As used in this Article, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
BOD (DENOTING "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND")
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter as determined in
accordance with the latest issue of the American Public Health Association
(APHA) Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
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 10 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.
CESSPOOL
A lined or partially lined pit into which raw household wastewater
is discharged and from which the liquid seeps into the surrounding
soil.
CHLORINE DEMAND
The amount of chlorine which must be added to liquid waste
to produce a residual chlorine content in the liquid waste.
COLOR
The true color due to substance in solution expressed in
color units on a platinum-cobalt scale.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
A sample of wastewater, consisting of a number of individual
samples collected at uniform intervals over a given time span, collected
and preserved in accordance with the latest issue of the APHA Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
ENGINEER
The Director of Public Works of the Town of Snow Hill or
his duly authorized representative.
FLOATABLE GREASE
Grease, fat, wax or oil in a physical state such that it
will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved
facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of "floatable grease"
if it is pretreated for floatable grease removal in a facility which
is designed, constructed and operated as approved by the Town.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
GREASE, FATS, WAX OR OILS
Those substances, whether emulsified or not, which may solidify
or become viscous at temperatures between 32° F. and 150°
F. (0° and 65° C.).
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Either the local or State of Maryland Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene Office having jurisdiction over local health and
sewage disposal.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INDUSTRY
Any person, establishment, firm, company, association or
group, whether public or private, engaged in a manufacturing or service
enterprise which produces liquid wastes which are excessive in biological
strength, toxic, hazardous, nonbiodegradable or otherwise harmful
to the sewage works or which would interfere with operation of the
sewage works to require unreasonable operating attention or expense.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
PRIVY
A building, either portable or fixed directly to a pit or
vault, equipped with seating and used for excretion of bodily wastes.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
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.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer which is owned or controlled by the Town of Snow
Hill or its duly authorized representatives and in which all owners
of abutting property have equal rights. It shall include that portion
of the building sewer within the street right-of-way or public easement,
up to but not including the cleanout (if any), adjacent to the curb,
sidewalk or edge of paving.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SCREENING
The removal of solid from liquid wastes by straining through
twenty-mesh screens or finer.
SEPTIC TANK
A settling tank in which settled sludge is in immediate contact
with the wastewater flowing through the tank and the organic solids
are decomposed by anaerobic bacterial action.
SEWAGE OR WASTEWATER
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such ground-, surface and storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, transporting, pumping, treating
and disposing of sewage and sludge.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SLUDGE
Solids separated from wastewater resulting from treatment
of wastewater.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Wastewater Treatment Superintendent of the Town of Snow
Hill or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering, as determined in accordance with the latest issue of the
APHA Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
TOWN
The governing body of the Town of Snow Hill or its duly appointed
officers or representatives.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.