For the purpose of this subchapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOD (denoting BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation or organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20ºC, expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/1).
COMMERCIAL USER. All retail stores, restaurants, office buildings, laundries, and other private business and service establishments.
CONNECTIONS OF INITIAL CUSTOMERS. Each lot, parcel of real property, or building included in the design and construction of the original collection system of the town as a property to be connected to the original collection system of the town immediately upon completion of construction of the original collection system of the town. CONNECTIONS OF INITIAL CUSTOMERS shall also mean each lot, parcel of real property, or building connected to a grinder pump station installed as part of the initial installation of the town’s sewer collection system.
GOVERNMENTAL USER. Includes legislative, judicial, administrative, and regulatory activities of federal, state and local governments.
INDUSTRIAL USER. Any non-governmental, non-residential user of publicly owned treatment works which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under the following divisions; Division A-Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing; Division B-Mining; Division D-Manufacturing; Division E-Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary; and Division I-Services.
INITIAL CUSTOMER. The owner or owners of each lot, parcel of real property, or building included in the design and construction of the original collection system of the town as a property to be connected to the original collection system of the town immediately upon completion of construction of the original collection system of the town.
INSTITUTIONAL USER. Includes social, charitable, religious, and educational activities such as schools, churches, hospitals, nursing homes, penal institutions and similar institutional users.
MAY. Is permissive.
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER. Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than 25 mg/1 and a suspended solids concentration of not more than 3.0 mg/1 and an ammonia concentration of not more than 3.0 mg/1.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE. Those functions that result in expenditures during the useful life of the treatment works for materials, labor, utilities and other items which are necessary for managing and which such works were designed and constructed. The term includes “replacement” as defined below in this section.
ORIGINAL COLLECTION SYSTEM OF THE TOWN. The sewage works collection system constructed to serve the households and businesses inside the corporate limits of the town and substantially completed in the year 2000.
REPLACEMENT. Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or 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.
RESIDENTIAL USER. Any contributor to the treatment works whose lot, parcel of real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes only.
SHALL. Is mandatory.
SS (denoting SUSPENDED SOLIDS). 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.
TREATMENT WORKS. Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage or liquid industrial wastes. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, pumping, power, and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions improvement, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works, including site acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment (including land for composting sludge, temporary storage of such compost and land used for the storage of treated wastewater in land treatment systems before land application); or any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating or disposing of municipal waste or industrial waste, including waste in combined storm water and sanitary sewer systems.
USEFUL LIFE. The estimated period during which a treatment works will be operated.
USER. Any and all persons (natural or artificial), including any individual, firm, company, municipal or private corporation, association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency or other entity user that uses the town's treatment works.
USER CHARGE. That portion of the total wastewater service charge which is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement of the treatment works and for the repayment of its debt.
WATER METER. A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished and/or installed by a user and approved by the town.
(Ord. 249, passed 5-11-98; Am. Ord. 286, passed 11-13-00; Am. Ord. 287, passed 11-13-00; Am. Ord. 299, passed 3-5-01)