As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
BOD (biochemical oxygen demand)
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in milligrams per liter,
utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard
laboratory procedure for five days at 20º C. The standard laboratory
procedure shall be that found in the latest edition of Standard Methods.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the service lateral of a collection sewer.
CHLORINE DEMAND
The amount of chlorine, in milligrams per liter, which must
be added to sewage to produce a chlorine residual of 0.5 milligrams
per liter after a contact period of 60 minutes, in accordance with
procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
COLLECTION SEWER
The town's collection sanitary sewers located under highways,
roads, streets and rights-of-way with branch service laterals that
collect and convey sanitary sewage or industrial wastes, or a combination
of both, and into which storm-, surface and ground waters or unpolluted
industrial waters or liquids are not intentionally admitted.
CONNECTION UNIT
Each individual building or house, whether constructed as
a detached unit or as one of a pair or row, which is designated or
adaptable to separate ownership for use as a family dwelling unit
or for commercial or industrial purposes. A school, factory, apartment
house, office building or other multiple unit structure whose individual
apartments or units are connected to a common internal sewerage system
and which are not commonly subject to separate ownership shall be
considered as one connection unit.
COOKING ESTABLISHMENTS
Those establishments primarily engaged in activities of preparing,
serving, or otherwise making available for consumption foodstuffs
and that use one or more of the following preparation activities:
cooking by frying (all methods), baking (all methods), grilling, sauteing,
rotisserie cooking, broiling (all methods), boiling, blanching, roasting,
toasting, or poaching. Also included are infrared heating, searing,
barbecuing, and any other food preparation activity that produces
a hot, non-drinkable food product in or on a receptacle that requires
washing.
[Added 5-8-2007 by Ord. No. 07-06]
ENGINEER
The town's Engineer who is engaged at the time to serve the
town for the design, inspection of construction and operation of the
town's sanitary sewerage system.
FATS, OILS, AND GREASES
Organic polar compounds derived from animal and/or plant
sources that contain multiple carbon chain triglyceride molecules.
[Added 5-8-2007 by Ord. No. 07-06]
GARBAGE
Solid wastes resulting from preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from handling, storage and sale of food products and produce.
GREASE TRAP OR INTERCEPTOR
A device for separating and retaining waterborne greases
and grease complexes prior to the wastewater exiting the trap and
entering the sanitary sewer collection system.
[Added 5-8-2007 by Ord. No. 07-06]
GROUND GARBAGE
The residue from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food that has been shredded to such degree that all particles will
be carried freely in suspension under the flow conditions normally
prevailing in public sewers with no particle greater than 1/2
inch in any dimension.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within the sewered area 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 WASTES
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance discharged, permitted
to flow or escaping in the course of any industrial, manufacturing,
trade or business process or in the course of the development, recovery
or processing of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
MINIMUM DESIGN CAPACITY
The design features of a grease interceptor and its ability
or volume required to effectively intercept and retain greases from
grease-laden wastewaters discharged to the sanitary sewer.
[Added 5-8-2007 by Ord. No. 07-06]
NON-COOKING ESTABLISHMENTS
Those establishments primarily engaged in the preparation
of precooked foodstuffs that do not include any form of cooking.
[Added 5-8-2007 by Ord. No. 07-06]
NORMAL SEWAGE
Sewage with a maximum:
A.
Five-day biochemical oxygen demand of 250 milligrams
per liter.
B.
Suspended solids content of 300 milligrams per
liter.
C.
Chlorine demand of five milligrams per liter.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property located in the sewered area.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions, gram molecules per liter of solution, and indicates
the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
PROHIBITED CONCENTRATION
Any discharge of wastewater containing more than 100 milligrams
per liter by weight of fat, oil or grease in any sample, whether obtained
as a composite or a grab sample.
[Added 5-8-2007 by Ord. No. 07-06]
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from an
improved property.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes, or a combination
of both, and into which storm-, surface and ground waters or unpolluted
industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities as of any particular time situated in the
sewered area and owned or operated by the town for collecting, pumping,
treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes.
SERVICE LATERAL
That part of the sewerage system from the collection sewer
to a point just beyond the curbline or to a point one foot beyond
the edge of the paved roadway if there is no curbline.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
The plant and facilities operated for the treatment of sewage
and industrial wastes by the town to which the sewer system is to
be connected.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sanitary sewer
system, used or usable to collect and convey sewage and to which ground-
or unpolluted industrial waters, surface and storm water or liquids
are not admitted intentionally.
SEWERAGE
The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection,
transportation and pumping of sewage and industrial wastes.
SEWERED AREA
That portion of the town in which there is constructed a
sewage collection system of the town in accordance with plans approved
by the town and as from time to time constructed and extended.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which
exceeds in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of
flow, for any period of longer duration than 15 minutes, more than
five times its average hourly concentration of flow.
STANDARD METHODS
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the
most recent edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water,
Sewage and Industrial Wastes, published jointly by the American Public
Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water
Pollution Control Federation.
STORM SEWER
A sewer that carries storm- , surface and ground water drainage
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
SURCHARGE
A charge, in addition to the service charge rental, which
is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than
the concentration values established as representative of normal sewage.
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
filtration. The standard laboratory procedure shall be that found
in the latest edition of Standard Methods.
TOXIC SUBSTANCE
Any substance (including copper, cyanide and chromium compounds)
used in biological sewage treatment in such form or concentration
as to be toxic or to inhibit the activity of humans, animals or organisms.
UNPOLLUTED WATER OR LIQUIDS
Any water or liquid containing none of the following:
A.
Free or emulsified grease or oil.
B.
Substances that may impart taste, odor or color.
C.
Odorous or otherwise obnoxious gases.
D.
Total dissolved solids in excess of 1,000 milligrams
per liter.
E.
Suspended solids in excess of five milligrams
per liter.
F.
A biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) in excess
of five milligrams per liter.
G.
A pH below 6.0 or greater than 9.0.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
or discharge of wastewater into the sanitary sewer.
[Added 5-8-2007 by Ord. No. 07-06]
Any contractor, before performing work involving
the construction of a building sewer or the connection of a building
sewer to a service lateral, shall register with the town's authorized
agent, giving his name, business and home addresses and telephone
numbers and the amount and nature of his experience.
Sewer rentals and charges shall be established
which shall be payable by and collected from the owner of each connection
unit which is connected with the sanitary sewer system from and after
the date upon which the town notifies the owner in writing that the
town is prepared to accept sanitary sewage or industrial wastes from
the connection unit for transportation to and treatment at the sewage
treatment plant. Sewer rentals and charges shall be based on annual
operation costs, including a reserve for maintenance and amortization
costs of the sanitary sewer system.
A. Sanitary sewer rentals.
[Amended 2-13-1973]
(1) There shall be established a flat-rate sanitary sewer
rental for each flat-rate sewer rental unit in an amount per year
to be set by resolution adopted by the Town Council. "Flat-rate sewer
rental unit" shall mean each family dwelling unit or the equivalent
which is connected with the sanitary sewer system as:
(a)
A single-family dwelling: one unit.
(b)
Each family apartment or business or professional
suite in a multiple dwelling or office building: one unit.
(c)
Each half of a double house: one unit.
(d)
When a doctor's or dentist's office is located
in a dwelling, two units shall be charged, one for the office and
one for the dwelling.
(e)
Each church or fire company or similar charitable
organization: one unit.
(f)
Each retail store or business or professional
office not otherwise classified: one unit.
(g)
Each industrial, commercial or financial establishment
which does not discharge an industrial waste, regularly occupied during
business hours by less than 12 persons, and for each 12 additional
persons or portion thereof in regular occupancy during business hours:
one unit.
(h)
Each restaurant: two units.
(i)
Each restaurant and bar: three units.
(j)
Each school: 100 pupils per unit.
(k)
A laundromat: one unit, together with three-fourths
( 3/4) unit for each washing machine.
[Added 10-14-1986 by Ord. No. 86-14]
(l)
Hotel, motel or boarder's room: one-half ( 1/2)
unit per each guest room or boarder's room, together with additional
unit charges in accordance with schedule for all additional services.
[Added 10-14-1986 by Ord. No. 86-14]
(m)
Unspecified users: units to be determined as
a result of an engineering study by the town's Sewer Engineer using
as a unit basis 350 gallons per day or any fraction thereof. The engineering
study shall be at the cost of the sewer applicant.
[Added 10-14-1986 by Ord. No. 86-14]
(3) All connection units in addition to the sanitary sewer rental shall be subject to the surcharge set forth in §
112-6.
B. Industrial waste charges and rentals. All connection
units discharging industrial waste into the sanitary sewer system
shall be charged a sanitary sewer rental based on measured volume
of discharge in accordance with a schedule to be established from
time to time by resolution adopted by the Town Council, provided that
a minimum charge equal to a flat-rate sanitary sewer rental shall
be paid by each connection unit discharging industrial waste.
C. Time and method of payment; interest.
(1) Sanitary sewer rentals and industrial waste charges
shall be billed quarterly on the first days of January, April, July
and October and shall be due and payable immediately. If any bill
or part thereof rendered for sewer usage is not paid before the 30th
day following the date the bill is due, the bill or unpaid part shall
be considered delinquent and subject to interest at the prevailing
rate fixed for interest on delinquent real estate taxes from the due
date until the bill is paid in full.
(2) Whenever service commences after the first day of
any quarterly period, sanitary sewer rentals for the first quarterly
period shall be prorated equitably.
(3) Every owner of improved property which is connected
to the sanitary sewer system shall provide the town with his correct
address and any changes thereafter. Failure of any person to receive
quarterly bills for sewer rentals and charges shall not be considered
an excuse for nonpayment nor shall this failure result in an extension
of the period of time during which the net bill is payable.
D. Measuring volume of industrial waste. Meters to measure
the volume of discharge of industrial waste from connection units
shall be furnished and installed by the town in accordance with the
town's standard procedure for installing water meters. The meters
shall be repaired and maintained by the town under the terms and conditions
established by the town. The meters shall be accessible to the town
at all reasonable times for reading, testing, inspection or repair.
E. Unpaid claims; liens. Unpaid charges and rentals for
connection with and use of the sanitary sewer system shall be liens
upon the premises connected until paid, and the town shall have the
same remedies for the collection thereof with interest, costs and
penalties as it has by law for collection of taxes upon real estate.