As used in this chapter:
(a) "Administrator" means the Service Director of the Village of Richfield or his authorized representative.
(b) "Biochemical Oxygen Demand" (BOD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees Centigrade (20o C).
(c) "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 three feet (1.0 meters) outside the outside face of the building wall.
(d) "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, also called house connection.
(e) "C" means centigrade degrees.
(f) "Chemical oxygen demand" (COD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
(g) "Combined sewer" means a sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
(h) "Compatible pollutant" means a waste constituent which does not interfere with the operation or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
(i) "Control manhole" means a structure that is accessible for the purpose of maintaining a building sewer. A control manhole may be used as an inspection chamber.
(j) "Conventional gravity sanitary sewer" means a sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industries and institutions.
(k) "Cooling water" means the water discharge from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other sources. It shall contain no polluting substances which would produce BOD or SS (suspended solids) each in excess of ten parts per million by weight, or toxic substances as limited in this chapter or other polluting substances which may be limited in this chapter.
(l) "Council" means the Council of the Village of Richfield.
(m) "Cuyahoga County Sanitary Engineer" means the Sanitary Engineer or his designated representative.
(n) "Debt service charge" means a charge levied on the users of the wastewater treatment works for the cost of the principal and interest payments on the Village's share of the wastewater treatment works construction.
(o) "Domestic" means a residential user of the wastewater treatment works.
(1) "Domestic wastes" from industries means wastes originating from sanitary conveniences. "Domestic wastes" do not include trade or process wastes. Normal domestic sewage shall be as subsequently defined in Section 926.13.
(p) "Environmental Protection Agency" means the Federal (or United States) Environmental Protection Agency, or any person authorized to act for that agency.
(q) "Federal Act" or "Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, Public Law 92-500, and any amendments thereto; as well as any guidelines, limitations, and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
(r) "Garbage" means the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of food.
(s) "Grease" means a constituent in wastewater as identified in "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater".
(t) "Incompatible pollutant" means a waste constituent which interferes with the operation and performance of the wastewater treatment works.
(u) "Industrial wastes" means the wastewater from industries as defined herein.
(v) "Intercepting sewer" means a sewer intended to receive flows from both combined sewers and sanitary sewers; or a sewer whose primary purpose is to transport wastewater from collector (local) sewers to a Wastewater Treatment Plant.
(w) "May" is permissive; "shall" is mandatory.
(x) "mg/l" means milligrams per liter.
(y) "Natural outlet" means any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
(z) "NEORSD" means the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District.
(aa) "NPDES" or "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System" permit means any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued by the state water pollution control agency to regulate the discharge of pollutants into waters of the State.
(bb) "Owner" or "person" means any individual, firm, company, industry, association, society, corporation or group.
(cc) "pH" means the reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution.
(dd) "Pollutant" means any noxious chemical or other refuse material that impairs the purity of water.
(ee) "POTW" means Publicly Owned Treatment Works.
(ff) "ppm" means parts per million by weight and/or milligrams per liter.
(gg) "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 shall be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particles greater than one-half inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
(hh) "Pretreatment" means the treatment of wastewater from sources before introduction into the building drain.
(ii) "Private sewer" means a sewer constructed and serving individual owners or persons under private ownership.
(jj) "Public sewer" means a common sewer controlled by a governmental agency, public utility or public authority.
(kk) "Reimbursable expense" means an expense for operation and maintenance of the system which is paid for directly from funds other than user charges.
(ll) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer, both conventional gravity sanitary sewers and small diameter sanitary sewers, that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industries and institutions, together with minor quantities of ground, storm and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
(mm) "Sanitary sewer charges" means the aggregate of rate increments established by three separate revenue systems, that is, user charges, extra strength surcharges and debt service charges.
(nn) "Septic tank" means a watertight covered receptacle designed and constructed to receive the discharge of wastewater from a building sewer and to discharge the effluent from the settled and floating solids.
(oo) "Septage" means the materials, both liquid and solid, removed from a septic tank.
(pp) "Sewer" means a pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
(qq) "Slug" means any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen minutes more than five times the average twenty-four hour concentration of flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the performance of the wastewater treatment works.
(rr) "Storm sewer" (sometimes termed "storm drain") means a sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source.
(ss) "Suspended solids" means total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" and referred to as nonfilterable residue.
(tt) "Toxic pollutants" includes but is not necessarily limited to aldrindieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DD-endrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) and toxaphene. Pollutants included as "toxic" shall be those promulgated as such by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(uu) "Unpolluted water" means water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of the receiving water quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment works provided.
(vv) "User charge" means a charge levied on users of the wastewater treatment works for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement of such works.
(1) "Operation and maintenance" means the administration, monitoring, inspection, reviewing applications, maintenance of equipment and treatment and collection of wastewaters, necessary to assure adequate wastewater collection and treatment on a continuing basis which conforms to applicable regulations and assures optimal long term facility management.
(2) "Replacement" means the obtaining and installing of equipment, accessories or appurtenances necessary during the service life of the POTW to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
(ww) "User class" means any class of users of the wastewater works, defined as follows:
(1) "Residential user" means any user that discharges waste to the sanitary sewer system from a dwelling unit. A dwelling unit can mean but is not limited to houses, apartments and mobile homes used primarily for residential occupancy.
(2) "Industrial user" or "industry" means any nongovernmental user discharging a trade or process waste to a publicly owned treatment works as identified as a "Division A, B, D, E or I" industry in the Standard Classification Manual, 1986, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented. A user in the Division A, B, D, E or I may be excluded if it is determined that the industry will introduce primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(3) "Commercial user" means nonresidential or nonindustrial user that discharges waste to the sanitary sewer system from a commercial establishment. A commercial establishment can mean but is not limited to retail establishments, service enterprises and other business or community activity.
(4) "Institutional/governmental user" means nonresidential or nonindustrial or noncommercial user that discharges waste to the sanitary sewer from an institutional/governmental establishment. An institutional/governmental establishment can mean but is not limited to education facilities, churches and synagogues and Federal, State and local administration and service facilities.
(xx) "Village" means the Village of Richfield, Ohio.
(yy) "Wastewater" or "wastes" means the spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industries and institutions, together with any ground water, surface water and stormwater that may be present.
(zz) "Wastewater treatment plant" or "plant" means that portion of the wastewater treatment works required to treat wastewater and septage (but not added grit) and dispose of the effluent.
(aaa) "Wastewater treatment works" or "works" means the structures, equipment, parcels of land, easements and processes required to collect, carry away and treat wastewater and dispose of the effluent of the Village. Wastewater treatment works shall include septic tanks, sanitary sewers and intercepting sewers, but shall not include storm sewers.
(Ord. 5-1991. Passed 1-17-91.)