water, surface or underground, including saline waters, within the boundaries of the State.
(69) “Waterway” or “watercourse” means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 2000-40. Passed 6-6-00.)