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:
BOARD
The board for the examination and licensing of plumbers.
BOCA
The Building Officials and Code Administrators International,
Inc.
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 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
CITY
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.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and
sale of produce.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
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.
INDUSTRIAL R\ESTABLISHMENTS
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.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, or possession of any improved property.
PH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
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.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes discharged
from any improved property, excluding ground-, surface or storm water.
SANITARY SEWERS
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
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.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, transporting
and disposing of sewage.
SLUG
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.
STANDARD LABORATORY PROCEDURE
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.
STATE
The State of New Hampshire.
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 standard
laboratory procedure.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.