The following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms shall be as adopted in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association, and American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation and as set forth in 40 CFR 136. Waste constituents and characteristics shall be measured by Standard Methods or in any other method established by state or Federal regulatory agencies. Monitoring and metering will be carried out by customarily accepted methods.
BENEFICIAL USES. These include, but are not limited to, domestic, municipal agricultural and industrial use, power generation, recreation, aesthetic enjoyment, navigation, and the preservation and enhancement of fish, wildlife and other aquatic resources or reserves, and other uses, both tangible or intangible, as specified by state or Federal law.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD). As applied to sewage, sewage effluent, polluted waters or industrial wastes, is the quantity of dissolved oxygen in mg/1 required during stabilization of the decomposable organic matter by aerobic biochemical action under standard laboratory procedures for five days at 20° C. The laboratory determinations of BOD shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in standard methods, therein and conventionally referred to as BOD5.
BOARD. The City Board of Public Works and Safety. The governing body of the sewerage system of the city, which system is a public service.
BUILDING. Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls for the shelter, support, enclosure or protection of persons, animals, chattels or other property. When separated by a party wall, without opening through the wall, each portion of the building shall be considered a separate building.
BUILDING DRAIN. The lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage system which receives the discharge from soil pipes, waste pipes and other drainage pipes inside a building and conveys it to a point outside of the building.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (OR COD). As applied to sewage, sewage effluent, polluted waters or industrial wastes, is a measure of the oxygen equivalent of that portion of the organic matter in a sample that is susceptible to oxidation by a strong chemical oxidant. The laboratory determination shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in standard methods.
CITY. The City of Tell City, Indiana.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer which carries storm surface or ground water runoff in addition to sewage.
CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS (OF WASTEWATER). The chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological properties, including volume, flow rate and any other properties which serve to define, classify or measure the contents, quality, quantity and strength of wastewater.
EFFLUENT. The water, together with any wastes that may be present, flowing out of a drain, sewer, receptacle or outlet.
GARBAGE. Any solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, or dispensing of food or from the handling, storage or sale of produce.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANTS. Any pollutants which are not compatible pollutants.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or form of energy which is discharged, permitted to flow into or enter the sewerage system from an industrial, manufacturing, commercial or business process or from the development, recovery or processing of any natural resource carried on by any person, and INDUSTRIAL WASTES shall further mean any waste from an industrial user, but not including sanitary sewage or storm water.
INFILTRATION. The water entering die sewerage system directly or via private sewers, building drains and building sewers connected therewith from the ground, through means such as, but not limited to, defective pipe joints, connections or manhole walls.
INFLOW. Water other than wastewater entering the sewerage system from sources such as leaders, cellars, yard areas and foundation drains, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole areas, cross connections between storm and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, storm water, surface runoff and street wastewater or drainage.
INSPECTOR. A person authorized by the Board or the Superintendent to perform inspection duties assigned to him or her by the Board or Superintendent.
LATERAL SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the sewerage system or other place of disposal.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR. A user discharging or introducing into the sewerage system:
(1) A flow of more than 50,000 gallons per average workday;
(2) A toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in 307 P.L.92-500, as now adopted or as hereafter amended;
(3) A flow or pollutant concentration as now or hereafter defined or identified as a problem pollutant or flow by applicable state or Federal regulations or by the Board;
(4) An effluent of significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributors, on the wastewater treatment plant or the quality of its effluent; or
(5) Any substance unusual or unique in quality or quantity requiring special attention or processing in order to effect proper wastewater treatment.
MAY. The act referred to is both permissible and approved.
NORMAL DOMESTIC SEWAGE. Sewage as discharged by residential users with a BOD5 concentration not in excess of 275 mg/1 and a suspended solids concentration not in excess of 2.75 mg/1.
NPDES PERMIT. National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit now or hereafter held by the city and setting forth conditions for the discharge of any pollutants or combination of pollutants.
NUISANCE. Any substance which is injurious to health or offensive to the senses or an obstruction to the free use of property so as to interfere with the comfort or enjoyment of life or property.
PERSON. Any natural person, or public or private corporation, or any other entity whatever.
PH. The conventional scientific measure of the degree of acidity or alkalinity.
POLLUTION. An alteration of the quality of water by waste, contaminants or pollutants to a degree which renders the water unfit for beneficial users.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer owned by the city.
RECEIVING SEWER SYSTEM. The city sewer system.
SANITARY SEWAGE. Sewage such as, and having the characteristics of, domestic sewage from dwellings including apartment houses and hotels, office buildings, factories, or institutions free from storm and surface water and industrial wastes.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer intended to carry only sanitary or sanitary and industrial wastewaters from residences, commercial buildings, government buildings, industrial buildings and institutions.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit laid for carrying sewage or other liquids and solids suspended or entrained therein.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM. The network of publicly owned sewers and appurtenances used for collection, transporting, and pumping wastewater to the wastewater treatment plant, and the wastewater treatment plant itself.
SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
SHREDDED GARBAGE. Garbage that is shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely in suspension under the conditions normally prevailing in the sewerage system, with no particle being greater than 0.5 inch in dimension.
STORM SEWER. A sewer intended to carry only storm waters, surface runoff, street wash waters, and drainage.
SUPERINTENDENT. The Superintendent of the Sewer Department, subject to the control of the Board in all matters.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids which either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtration. Their concentration shall be expressed in mg/l. Quantitative determinations shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in standard methods.
USER. A person who introduces into or discharges into, including both the owner and occupant of real estate from which it is introduced or discharged into, the sewerage system any substances whatever.
(1) COMMERCIAL USER. Transit lodging, retail and wholesale establishments or places engaged in providing merchandise for personal, household or industrial consumption and/or rendering services to others.
(2) GOVERNMENTAL USER. A user engaged in legislative, judicial or administrative activities of Federal, state and local governments, such as court houses, police and fire stations, city halls and similar governmental users.
(3) INDUSTRIAL USER. A user engaged in the manufacturing, production or processing of goods, materials or other tangible products.
(4) INSTITUTIONAL USER. A publicly or privately owned school, hospital, nursing home, prison or other similar institution whose wastes are segregated domestic wastes.
(5) RESIDENTIAL USER. A user who introduces only normal domestic sewage from a single-family or multi-family dwelling into the sewerage system.
WASTE. Sanitary sewage and any and all other waste substances, including liquid, solid, gaseous or radio-active, associated with human habitation, or of human or animal origin, or from any producing, processing, manufacturing, or industrial operation of whatever nature, including waste placed within containers or whatever nature prior to, and for purposes of, disposal.
WASTEWATER. The water-carried waste from residences, commercial buildings, government buildings, institutions and industrial buildings, singular or in any combination, together with any ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement of devices and structures used by the city for treatment and disposing of sewage, sludge, and other sewage constituents and products.
(Ord. 599, passed 12-3-1984; Am. Ord. 1130, passed 11-30-2017)