For the purposes of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICE. A piece of equipment installed on either the building drain or building sewer which helps protect the connected building from the main sewer backing up into the building due to cleaning or a blockage in the line.
BOARD. The Board of Sanitary Commissioners of the city, or its authorized representative.
BUILDING DRAIN. The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharges from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer beginning five feet outside the building walls, exclusive of storm water.
BUILDING DRAIN, SANITARY. A building drain which conveys sanitary or industrial sewage only.
BUILDING DRAIN, STORM. A building drain which conveys storm water or other clear water drainage, but no wastewater.
BUILDING SEWER. The part of the horizontal piping of a drainage system which extends from the end of the building drain and which receives the discharge of the building drain and conveys it to a public sewer, private sewer, individual sewage disposal system or other point of disposal.
BUILDING SEWER, SANITARY. A building sewer which conveys sanitary or industrial sewage only.
BUILDING SEWER, STORM. A building sewer which conveys storm water or other clear water drainage, but not sanitary or industrial sewage.
COMBINED SEWER. The sewer intended to carry sanitary and industrial waste waters from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants or institutions, and also to carry storm waters, surface runoff, street wash waters and drainage.
COMMERCIAL USER. Any person owning an establishment offering lodging, selling goods (either retail or wholesale), or offering services for sale and contributing an average monthly flow in excess of 10,000 gallons.
DIRECTOR. The duly appointed and qualified Director of the City Sanitary District or his or her authorized deputy, agent or representative.
DISTRICT. The Sanitary District of the city, acting by its duly constituted Board of Sanitary Commissioners or their authorized representatives.
DISTRICT ENGINEER. The chief engineer of the City Sanitary District or a duly authorized representative.
DOMESTIC USER. All persons owning residential dwellings which discharge primarily domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
DOMESTIC WASTE. Liquid wastes from the non-commercial preparation, cooking and handling of food or containing human excrement and similar matter from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions.
EASEMENTS. An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
EFFLUENT. The water, together with any wastes that may be present, flowing out of a drain, sewer, receptacle or outlet.
FATS, OILS, GREASE (FOG). Any substance such as vegetable or animal products, that is used in or is a byproduct of the cooking or food preparation process, and that turns or may turn viscous or solidifies with a change of temperature or other conditions.
FLOATABLE OIL. Oil, fat or grease in a physical state, such that will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in a pretreatment facility approved by the city.
GARBAGE. Those putrescible wastes resulting form the growing, handling, storage, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
GROUND GARBAGE. Garbage that is shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely in suspension under the conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle to exceed one-half inch in size.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or form of energy discharge, permitted to flow or escaping from an industrial, manufacturing, commercial or business process or from the development, recovery or processing of any natural resource.
INFILTRATION. Any water other than wastewater that enters a sewage system from the ground through such means as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections or manholes. INFILTRATION does not include, and is distinguished from, “inflow”.
INFILTRATION/INFLOW. The total quantity of water from both infiltration and inflow without distinguishing the source.
INFLOW. Any water other than wastewater, that enters a sewage system from sources such as roof leaders, cellar drains, yard drains, area drains, foundation drains, drains from springs and swampy areas, cross-connections between storm sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, storm waters, surface runoff, street wash waters or drainage. INFLOW does not include, and is distinguished from, “infiltration”.
INFLUENT. The water, together with any wastes that may be present, flowing into a drain, sewer, receptacle or outlet.
OTHER WASTES. Garbage, refuse, wood residues, sand, lime, cinders, ashes, offal, night soil, silt, oil, tar, dyestuffs, acids, chemicals and all other substances, not sewage or industrial waste, which discharge would cause pollution or cause damage or blockage to sewers.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, trust, estate, political subdivision, state agency or any other legal entity or their legal representative, agent or assigns legally capable of owning property in the state.
POLLUTANT. Dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, medical wastes, chemical waste, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, municipal, agricultural and industrial wastes, and certain characteristics of wastewater (e.g., pH, temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD, toxicity or odor). The term includes SEWAGE, INDUSTRIAL WASTE and other waste.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by a public authority, or owned by the Sanitary District.
POTW (PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS). A treatment works as defined by § 212 of the Clean Water Act which is owned by a state or municipality as defined by § 502(4) of the Act, includes any sewers that convey wastewater to such a treatment works, but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected to a facility providing treatment.
QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL. An individual who is trained and experienced in wastewater treatment, environmental compliance or related fields as may be demonstrated by state registration, professional certification, experience or completion of coursework that enables the individual to make sound, professional judgement regarding a facility’s ability to comply with federal, state and local wastewater rules and regulations.
RECEIVING STREAM. The watercourse, stream or body of water receiving the waters finally discharged from the sewage treatment plant.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY UNIT. A building under one roof designed, arranged and used primarily for dwelling purposes by a single family.
SANITARY SEWAGE. Sewage discharged from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings including apartment houses, hotels and motels, office buildings, factories or institutions and free from storm water, surface water and industrial wastes.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters and unpolluted industrial wastewater are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE. Water-carried human and related wastes from any source, together with associated land runoff, sanitary and industrial wastewaters, and polluted cooling water, from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions. The term includes sanitary sewage, industrial sewage and combined sewage.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT or WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. The arrangement of devices, structures and equipment used for treating and disposing of sewage and sludge.
SEWAGE UTILITY or WATER POLLUTION CONTROL UTILITY. All facilities for collecting, transporting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage and sludge, namely the sewerage system and the sewage treatment plant.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying either wastewater or land runoff, or both.
SEWER BACKFLOW. The undesired reversal of flow in a sanitary sewer water system.
SHALL AND MAY.
(1) MAY. Permissive.
(2) SHALL. Mandatory.
STORM SEWER. A sewer intended to receive and convey only land runoff, ground water or unpolluted water from any source and to which sanitary or industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM. The network of sewers and appurtenances used for collecting, transporting and pumping sewage to the sewage treatment plant.
STANDARD METHODS. The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the most recent edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
STRENGTH-OF-WASTES SURCHARGE. The extra charges for sewerage service assessed customers whose sewage is of such a nature that it imposes upon the sewage utility a burden greater than can be anticipated under normal conditions.
UNPOLLUTED WATER. Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect, or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
USER. Any person or domestic or non-domestic source of discharge into a sanitary sewer.
WASTEWATER. Treated or untreated liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions, together with any inflow and infiltration that may be present, which is discharged into or permitted to enter the POTW.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT or TREATMENT PLANT. The portion of the POTW which is designed to provide treatment of municipal sewage and industrial waste.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously or intermittently.
(Prior Code, § 50.01)