Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
AGENT
The Macomb County Health Department.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
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
Any structure, including a mobile home, which requires a
means of disposal of wastewater.
BUILDING DRAIN
The drainagewater pipes in a building which convey roof drainage,
footing drainagewater or stormwater to the building service drain,
located four feet (1.2 meters) outside the outer face of the building.
BUILDING SERVICE DRAIN
Any drainagewater pipe extension from a building drain outlet
point, located four feet (1.2 meters) outside of a building, to a
point of connection with a public drain, or with any private drain
upstream of a public drain.
BUILDING SERVICE SEWER
The sewer extension from a building sewer outlet point, located
four feet (1.2 meters) outside of a building, to a point of connection
with a public sanitary sewer.
BUILDING SEWER
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building plumbing
system which receives the sanitary sewage from pipes inside the walls
of the building and conveys it from the building to the building service
sewer, located four feet (1.2 meters) outside of the outer face of
the building.
DEPARTMENT
The Village Sewer Department charged with operating and maintaining
the wastewater system.
DRAIN or STORM DRAIN
A watercourse, ditch, drainage swale or pipe intended for
the conveyance of drainagewater.
DRAINAGE SYSTEM
Any part or all of the property, structures, equipment, drains,
watercourses, materials and appurtenances used in conjunction with
the collection and disposal of drainagewater.
DRAINAGEWATER
Stormwater, subsurface groundwater, melting snow or ice,
roof and/or other surface water runoff, or unpolluted water.
DWELLING UNIT
A building or a unit thereof, including an apartment, house
trailer or mobile home, that is occupied by one or more persons as
a residence with a single set of culinary facilities intended for
a single family.
FLOATABLE OIL
Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment
facility. Wastewater shall be considered free of floatable oil if
it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interface with
the collection system.
GARBAGE
The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and serving of foods.
mg/l
Milligrams per liter.
MUNICIPALITY
The Village of New Haven, County of Macomb, State of Michigan.
NORMAL DOMESTIC SEWAGE (NDS)
Wastewater which, when analyzed, shows a daily average concentration
of not more than 275 mg/l of BOD, nor than 350 mg/l of suspended solids,
nor more than 12 mg/l of phosphorus, nor more than 100 mg/l of fats,
oil and grease.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or other legal entity.
pH
The reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration.
pH measures the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a solution. pH
values from 0 to 7 indicate acidity, and from 7 to 14 indicate alkalinity.
Neutral water has a pH value of 7.
POLLUTED WATER
Water which exceeds the water quality standards established
for the receiving waterway.
PREMISES
A parcel of real estate owned by a person served as a single
user by a wastewater disposal outlet. Each mobile home park is considered
separately as a premises.
PRIVATE SANITARY SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
Any septic tank with subsurface soil absorption facilities
or any other private wastewater treatment facilities which may be
approved by the Michigan Water Resources Commission or by its designated
agent, the Macomb County Health Department.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food which has 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.
PUBLIC DRAIN
A drain under the control of the municipality or other public
agency which is located in public easements or public rights-of-way.
PUBLIC FACILITIES
Sanitary sewers, public drain, water main, watercourse or
storm drain.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Usual domestic sewage or equivalent sewage, not including
industrial sewage as herein defined, from all sources.
SETTLEABLE SOLIDS
Total particulate matter in water or wastewater that will
settle out of the liquid as prescribed in "Standard Methods."
SLUG
Any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentration
of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds 15 minutes
of duration more than five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration
of flows during normal operation, and which adversely affects the
collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
STANDARD METHODS
The laboratory procedures set forth in the latest edition
of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater,"
as prepared, approved and published jointly by the American Public
Health Association, the American Waterworks Association, and the Water
Pollution Control Federation, or methods acceptable to the United
States Environmental Protection Agency.
STREET
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, alley or other right-of-way
which provides vehicular or pedestrian access to abutting properties
by the general public. "Street" includes the land between the street
and right-of-way lines, whether improved or unimproved.
SUPERINTENDENT
The person appointed by the Village Council to manage the
New Haven Sewer Department.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface
of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater or other liquids, and
which is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in Standard
Methods. Suspended solid includes settleable solids.
TOTAL SOLIDS
Include total suspended solids and total dissolved solids.
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water which does not exceed the water quality standards established
for the receiving waterway.
USER
The owner or occupant of any premises connected to and/or
using any of the facilities operated by the Sewer Department.
VILLAGE COUNCIL
The Village Council, Village of New Haven, Macomb County,
Michigan.
WASTEWATER or SEWAGE
Spent water which may be a combination of liquid and water-carried
wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, institutions
or other land uses, including drainagewater inadvertently present
in said waste.
WASTEWATER SYSTEM or SEWER SYSTEM
Any part or all of the property, structures, equipment, sewers,
materials and/or appurtenances used in conjunction with the collection
and disposal of wastewater.
WATERCOURSE
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water
either continuously or intermittently.