For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates, or requires, a different meaning.
BOARD. The Town Council acting as the Municipal Works Board.
BOD (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND). Shall have the same meaning as defined in the Use Ordinance.
DEBT SERVICE COSTS. The average annual principal and interest payments on all outstanding revenue bonds or other long-term capital debt.
EXCESSIVE STRENGTH SURCHARGE. An additional charge which is billed to users for treating sewer wastes with an average strength in excess of normal domestic sewage.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. Any solid, liquid, or gaseous substance or form of energy discharged, permitted to flow into, or enter, the sewage system or ground form an industrial, manufacturing, commercial, or business process, or from the development, recovery, or processing of any natural resource carried on by any person, and shall further mean any waste form an industrial user, but not including sanitary sewage or stormwater.
MAY. Permissive.
NORMAL DOMESTIC SEWAGE. Discharged by residential users with a BOD concentration not in excess of 200 milligrams per liter, a suspended solids concentration not in excess of 200 milligrams per liter.
NPDES. The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System setting forth conditions for the discharge of any pollutants or combination of pollutants.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS. All costs, direct and indirect, necessary to provide adequate wastewater collection, transport, and treatment on a continuing basis, and produce discharges to receiving waters that conform with all related federal, state, and local requirements.
OTHER SERVICE CHARGES. Tap charges, connection charges, area charges, and other identifiable charges other than user charges, debt service charges, and excessive strength surcharges.
PERSON. Any natural person or public or private corporation, or any other entity whatever.
REPLACEMENT COSTS. The expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, and/or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the sewage works equipment to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
SEWAGE. Shall have the same meaning as defined in the Sewer Use Ordinance.
SHALL. Mandatory.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS (S.S.). Shall have the same meaning as defined in the Use Ordinance.
TOWN. The Town of Vevay, Indiana.
USER CHARGE. A charge levied on users of the wastewater treatment works for the cost of operation and maintenance of such works pursuant to I.C. 8-1-2-89.
USER CLASSES. The division of sewage treatment customers by source, function, water characteristics, and process or discharge similarities.
(1) COMMERCIAL USER. Transient lodging, retail, and wholesale establishments or places engaged in providing merchandise for personal, household, or industrial consumption, and/or rendering service to others.
(2) GOVERNMENTAL USER. A user engaged in legislative, judicial, or administrative activities of federal, state, and local governments such as courthouses, police and fire stations, town halls, and similar governmental users.
(3) INDUSTRIAL USER. Any user who discharges industrial waste as defined hereafter.
(4) INSTITUTIONAL USER. A publicly or privately-owned school, hospital, nursing home, prison, or other similar institution whose wastes are segregated domestic wastes.
(5) MULTIPLE USERS. A user who introduces only normal domestic sewage from multiple-family dwellings, such as duplexes, apartment houses, or condominiums into the sewage system, and where the quantity of water is measured by a single meter.
(6) RESIDENTIAL USER. A user who introduces only normal, domestic sewage from a single-family dwelling into the sewage system, and where the quantity of water usage is measured by a single meter, or whose water usage is not metered in such a manner that adequate measurement is not available to the sewer utility.
(Prior Code, § XI.5)