[Ord. No. 2005-24 §1(13.0101), 8-2-2005]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
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.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Any individual, firm, partnership, or corporation hired to install sewer mains.
Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, political corporation or subdivision of either the State or Federal Government to whom sewer services are made available from the City's facilities.
An individual registered as a professional engineer in the State of Missouri.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
The person or persons duly authorized by the City to inspect and approve the installations of building sewers and their connection.
The State agency having jurisdiction over community sewer systems, including regulations issued by the agency.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water.
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.
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 (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.
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.
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.
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
SUPERINTENDENT — The Superintendent of the municipal sewage works of the City or its 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.