For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOD or BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND. The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20°C, expressed in parts per million by weight.
BUILDING DRAIN. The 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 feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
GARBAGE.
(1) Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(2) PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE is the wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has 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 in dimension.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinguished from sanitary sewers.
INSPECTOR. The person or persons duly authorized by the town, through the Town Council to inspect and approve the installation of building sewers and their connection to the public sewer system.
MAY. The act is permissive.
NATURAL OUTLETS. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen loss in grams per liter of solution.
SEWAGE. A combination of the water- carried wastes from residences, businesses, buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with ground, surface and storm water as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
(1) BUILDING SEWER. The extensions from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(2) COMBINED SEWER. A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
(3) PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and is controlled by public authority.
(4) SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally permitted.
(5) STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN. A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
SHALL. The act is mandatory.
SUPERINTENDENT. The Superintendent of the municipal sewage works of the town, or his or her authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. 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.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, continuously or intermittently.
(Prior Code, § 53.01)