937.02 DEFINITIONS.

   (a)   Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:

      (1)   "Administrator" means the "Village Administrator".

      (2)   "Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5)" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter during a five-day period at 20 degrees Celsius (O.C.) As determined by approved laboratory procedures in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater."

      (3)   "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system within a building which conveys the wastes from the soil, waste, and other drainage pipes in the building to a point approximately three feet outside the building.

      (4)   "Building sewer" or "house connection" means the sewer or conduit extending from the building drain to the pubic sewer or other place of disposal.

      (5)   "Combined sewer" means a sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.

      (6)   "Commercial" means retail or wholesale business establishments that discharge wastewater, as defined in subsection (a)(30) hereof, into the public wastewater treatment system, works, and facility.

      (7)   "Foundation drain" means a sub-surface drain laid around the foundation of a building, either within or outside of the building foundation, for the purpose of carrying ground, sub-surface of surface water to some point of disposal.

      (8)   "Garbage" means the wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food and from the commercial handling, storage and sale of produce.

      (9)   "Industrial" includes users discharging waste resulting from manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substance 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.

      (10)   "Industrial wastes" means wastes resulting from manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substance into other products. These activities occur in establishments usually described as plant, factories, or mills and characteristically use power-driven machines and material handling equipment.

      (11)   "Institutional/governmental" means hospitals, nursing homes, schools, city, county, state or federal buildings or facilities that discharge wastewater into the public wastewater treatment system, works and facility.

      (12)   "Natural outlet" means any outlet including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, stream or other body of surface or ground water.

      (13)   "Nonsanitary flow" means storm water originating from downspouts, storm and groundwater drains, and foundation drains.

      (14)   "Normal domestic sewage" means sewage which when analyzed shows by weight a daily average of not more than 200 parts per million of suspended solids and not more than 250 parts per million of Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD).

      (15)   "NYDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) permit" means the same as such is defined in the code of federal regulations, 40 CFR part I25, and in public law 92-500, section 402.

      (16)   "Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, corporation, society or group.

      (17)   "Public sewer" means any sewer owned by the village, including storm, sanitary, or combined sewers.

      (18)   "Residential" means a principal family residence or habitation classified as a single family, multifamily, or apartment dwelling that discharge 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.

      (19)   "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which carries sanitary and industrial wastes, and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.

      (20)   "Sewage" means a combination of the liquid and water carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions (including polluted cooling water).

      (21)   "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".

      (22)   "Shall" is mandatory, "may" is permissive.

      (23)   "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 fifteen minutes more than five times the average twenty-four hours concentration of flow during normal operation.

      (24)   "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.

      (25)   "Superintendent" means the superintendent of the Municipal sewage works of the Municipality or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.

      (26)   "Suspended solids (SS)" 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 the latest edition of "Standard Methods for Examination of Water and Wastewater".

      (27)   "User" means any person who discharges, causes or permits the discharge of wastewater into the wastewater treatment system.

      (28)   "Village" or "Municipality" means the Municipality of Wintersville, Ohio, acting through its duly authorized officials and employees.

      (29)   "Watercourse" means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.

      (30)   "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.

      (31)   "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. 1991-4. Passed 1-18-91.)