[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:
Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation or other agency
owning land within the City applying for sewer service.
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.
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.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
The City of Parkville, Missouri.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
The Board of Aldermen of the City of Parkville, Missouri.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and
sale of produce.
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.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade, or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
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.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other
body of surface or ground water.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
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.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and is controlled by public authority.
All subdivisions, including Riss Lake Meadows, located within
the Riss Lake area as legally described in the Community Unit Plan
adopted therefor.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface,
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
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.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
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]
Is mandatory; MAY: Is permissive.
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.
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling
water.
The Superintendent of Sewage Works of the City of Parkville,
or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
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.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
