As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(1) “Building drain” means 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 a building and conveys it to the building sewer beginning three (3) feet outside the building wall.
(2) “Bypass” means the intentional diversion of wastestreams from any portion of the pretreatment treatment facility.
(3) “Combined sewer” means a sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
(4) “Commercial” means retail or wholesale business establishments that discharge wastewater, as defined in subsection (30) hereof, into the public wastewater treatment system, works, and facility.
(5) “Foundation drains” means subsurface drains laid around the foundation of a building, either within or outside the building foundation for the purpose of carrying ground or subsurface water to some point of disposal.
(6) “Garbage” means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food and from the commercial handling, storage, and sale of produce.
(7) “Industrial” includes users discharging waste resulting from manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into other products. These activities occur in establishments usually described as plants, factories, or mills and characteristically use power-driven machines and material handling equipment.
(8) “Industrial waste” means discharge resulting from manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into other products.
(9) “Industrial/governmental” means hospitals, laboratories, nursing homes, schools, prisons, city, county, state or federal buildings or facilities that discharge wastewater into the public wastewater treatment system, works, and facility.
(10) “Interference” means a discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, both:
A. Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use, or disposal; and
B. Therefore is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW’s NPDES Permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal.
(11) “May” is permissive; “shall” is mandatory.
(12) “Natural outlet” means an outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or groundwater.
(13) “NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) Permit” means the same as such is defined in the Code of Federal Regulations, 40 CFR Part 125, and in Public Law 92-500, Section 402.
(14) “Nonsanitary flow” means storm water originating from downspouts, storm and groundwater drains, and foundation drains.
(15) “Pass-through” means a discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW’s NPDES Permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
(16) “Person” means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
(17) “Public sewer” means any sewer owned by the Village, including storm, sanitary, or combined sewers.
(18) “Publicly Owned Treatment Works” or “POTW” means treatment works which are owned by the Village, including the sewers, pumping stations, treatment facility, and any related appurtenances.
(19) “Residential” means a principal family residence or habitation classified as a single family, multifamily, or apartment dwelling that discharges domestic sanitary wastewater having characteristics of 250 milligrams per liter biochemical oxygen demand and 200 milligrams per liter suspended solids into the public wastewater treatment system, works, and facility.
(20) “Sanitary sewer” means a sewer which carries sanitary and industrial wastes, and to which storm, surface, and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
(21) “Sewage” means the combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions (including polluted cooling water).
(22) “Sewage system” means the structures, equipment, and process required to collect, transport, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent and accumulated residual solids and shall be synonymous with “wastewater treatment system.” (Ord. 99051. Passed 8-16-99.)
(23) “Sewer lateral” means an extension of the sewer line from the main sewer line, also known of the public sewer to the user’s building, dwelling house or other structure. (Ord. 99064. Passed 11-1-99.)
(24) “Significant Industrial User” or “SIU” includes the following:
A. All Industrial Users subject to categorical pretreatment standards; and
B. Any other Industrial User that discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of process wastewater to the POTW; contributes a process wastestream which makes up 5 percent or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW treatment plant; or has a reasonable potential, in the opinion of the Service Director, to adversely affect the POTW’s operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
(25) “Stormwater” means stormwater runoff, snow melt runoff, and surface runoff and drainage.
(26) “Storm sewer” means a pipe or conduit designed for the purpose of carrying storm, surface, cooling, and drainage water from the point of origin to some point of disposal, but which is not intended to carry domestic or industrial sewage.
(27) “Slug” means any discharge of water or wastewater 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 hours concentration of flows during normal operation.
(28) “Upset” means an exceptional incident in which a User unintentionally and temporarily is in a state of noncompliance with pretreatment standards due to factors beyond the reasonable control of the Discharger, and excluding noncompliance to the extent caused by operational error, improperly designed treatment facilities, inadequate treatment facilities, lack of preventive maintenance, or careless or improper operation thereof.
(29) “User” means any person who discharges, causes, or permits the discharge of wastewater in the wastewater treatment system.
(30) “Village” means Village of West Jefferson, Ohio, acting through its duly authorized officials and employees.
(31) “Wastewater” means the liquid and water-carried waste from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, or storm water that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is discharged or permitted to enter the wastewater treatment system.
(32) “Wastewater Treatment System” means the structures, equipment, and process required to collect, transport, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent and accumulated residual solids and shall be synonymous with “sewage system.” (Ord. 99051. Passed 8-16-99.)