[Ord. No. 833 Art. I §§1-26, 4-21-1981; Ord. No. 1594 §1, 7-2-1996]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
APPLICANT
Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation or other agency
owning land within the City applying for sewer service.
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 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 (5) 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.
CITY
The City of Parkville, Missouri.
COUNCIL
The Board of Aldermen of the City of Parkville, Missouri.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and
sale of produce.
GRINDER PUMP/FORCE MAIN SYSTEM
A wastewater collection system which collects the effluent
in a holding tank, grinds the effluent into a slurry, and pumps the
effluent (low pressure) to the gravity sewer system, approved only
when a gravity system is determined by the City to be impractical.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade, or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INSPECTOR
The Superintendent otherwise another person or persons duly
authorized by the City of Parkville to inspect and approve the installation
of building sewers and their connection to the public sewer system.
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.
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 of conditions normally prevailing
in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (½)
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.
RISS LAKE DEVELOPMENT
All subdivisions, including Riss Lake Meadows, located within
the Riss Lake area as legally described in the Community Unit Plan
adopted therefor.
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 storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWER LATERAL
The privately owned sewer pipeline that conveys sewage from
a building to the public sewer pipe, consisting of the building sewer
and the exterior portion of the building drain.
[Ord. No. 2571 §2, 2-15-2011]
SHALL
Is mandatory; MAY: Is permissive.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewer, 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 of
flows during normal operation.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of Sewage Works of the City of Parkville,
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.