As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
APPLICATION
The sanitary sewer service permit forms and all relevant and appurtenant
plans, specifications, renderings, information, data and other documentation
required by the Board or Administrator of a person formally requesting an
expanded, extended, additional or modified sewer service connection to the
facilities of the Sanitary District. A complete application also includes
all required connection/hookup fees and any other hookup and facility-related
charges or assessments.
BOARD
The Board of Supervisors, the governing body of Mathews County, Virginia.
BUILDING OFFICIAL (INSPECTOR)
That person or his/her duly authorized representative directed and
authorized to supervise and enforce all the provisions of the Uniform Statewide
Building Code.
CONNECTION/HOOKUP FEE
A charge paid for the authorization to connect a premises or improvement
to the facilities of the Mathews Courthouse Sanitary District.
CONNECTOR
A person connecting to the facilities of the Mathews Courthouse Sanitary
District.
COUNTY
Mathews County, Virginia.
EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT (EDU)
The volume of wastewater flows estimated or projected to be generated
by a typical, single residential dwelling unit connected to the facilities
of the Mathews Courthouse Sanitary District.
FACILITIES OF THE SANITARY DISTRICT
Any and all component and appurtenant parts of the entire vacuum
and gravity systems and treatment and disposal facilities of sanitary sewer
utilities under the jurisdiction of the Sanitary District.
FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE
A person employed to work 20 hours or more a work week on the premises
by a person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation who or which is
served by the facilities of the District.
GPD
Abbreviation for gallons per day.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid and water-carried wastes from industrial or heavy commercial
processes. This term includes but is not limited to toxic, hazardous, poisonous
and flammable wastes and any other waste classified or deemed industrial by
state or federal regulatory agencies and any liquid-carried waste from industrial
or heavy commercial establishments which when treated by the sanitary treatment
plant causes the upset or bypass of the processes or operations thereof or
the violation of the District's fecal effluent standards.
LOCAL FACILITIES
Those portions of the sewer works and systems which are used respectively
to collect, transport and convey wastewater from an individual user or individual
users in local areas, subdivisions, and developments. Included are local wastewater
collection mains, wastewater lateral lines and vacuum valves and tanks to
a user's premises and other such facilities and appurtenances as are necessary.
Pump stations will be included when in accordance with approved plans and
built to serve the individual user or users in local areas, subdivisions and
developments.
OWNER or DEVELOPER
Any person having an interest, whether legal or equitable, sole or
partial, in any premises which are, or may in the future be, served by the
facilities of the Sanitary District and who is or may in the future be responsible
for the design and construction of facilities to be under the jurisdiction
of and to become a part of the public utilities system of the Sanitary District.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, society,
institution, group or legal entity.
PREMISES
Any building, group of buildings, or land upon which buildings are
to be constructed which is or may in the future be served by the facilities
of the Sanitary District.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights
and which is controlled by the Sanitary District.
REMOTE FACILITIES
Those portions of the sewer works and system which are used directly
or indirectly to transport, convey, treat and dispose of wastewater from local
facilities. Included are sewer mains, pump stations, treatment plants, outfalls
and other such facilities and appurtenances as are necessary.
SANITARY DISTRICT (DISTRICT)
The Mathews County Courthouse Sanitary District, Mathews County,
Virginia, which was created and which functions under the authority granted
in Title 21, Chapter 2 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended.
SANITARY DISTRICT SUPERVISOR
That person or his/her duly authorized representative directed and
authorized by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Mathews, Virginia,
to supervise the operation and maintenance of the facilities of the District.
SANITARY SEWAGE (WASTEWATER)
That liquid and water-carried waste which derives from dwellings,
business buildings and institutions other than heavy commercial and industrial
establishments, exclusive of any stormwater, surface water or hazardous, toxic,
poisonous or flammable wastes.
SANITARY SEWER
A vacuum or gravity pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating and,
if applicable, for disposing of treated sewage in conformance with applicable
federal, state and local laws, regulations and permits.
STATE
The Commonwealth of Virginia.
TREASURER
The Treasurer of the County of Mathews, Virginia.
VPDES PERMIT
The Virginia Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit issued
by the Virginia Water Control Board to the operators of wastewater treatment
facilities authorizing the discharge of treated wastewater into the receiving
waters of the Commonwealth of Virginia.