[R.O. 1996 § 715.010; CC 1968 § 22-71; Ord. No. 195 Art. I, 6-3-1957; Ord. No. 1888 §§ 1, 2, 11-6-1989]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
The owner or their duly authorized representative, such as builder, developer, or plumber, who applies for a permit to connect the City's Sewerage System.
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 parts per million by weight.
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 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 Blue Springs, Missouri.[1]
The party who has applied for continuing sewerage service and will be responsible for paying periodic bills. Each service connection will be considered a separate customer.
The Sewer Department of the City of Blue Springs.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
Any person discharging commercial and/or industrial waste to the sewage works.
The water-carried wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
Any individual, partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, Governmental entity or any other general entity.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
Shall mean:
Each residential dwelling structure;
Each duplex, triplex, fourplex, apartment building or any other building used for residential purposes;
Each building or section of a building serving a separate owner;
Each structure separated from other structures ten (10) feet or more, owned, rented, or leased by one (1) person and occupied by that person.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharge of such pollutants into the public sanitary sewer system.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (1/2) inch in any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
The Director of Public Works or their authorized deputy, agent or representative.
[Ord. No. 4559 § 1, 8-3-2015]
A sewer carrying the sanitary wastes of a residence or commercial establishment equipped only with sanitary facilities for the disposal of human wastes and other domestic wastes discharged through a building sewer.
Those wastes which are comparable to wastes which originate in residential units and contain only human excrement and wastes from kitchen, laundry, bathing, and other household facilities.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be present.
The division of the City under the City Administrator's control responsible for the operation of the City's sanitary sewer collection and treatment system.
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.
Industrial user subject to categorical effluent standards;
Non-categorical industrial user that contributes more than five (5) percent of average dry weather flow or average organic load to the treatment plant;
Non-categorical industrial user that discharges more than twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons per day;
Any industry which could cause interference or pass-through of pollutants from the treatment plant.
Methods of analysis and testing in accordance with the Environmental Protection Agencies methods as outlined in 40 CFR Part 136.
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.[2]
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.
[1]
Editor’s Note: The definition of "combined sewer," which immediately followed this definition, was repealed 8-3-2015 by Ord. No. 4559 § 1.
[2]
Editor’s Note: The definition of "Superintendent," which immediately followed this definition, was repealed 8-3-2015 by Ord. No. 4559 § 1. See now "Public Works Director."