937.01 DEFINITIONS.

   Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:

   (a)    "Municipal waste works" means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of municipal wastes.

   (b)    "Superintendent" means the Superintendent of Service of the Municipality or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.

   (c)    "Municipal wastes" 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.

   (d)    "Sanitary sewage" means domestic wastes contributed by reason of human occupancy.

   (e)    "Industrial wastes" means the liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.

   (f)   "Sewer" means a pipe or conduit for carrying municipal wastes.

   (g)    "Public sewer" means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal right, and which is controlled by public authority.

   (h)    "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which carries municipal wastes and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.

   (i)    "Storm sewer" or "storm drain" means a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes municipal wastes.

   (j)    "Municipal wastes treatment plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating municipal wastes.

   (k)    "Garbage" means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.

   (l)    "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 of conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.

   (m)    "Building drain" means 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 conveys it to the building sewer beginning three feet outside the building wall.

   (n)    "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.

   (o)    "BOD" (denoting biochemical oxygen demand) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees C. expressed in parts per million by weight.

   (p)    "pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.

   (q)    "Suspended solids" means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, municipal wastes or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.

   (r)    "Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.

   (s)    "Watercourse" means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, whether continuously or intermittently.

   (t)    "Persons" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group,

   (u)    "Shall" is mandatory, "may" is permissive.

   (v)    "Municipality" or "City" means the Municipality of Upper Sandusky, Wyandot County, Ohio.

   (w)    "Engineer" means the Municipal Engineer, unless specific designation is made to a consulting engineer or engineering firm.

   (x)    "Director" means the Director of Public Service of the Municipality or the Superintendent of Service or the Service Committee.

   (y)    "Normal strength sewage or wastes" as defined for the purpose of determining surcharge means sewage having an average daily suspended solids concentration of not more than 300 mg/l, an average daily BOD concentration of not more than 300 mg/l, or containing any of the characteristics prohibited in Section 937.05(c).

   (z)    "Compatible pollutant" includes biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the City's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit, providing the City's wastewater treatment plant is designed to treat such pollutants, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree.

   (aa)    "Incompatible pollutant" means any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined in subsection (z) hereof.

   (bb)    "NPDES permit" means the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit issued to the City.

   (cc)    “Major contributing industry” means any industrial user identified in the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Manual in any of the Divisions A, B, D, E, and I which uses the City's wastewater treatment system and that:

      (1)    Has a discharge flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day (if seasonal, the average shall be computed on the period of use); or

      (2)    Has a flow or pollutant loading greater than five percent of the design capacity of the wastewater treatment plant; or

      (3)    Has in its wastes toxic pollutants in toxic amounts as defined in the standards issued under Section 307(a) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, or as defined in Section 937.05(c); or

      (4)    Is found by the Superintendent to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment plant or upon the quality of effluent from the treatment plant.
(Ord. 188-6. Passed 1-3-77.)