[Ord. No. 96-807 Art. I, 3-4-1996; Ord. No. 2009-47 Art. I §§1 — 22, 10-5-2009]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
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.
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.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Is permissive.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
surface or ground water.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogens
in grams per liter of solution.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
foods 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 (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and is controlled by public authority.
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.
[Ord. No. 320, 3-5-2018]
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.
Is mandatory.
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) time the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration or flows
during normal operation.
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage
and unpolluted cooling water, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
The Superintendent of Sewage Works and/or Water Pollution
Control of the City of Warsaw 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.
[Ord. No. 96-807 Art. II §1, 3-4-1996; Ord. No. 2009-47 Art. II §1, 10-5-2009]
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 Warsaw, or in any area under the jurisdiction of
said City, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectional
waste.
[Ord. No. 96-807 Art. II §2, 3-4-1996; Ord. No. 2009-47 Art. II §2, 10-5-2009; Ord. No. 320, 3-5-2018]
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within
the City of Warsaw, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said
City, any sewage, Graywater or other polluted waters, except where
suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent
provisions of this Chapter.
[Ord. No. 96-807 Art. II §3, 3-4-1996; Ord. No. 2009-47 Art. II §3, 10-5-2009]
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. 96-807 Art. II §4, 3-4-1996; Ord. No. 2009-47 Art. II §4, 10-5-2009]
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 sixty (60) days after date of official notice
to do so, provided that said public sewer is within seven hundred
fifty (750) feet of the property line.
