The following terms, when used in this article, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
A. Ashes means and includes the residue from substances used for fuel in connection with ordinary conduct of heating and cooking and also such refuse as broken crockery, glass, metal other than tin cans, and other similar items which may not be suitable for burning in an incinerator, but which may be dumped with ashes.
B. Authority means the Purcell Public Works Authority.
C. Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure five
(5) days at twenty (20) degrees centigrade expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams per liter (mg/l).
D. Broadband wireless means direct high speed internet service and will adhere to and be subject to, all policies and procedures for all City public works authorities as set forth in this article.
E. 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 the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five (5) feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
F. Building sewer means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
G. City means the corporate limits of the City of Purcell, Oklahoma.
H. Combined sewer means a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
I. Commercial unit means all premises other than those defined as "residential units."
J. Council means the City Council of the City of Purcell, Oklahoma.
K. Garbage means and includes kitchen and table refuse, offal, and every accumulation of animal and vegetable matter that attends the preparation, decay of, dealing in, or storage of, meats, fruits, vegetables, and other provisions for human subsistence.
L. Industrial waste means the liquid wastes from industrial processes, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
M. Natural outlet means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface water or groundwater.
N. Person extends and is applied to an actual person or persons and to associations, clubs, societies, firms, partnerships, and bodies politic and corporate or the manager, lessee, agent, servant, officer or employee of any of them, unless a contrary intention plainly appears.
O. pH means the logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions expresses in grams per liter of solution.
P. Properly shredded garbage means 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 in dimension.
Q. Public sewer means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and is controlled by public authority.
R. Refuse includes garbage, trash, rubbish, and solid wastes.
S. Residential unit means any single-family dwelling or any single-family unit, whether located in a separate structure, apartment, group of rooms or residences, having a single kitchen, which is connected with a City water meter and which is not using such water meter in connection with, or in conjunction with, another family dwelling or unit. Included in this definition are churches, schools, and government consumers.
T. Sanitary sewer means a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface, and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
U. Sewage means a combination of the water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be present.
V. Sewage treatment plant means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
W. Sewage works means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
X. Sewer means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Y. Storm sewer and storm drain mean a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
Z. Superintendent means the person designated by the authority to supervise the operation of publicly owned treatment works (POTW) and who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities by this chapter, or his duly authorized representative.
AA. Suspended solids 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.
AB. Trash means and includes paper, rags, containers of paper, wood or tin, tin cans, yard and house sweepings, and all other household wastes except tree trimmings, building and manufacturing wastes, sewage, garbage and ashes as defined in this section, grasses, weeds, leaves, and rocks.
AC. User means any person who contributes, causes, or permits the contribution of wastewater into the authority's POTW.
AD. Wastewater means the liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions together with such groundwater, surface water and stormwater which may be present, whether treated or untreated which is contributed into or permitted to enter the POTW.
AE. Watercourse means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
AF. Waters of the State means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through, or border upon the State or any portion thereof.
Cross reference- Definitions generally, § 1-2.