[Ord. No. 373 Ch. 1(2.1), 5-18-2006]
As used in this Section, the following terms shall have these prescribed meanings:
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 DRAINThe 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.
BUILDING SEWERThe extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
COMMERCIALRelating to the sale of goods or services.
EASEMENTA grant by the property owner for the public or private use of a tract of land for specific purposes.
ENGINEERA registered professional engineer in the State of Missouri.
GARBAGESolid waste from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTESThe liquid or process wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLETAny outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground waters.
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATERWastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than two hundred fifty (250) mg/l and a suspended solids concentration of not more than three hundred (300) mg/l.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCEAll expenditures during the useful life of the treatment works for materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary for managing and maintaining the sewage works to achieve the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
PERSONAny individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
pHThe logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGEThe 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 in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWERA sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
REPLACEMENTExpenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance" includes replacement.
RESIDENTIAL CONTRIBUTORAny contributor to the City's treatment works whose lot, parcel of real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes only.
SANITARY SEWERA sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface, and ground water are not intentionally admitted.
SEPTIC SYSTEMAn underground system with a septic tank used for the decomposition of domestic wastes.
SEPTIC TANKA water-tight receptacle that receives the discharge of sewage from a building, sewer or part thereof, and is designed and constructed so as to permit settling of solids from this liquid, digestion of the organic matter, and discharge of the liquid portion into a disposal area.
SEWAGEA 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.
SEWERA pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SLUGAny discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste during normal operation which in concentration of any given constituent exceeds more than five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration; or if the quantity of flow exceeds more than five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour flow for any period or duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS or "SS"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.
TREATMENT WORKSAny devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage, or liquid industrial wastes. These include interceptor sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, individual systems, pumping, power, and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions, improvements, remodeling, additions, and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works, including site acquisition of land, that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment, or any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating, or disposing of municipal waste or industrial waste, including waste in combined storm water and sanitary sewer systems.
USEFUL LIFEThe estimated period during which the treatment works will be operated.
USER CHARGEThat portion of the total wastewater service charge which is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation, maintenance, and replacement of the wastewater treatment works.
WATERCOURSEA channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
WATER METERA water volume measuring and recording device furnished and/or installed by the City of Cole Camp or furnished and/or installed by a user and approved by the City of Cole Camp.