(A) “PERSON” means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(B) “INSPECTOR” means that person or persons appointed by the City Manager as City Sanitarian to enforce the requirements of this chapter and Chapter 10.12. This official may be a qualified employee of the city, a contract official, or an employee of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation under an interagency agreement with that Department.
(C) “CESSPOOL” means a subsurface pit which receives untreated sewage.
(D) “DOMESTIC WASTEWATER” means waterborne sewage or graywater derived mainly from dwellings, commercial buildings, institutions or similar structures.
(E) “DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM” means a plant, device, structure, or other works, including but not limited to septic tanks, and package plants, designed to treat, neutralize, or stabilize domestic wastewater or sludge.
(F) “DRAIN” means that lowest line in or beneath a building receiving sewage, which carries the sewage to the service line; however, a line serving separate buildings or structures, even though it runs beneath a building is considered to be a service line.
(G) “DRYWELL” means a covered subsurface pit used for subsurface disposal of treated domestic wastewater.
(H) “GRAYWATER” means domestic wastewater from laundry, kitchen, sink, shower, bath, or other source which does not contain excrement, urine or combined stormwater.
(I) “OTHER WASTES” means garbage, refuse, spoils, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, wood trimmings, sand, silt, lime, cinder, ash, offal, oil, grease, tar, dyestuffs, acids, chemicals, and other substances not sewage or industrial waste but which may pollute water.
(J) “PACKAGE PLANT” means a transportable modular treatment system for domestic wastewater, but does not include septic or holding tanks.
(K) “PRIVY” means a structure which receives urine and excrement which is not waterborne.
(L) “SEPTAGE” means sludge from a septic tank or partially digested sludge from an Imhoff tank, sludge digestion tank, or facultative lagoon.
(M) “SEPTIC TANK” means a watertight, covered receptacle designed and built to receive domestic wastewater, separated floating and settling solids from the liquid, anaerobically digested organic matter, store digested solids through a period of detention and allow clarified liquids to discharge for final disposal.
(N) “SLUDGE” means accumulated solids separated from sewage, industrial liquid waste, oil, tar, dyestuffs, acids, chemicals, and other similar substances.
(O) “SOIL ABSORPTION SYSTEM” means a surface or subsurface system that uses soil for the treatment and disposal of effluent from domestic wastewater treatment works; “soil absorption system” includes an infiltration lagoon, filtering field, leaching field, seepage bed, or seepage pit, but does not include a cesspool.
(P) “SPOILS” means all organic overburden, strippings, stumps, grass, weeds, foliage, underbrush, and roots from land clearing operations.
(Q) “WATER SYSTEM” means the public drinking water supply system of the City of Unalaska.
(R) “WASTEWATER” means domestic and nondomestic wastewater.