For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms, phrases and words shall have the meanings set forth in this section:
APPROVED SPRING: A naturally occurring spring which:
A. Produces each day an amount of water equal to the minimum quantity and quality of water required by state law, Salt Lake County and the Salt Lake City ordinances, and Salt Lake Valley health department regulations for a residence within the watershed area;
B. Produces water which at all times meets at least the minimum health standards of state and Salt Lake Valley health department regulations;
C. Produces less than one hundred (100) gallons of water per minute during the period between September 15 and October 1;
D. Is not a watercourse or a tunnel, mineshaft, well or any other artificial structure;
E. The department of public utilities finds that the development of the spring will not have a substantial adverse effect upon wetlands created by such spring or the riparian zone below such spring;
F. The department of public utilities finds that the development of the spring will not cause any degradation of water quality under federal, state, county and city laws and regulations.
AQUIFER: An underground formation that contains and transmits ground water.
DEPARTMENT: The Salt Lake Valley health department.
DIRECTOR: The director of the Salt Lake City department of public utilities or his/her authorized representative.
HEALTH DIRECTOR: The director of the Salt Lake Valley health department or his/her authorized representative.
LIMITING DISTANCE: The distance by horizontal measurement from the normal bank of a stream or the high water line of a reservoir as determined by the department.
NONPOINT DISCHARGE: Any surface or subsurface discharge of wastewater to a designated watershed stream segment or tributary, from diffused source(s) or conveyance(s).
OWNER: Any person who alone, jointly or severally with others:
A. Has legal title to any premises, dwelling or dwelling unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof; or
B. Has charge, care or control of any premises, dwelling, or dwelling unit, as legal or equitable owner or agent of the owner, or an executrix, administrator, administratrix, trustee or guardian of the estate of the owner.
PERSON: Any individual, public or private corporation and its officers, partnership, association, firm, trustee, executor of any estate, the state or its departments, institution, bureau, agency, county, city, political subdivision or any legal entity recognized by law.
POINT SOURCE DISCHARGE: Any surface or subsurface discharge of wastewater, treated or otherwise, to a designated watershed stream segment or tributary, from a discrete conveyance.
POLLUTION: Any manmade or man induced alteration of the chemical, physical, geological, radiological or biological integrity of water under standards of the Utah state department of health or the environmental protection agency (EPA).
PUTRESCIBLE MATERIAL: Any organic material subject to biological decomposition with the production of offensive odors associated with anaerobic or facultative aerobic conditions, including, but not limited to, dead animals, garbage, manure, compost and vegetable matter.
RESERVOIR: Any natural or artificial lake or pond, except a stormwater detention basin.
RESIDENCE: A single-family dwelling.
SALT LAKE CITY WATERSHED AREA OR CITY WATERSHED: The watershed area supplying drinking water to the residents of Salt Lake City or the Salt Lake City water system for drinking or residential uses, including, but not limited to:
A. All of Big Cottonwood watershed area lying east of the Salt Lake City water intake, which is located east of Wasatch Boulevard in the mouth of the canyon;
B. All of the Parley's Canyon watershed area lying north and east of the Salt Lake City Mountain Dell Reservoir Dam;
C. All of the City Creek Canyon watershed area lying north and east of Salt Lake City's City Creek treatment plant sludge beds;
D. All of the Little Cottonwood Canyon watershed area extending fifty feet (50') on both sides of Little Cottonwood Creek east from the Little Cottonwood Creek radial gate intake structure, which structure is located approximately six hundred feet (600') west of Wasatch Boulevard, east to the intersection of Little Cottonwood Road and the North Fort of Little Cottonwood Road and all of the watershed area east of the Little Cottonwood Canyon Road and North Fork of Little Cottonwood Road;
E. All of the Emigration Canyon watershed area that contributes water to Emigration Creek from Burr Fork and Killyon Canyon above a point at the intersection of state Highways 65 and 172;
F. Any other watershed area designated by law, either existing or to be defined in the future by the governing authority of Salt Lake City.
SEWAGE: A combination of liquid or water carried wastes produced by man, animal or fowl from residences, business buildings, institutions, industrial establishments, agriculture, recreation and other locations, including septic tanks, privy vaults and cesspools, together with ground, surface and stormwater.
SUPERINTENDENT OF WATERWORKS: An official who, under the executive direction of a governing authority, has charge of all facets of the water supply and distribution systems in a given jurisdiction; in Salt Lake City it is the director.
WATERCOURSE: Aqueducts, pipelines, natural or artificial streams or channels through or in which water at any time flows.
WATERSHED AREA: The entire area in any canyon above the intake of the city within which water drains into any stream or tributary thereof or any artesian or flowing well basin and/or having an existing or proposed water intake of the city within which water drains into any stream, tributary, or aquifer where such waters are taken by or may be taken by the city into its waterworks system for the culinary and domestic use of the inhabitants thereof.
WATERWORKS SYSTEM: Any facility used to divert surface or underground water into a system for distribution to culinary users, including, but not limited to, diversion works, treatment or appurtenant facilities, plants, aqueducts, pipes and other distribution facilities.
WELL: Any artificially made pipe, shaft or hole sunk into the earth below the ground surface into a water bearing strata from which water may be taken. (Ord. 1-06 § 30, 2006: Ord. 50-93 § 1, 1993)