For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ADMINISTRATOR. The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, or any person authorized to act for him or her.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20°C expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN. That 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 the building and convey it to the building sewer, beginning three feet outside the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension for the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer receiving both surface runoff and municipal wastes.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. BOD, suspended solids, pH fecal coliform bacteria and additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit if the publicly owned treatment works was designed to treat such pollutants and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree. Examples of such additional pollutants may include: COD; total organic carbon; phosphorus and phosphorus compounds; nitrogen and nitrogen compounds; fats, oils and greases of animal or vegetable origin except as prohibited under § 51.029.
DOMESTIC WASTES. The liquid material from sanitary conveniences collected from residences, business buildings, institutions and industries. DOMESTIC WASTES do not include trade or process wastes.
ENGINEER. The Engineer of the village or his or her authorized representative.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY. The Federal (or United States) Environmental Protection Agency, or any person authorized to act for the agency.
FEDERAL ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, Pub. L. No. 92-500, being 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq., and any amendments thereto; as well as any guidelines, limitations and standards promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
FLOATABLE OIL. Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined above.
INDUSTRIAL COST RECOVERY (ICR). Recovery by the village from the industrial users of the treatment works of the grant amount that would be allocated to the treatment of wastes from such users.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The wastewater from industrial trade, or business processes as distinct from domestic wastes.
INDUSTRY. A manufacturing activity identified as a “Division A, B, D, E or I” industry, as defined in the Office of Management and Budget’s Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1997, as amended and supplemented.
INTERCEPTING SEWER. A sewer intended to receive flows from both combined sewers and sanitary sewers.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY. An industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that meets any one or more of the following criteria:
(1) Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day;
(2) Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste;
(3) Has in its waste, a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under § 307(a) of the Federal Act, being 33 U.S.C. § 1317(a); or
(4) Is found by the permit issuance authority in connection with the issuance of an NPDES 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 the treatment works.
MAINTENANCE. Upkeep and repair costs required to maintain the wastewater treatment works structures and equipment in efficient operating conditions during the service life of such works.
MAY. Is permissive.
MUNICIPAL WASTES. A combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
MUNICIPAL WASTES TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating municipal wastes.
MUNICIPAL WASTES WORKS. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of municipal wastes.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body or surface or ground water.
NPDES PERMIT. The national pollutant discharge elimination system permit.
OPERATION. Any physical and mechanical actions, processes or functions required to efficiently operate the wastewater treatment works as defined herein.
PERSON. An individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
pH. The reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of 7 and a hydrogen ion concentration of 10 -7.
POLLUTANT. Dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water.
PRETREATMENT. The treatment of wastewater from sources before introduction into publicly owned wastewater treatment facilities.
PRIVATE SEWER. Any extension of the wastewater facilities which is not a public sewer.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The water from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such 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 in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
REPLACEMENT. Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances necessary to retain design capacity and performance of the wastewater treatment works throughout the village’s jurisdiction.
SANITARY SEWAGE. Domestic wastes contributed by reason of human occupancy.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industries and institutions, together with minor quantities of ground, storm and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
SANITARY SEWER CHARGES. The aggregate of rate increments established by three separate revenue systems, i.e., user charges, industrial cost recovery (ICR) and debt service charges.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying municipal wastes.
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-hour concentration or flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
STORM DRAIN or STORM SEWER. A drain or sewer for conveying water, ground water, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source, but excludes domestic wastes.
SUPERINTENDENT. The Superintendent of Municipal Wastes Works of the village, or his or her authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater or other liquids and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, and referred to as nonfilterable residue.
TOXIC POLLUTANTS. Means, but is not necessarily limited to, aldrin-dieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and toxaphene. Pollutants included as TOXIC shall be those promulgated as such by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
UNPOLLUTED WATER. Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria delineated in the NPDES permit or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
USER CHARGE. A charge levied on users of the wastewater works for the cost of operation and maintenance of such works.
VILLAGE. The Village of Swanton, Fulton County, Ohio.
WASTEWATER. The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with any ground water, surface water and storm water that may be present.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES. The structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS, WASTE TREATMENT PLANT, WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT or WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT. An arrangement of devices and structure for treating wastewater, industrial wastes and sludge. WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS shall include sanitary sewers, combined sewers and intercepting sewers, but shall not include storm sewers.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 78-4, passed 2-13-1978; Ord. 92-20, passed 9-28-1992)