[CC 1989 §6-71]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings
of terms used in this Article shall be as follows:
ACT OR THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251, et seq.
BOD (DENOTING BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at twenty degrees Centigrade (20°C), expressed in milligrams
per liter. The test procedure shall not utilize nitrification inhibitors.
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 (5) feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face
of the building wall.
BUILDING INSPECTOR
The designated inspection official of the City or his/her
authorized representative.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
CITY
The City of Webb City, Missouri.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, or to which the pollutant added is heat.
DIRECT DISCHARGES
The discharge of treated or untreated sewage directly to
the waters of the State of Missouri.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of foods and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
GRAB SAMPLE
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration
of time.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INTERFERENCE
The inhibition or disruption of the FOTW treatment processes
or operations which causes or significantly contributes to a violation
of any requirement of the City's MPOES permit.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other
body of surface or ground water.
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.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged soil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste
discharged into sanitary sewers.
ppm
Parts per million, the concentration of a material in pounds
per million pounds of water.
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 one-half (½) inch
in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and is controlled by control authority.
RECEIVING STREAM
Any natural watercourse into which water, treatment plant
effluent, combined sewer overflow or stormwater is discharged.
SANITARY SEWER
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 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.
SLUDGE
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 fifteen (15) minutes more than
five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration or
flows during normal operation.
STORM SEWER
A sewer which carries storm and service waters and drainage,
but excludes wastes or sewage and industrial waste, other than non-contact
cooling water.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of the Wastewater Treatment Plant of the
City or his/her 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.
[CC 1989 §6-76]
Users shall provide necessary wastewater treatment as required
to comply with all Federal categorical pretreatment standards within
the time limitations as specified by the Federal pretreatment regulations.
Any State requirements and limitations on discharges shall apply to
any case where they are more stringent than Federal requirements and
limitations. Any facilities required to pretreat wastewater to a level
acceptable to the City shall be provided, operated and maintained
at the user's expense. Detailed plans showing the pretreatment facilities
and operating procedures shall be submitted to the City for review
and shall be acceptable to the City before construction of the facility.
The review of such plans and operating procedures will in no way relieve
the user from the responsibility of modifying the facility as necessary
to produce an effluent meeting Federal categorical pretreatment standards.
Any subsequent changes in the pretreatment facilities or method of
operation shall be reported to and be acceptable to the City prior
to the user's initiation of the changes.
[CC 1989 §6-77]
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently
break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure,
appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the sewage works. Any
person violating this provision shall be subject to immediate arrest
under charge of damaging public property.