For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOARD OF HEALTH. The Board of Health having jurisdiction in the county.
BUILDING DRAIN. The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a house drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of any building and conveys the same to the building sewer beginning two feet outside the building.
BUILDING SEWER. The part of the horizontal piping from the end of the building drain to its connection with the main sewer or private sewage disposal system and conveying the drainage of but one building site.
COMMUNITY WATER SYSTEM SOURCE. The starting point of the distribution system of a public water system which serves at least 15 service connections used by year-round residents or regularly serves at least 25 year-round individuals.
DISTRIBUTION BOX. A structure designed to distribute the effluent from a septic tank equally into the various sections of pipe of an absorption system.
DWELLING. Any house or place used or intended to be used by human occupants as a place of residence.
FOUNDATION DRAIN. The portion of a building drainage system provided to drain ground water from the outside of the foundation or under basement floor, not including the sewage.
HEALTH OFFICER. The Health Officer having jurisdiction in the county, or his or her authorized representative.
LIMITING LAYER. Any layer of soil with a stabilized percolation rate exceeding 60 minutes for the water to fall one inch.
NON-COMMUNITY WATER SYSTEM SOURCE. The starting point of the distribution system of a public water system that is not a community water system.
PERCOLATION TEST. A procedure used to determine the ability of soils to absorb sewage effluents.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, co- partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, trust, estate or his or her legal representative or agent.
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM. Any sewage disposal system, including commercial sewage disposal systems, not constructed, installed, maintained, operated and owned by a municipality or taxing district established for that purpose.
PRIVATE WATER SYSTEM SOURCE. The starting point of the distribution system that is not a public water supply system.
PUBLIC SEWER. Any sewerage system constructed, installed, maintained, operated and owned by a municipality or taxing district established for the purpose of receiving, treating and disposing of sewage.
PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM.
(1) A system for the provision to the public of piped water for human consumption, if such system has at least 15 service connections or regularly serves an average of at least 25 individuals daily at least 60 days out of the year. Such term includes:
(a) Any collection, treatment, storage and distribution facilities under control of the operator of such system and used primarily in connection with such system; and
(b) Any collection or pre-treatment storage facilities not under such control which are used primarily in connection with such system.
(2) A PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM is either a “community water system” or a “non-community water system”.
RESIDENTIAL SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM.
(1) All equipment and devices necessary for proper conduction, collection, storage, treatment and on-site disposal of sewage from a one- or two-family dwelling; and
(2) Included within, but not limited to the scope of this definition, are building sewers, septic tanks, subsurface absorption fields and privy vaults.
SANITARY PRIVY. A fly-tight rodent-proof structure erected on or over a properly constructed vault of pit and shall conform to the standards as set forth in State Board of Health Bulletin No. S.E. 11.
SANITARY SEWERAGE SYSTEM. For the purpose of this chapter, a system of sewers which conveys sewage away from the lot on which it originates for treatment.
SEPTIC TANK. A water-tight structure into which sewage is discharged for settling and solids digestion.
SEWAGE. The water-carried waste derived from ordinary living processes.
SLUDGE. The digested or partially digested solid material accumulated in a sewage treatment facility.
SOIL PROFILE OBSERVATION. Observations of the physical characteristics of the soil horizons or layers to a depth of at least five feet.
SUBSURFACE ABSORPTION FIELD. Open-jointed or perforated pipes laid in a system of trenches into which the effluent from the distribution box is discharged for direct absorption into the soil.
(1982 Code, § 91.01) (Ord. passed 1-13-1967; Ord. passed 1-22-1979; Ord. passed 4-29-1985; Ord. passed 11-17-1986)