For purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings ascribed to them respectively.
(a) "Best Management Practices (BMP)" means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in OAC 3745-3-04. BMPs also include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage for raw materials storage.
(b) "Biochemical oxygen demand (B.O.D.)" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, as prescribed in "Standard Methods," in 5 days at 20 degrees Centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(c) "Building drain" means that part of the lowest 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 (1.5 meters) beyond the foundation wall of the building or structure.
(d) "Building sewer" means that part of the drainage system which extends from the end of the building drain and conveys its discharge to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(e) "Capital charges" means those amounts paid by each premise connected to the treatment works proportionate to the probable demand placed on the system to pay the debt service requirements and capital expenditures to enlarge or improve the wastewater facilities.
(f) “Categorical Pretreatment Standard" means any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by EPA in accordance with sections 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. section 1317) that apply to a specific category of users and that appear in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405-471.
(g) “Chief Foreman” means the Chief Foreman of the City POTW.
(h) "City Engineer" means the Director of Public Works of this City, or his authorized agent or representative.
(i) "City Law Director" means the City Law Director of this City or his authorized agent or representative.
(j) "City Manager" means the City Manager of this City or his authorized agent or representative.
(k) "City Utilities Director" means the Director of Water and Sewer Services or his Authorized representative.
(l) "Combined sewer" means a sewer intended to serve as a sanitary sewer and a storm sewer, or as an industrial sewer and a storm sewer.
(m) "Commodity charges" means the total of the user and capital charge expressed in dollars per 100 cubic feet of consumption. The charge is levied on all consumption as measured by the water or sewage meter installed thereon.
(n) "Compatible pollutants" means pollutants which the treatment plant was designed to treat which are B.O.D., SS, phosphorus, and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit if the publicly owned treatment works were designed to treat the pollutants and in fact remove the pollutants to a substantial degree.
(o) "Connection charge" means that amount paid by each new premise connected to the treatment works in proportion to the probable demand placed on the system to pay for the City's share of facilities required to serve the premises.
(p) "Easement" means an acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
(q) "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. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system.
(r) "Garbage" means the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of foods.
(s) "Incompatible pollutant" means any pollutant which is not compatible (see definition for "compatible pollutants" in this section).
(t) "Industrial cost recovery charge" means that amount assessed each industrial user to repay that portion of all federal grant amounts allocable to the treatment of wastes from the industrial users of the wastewater facilities and capacity committed to their use.
(u) "Industrial user" means any source of nondomestic discharge that introduces pollutants to the POTW and is regulated by Sections 307, B, C and D of the Clean Water Act.
(v) "Industrial wastes" means the wastewater from industrial process, trade, or business as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
(w) "Insignificant user" means those industrial users not discharging pollutants of concern and not in any way causing an impact on the POTW.
(x) "Natural outlet" means any outlet, including storm sewers, that discharges into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water which does not require an NPDES discharge permit.
(y) "Nonindustrial user" means all users of the wastewater facilities not classified as an industrial user (see "industrial user").
(z) "Normal domestic wastes" means wastes which are characterized by a maximum loading of 250 mg/1 B.O.D., 300 mg/1 SS and 12 mg/1 phosphorus (normal domestic sewage).
(aa) "NPDES permit" means National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit as issued by the State Environmental Protection Agency under authorization issued by the U.S. EPA, Region V.
(bb) "Operation, maintenance, and replacement costs" means those costs, including labor, materials, supplies, equipment, accessories, and appurtenances, required to operate the facilities, keep the facilities in operating condition, and maintain the capacity and performance during the useful life of the treatment works for which the works are designed and constructed.
(cc) "Persons." For purposes of this chapter, "person" includes in its application, every natural person, partnership, limited partnership, corporation, fiduciary or association. Wherever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty, "person" as applied to any association means the partners or members thereof, and as applied to corporations, the officers thereof.
(dd) "pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution.
(ee) "Phosphorus" means the total phosphorus content of a sample including all of the orthophosphates and condensed phosphates, both soluble and insoluble, and organic and inorganic species, and referred to in "Standard Methods" as total phosphorus.
(ff) “POTW” means Publicly Owned Treatment Works.
(gg) "Pretreatment" means the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW.
(hh) "Process wastewater" (sometimes termed "process water") means any water which, during manufacturing or processing, comes into direct contact with or results from the production or use of any raw material, intermediate product, finished product, by-product or waste product.
(ii) "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 will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch (1.27 centimeters in any dimension).
(jj) "Public sewer" means a common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public utility.
(kk) "Recovered amounts" means that revenue generated as a result of the industrial cost recovery system.
(ll) "Recovery period" means thirty years or the useful life of the treatment works, whichever is less.
(mm) "Retained amounts" means fifty percent of the recovered amounts.
(nn) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions together with minor quantities of ground, storm, and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
(oo) "Sanitary wastes" means the combination of liquid and water-carried wastes discharged from toilet and other sanitary plumbing facilities.
(pp) "Segregated domestic wastes" means discharges from nonresidential sources generated from normal human biological activities, separate and distinct from industrial trade or process discharges.
(qq) "Sewage" means the spent water of a community. The preferred term is "wastewater."
(rr) "Sewer" means a pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
(ss) "Significant industrial user."
(1) Except as provided in subsection (b) hereof, "significant industrial user" includes:
A. All industrial users subject to categorical pretreatment standards; and,
B. Any other industrial user that: discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of process wastewater to the POTW; contributes a process wastestream which makes up five percent (5%) or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW treatment plant; or has a reasonable potential, in the opinion of the Director, to adversely affect the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
(2) The City Engineer may at any time, on his own initiative or in response to a petition received from an industrial user, determine that a noncategorical industrial user is not a significant industrial user if the industrial user has no reasonable potential to adversely affect the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
(tt) "Slug" means any discharge of a non-routine, episodic nature, including but not limited to an accidental spill or a non-customary batch discharge that has a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass through, or in any other way violate the POTW's regulations, local limits or permit conditions. (See Section 933.21(h)).
(uu) "Storm drain" (sometimes termed "storm sewer") means a drain or sewer for conveying water, ground water, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source.
(vv) “Storm Water" means the water that originates during precipitation events and snow/ ice melt.
(ww) "Superintendent" means the Superintendent of the City POTW.
(xx) "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" and referred to as filterable residue.
(yy) "Treatment works" means any and all devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature, or necessary to recycle or reuse water at the most economical cost over the useful life of the works, including interceptor sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, pumping, power, and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions, improvements, remodeling, additions, and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works, including site acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment; or any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating, or disposing of municipal wastes, including stormwater runoff, or industrial waste, including waste in combined storm water and sanitary sewer systems.
(zz) "Unpolluted water" means 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 benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
(aaa) "User charge" means that amount paid by each premise connected to the treatment works proportionate to the service provided. This charge shall cover all operation, maintenance, and replacement costs for the facilities.
(bbb) "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 ground water, surface water, and stormwater that may be present.
(ccc) "Wastewater treatment plant" means an arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "waste treatment plant," or "water pollution control plant."
(ddd) "Watercourse" means a natural or artificial channel for the passage of water either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 15-140. Passed 10-13-15; Ord. 20-195. Passed 12-28-20.)