Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
ACT: The Clean Water Act (33 USC 1251 et seq.), as amended.
AUTHORITY: The State or local government entity enacting and enforcing this Chapter.
BOARDING HOUSE: Any building or portion thereof which includes separate bedrooms for rent and common kitchen and/or bathroom facilities.
BOD5-BIOCHEMICAL: The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees Celsius (20°C), expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
BUILDING DRAIN: That part of the lowest horizontal piping of 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 (5') outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER: The extension from the building drain to a point of connection with the public sewer or other places of disposal.
CITY: The City of Rathdrum, Kootenai County, Idaho, or its authorized or designated agent, representative or deputy.
COMBINED SEWER: A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
DEQ: Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Department of Environmental Quality.
DEVELOPER: Person, firm, joint venture, partnership or corporation which is the owner or contract purchaser of land and is subdividing the land for resale or is otherwise improving real property.
DEVELOPMENT: Any change in the use of land, or any construction or modification of, or the improvements situated thereon, whether existing on or constructed after July 14, 1989, (previous Ordinance 299) which requires the issuance of a building permit pursuant to City ordinance.
DIRECTOR: The Director of Public Works or his or her duly authorized agent.
DISCHARGER - INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGER: Any nonresidential user who discharges an effluent into a public sewer by means of pipes, conduits, pumping stations, force mains, constructed drainage ditches, surface water intercepting ditches, and all constructed devises and appliances appurtenant thereto.
DRY SEWER SYSTEM: A conventional gravity sewage collection system installed in a development or subdivision where sewage is temporarily discharged in an on-site disposal system instead of into the public sewer.
EQUIVALENT RESIDENCE (ER): The sewage flow from one typical single-family residence, which is equal to two hundred twenty five (225) gallons of sewage per day, thirty seven one-hundredths (0.37) pounds of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) per day, and thirty seven one-hundredths (0.37) pounds of suspended solids (SS) per day. (Based on EPA Manual, "On-Site Disposal/Septage Treatment and Disposal", No. EPA 625/4-77-ON.)
GARBAGE: Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES: The solid, liquid or gaseous wastes resulting from any industrial manufacturing, trade or business processes or from the development, recovery or processing of natural resources.
INTERCEPTOR: A sewer line which primarily carries sewage or wastewater from collection systems to a treatment plant or similar facility and which normally does not have service connections.
MOTEL AND HOTEL: A building or group of buildings on the same premises either detached or in connected rows, containing sleeping or dwelling units, with or without kitchen facilities in the individual units and designed for, or occupied with an ordinary rental period not exceeding two (2) weeks.
MULTI-UNIT DWELLING: A building containing a unit or combination of units with individual bath and kitchen facilities. This definition includes apartments, condominiums, townhouses and duplexes, triplexes, etc. A seasonal multi-unit dwelling is an individual unit of a multi-unit dwelling which is occupied on an intermittent basis and is not utilized as a primary residence.
NPDES: Natural Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permitting program of the USEPA.
NATURAL OUTLET: Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
NEW SOURCE DISCHARGER: Any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is or may be discharge of pollutants, the construction of which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards under section 307(c) of the Act which shall be applicable to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section.
O AND M: Operation and maintenance.
OTHER WASTES: Decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, lime, refuse, ashes, garbage, offal, oil, tar, chemicals and all other substances except sewage and industrial wastes.
PFWTP: Post Falls wastewater treatment plant.
pH: A symbol signifying the negative logarithm (base 10) of the hydrogen ion concentration of a solution or pure liquid expressed in gram equivalents per liter. The range of values of pH extends from zero to fourteen (14), seven (7) being the negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration in pure water at twenty five degrees Celsius (25°C) or neutrality. Smaller numbers signify increasing acidity, greater ones increasing basicity.
PHD: Panhandle Health District.
PERSON: Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
POLLUTANT: Any substance discharged into a public sewer.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE: 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 inch (1/2") in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER: A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and is controlled by public authority.
RESIDENTIAL BUILDING: Includes only the following types of buildings and structures: single-family residences, duplexes, triplexes, apartment houses, motels, hotels, trailer courts and multi-unit dwellings.
SANITARY SEWER: A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground water are not intentionally admitted.
SERVICE CONNECTION: The point at which the building sewer connects to the public sewer main.
SEWAGE: Water-carried human wastes or 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.
SEWAGE WORKS: All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER USER OR USER: Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group whom service is available whether or not connected to the public sewer.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGE: Any industrial user of the City's wastewater disposal system which:
A. Is subject to or potentially subject to national pretreatment standards promulgated under section 307(b) or (c) of the Act; or
B. Has in its wastes any priority toxic pollutants listed in 40 CFR part 403; or
C. Has in its wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to section 307 of the Act; or
D. Has a peak flow greater than five percent (5%) of the flow in the City's wastewater treatment system; or
E. Is determined by the City to have a significant impact or potential for significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industrial discharges, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge, the systems effluent quality or air emissions generated by the system.
SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCE: A building designed for and used exclusively for residence purposes by one family. This definition shall include a single trailer or mobile home not located in a trailer court.
STORM DRAIN OR STORM SEWER: A sewer which carries storm and surface water and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS): 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.
TRAILER COURT OR MOBILE HOME PARK: A trailer court or mobile home park is any area or site or land upon which two (2) or more trailers are placed and maintained for dwelling purposes, either on a permanent or semi-permanent basis.
USEPA OR EPA: The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States of America or its authorized or designated agent, representative or deputy.
WASTEWATER: Industrial waste, or sewage or any other waste including that which may be combined with any ground water, surface water or storm water that may be discharged into the public sewer.
WATERCOURSE: A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (Ord. 349, 11-9-1993; 1997 Code)