For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOD (denoting 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 drain 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.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
CITY ENGINEER. The City Engineer or his or her authorized representative.
COMBINATION SEWER or COMBINED SEWER. A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, processing, and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The liquid wastes, solids, or semi-solids from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of water, either surface or groundwater.
pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The wastes from the cooking, preparation, and dispensing of food that have been cut or shredded to the degree that all particles will be carried freely under flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer in which all owners of abutting property have equal rights and which is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm and surface waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE. Any combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business and commercial buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with any ground, surface, and storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
SEWER. Any pipe, tile, tube, or conduit for carrying sewage.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN. A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage but which excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. The solids that either float on the surface of or are suspended in water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
SWRC. The State Water Resources Commission.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(1993 Code, § 52.01)