Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(a) "Sewage Works" shall mean all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
(b) "Superintendent" shall mean the Superintendent of the Municipal Sewage Works of the Village of Pioneer, Ohio or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
(c) "Inspector" shall mean any person or persons duly authorized by the Superintendent to inspect and approve the installation of building sewers and their connection to the public sewer system.
(d) "Sewage" shall mean a combination of the water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface, and storm waters as may be present.
(e) "Sewer" shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
(f) "Public Sewer" shall mean a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
(g) " Combined Sewer" shall mean a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
(h) "Sanitary Sewer" shall mean a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface, and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(i) "Industrial Wastes" shall mean the liquid wastes from Industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.
(j) "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 feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(k) "Building Sewer" shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(l) "Person" shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(m) "Shall" is mandatory; "May" is permissive.
(n) "Biochemical Oxygen Demand," (BOD) shall mean the quantity of oxygen used in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter in a specified time, at a specified temperature, and under specified conditions and is expressed in milligrams per liter. This is a standard wastewater strength assessment test.
(o) "Suspended Solids, (SS)" shall mean solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, wastewater, or other liquids, and which are largely removable by laboratory filtering.
(p) "Storm Sewer", shall mean a sewer intended to carry only storm waters, surface run- off, street wash waters, and drainage.
(q) “Sanitary Wastewater” shall mean the domestic wastewater with storm and surface water excluded, as well as, the discharge from sanitary conveniences of dwellings (including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, industrial plants and institutions. (Ord. 17-1980. Passed 10-14-80.)