Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(1) "ACT" means the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C 1251 et seq), as amended; 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.
(2) “ADMINISTRATOR” means the Village Administrator of the Village of Richwood, Ohio.
(3) "BOD", denoting biochemical oxygen demand, means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure as outlined in the Environmental Protection Agency "Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for Analysis of Pollutants" (Ref. FR 10-16-73, Vol. 38, No. 199, Part II), in five days at twenty degrees Centigrade, expressed in parts per million by weight.
(4) "BUILDING DRAIN" shall mean 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 5 feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(5) "BUILDING SEWER" shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(6) "CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS" means the National Pretreatment Standards specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged or introduced into the sewage treatment works by specific Industrial Users.
(7) "CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND" (COD) shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
(8) "COMBINED SEWER" shall mean a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
(9) "COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT" shall include biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the Village's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit, providing the Village's Sewage Treatment Plant is designed to treat such pollutants, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree.
(10) "COOLING WATER" or "INDUSTRIAL COOLING WATER" means the unpolluted water discharged from any system of condensation, air-conditioning cooling, refrigeration or other similar use which meets the criteria established by the OEPA for effluents discharged to water courses at Richwood, Ohio.
(11) "DEBT SERVICE" means the payment requirements to retire the Sewage Treatment Works debt through cash generated during the period of time that the debt is outstanding. Any incremental charge for the recovery of "Debt Service" may be included in the sewer service charge.
(12) "DEBT SERVICE FUND" means a fund to which monies are deposited which are collected for the purpose of Debt Service as defined in subsection (11) hereof. Unless the collection of such monies complies with the User Charge requirements, the monies in this fund shall not be used for any cost or expense of providing sewage treatment services.
(13) “FLOATABLE OIL” means oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
(14) "GARBAGE" means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and/or dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(15) "INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT" means any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined in subsection (9) hereof.
(16) "INDIRECT DISCHARGE" means the discharge or the introduction of non- domestic pollutants from a source regulated under the Act into the sewage treatment works.
(17) "INDIVIDUAL OR PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM" means an independent sewage disposal system found to be adequate and approved by the Health Department.
(18) "INDUSTRIAL WASTES" means the liquid wastes resulting from commercial. manufacturing or industrial operations or processes as distinct from sanitary sewage or wastes.
(19) "INTERCEPTOR" means a device designed and installed so as to separate and/or retain deleterious, hazardous or undesirable matter from normal sewage, and permits normal wastewater to discharge into the disposal terminal by gravity.
(20) "INTERFERENCE" means the inhibition or disruption of the sewage treatment works, treatment processes or operation which contributes to a violation of any requirement of the Village's NPDES permit.
(21) "NATURAL OUTLET" shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(22) "NORMAL STRENGTH SEWAGE OR WASTES" as defined for the purpose of determining surcharge shall mean sewage having an average daily suspended solids concentration of not more than 200 mg/l, an average daily BOD concentration of not more than 200 mg/l and not containing any or the characteristics in excess of the limitations as prohibited and established by Section 925.05
(b) and (c).
(23) "NPDES PERMIT" means the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit issued to the Village of Richwood Sewage Treatment Plant by the OEPA.
(24) "OEPA" shall mean the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(25) "OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COST" means all expense of collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of wastewater including equipment replacement costs.
(26) "PERSON" shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(27) "pH" shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(28) "POLLUTANT" means dredge spoil, solid waste incinerator residue, wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge munition, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, and, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water.
(29) "ppm" means parts per million by weight and/or milligrams per liter (mg/l).
(30) "PRETREATMENT" means the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the sewage treatment works.
(31) “PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE” means the wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sanitary sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
(32) "PUBLIC SEWER" means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is owned and/or controlled by the Village.
(33) "REPLACEMENT COSTS" means expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the sewage treatment works to maintain or regain the capacity and performance for which it was designed and constructed. Unless specifically excluded, the term operation and maintenance shall include replacement.
(34) “REPLACEMENT FUND” means a fund to which monies are deposited which are collected for the purpose of replacement as defined in subsection (33) hereof. The monies deposited in this fund and any interest earned thereon shall be used solely for the purpose of replacement.
