Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
ACT
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 (Pub. L. 92-500 and Pub. L. 92-243), and any subsequent amendments.
APPLICANT or OWNER
Any person requesting approval to discharge industrial or
domestic wastewaters into facilities of the town.
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of the wastewater under standard laboratory procedures in five days
at 20º C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN
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 eight feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
COMMISSIONER
The Board of Commissioners of the Town of Leonardtown or its duly authorized deputy, agent or representative.
DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
The wastewater derived principally from dwellings, business
buildings, institutions and the like, exclusive of industrial waste,
together with any groundwater, surface water or stormwater that may
be present.
EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States
Government.
EXCESSIVE
Amounts or concentrations of a constituent of a wastewater
which, in the judgment of the town, will be harmful to a wastewater
treatment process, which cannot be removed in the wastewater treatment
works of the town to the degree required to meet the limiting classification
standards of the receiving body of water, which can otherwise endanger
life, limb or public property and/or which can constitute a nuisance.
FACILITIES
Include structures and conduits for the purpose of collecting,
treating, neutralizing, stabilizing or disposing of domestic wastewater
and/or industrial or other wastewaters as are disposed of by means
of such structures and conduits, including treatment and disposal
works, necessary intercepting, outfall and outlet sewers and pumping
stations integral to such facilities, with sewers, equipment, furnishings
thereof and other appurtenances connected therewith.
GARBAGE
The animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and serving of food. It is composed largely of
putrescible organic matter and its natural moisture content.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
Any pollutant, other than biochemical oxygen demand, suspended
solids, pH, coliform bacteria or additional pollutants identified
in the permit, which the treatment works was not designed to treat
and does not remove to a substantial degree.
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER
The wastewater in which the liquid wastes from industrial
manufacturing processes, laboratory, trade, or business predominate,
as distinct from domestic wastewater.
INDUSTRY
An establishment with facilities for mechanical, testing,
trade or manufacturing purposes.
INVERT
The bottom inside of the sewer pipe.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
group, trust or governmental authority who discharges wastewater to
the facilities of the town.
pH
The reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration,
in grams per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
Garbage that has been shredded to such a degree that all
particles shall 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.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer which is owned, maintained and directly controlled
by public authority.
RECEIVING WATERS
Any watercourse, river, pond, ditch, lake aquifer or other
body or surface or ground water receiving discharge of wastewaters.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying wastewater.
SLUG
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 flow, during normal operation.
SPILL
The release, accidental or otherwise, of any material not
normally released to the facilities, which by virtue of its volume,
concentration or physical or chemical characteristics creates a hazard
to the facilities, their operation or their personnel. Such characteristics
shall include but are not limited to volatile, explosive, toxic or
otherwise unacceptable materials.
STORM DRAIN or STORM SEWER
A pipe or conduit for conveying rainwater, groundwater, subsurface
water, condensate, cooling water or other similar discharge, but excludes
wastewater and polluted industrial wastes.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, wastewater or other liquids and which are removed by laboratory
filtering and are referred to as nonfilterable residue in the laboratory
test prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and
Wastewater.
TOWN
The Town of Leonardtown.
WASTES
Substances in liquid, solid or gaseous form that can be carried
in water.
WASTEWATER
The spent water of a community, and 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 for stormwater that may be present.
WASTEWATER WORKS
All structures, equipment and processes for collecting, pumping,
treating and disposing of wastewater.