Terms defined. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this chapter are 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 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN
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 (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building
wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
DEVELOPER
Any person or persons who undertake to construct simultaneously
or in planned sequence more than one housing unit on a given tract
or land subdivision.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
ENGINEER
The professional engineer retained as Town Engineer by the
Town Council.
FLOATABLE OIL
Oil, fat or grease in physical state such as that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment
facility. Wastewater is considered free of floatable oil if it is
properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the
collection system.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
POLLUTANTS
Includes, but are not limited to, dredged spoil, solid waste,
junk, sewage sludge, munitions, chemicals, biological or radiological
materials, oil, petroleum products or by-products, heat-wrecked or
discarded equipment, rock, sand, dirt and industrial, municipal, domestic,
commercial or agricultural waste of any kind.
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 (1.27 centimeters)
in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwaters, surface
waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwaters, surface waters and stormwaters as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying 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.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface
of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater or other liquids, and
that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by
the American Public Health Association; and referred to as "nonfilterable
residue."
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria
in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water
quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary
sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
WASTEWATER
The spent water of a community from the standpoint of source,
it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments,
together with such groundwater, surface water and stormwaters as may
be present.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES
The structures, equipment and processes required to collect,
carry away and treat domestic and industrial waste and dispose of
the effluent.
WATERCOURSE
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water,
either continuously or intermittently.