Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
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 20º C., expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
COMMERCIAL USER
All retail stores, restaurants, office buildings, laundries
and other private business and service establishments.
GOVERNMENTAL USERS
Includes legislative, judicial, administrative and regulatory
activities of federal, state and local governments.
INDUSTRIAL USER
Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of publicly owned
treatment works which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended, and supplements
under the following divisions: Division A: Agriculture, Forestry and
Fishing; Division B: Mining; Division D: Manufacturing; Division E:
Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary; Division
I: Services.
INSTITUTIONAL USER
Includes social, charitable, religious and educational activities
such as schools, churches, hospitals, nursing homes and similar institutional
users.
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
300 milligrams per liter and a suspended solids concentration of not
more than 300 milligrams per liter and a total Kjeldahl nitrogen concentration
of not more than 25 milligrams per liter. Additional restrictions
of pollutants in the wastewater stream can be noted in the Sewer Use
Ordinance.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
Those functions which result in expenditures during the useful
life of the treatment works for materials, labor, utilities and other
items which are necessary for managing and maintaining the sewage
works to achieve the capacity and performance for which such works
were designed and constructed.
REPLACEMENT
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories
or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the
treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which
such works were designed and constructed. The term "operation and
maintenance" includes "replacement."
RESIDENTIAL CONTRIBUTOR
Any contributor to the Town's treatment works whose lot,
parcel of real estate or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes
only.
SS (denoting "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.
TREATMENT WORKS
Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling
and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage or liquid industrial
wastes. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage
collection systems, individual systems, pumping, power and other equipment
and their appurtenances; extension improvements, remodeling, additions
and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable
recycled supply, such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities;
and any works, including site acquisition of the land, that will be
an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate
disposal of residues resulting from such treatment (including land
for composting sludge, temporary storage of such compost and land
used for the storage of treated wastewater in land treatment systems
before land application); or any other method or system for preventing,
abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating or disposing of municipal
waste or industrial waste, including waste in combined stormwater
and sanitary sewer systems.
USEFUL LIFE
The estimated period during which a treatment works will
be operated.
USER CHARGE
That portion of the total wastewater service charge which
is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation,
maintenance and replacement of the wastewater treatment works.
WATER METER
A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished
and/or installed by the Town of Warwick or furnished and/or installed
by a user and approved by the Town of Warwick.