For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
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 a building and conveys it to the building sewer beginning three feet outside the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
COMMERCIAL. Retail or wholesale business establishments that discharge wastewater, as defined in the definition for wastewater below, into the public wastewater treatment system, works and facility.
FOUNDATION DRAINS. Subsurface drains laid around the foundation of a building, either within or outside the building foundation for the purpose of carrying ground or subsurface water to some point of disposal.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the commercial handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL. Includes users discharging waste resulting from manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substance into other products. These activities occur in establishments usually described as plants, factories or mills and characteristically use power-driven machines and material handling equipment.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE. Any solid, liquid or gaseous waste discharge resulting from manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substance into other products.
INSTITUTIONAL/GOVERNMENTAL. Hospitals, nursing homes, schools, city, county, state or federal buildings or facilities that discharge wastewater into the public wastewater treatment system, works and facility.
MAY. Is permissive.
NATURAL OUTLET. Outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
NONSANITARY FLOW. Storm water originating from downspouts, storm and groundwater drains and foundation drains.
NPDES (NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM) PERMIT. The same as such is defined in the Code of Federal Regulations, 40 C.F.R. part 125, and in § 402 of the Clean Water Act, being 33 U.S.C. § 1342.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
PUBLIC SEWER. Any sewer owned by the village, including storm, sanitary or combined sewers.
RESIDENTIAL. A principal family residence or habitation classified as a single-family, multi- family or apartment dwelling that discharges domestic sanitary wastewater having characteristics of 250 milligrams per liter biochemical oxygen demand and 200 milligrams per liter suspended solids into the public wastewater treatment system, works and facility.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sanitary and industrial wastes, and to which storm, surface and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE. The combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions (including polluted cooling water).
SEWAGE SYSTEM. The structures, equipment and process required to collect, transport and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent and accumulated residual solids and shall be synonymous with WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM.
STORM SEWER. A pipe or conduit designed for the purpose of carrying storm, surface, cooling and drainage water from the point of origin to some point of disposal, but which is not intended to carry domestic or industrial sewage.
SHALL. Is mandatory.
SLUG. Any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24 hours concentration of flows during normal operation.
USER. Any person who discharges, causes or permits the discharge of wastewater into the wastewater treatment system.
VILLAGE. The Village of South Charleston, Ohio, acting through its duly authorized officials and employees.
WASTEWATER. The liquid and water-carried waste from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water or storm water that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is discharged or permitted to enter the wastewater treatment system.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM. The structures, equipment and process required to collect, transport and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent and accumulated residual solids and shall be synonymous with SEWAGE SYSTEM.
(Ord. 91-4, passed - -1991)