For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AD VALOREM TAX. The tax levied for the benefit of the city on the assessed value of property within its boundaries.
ASSESSED VALUE. A portion of the total assessed value of the property upon which city taxes are levied.
BOD or BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND. The measure of decomposable organic material in domestic or industrial wastewaters as represented by the oxygen utilized over a period of five days at 20ºC. and as determined by the appropriate procedure in Standard Methods.
CHLORINE DEMAND. The difference between the amount of chlorine added to a wastewater sample and the amount remaining at the end of a 30-minute period as determined by the procedures given in Standard Methods.
CITY. The City of San Joaquin, Fresno County.
CITY COUNCIL. The City Council of the City of San Joaquin.
CITY ENGINEER. The City Engineer of the city or his or her duly authorized deputy or agent.
COD or CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND. The measure of chemically decomposable material in domestic or industrial wastewater as represented by the oxygen utilized as determined by the appropriate procedure described in Standard Methods.
DEPARTMENT. The City Sewer Department.
DISCHARGER. Any person that discharges or causes a discharge to a public sewer.
DISSOLVED SOLIDS or DISSOLVED MATTER. The solid matter in solution in the wastewater and shall be obtained by evaporation of a sample from which all suspended matter has been removed by filtration as determined by the procedure in Standard Methods.
DOMESTIC WASTEWATER. The water-carried wastes produced from noncommercial or nonindustrial activities and which result from normal human living processes.
EFFLUENT. The liquid outflow of any facility designed to treat, convey or retain wastewater.
HOUSE CONNECTION. The sewer connecting the building sewer or building waste drainage system to the public sewer for the purpose of conveying domestic wastewater.
INDUSTRIAL CONNECTION SEWER. The sewer connecting the building sewer or building waste drainage system to the public sewer for the purpose of conveying industrial wastewater.
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER. All water-carried wastes and wastewater of the community excluding domestic wastewater and shall include all wastewater from any producing, manufacturing, processing, institutional, commercial, agricultural or other operation where the wastewater discharged includes significant quantities of wastes of nonhuman origin.
INSPECTOR. Person authorized by the city to inspect wastewater generation, conveyance, processing and disposal facilities.
LATERAL SEWER, COLLECTING SEWER or MAIN LINE SEWER. The public sewer usually eight inches or larger in diameter and used to collect wastewater from house connection and industrial connection sewers and transport it to trunk sewers. Lateral, collecting or main line sewers are normally built and maintained by the local sewering agency.
LOCAL SEWERING AGENCY. The City of San Joaquin.
MAY. Permissive.
ORDINANCE. Unless otherwise specified, this chapter.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, committee, association, corporation, public agency and any other organization or group of persons, public or private.
PUBLIC CORPORATION. This state and any political subdivision thereof, any incorporated municipality therein, any public agency of the state or any political subdivision thereof, or any corporate municipal instrumentality of the state.
PUBLIC SEWER. Any sewer dedicated to public use and whose use is controlled by a public corporation.
SECTION. A section of this chapter.
SEWAGE. Wastewater.
SEWAGE PUMPING PLANT. Any facility designed and constructed to raise wastewater in elevation or to overcome head losses due to pipeline friction.
SEWERAGE. Any and all facilities used for collecting, conveying, pumping, treating and disposing of wastewater.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM. A network of wastewater collection and conveyance facilities interconnected by sewers and owned by the public corporation.
SHALL. Mandatory.
SOLID WASTES. The nonliquid carried wastes normally considered to be suitable for disposal sites.
STANDARD METHODS. The current edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, as published by the American Public Health Association.
SUPERINTENDENT. The City Superintendent of Public Works.
SUSPENDED SOLIDSorSUSPENDED MATTER. The insoluble solid matter suspended in wastewater that is separable by laboratory filtration in accordance with the procedure described in Standard Methods.
TRUNK SEWER. A sewer constructed, maintained and operated by the public corporation that conveys wastewater to treatment facilities and into which lateral and collecting sewers discharge.
UNCONTAMINATED WATER. Any wasted water of the community not contaminated or polluted with wastewater and which is suitable or could readily be made suitable for discharge to a storm water drainage system.
USER. Discharger, see above.
WASTEWATER. The water-carried wastes of the community derived from human or industrial sources including domestic wastewater and industrial wastewater. Rainwater, ground water or drainage of uncontaminated water is not wastewater.
(1994 Code, § 13.20.030) (Ord. 78-105, passed - -1978)