For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD). Shall mean 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 (mg/l).
BUILDING DRAIN. The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge of sanitary waste inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER. The pipeline from the building drain to the point of connection with the public sewer. Also referred to as SEWER LATERAL.
CFR. Code of Federal Regulations.
CITY. The City of Wallace, Idaho, or its authorized or designated agent, representative, or deputy thereto.
CLEAR WATER. Any water not being sanitary sewage. Examples include, but are not limited to, stormwater, groundwater, or surface water.
COMMERCIAL. Any nondomestic user operating a business for profit within the city limits who is not an industrial user as defined herein.
FLOW. The volume of sewage being discharged into the sewage system from all sources, including domestic, commercial, and industrial uses and infiltration.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL USERS. Any nondomestic/noncommercial user with an indirect discharge of effluent industrial waste into a POTW by means of pipes, conduits, pumping stations, force mains, constructed drainage ditches, surface water intercepting ditches, and all constructed devices and appliances appurtenant thereto. This term includes federal, state, and local facilities as part of the regulated community, since such entities are subject to federal pretreatment regulations.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
MULTIPLE-BUILDING DEVELOPMENT. Includes the various types of developments that would have common or joint ownership areas, such as condominiums, townhouses, mobile home parks or courts, shopping centers, and the like.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water.
OWNER. A person owning real property which is, or proposes to be, connected to the sewage system.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
PH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution, with a pH value of 7 being neutral.
PRETREATMENT. The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to, or in lieu of, introducing such pollutants into the POTW. This reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical, or biological processes; by process changes; or by other means, except by diluting the concentration of the pollutants, unless allowed by an applicable pretreatment standard.
PROPERLY-SHREDDED GARBAGE. 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 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 which is controlled by public authority.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW). Any device and system used in the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of municipal sanitary sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature to implement § 201 of the Clean Water Act.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sanitary sewage and to which storm, surface, and ground waters are not admitted.
SERVICE CONNECTION. The point at which the building sewer connects to the publicly owned main sewer line.
SEWAGE OR WASTE MATTER. A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWER LATERAL. The pipeline from the building drain to the point of connection with the publicly owned main sewer line. Also referred to as BUILDING SEWER.
SEWER LATERAL REPLACEMENT PROGRAM (LRP). A program providing for the inspection, repair, and replacement of private sewer laterals for deficiencies in an effort to decrease the volume of inflow and infiltration (I&I) entering the sewer system.
SEWER USER. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, or corporation or group who has connected to the sewer system.
SFSD. South Fork Coeur d’Alene River Sewer District, commonly referred to as the SOUTH FORK SEWER DISTRICT.
SLUG. Any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste 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.
STORM DRAIN or STORM SEWER. A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but which excludes sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted water such as cooling water.
SUPERINTENDENT. The person designated by the city to supervise the operation of the wastewater system who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities by this subchapter, or a duly- authorized representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS). Solids, organic or inorganic, that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and referred to as nonfilterable residue.
WASTEWATER SYSTEM. All city facilities for the collecting and pumping of sewage.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (Prior Code, § 10-2-1) (Ord. 2018-05, passed 12-12-2018)