This chapter shall be known as the Three Oaks Township "Sewer
Ordinance."
It is hereby determined to be desirable and necessary for the
public health, safety and welfare of Three Oaks Township, Berrien
County, Michigan, that a wastewater collection system be operated
by said Township.
Unless the context of usage indicates otherwise, the meaning
of specific terms in this chapter shall be as follows:
AVAILABLE PUBLIC SANITARY SEWER
A public sanitary sewer system, whether publicly or privately
financed, which passes not more than 200 feet from the premises measured
from the nearest point of the lateral connection provided for the
property in question and the nearest point of the structure from which
sewage originates. In the event no lateral line has been provided
for the property, a connection to the available sanitary sewer shall
be required if the distance from the juncture of the property line
and the street or easement right-of-way line in which the sewer lies
and the nearest point of the structure from which sanitary sewage
originates is not more than 200 feet.
BOD (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
BOARD
The Three Oaks Township Board of Trustees.
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 feet outside the inner face of the building
wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sanitary
sewer main, or other place of disposal, whether on public or private
property.
COMMERCIAL USER (CLASS II)
Any property occupied by a nonresidential establishment not
within the definition of an "Industrial User (Class III)" and which
is connected to the system.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and
sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL USER (CLASS III)
Any nonresidential user identified in Divisions A, B, D,
E, or I of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office
of Management and Budget, as amended. Class III shall also include
any user, industrial or otherwise, which discharges wastewater containing
toxic or poisonous substances or any substance which causes interference
to the conveyance or treatment processes.
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER
The liquid, gaseous, or solid wastes resulting from industrial
or manufacturing processes, trade or business, or from the development
or recovery of resources or containers as distinct from segregated
domestic strength wastewater.
LATERAL
That portion of the public sewer which projects from the
main line of the public sewer to the adjoining or abutting property
lines and to which the building sewer is connected.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
or group.
pH
The negative logarithm of concentration of hydrogen ions
in grams per liter.
PREMISES
The particular property connection to the system, and includes
appurtenant land and improvements.
PRETREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to, or in lieu of, discharging
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the public sewer or
the wastewater treatment system.
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 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer located in a public street, right-of-way, or easement
in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and is
controlled by public authority, and includes all sewers of the system,
but shall not include a building sewer or any connection thereto which
serves only one building or owner.
SANITARY SEWER
A pipe or conduit which carries sewage, and to which stormwater,
surface water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwater, surface water, and stormwater as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage and specifically the treatment plant of the Village of Three
Oaks.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing
of sewage, and includes all facilities of the Township and the Village
of Three Oaks.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SLUG/SHOCK LOAD/BATCH DISCHARGE
Any discharge of wastewater which, in concentration of any
given constituent or in quantity of flow, causes, or may cause, interference
to sewage works.
STRUCTURE
A building in which toilet, kitchen, laundry, bathing, or
other facilities which generate water-carried sanitary sewage are
used or are available for use for household, commercial, industrial
or other purposes.
SURCHARGE
The additional charge which a user discharging wastewater
having strength in excess of the limits set by the Township for the
transportation and treatment of the system's sewage will be required
to pay to cover the cost of treating such excess-strength wastewater.
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.
TOWNSHIP
Three Oaks Township, Berrien County, Michigan.
UNITS or EQUIVALENT UNITS
The quantity of sanitary sewage ordinarily arising from the
occupancy of a residence building by a single family of ordinary size,
as shall from time to time be defined by the Township Board.
USERS
The person or persons who legally own, lease, or occupy private
property with wastewater facilities which discharge or will discharge
to sewage works.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
The Township may require each person who applies for or receives
sewer service, or through the nature of the enterprise creates a potential
environmental problem to file the material listed below:
A. File a written statement setting forth the nature of the enterprise,
the source and amount of water used, the amount of water to be discharged,
with its present or expected bacterial, physical, chemical, radioactive,
or other pertinent characteristics of the wastes.
B. Provide a plan map of the building, works, or complex with each outfall
to the surface waters, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, natural watercourse,
or groundwater noted, described, waste stream identified.
C. Sample, test, and file reports with the Township and the appropriate
state agencies on appropriate characteristic of wastes on a schedule,
at locations, and according to methods approved by the Township.
D. Place waste treatment facilities, process facilities, waste streams,
or other potential waste problems under the specific supervision and
control of persons who have been certified by an appropriate state
agency as properly qualified to supervise such facilities.
E. Provide a report on raw materials entering the process or support
systems, intermediate materials, final products, and waste by-products
as those factors may affect waste control.
F. Maintain records and file reports on the final disposal of specific
liquid, solid, sludges, oils, radioactive materials, solvents, or
other wastes.
G. If any industrial process is to be altered so as to include or negate
a process waste or potential waste, written notification shall be
given to the Township and be subject to approval.