(35) "SANITARY SEWAGE" is hereby defined as the waste from water closets, urinals, lavatories, sinks, bathtubs, showers, household laundries, cellar floor drains, garage floor drains, bars, soda fountains, refrigerator drips, drinking- fountains, and storerooms.
(36) "SANITARY SEWER" means a sewer which carries sewage and wastes and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(37) "SANITARY SEWER FUND" means a fund to which monies received from user charges are deposited and from which is paid all costs and expense incurred for operation and maintenance of the Village of Richwood's sewage treatment works.
(38) "SERVICE AREA" shall mean the entire area served by the system within and without its corporate limits.
(39) "SEWAGE" synonymous with "WASTEWATER" 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, industrial plants, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and storm water that may be present.
(40) "SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT" shall mean any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
(41) "SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS" means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
(42) "SEWER" shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
(43) “SEWER SERVICE CHARGE” means the basic fee levied on all users of the Village sewage treatment works whose wastes do not exceed in strength the concentration values established as representative of normal sewage. This charge to include the Users Charge as hereinafter defined and any other charge related to the construction and use of the Village sewage treatment works that may be permitted by law, including debt service.
(44) "SEWER CONNECTION" means the Y-branch or sewer stack device used for making the connection of service sewers to the public sewer.
(45) “SHALL” is mandatory; "MAY" is permissive.
(46) "SIC MANUAL" means the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented.
(47) "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 (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration or flows during normal operation and that adversely affects the collection system and/or performance of the sewage treatment plant.
(48) "SPECIFICATIONS FOR MATERIALS" means standards of specifications identified by the following abbreviations:
ANSI: American standards approved by the American National Standards Institute, Inc., 1430 Broadway, New York, New York 10018.
ASTM: Standards and Tentative standards published by the American Society for Testing of Materials, P.O. Box 7510, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19101.
CS: Commercial standards representing recorded voluntary recommendations of the trade, issued by the United States Department of Commerce and obtainable from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20234.
(49) "STORM SEWER" or "STORM DRAIN" shall mean a sewer which corries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
(50) "STORMWATER RUNOFF" means that portion of the rainfall that is drained into the sewers.
(51) "SUPERINTENDENT" shall mean the Superintendent of Sewage Works of the Village of Richwood, Ohio, or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
(52) "SURCHARGE" means the fee in addition to the service charge which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration values established as representative of normal sewage.
(53) "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.
(54) “TOXIC POLLUTANTS” shall include but not necessarily be limited to aldrin- dieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, polychlorinated byphenyls (PCB's) and toxaphene. Pollutants included as “toxic” shall be those promulgated as such by the USEPA.
(55) "UNPOLLUTED WATER" is 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 sewage treatment facilities provided.
(56) "UPSET" means an exceptional incident in which a User unintentionally and temporarily is in a state of noncompliance with the standards set forth in this chapter due to factors beyond the reasonable control of the User and excluding noncompliance to the extent caused by operational error, improperly designed treatment facilities, inadequate treatment facilities, lack of preventive maintenance, or careless or improper operation thereof.
(57) "USEPA" shall mean the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(58) “USER CHARGE” means the charge to each recipient of sewage treatment services within the Village’s service area, representing a proportionate share of the costs of operation and maintenance including replacement of all sewage treatment service provided.
(59) "USER CLASS" means the division of users within the Village's service area, by the origin of the sewage discharged and by the similarity of the function of such users. Stated in four (4) general classes, they are:
A. "Commercial User", a commercial business discharging wastewater; users not categorized as residential or industrial.
B. "Industrial User", a person who discharges to the Village's sewage treatment works liquid wastes resulting from processes employed in industrial or manufacturing, or from the development of any natural resource.
C. "Other Public Authority User," shall mean a special class of user who usually contributes a primarily segregated domestic waste or waste from sanitary conveniences. This class usually includes hospitals, sanitariums, prisons, or charitable institutions, schools and all other government users (Federal, State and Local).
D. "Residential User," shall mean single family or equivalent residences which discharge only wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(60) "USPH" means the United States Public Health Service.
(61) "VILLAGE" shall mean the Village of Richwood, County of Union, State of Ohio.
(62) "WATERCOURSE" means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 12-11-89.)