931.01 DEFINITIONS.
   Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Title Three shall be as follows:
    (1)   "The Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), as amended by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 and the Clean Water Act of 1977 (P. L. 92-500 and P. L. 95-217).
    (2)   "Agency" means the City of Youngstown. The term Public Authority is synonymous with Agency.
    (3)   "BOD, denoting biochemical oxygen demand" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees Celsius, expressed in milligrams per liter.
    (4)   "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 five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
    (5)   "Building sewer" means a sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user to a public sewer.
    (6)   "COD, denoting chemical oxygen demand" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter expressed in milligrams per liter.
    (7)   "Combined sewer" means a sewer intended to serve as a sanitary sewer and a storm sewer, or as an industrial sewer and a storm sewer.
    (8)   "Compatible pollutant" means biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit for which the treatment works was designed to treat such pollutants and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree.
    (9)   "Cooling water or industrial cooling water" means water discharged from any system of condensation, air-conditioning cooling, refrigeration or other similar use, which is free from odor or oil. It shall not contain polluting substance which will produce BOD or suspended solids in excess of ten parts per million by weight of each.
   (10)   "County" means a political subdivision of the State of Ohio excluding all incorporated areas for the purpose of use herein.
   (11)   "Debt service" means the payment requirements to retire the treatment works debt through cash generated during the period of time that the debt is outstanding.
   (12)   "Engineer" means the Deputy Director of Public Works and Engineer of the City or his designated representative.
   (13)   "Federal" means the government of the United States of America.
   (14)   "Federal Agency" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA).
   (15)   "Garbage" means solid waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
   (16)   "Incompatible pollutant" means any pollutant which is not defined as a compatible pollutant.
   (17) - (21)   (EDITOR’S NOTE: Former subsections (17) to (21) were repealed by Ordinance 99-8, passed January 6, 1999.)
   (22)   "Industrial wastes" means the liquid wastes from industrial operations and/or processes as distinct from domestic sanitary wastes.
   (23)   "Inspector" means an authorized representative of the City or County whose primary function is to determine whether any or all users comply with the resolution.
   (24)   "Interceptor sewer" means a sewer whose primary purpose is to transport wastewater from collector sewers to a treatment facility.
   (25)   "Joint treatment" means publicly owned treatment works for both nonindustrial and industrial wastewater.
   (26)   (EDITOR’S NOTE: Former subsection (26) was repealed by Ordinance 99-8, passed January 6, 1999.)
   (27)   "Metering" means mechanical or other means and/or devices for measuring and recording the volumetric quantity of flow through sewers.
   (28)   "Monitoring" means mechanical or other means to determine the chemical, physical and bacteriological constituents of wastewater in a sewer.
   (29)   "Municipality" means a city, town, village, county, district, association or other public body, including an intermunicipal agency of two or more of the foregoing entities, created by or pursuant to State law, having jurisdiction over disposal of sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes, or a designated and approved management agency under Section 208 of the Act. Special districts which do not have as one of its principal responsibilities the treatment, transport or disposal of liquid wastes, such as a school district, are excluded from this definition.
   (30)   "Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
   (31)   "Nitrification" means biological oxidation of ammonium and organic nitrogen, first to the nitrite and then to the nitrate form.
   (32)   "Normal strength wastes" means the wastewater discharging from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, including apartment houses and hotels, office buildings, institutions and/or industrial plants, having an average daily suspended solids concentration of not more than 240 mg/l, an average daily BOD concentration of not more than 210 mg/l and containing none of the characteristics prohibited by Section 931.05(c).
   (33)   "NPDES permit" means any permit or equivalent document or requirement issued by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the discharge of pollutants pursuant to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, herein referred to as NPDES, as established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
   (34)   "Operation and maintenance" means the involvement of a practical application of a principle or process to keep in an existing state or efficiently preserve from failure or decline, the existing treatment works. (See also "replacement".)
   (35)   "Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
   (36)   "pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
   (37)   "Pollutant" means any element or substance without regard to concentration that is capable of rendering water unfit for its intended use.
   (38)   "Premises" means a parcel of real estate or portion thereof including any improvements thereon which is determined by the Agency to be a single user for purposes of receiving, using and paying for service.
   (39)   "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 treatment works. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, process changes or by other means except dilution with the increased use of process water.
   (40)   "Properly shredded garbage" means the waste 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 usually prevailing in public sewers, with no particle being greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
   (41)   "Public sewers" means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by Public Authority.
   (42)   "Replacement" means expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance" includes replacement.
   (43)   "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer intended to carry only sanitary or sanitary and industrial wastewaters from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions.
