Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
in this Part 5 the following words have the meanings indicated.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20 degrees Celsius, expressed in milligrams per liter.
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 (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of
the building wall.
The Chief Sanitary Engineer or the Chief's authorized deputy,
agent, or representative.
A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or
surface water.
The Department of Health for Queen Anne's County, Maryland.
The Director of Public Works for Queen Anne's County, or
the Director's authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
Oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such
that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an
approved pretreatment facility.
A wastewater shall be considered free of flotable
fat if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere
with the collection system.
The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking, and serving of foods.
The wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or business
as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or
groundwater.
The logarithm of the reciprocal 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.
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 1/2 inch (1.27 centimeters)
in any dimension.
A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public
utility.
Queen Anne's County, State of Maryland, exclusive of any
incorporated municipality.
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.
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
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
twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during normal operation and
shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of
the wastewater treatment works.
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."
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 sanitary
sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source,
it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water, and stormwater that
may be present.
The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect,
carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of
the effluent.
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water
either continuously or intermittently.
This Part 5 does not apply to incorporated municipalities
within the County.
Any ordinance enacted before May 1, 1976, that
is inconsistent with the provisions of this Part 5 is repealed to
the extent of their inconsistency.
