1.
B.O.D. (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND) – Shall mean the quantity
of oxygen by weight, expressed in mg/l, utilized in the biochemical
oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory conditions for
five days at a temperature of 20° C.
2.
OWNER – Shall mean the City of Weatherford or any authorized
person acting in its behalf.
3.
DOMESTIC WASTEWATER – Shall mean water-borne wastewater normally
discharging into the sanitary convenience of dwellings (including
apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, factories, and institutions,
and commercial establishments.
4.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE – Shall mean water-borne solids, liquids,
or gaseous wastes resulting from and discharged, permitted to flow,
or escaping from the industrial, manufacturing, or food processing
operation or process, or from the development of any natural resource,
or any mixture of these with water or domestic wastewater.
5.
MILLIGRAMS-PER-LITER (MG/L) – Shall mean the same as parts
per million and is a weight-to-weight ratio; the milligram-per-liter
value multiplied by the factor 8.34 shall be equivalent to pounds
per million gallons of water.
6.
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER – Shall mean normal wastewater for
the owner in which the average concentration of suspended solids and
five-day BOD is established at not more than 250 mg/l.
7.
PERSON – Shall mean any and all persons, natural or artificial,
including any individual, firm, company, industry, municipal or private
corporation, association, governmental agency, or other entity, and
agents, servants or employees.
8.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES – Shall mean all facilities for collection,
pumping, treating and disposing of wastewater and wastes, operated
by the owner.
1.
It is the intention of the owner to exclude future industrial wastewater
from the wastewater facilities which might be discharged by any nongovernmental
user of the facilities identified in the Standard Industrial Classification,
U.S. Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented,
under the following divisions:
2.
A user in the divisions listed may be excluded if it is determined
that it will introduce primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes
from sanitary conveniences only.
3.
If, upon passage of this article, a prohibited user locates within
the area and wishes to discharge industrial waste or industrial wastewater
to the facilities, this article will be amended or revoked in order
to establish or revise Industrial Cost Recovery Provisions, which
may be in effect or apply, of the State of Oklahoma, or the United
States Government or any agency thereof, as applicable to the user.
4.
No present user of the wastewater facilities of the owner is hereby
excluded or intended to be excluded from discharging to the wastewater
facilities by reason of the passage of this article.
1.
Sewer use charges for industrial users shall be set by resolution
by the Weatherford Public Works Authority. A copy of the current rates
is in Appendix 6 of this Code.
2.
Billing shall be accomplished by the owner on a monthly basis and
the amount billed for sewer use shall be shown as a separate item.
3.
The owner shall review the industrial user charge annually and revise
it as necessary.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed. The validity of any section, clause, sentence, or
provision of this article shall not affect the validity of any other
part of this article which can be given effect without the invalidated
part or parts.
