A.
The rules and regulations herein set forth for the maintenance and
operation of the Laconia municipal sewer system, established by the
City Council of the City of Laconia, are necessary or desirable for
the efficient operation of said Laconia municipal sewer system and
for accomplishing the purposes of RSA 252, as amended, and for the
protection of the health and safety of the people of Laconia and for
accomplishing the purposes of RSA 147, as amended.
B.
Pursuant to RSA 252 and every other authority thereto enabling, the
City Council of Laconia enacts and ordains the following rules and
regulations, which are also adopted by the Health Officer and the
Public Works Director of the City of Laconia and approved by the City
Council pursuant to RSA 147.
This chapter is not intended to replace or void the BOCA Basic Plumbing Code (latest edition) or any other code, ordinance, regulation or lawful requirement of the City of Laconia. (See Article VIII.)
The Health Officer and the Public Works Director of the City
of Laconia shall be responsible for the enforcement of this chapter,
for issuing permits and inspection as provided herein and for the
collection of permit fees as provided herein.
A.
BOARD
BOCA
BOD (DENOTING "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND")
CITY
COMBINED SEWER
GARBAGE
IMPROVED PROPERTY
INDUSTRIAL R\ESTABLISHMENTS
NATURAL OUTLET
OWNER
PH
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
SANITARY SEWAGE
SANITARY SEWERS
SEWAGE
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
SEWER
SEWER SYSTEM
SLUG
STANDARD LABORATORY PROCEDURE
STATE
STORM DRAIN (SOMETIMES TERMED "STORM SEWER")
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
WATERCOURSE
Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms and phrases used in this chapter shall be as
defined in the BOCA Basic Plumbing Code, Third Edition, 1975, as published
by the Building Officials Conference of America, Inc., or as defined
herein:
The board for the examination and licensing of plumbers.
The Building Officials and Code Administrators International,
Inc.
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.
The City of Laconia, a municipality in the County of Belknap
and the State of New Hampshire, acting by and through its City Council
and through its authorized representatives.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and
sale of produce.
Any property located within the City of Laconia upon which
there is erected a structure intended for the continuous or periodic
habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which
structure sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may
be discharged.
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.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, or possession of any improved property.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food 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.
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes discharged
from any improved property, excluding ground-, surface or storm water.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such ground-, surface and storm waters as may be present.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, transporting
and disposing of sewage.
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.
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., American Water Works Association
and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
The State of New Hampshire.
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling
water.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by standard
laboratory procedure.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
B.
The word "shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
