Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
BOD (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.
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 any
body of surface or groundwater.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
or group.
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 (1.27 centimeters)
in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface,
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWERAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together
with such ground-, surface, 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, sewerage, 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.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of Sewage Works of the Borough or his
authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
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
filtering.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.