As used in this chapter, unless the context specifically indicates otherwise:
(1) "BOD" (biochemical oxygen demand) means the measure of the oxygen equivalent of that portion of the organic matter in a sample that is susceptible to biological oxidation, in accordance with procedures set forth in "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater".
(2) "Charges" means the following:
A. "Debt service charge" means the amount to be paid each billing period for interest, principal and outstanding indebtedness.
B. "Surcharge" means the assessment, in addition to the basic user charge and debt service charge, which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration values established in Section 1044.09.
C. "User charge" means a charge levied on users of the treatment works for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement.
D. "Wastewater service charge" means the charge per quarter or month levied on all users of the wastewater facilities. Such charge shall be computed as outlined in Section 1044.09.
(3) "COD" (chemical oxygen demand) means the measure of the oxygen equivalent of that portion of the organic matter in a sample that is susceptible to chemical oxidation, in accordance with procedures set forth in "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater".
(4) "Garbage" means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce, excluding paper products.
(5) “Industrial cost recovery system” means a schedule of charges against an industrial user of the sewerage system, sufficient to repay that user's allocated portion of the Federal construction grant, in accordance with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended.
(6) "Industrial wastes" means the liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, as distinct from sanitary sewage or waste from commercial or institutional sources.
(7) "Inspector" means the person employed by or representing the Municipality whose duties include the issuance of appropriate permits and the performance of inspections under this chapter.
(8) "Natural outlet" means any outlet, including the outlet of storm sewers, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water which does not require an N.P.D.E.S. discharge permit.
(9) "Normal domestic sewage" means the spent water of a community, which may be a combination of liquid and water-carried wastes from residences and from the sanitary conveniences of commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with any ground water, surface water or storm water that may be present.
(10) "N.P.D.E.S. permit" means any permit or equivalent document or requirement issued to regulate the discharge of pollutants pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended.
(11) "Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(12) "pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration in moles per liter.
(13) "Pollutant" means the following:
A. "Compatible pollutant" means COD, BOD, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants if the publicly owned treatment works were designed to treat such pollutants, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree. Examples of such additional pollutants may include total organic carbon, phosphorus and phosphorus compounds, nitrogen and nitrogen compounds, fats, oils and greases of animal or vegetable origin (except as otherwise prohibited) and phenols in regulated amounts.
B. “Incompatible pollutant" means any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant.
(14) "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 one-half inch (1.27 cm.) in any dimension.
(15) "Replacement" means the expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. (Ord. 923. Passed 12-18-80.)
(16) "Service fee" and "tap-in fee" mean the fee charged for having a sanitary sewerage system available for users wishing to build in the Municipality. Such fee is determined by the cost of the sewage treatment facilities, lift stations, mains, etc. (Ord. 795. Passed 3-15-79.)
(17) "Sewage" means a combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
(18) "Sewage treatment plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
(19) "Sewage works" means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
(20) "Sewer types" and "sewer appurtenances" mean the following:
A. "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 or other approved point of discharge, beginning five feet (1.5m.) outside the interface of the building wall.
B. "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
C. "Combined sewer" means a sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater and storm, surface and ground water drainage.
D. "Public sewer" means a sewer provided by, or subject to, the jurisdiction of the Municipality or other public agency and includes a sewer within or outside the Municipal boundaries that services one or more persons and ultimately discharges into the sanitary sewerage system, even though such sewer may not have been constructed with Municipal funds.
E. "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes, or a combination of both, and into which storm, surface and ground waters or unpolluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
F. "Sewer" means a pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other liquid waste, including storm, surface and ground water drainage.
G. "Storm sewer" means a sewer that carries storm, surface and ground water drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
(21) "Sewerage Fund" means the principal accounting designation for all revenues received in the operation of the sewerage system.
(22) "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
(23) "Slug" means any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen minutes, more than three times the average twenty-four hour concentration or flow during normal operation.
(24) "Storm water run-off" means that portion of the precipitation that is drained into the sewers.
(25) "Suspended solids" means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, sewage or other liquid, and which are removable by laboratory filtering, in accordance with "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater. " (Ord. 923. Passed 12-18-80.)
(26) "Tap" and "tap-in" mean a physical connection made into the Municipally owned sanitary sewerage system. (Ord. 795. Passed 3-15-79.)
(27) "Useful life" means the estimated period during which the collection system and/or treatment works will be operated.
(28) "User" means a person using the services of the sewage works in one of the following categories:
A. "Residential user" means a user whose premises is used primarily as a domicile for one or more persons and whose wastes originate from normal living activities.
B. "Commercial user" means a user engaged in the purchase or sale of goods, the transaction of business or otherwise rendering a service.
C. “Institutional user" means a user involved primarily in social, charitable, religious, educational or other special purpose activity.
D. "Industrial user" means a nongovernmental user of the publicly owned treatment works identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under the following divisions:
1. Division A - Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing;
2. Division B - Mining;
3. Division D - Manufacturing;
4. Division E - Transportation, Communications, Electrical, Gas and Sanitary Services; and
5. Division F - Services.
"Major contributing industry" means an industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that has a flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average work day, or that has a flow or wastewater characteristic that is greater than ten percent of the Municipal system receiving the waste, or that has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under Section 307(a) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, or that is found by the permit issuance authority, in connection with the issuance of the N.P.D.E.S. permit to the publicly owned treatment works receiving the waste, to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on that treatment works or upon the quality of effluent from that treatment works.
E. "Governmental user" means a municipality or governmental subdivision or agency existing under Federal or State statute.
(29) "Watercourse" means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 923. Passed 12-18-80.)
(Ord. 923. Passed 12-18-80.)