[Ord. No. 233 Art. I, 1-24-1972]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings
of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
BOD (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 Celsius (20°C), expressed in milligrams
per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a draining 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 (one and one-half (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.
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.
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 conditions normally prevailing in
public sewers with no particle greater than one-half (½) inch
(one and twenty-seven hundredths (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.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of 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, treatment and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SHALL
Is mandatory; MAY: Is permissive.
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 (24) hour concentration or
flows during normal operation.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of Sewage Works and/or of Water Pollution
Control of the City of Kearney or his/her authorized deputy, agent
or representative. The office of Superintendent and Sewer Inspector
may be combined.
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.
[Ord. No. 233 Art. II §1, 1-24-1972]
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit
to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property
within the City of Kearney, or in any area under the jurisdiction
of said City, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable
waste.
[Ord. No. 233 Art. II §2, 1-24-1972]
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within
the City of Kearney, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said
City, any sewage or other polluted waters except where suitable treatment
has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this
Chapter.
[Ord. No. 233 Art. II §3, 1-24-1972]
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct
or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other
facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
[Ord. No. 233 Art. II §4, 1-24-1972; Ord. No. 235, 2-14-1972]
The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human
occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes situated within
the City and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which
there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary
sewer of the City is hereby required at his/her expense to install
suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities
directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions
of this Chapter within ninety (90) days after date of official notice
to do so provided that said public sewer is within one hundred (100)
feet of the property line.