   (44)   "Service charge" means the rate charged by the Agency for rendering a service.
   (45)   "Sewage" means a combination of water-carried wastes from residences, commercial establishments, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm water as may be present. The term "wastewater" is synonymous with "sewage."
   (46)   "Sewer" means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
   (47)   "Sewage collection system" means each and all of the common lateral sewers within a publicly owned treatment system which are primarily installed to receive wastewaters directly from facilities, which convey wastewater from individual structures or from private property and which include service connection wye fittings designed for connection with those facilities. The facilities which convey wastewater from individual structures or from private property to the public lateral sewer or its equivalent, are specifically excluded from the definition with the exception of pumping units and pressurized lines, for individual structures or groups of structures when such units are cost effective and are owned and maintained by the agent.
   (48)   "Sewage treatment plant" means any arrangement of devices, structures and systems used in the treatment of sewage, including outfall sewers, pumping, power and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions, improvement, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof; and any works, including site acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process.
   (49)   "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive, subject to approval by the Engineer or Board of Health.
   (50)   "SIC Manual" means the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented.
   (51)   "Slug" means 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 minutes more than five times the average twenty-four hour concentration or flow during normal operation.
   (52)   "State" means the State of Ohio.
   (53)   "State agency" means the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA).
   (54)   "Storm sewer or storm drain" means a sewer intended to carry only storm water, surface run-off, street wash waters and drainage.
   (55)   "Superintendent, wastewater treatment system" means and designates the person who is licensed and approved by the Ohio Department of Health to supervise the operations of the wastewater treatment system.
   (56)   "Suspended Solids (SS)" means 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, expressed in milligrams per liter.
   (57)   "Tap-in" means the connection of a building sewer to a public sewer. The term "connection" is synonymous with "tap-in."
   (58)   "Treatment works" means any device and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature, including intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, pumping, power and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions, improvement, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works, including site acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal or residues resulting from such treatment; or any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating or disposing of municipal waste, including storm water runoff or industrial wastes, including waste in combined storm water and sanitary sewer systems. The term "sewage works" is synonymous with "treatment works."
   (59)   "Unpolluted industrial process water" means any water containing none of the following: emulsified grease or oil; acid or alkali; phenols or other substances imparting taste and odor in receiving waters; toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution; noxious or odorous gases. It shall contain not more than 10,000 parts per million of dissolved solids, of which not more than 2,500 parts per million shall be chlorides, with permissible volume subject to review by the Public Utilities Director. The color shall not exceed fifty parts per million.
   (60)   "Useful life" means the estimated period during which a treatment works will be operated.
   (61)   "User" means any person making direct use of a public sewer by deliberately discharging wastewater into it.
   (62)   "User, beneficiary" means any person who is rewarded or benefited or receives some service from the sewerage system other than by discharging wastewater into it. All users are also beneficiaries.
   (63)   "User classification" means the division of users within the City's service area, by the origin of the sewage discharged and by the similarity of the function of such users. Stated in five general classes, they are:
      (a)   "Commercial user". A special class of industrial user who usually contributes primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences. Such users are usually identified as Divisions C, F, G, H and portions of I in the SIC Manual.
      (b)   "Governmental user". A special class of industrial user who usually contributes primarily segregated domestic wastes or waste from sanitary conveniences. Such users are usually identified as Division J in the SIC Manual.
      (c)   "Industrial user". Any user of Agencies treatment works identified in the SIC Manual, Division A, B, D, E and I and which discharges process and/or trade wastes as distinct from domestic wastes from sanitary conveniences.
      (d)   "Institutional user". A special class of industrial user who usually contributes primarily segregated domestic wastes or waste from sanitary conveniences. Such users are usually identified as hospitals, sanitariums, prisons or charitable institutions.
      (e)   "Residential user". Any single family or equivalent user of publicly owned collection and treatment works.
   (64)   "User, right-to-service" means any person who by contractual arrangements and/or by special permit reserves, uses, purchases and/or sets aside a certain capacity of the sewage collection and/or treatment works for current and future use. Examples of such classification are: one political subdivision agreeing to treat the liquid sanitary waste of another; a land developer reserving a specified number of future tap-ins; and/or any industrial user reserving a specified capacity of the treatment works.
   (65)   "User charge" means a charge levied on users of a treatment works for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement of such works.
   (66)   "User charge system" means a system of charges to assure that each recipient of waste treatment service pays his proportionate share of the cost of operation and maintenance, including replacement, of all waste treatment services provided by the agency.
   (67)   "Wastewater". See "Sewage".
   (68)   "Watercourse" means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
      (Ord. 99-8. Passed 1-6-99.)