Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
BOD (Denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand): The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees Celsius (20°C), expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING SEWER: The extension from the sanitary building drains to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
COMBINED SEWER: A sewer receiving both storm runoff and sewage.
GARBAGE: Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES: The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INSPECTOR: The person or person duly authorized by the village board to inspect and approve the installation of building sewers and their connection to the public sewer system. Unless otherwise directed by the board of trustees, the inspector on residential projects shall be the superintendent and on commercial, industrial projects, shall be the village engineer.
MAY: Is permissive.
NATURAL OUTLET: Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
PERSON: Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
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 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 (1/2") in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER: A sewer which is on public property and is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY BUILDING DRAIN: That part of the lowest horizontal piping of the sanitary drainage system inside the walls of any building, which receives the discharge from soil or waste stacks and conveys the same to a point three feet (3') outside the building walls where it connects with its respective building sewer.
SANITARY SEWER: A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE: The water carried wastes from residences, businesses, buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT: Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS: All of the facilities for collection, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage within the St. Joseph sanitary system.
SEWER: A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SHALL: Is mandatory.
SLUG: 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 (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty four (24) hour concentration of flows during normal operation.
STORM SEWER: A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
SUPERINTENDENT: The superintendent of the municipal sewage works of the village of St. Joseph.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS: Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
WATERCOURSE: A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (Ord. 2006-9, 8-8-2006)