As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them herein unless the text clearly indicates otherwise.
(1) "BOD" or "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 centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(2) "Capital improvements" means the expenditures from current revenues for the expansion or improvement of the treatment works.
(3) "COD" or "chemical oxygen demand" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter expressed in milligrams per liter.
(4) "Debt service" means the portion of the sewer service charge designated for the retirement of and interest on bonds and/or notes.
(5) "Grease and oil" means a group of substances with similar physical characteristics determined quantitatively on the basis of their common solubility in freon or other method of measurement as set forth in the latest edition of "Standard Methods". Grease and oil may be said to include hydrocarbons, fatty acids, soaps, fats, waxes, oils and other material that is extracted by the solvent from an acidified sample and that is not volatilized during the manipulations of the test.
(6) "Grease trap" means a device used to separate, collect, retain and allow removal of nonacceptable (see Section 925.08
(c)) concentrations of grease and oil from the sewage discharged by a user to the treatment works.
(7) "Industrial wastes" means the liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business as distinct from sanitary wastewater.
(8) "Metering" means mechanical or other means and/or devices for measuring and recording the volumetric quantity of flow through sewers.
(9) "Monitoring" means mechanical or other means to determine the chemical, physical and bacteriological constituents of wastewater in a sewer.
(10) "Normal strength wastes" means waterborne wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments contributed by reason of human occupancy and which is discharged from sanitary plumbing facilities and when analyzed shows by weight a daily average of not more than 230 milligrams per liter of suspended solids nor more than 200 milligrams per liter of BOD, nor more than 25 milligrams per liter TKN.
(11) "NPDES permit" means any permit or equivalent document or requirement issued by the Ohio EPA to regulate the discharge of pollutants pursuant to the "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System"(NPDES) as established by the U.S. EPA.
(12) "Operation and maintenance" means the costs incurred in the act of keeping all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage in a good state of repair and functioning properly, including "replacement" as defined in this section.
(13) "Ohio EPA" means the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, a State regulatory agency.
(14) "Pretreatment" means treatment of wastewater at the source before introduction into the treatment works. See Section 925.08
.
(15) "Replacement" means the expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works are designed and constructed.
(16) "Sanitary waste" means the combination of liquid and water-carried wastes discharged from toilet and other sanitary plumbing facilities.
(17) "Sewage" means the waste from water closets, urinals, lavatories, sinks, bathtubs, showers, household laundries, cellar floor drains, garage floor drains, bars, soda fountains, cuspidors, refrigerator drips, drinking fountains, stable floor drains, air conditioners, inflow, infiltration and the liquid waste resulting from any commercial, manufacturing or industrial operations or processes.
(18) "Sewer service charge" means the total charge assessed users of the sewerage system. The sewer service charge includes user charges plus the cost of debt service, the cost of capital improvements, the cost of wastewater monitoring, and any other cost that is incurred by the City in the operation of the sewerage system.
(19) "Sewerage system" means the mains, collecting lines, pumping stations, sewage treatment facilities, and any and all other appurtenances common to such systems. Synonymous with “treatment works”.
(20) "SIC Manual" means the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented.
(21) "SS" or "suspended solids" means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, sewage or other liquids, expressed in milligrams per liter, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
(Ord. 9064/81. Passed 6-24-81.)
(22) "NH3-N" or ammonia nitrogen can be determined by the most recent "Standard Methods" procedures set forth and expressed in milligrams per liter.
(Ord. 10242/91. Passed 6-24-91.)
(23) "Treatment works" means the mains, collecting lines, pumping stations, sewage treatment facilities, and any and all other appurtenances common to such systems. Synonymous to "sewerage system".
(24) "User" means any person, individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, group or political entity who discharges sewage into the sewerage system of the City.
(25) “User charges” means the charge assessed users of the system to recover a user's proportionate share of the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement of the sewerage system.
(26) "User class" means the division of users of the sewerage system by waste characteristics, or by process water discharge similarities or by the SIC Manual.
For the purpose of user charges, the classes of users are defined as follows:
A. "Commercial user" means a special class of user who generally contributes primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
B. "Industrial user" means a special class of user who generally contributes waterborne trade or process wastes.
C. "Institutional/governmental user" means a special class of user who generally contributes primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
D. "Nonindustrial user" means any user of the treatment works who contributes primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conviences, and shall generally include users identified as commercial, institutional/governmental and residential.
E. "Residential user" means a special class of user who generally contributes primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(27) "U.S. EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency, a Federal regulatory agency.
(28) "Wastewater" means a combination of water-carried waste from residences, buildings, business buildings, institutions, and any other industrial establishment, together with such ground, surface or storm water as may be present.
(Ord. 9064/81. Passed 6-24-81.)