Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
BOD (Denoting BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND): The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees centigrade (20°C), expressed in milligrams per liter.
BOARD OF APPRAISERS: The board appointed according to provisions of section 7-3-12 of this chapter.
BUILDING DRAIN: 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 sewers, beginning five feet (5') outside the inner face of the building walls.
BUILDING SEWER: The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
COMBINED SEWER: A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
GARBAGE: Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE: The liquid wastes from any nongovernmental user of publicly owned treatment works, identified in the "Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972", office of management and budget, as amended and supplemented under the following divisions:
A. Division A: Agriculture, forestry and fishing;
B. Division B: Mining;
C. Division D: Manufacturing;
D. Division E: Transportation, communication, electric, gas and sanitary services; and
E. Division I: Services.
A user in the divisions listed may be excluded if it is determined that it will introduce primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences or if it discharges less than fifty thousand (50,000) gallons per day.
NATURAL OUTLET: Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
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.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE: The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has 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 (1/2) of an inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER: A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER: A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWER: A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWERAGE WORKS: All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of wastewater.
SHALL AND MAY: "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
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 fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty four (24) hour concentration of flows during normal operation.
STORM DRAIN (OR STORM SEWER): A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS: Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
WASTEWATER: 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.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT: Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
WATERCOURSE: A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (Ord. 928, 11-22-1982)