Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(1) “Biochemical oxygen demand” (BOD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20 degrees C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
(2) “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 the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(3) “Building sewer” means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal; also called house connection.
(4) “Categorical pretreatment standards” means national pretreatment standards specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged or introduced into the Village treatment system by specific industrial dischargers.
(5) “Chemical oxygen demand” (COD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(6) “Combined sewer” means a sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
(7) “Compatible pollutant” means BOD, suspended solid, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit, if the publicly owned treatment works was designed to treat such pollutants, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree. Examples of such additional pollutants may include:
A. COD;
B. Total organic carbon;
C. Phosphorus and phosphorus compounds;
D. Nitrogen and nitrogen compounds;
E. Fats, oils and greases of animal or vegetable origin, except as prohibited under Section 925.05.
(8) “Discharger-industrial discharger” means any nonresidential user who discharges an effluent into the Village treatment system by means of pipes, conduits, pumping stations, force mains, constructed drainage ditches, surface water intercepting ditches, intercepting ditches, and all constructed devices and appliances appurtenant thereto.
(9) “Federal Act” or “Act” means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, Public Law 92-500, and the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), and any amendments thereto; as well as any guidelines, limitations and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
(10) “Floatable oil” means oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
(11) “Garbage” means the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of food.
(12) “Incompatible pollutant” means any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined in subsection (7) hereof.
(13) “Indirect discharge” means the discharge or the introduction of non-domestic pollutants from a source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act, into the Village treatment system.
(14) “Industrial wastes” means solid, liquid or gaseous waste resulting from any industrial, manufacturing, trade or business process or from the development, recovery or processing of natural resources.
(15) “Industry” means manufacturing activity identified as a “Class D” industry, as defined in the Office of Management and Budget’s Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, as amended and supplemented.
(16) “Interference” means the inhibition or disruption of the Village sewer system, treatment processes or operations which may contribute to a violation of any requirement of its NPDES permit.
(17) “Intercepting sewer” means a sewer intended to receive flows from both combined sewers and sanitary sewers.
(18) “Major contributing industry” means an industrial user of the publicly owned treatments works that:
A. Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day;
B. Has a flow greater than five percent of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste;
C. Has in its waste, a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under Section 307(a) of the Federal Act; or
D. Is found by the permit issuance authority in connection with the issuance of an NPDES permit to the public owned wastewater treatment works receiving the waste, to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on that wastewater treatment works or upon the quality of the effluent from that works.
(19) “May” is permissive; “shall” is mandatory.
(20) “Natural outlet” means any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
(21) “NPDES” or “NPDES permit” means the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program as administered by the U.S. EPA or State of Ohio.
(22) “Other wastes” means decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, lime, refuse, ashes, garbage, offal, oil, tar, chemicals and all other substances except sewage and industrial wastes.
(23) “O & M” means operation and maintenance.
(24) “Owner” or “person” means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(25) “pH” means the reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of 7 and a hydrogen ion concentration of 10-7.
(26) “Pollutant” means any substance discharged into the Village treatment system or its collection system, listed in Appendices A and B hereto, or any substance which upon exposure to or assimilation into any organism will cause adverse effects such as cancer, genetic mutations or physiological manifestations as defined in standards issued pursuant to Section 307(a) of the Act.
(27) “Pretreatment” means the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the Village treatment system.
(28) “Properly shredded garbage” means 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 ½ inch in any dimension.
(29) “Public sewer” means a sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public utility.
(30) “Sewage” or “sanitary sewage” means water carried human wastes or a combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface, storm or other waters as may be present.
(31) “Sanitary sewer” means a sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with minor quantities of ground, storm and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
(32) “Superintendent” means the Municipal Administrator of the Village, or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
(33) “Sewer” means any pipe, conduit, ditch or other device used to collect and transport sewage or storm water from the generating source.
(34) “Slugload” or “slug” means any discharge which exceeds for a period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour flows during normal operation or more than five (5) times the twenty- four (24) hour allowable concentration of any substance listed in Appendices A and B hereto, or which causes interference to the Village wastewater plant.
(35) “Storm sewer” (or storm drain) means a sewer or drain for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source.
(36) “Suspended solids” means total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater” and referred to as nonfilterable residue.
(38) “Unpolluted water” means water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the wastewater treatment works.
(39) “Upset” means an exceptional incident in which a discharger unintentionally and temporarily is in a state of noncompliance with the standards set forth in Appendices A and B hereto 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 preventative maintenance or careless or improper operation thereof.
(40) “Village” or “authority” means the Village of Whitehouse, Ohio.
(41) “Wastewater” means industrial waste, or sewage or any other waste including that which may be combined with any ground water, surface water or storm water, that may be discharged to the Village treatment system.
(42) “Wastewater treatment plant” means that portion of the wastewater treatment works of the Village required to treat wastewater and dispose of the effluent.
(43) “Wastewater treatment works” or “works” (or wastewater treatment facilities) means the structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry away and treat wastewater and dispose of the effluent of the Village. Wastewater treatment works shall include sanitary sewers, combined sewers and intercepting sewers, but shall not include storm sewers.
(44) “Watercourse” means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 9-89. Passed 6-20-89.)