Unless
the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms
used in this Article shall be as follows:
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.
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 City sewer or
other places of disposal.
CESSPOOL
A pit for the reception or detention of sewage.
CITY
The City of Trenton, Missouri.
CITY SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority. These sewers include
public, district and joint district owners.
COUNCIL
The City Council of the City of Trenton, Missouri.
DISTRICT SEWERS
Any sewer open and available to a particular part of the
City, which the City Council has or may designate as constituting
a sewer district and which is controlled by public authority.
DRAIN
A sewer or other pipe or conduit used for conveying groundwater,
surface water or stormwater.
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.
JOINT DISTRICT SEWERS
Any sewer open and available to a particular part of the
City, which consists of two (2) or more sewer districts and is controlled
by public authority.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
NORMAL SEWAGE
Sewage which contains not over three hundred (300) mg/l of BOD and not over three hundred fifty (350) mg/l of suspended solids, and which does not contain any of the materials or substances listed in Section
710.110 of this Chapter in excess of allowable amounts specified in said Section.
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.
POTABLE WATER
Water which is safe for drinking or other sanitary purposes
and is also suitable for domestic use.
PRIVATE SEWERS
Any sewer constructed for private use and which is not a
public, district, or joint sewer district sewer.
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 normaly prevailing in
City sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (1/2) inch (1.27
centimeters) in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWERS
Any sewer open and available to the whole City, and not limited
to any particular part thereof and which is controlled by public authority.
RECEIVING STREAM
Any natural watercourse into which water, treatment plant
effluent, or stormwater is discharged.
ROOF DRAIN
A conduit for conveying the storm- or rainwater from a roof.
SANITARY SEWAGE or SEWAGE
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.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
SANITATION OFFICER
The Superintendent of Trenton Municipal Utilities or other
authorized representative (as appointed by the Council) or his/her
authorized deputy, agent or representative, who shall make inspections
as are necessary to properly carry out the provisions of this Article
and shall report all violations thereof to the City Clerk.
SEPTIC TANK
A tank through which sewage flows and which permits solids
in the sewage to settle in order that portions of such solids may
be degraded by biological action.
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, 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-hour concentration or flows
during normal operation.
STORM DRAIN or STORM SEWER
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling
water.
SURFACE WATER
That portion of a rainfall or other precipitation which runs
off over the surface of the ground.
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.