Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates
otherwise, the meaning of terms and phrases used in this chapter shall
be as defined in the State Plumbing Code, and supplements thereto,
established by the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
or as defined herein.
BACKWATER VALVE
A device placed in the building sewer that will prevent the
backflow of sewage from an interceptor, major interceptor or collection
system into a habitable structure.
BOARD
The Board for the Examination and Licensing of Plumbers.
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.
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 five feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building
wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the service connection.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD)
A measure of the oxygen equivalent of that portion of the
organic matter in a sample that is susceptible to oxidation by a strong
chemical oxidant. (See Standard Methods, latest edition.)
CITY
The City of Franklin, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, its
agents, officers and representatives.
COMMERCIAL DISCHARGE
Nonindustrial wastewater and sewage discharged from commercial
facilities, including, but not limited to, auto and truck service
facilities, car washes, hospitals, laboratories, machine shops, marinas,
newspaper printing, photo processing centers, printing shops, restaurants,
schools, supermarkets, convenience stores with food preparation, facilities
or institutions with food preparation, and funeral homes.
COMMUNITY
Any City or town that is included as part of and is served
by the Winnipesaukee River Basin Project Treatment Works and includes
but is not limited to the following: Laconia, Franklin, Meredith,
Gilford, Tilton, Belmont, Northfield, Sanbornton, and Center Harbor.
CONTRACTOR
Either an individual, partnership or corporation and the
proper agents and representatives thereof.
COOLING WATER
The clean wastewater from air-conditioning, industrial cooling,
condensing and similar apparatus and from hydraulically powered equipment.
Cooling water shall include only water which is sufficiently clean,
uncontaminated and unpolluted and may be discharged, without treatment
or purification and with written permission of the DES, into any natural
open stream or watercourse.
DES
The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services.
DIVISION
The Division of Water Supply and Pollution Control of the
Department of Environmental Services.
DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes or waste
from sanitary conveniences, excluding ground-, surface or stormwater.
EPA
The Federal Environmental Protection Agency.
FLOOR DRAIN
A permanently installed pipe inside a building to remove
incidental water from commercial operations, not a foundation drain.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
GREASE
Volatile and nonvolatile residual fats, oils, fatty acids,
soaps, waxes, mineral oils and other similar materials.
GRIT
Heavy inorganic matter, such as stone, gravel, cinders, sand,
silt and ashes, and heavy particulate matter, such as bone chips and
coffee grounds.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property located within the jurisdiction upon which there
is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation,
occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure
sanitary sewage or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure used
or intended for use in the operation of one business enterprise for
manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling any
product, commodity or article or from which any process waste, as
distinct from sanitary sewage, shall be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any liquid, gaseous or solid waste substance resulting from
any process of industry, manufacturing, trade or business or from
development of any natural resources and shall exclude sanitary sewage
as described herein.
INSPECTOR
The person or persons duly authorized by the City to inspect
and approve the installation of building sewers and their connection
to the sewage collection system.
INTERCEPTOR
A channel or sewer which serves to collect the flow from
the sewage collection system.
INTERCEPTOR, MAJOR
A channel or sewer which serves to collect the flow from
the sewage collection system and is owned and maintained by the state.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge
from other sources, inhibits or disrupts the publicly owned treatment
works (POTW), its treatment processes or operations, or its biosolids
processes, use or disposal and which is a cause of a violation of
any requirement of the WRBP's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (NPDES) permit or of the prevention of biosolids use or disposal
by the WRBP.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT
STANDARD
Any regulations containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Clean
Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 1347) which applies to a specific
category of industrial users and which are found in the Code of Federal
Regulations, 40 CFR, Subchapter N, Parts 401 through 471.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
OTHER WASTES
Garbage, municipal refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings,
bark, lime, ashes, offal, oil, tar, chemicals and other substances
harmful to human, animal, fish or aquatic life.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other legal entity.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
PRETREATMENT
The application of physical, chemical and biological processes
to reduce the amount of pollutants in or alter the nature of the pollutant
property in a waste prior to discharging such waste into a publicly
owned treatment works.
PROPERTY OWNER or OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, or possession of any improved property.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
QUARTERLY BASE RATE
This charge, as identified in §
160-1 of the Franklin City Code, is found on the quarterly sewer bill received by all customers connected to the City sanitary sewer system.
[Added 5-4-2015 by Ord.
No. 10-15; amended 7-3-2017 by Ord. No. 04-18]
SANITARY SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried household and toilet wastes
from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments,
together with such groundwater infiltration, surface and storm waters
as may be present.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SERVICE CONNECTION
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
property line, or if the sewer is located on a right-of-way or if
no such service connection shall be provided, then "service connection"
shall mean that portion of or place in a sewer which is provided for
connection of any building sewer.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWERAGE
A system for the collection and pumping of sewage.
SEWER COLLECTION SYSTEM
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 Y-fittings
designed for connection with those facilities.
SEWER DISPOSAL CHARGE
A charge for wastewater based on the amount of water consumed which is read from the City water meter and is measured in cubic feet. The sewer disposal charge, which is identified in City Code Chapter
160, Fees, §
160-1, is billed per 100 cubic feet of water consumed. For those sewer customers that do not have City water, two options are used for determining water consumption, one being the flat rate fee which is identified in City Code Chapter
160, Fees, §
160-1, or the property owner can request the City Sewer Department to install a City water meter to measure the well water consumed which would then be the basis for the sewer disposal charge. The City would pay for and install the water meter, if requested.
[Added 5-4-2015 by Ord.
No. 10-15]
SLUG
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 15 minutes more than five times
the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flow during normal operation.
STANDARD LABORATORY PROCEDURE
Those procedures or tests for the examination of water and
wastewater as described in Standard Methods for the Examination of
Water and Wastewater, latest edition, as published jointly by the
American Public Health Association, Inc., the American Water Works
Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
STATE
The State of New Hampshire.
SUPERINTENDENT
That individual employed by the State of New Hampshire who
is responsible for the operation and maintenance of the treatment
works or his or her authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
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.
TRAPS
Intercepting devices, grease traps, oil separators or grit
removal chambers located at the source and placed in the building
drain prior to discharge to the sewage collection system.
TREATMENT WORKS
Any device or system used in the storage, treatment, recycling
or reclamation of sanitary sewage or industrial waste, as those terms
are defined herein. It shall mean the sewage collection system, interceptor
sewers, pumping stations, sewage treatment plant and appurtenant facilities
essential to the operation of the entire system.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
WRBP
The Winnipesaukee River Basin Program operated by the New
Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES).