This chapter shall be known as the "Sewer Use Ordinance" of
the City of Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this ordinance shall be as follows:
The American Society for Testing Materials.
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.
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 outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
The City of Las Vegas, New Mexico.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation
of organic and inorganic matter under standard laboratory procedure
by the dichromate reflux method expressed in milligrams per liter.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
The Director of the City's Wastewater Department.
The Environmental Improvement Division of the State of New
Mexico or any successor agency.
Those costs of the City's wastewater treatment system which
the City would incur independent of total wastewater flow or the wastewater
contribution of individual users.
Includes but is not limited to solid wastes from the domestic
and commercial preparation, cooking, dispensing of food, and from
the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
Any person or his authorized representative so appointed
by the City or any New Mexico Environmental Improvement Division representative
charged with approval or inspection of public or private wastewater
facilities.
All waterborne solids, liquids or gaseous wastes resulting
from any industrial, manufacturing or food processing operation or
process, or from the development of any natural resources or any mixture
of these with water or domestic sewage as distinct from normal domestic
sewage. Industrial manufacturing processes shall include, but are
not limited to, food and products; apparel and other finished products
made from fabrics and similar materials; lumber and wood products,
except furniture; furniture and fixtures; printing, publishing, and
allied industries; chemicals and allied products; petroleum refining
and related industries; rubber and miscellaneous plastic products;
leather and leather products; stone, clay, glass, and concrete products;
primary metal industries; fabricated metal products; except machinery
and transportation equipment; machinery, except electrical; electrical
machinery, equipment and supplies; transportation equipment; professional,
scientific and controlling instruments; photographic and optical goods;
watches and clocks; miscellaneous manufacturing industries.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
Waterborne wastes normally discharging from the sanitary
convenience of buildings (including apartment houses and hotels),
office buildings, factories, and institutions, free from storm surface
water and industrial wastes. "Normal domestic wastewater" shall mean
"normal" for the City of Las Vegas, New Mexico.
The owner of any real property or facility which produces
wastewater.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
or group.
The logarithm to the base 10 of the reciprocal of the weight
of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of foods that have 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 in any dimension.
The public sewer portion of a wastewater facility which transports
wastewater and to which storm, surface, and ground water are not intentionally
admitted.
Those solids which settle during a preselected period of
time expressed as milliliters per liter of sample.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
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 flows during normal
operation.
The laboratory procedures set forth in the latest edition,
at the time of analysis, of "Standard Methods for Examination of Water
and Wastewater," as prepared, approved and published jointly by the
"American Water Works Association" and the "Water Pollution Control
Federation."
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes wastewater and polluted industrial wastes.
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.
A device for retaining sand, silt, grit mineral material,
petroleum solvent, grease or oil by gravity-differential separation
from wastewater and of a design and capacity approved by the City.
Any water or waste containing none of the following: Free
of emulsified grease or oil, acid or alkali, phenols, or other substances
imparting taste and odor to receiving water; toxic substances in suspension,
colloidal state or solution; and noxious or odorous gases.
Those costs of the City's wastewater treatment system which
are directly related to the wastewater flow received at the wastewater
treatment plant and are normally recovered on an incremental basis
per 1,000 gallons of water used.
The used water of a community. Such used water may be a combination
of the liquid and waterborne wastes from residences, commercial buildings,
industrial plants and institutions.
The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect,
transport and treat domestic industrial wastes and dispose of the
effluent.
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater,
industrial wastes and sludge. Sometimes uses as synonymous with "waste
treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant."
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
The Water Pollution Control Federation.
