[R.O. 2007 §§ 710.010, 710.260(J); CC 1979 § 27-14; Ord. No. 46 Art. 1, 8-18-1969; Ord. No. 5635 § 4, 8-25-2011; Ord. No. 5966 § 5, 8-8-2013; Ord. No. 6266 § 11, 12-18-2014; Ord. No. 7655, 6-23-2022]
For the purposes of this Chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this Section:
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 (mg/l).
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 measure of the oxygen required to oxidize all compounds, both organic and inorganic, in water.
The liquid wastes from industrial processes, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
The Manager of Water Environment Services, his/her designee, or such other person or persons as may be designated by the City Administrator from time to time.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than two hundred (200) mg/l, a suspended solids concentration of not more than two hundred twenty-five (225) mg/l, a COD concentration of not more than six hundred eighty-eight (688) mg/l.
All 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.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
The authorized agent of the Manager charged with the responsibility to enforce rules and regulations pertaining to sanitary plumbing.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and which is controlled by public authority.
Expenditures 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.
Any contributor to the City's treatment works whose lot, parcel of real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes only. This includes multiple units that are master metered.
A combination of the water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and stormwaters as may be present.
Is mandatory. MAY: Is permissive.
The following areas of real property outside the City that are served by public sewers and treatment works owned by the City or under the City's control, for which the City has determined that additional sums are necessary to recoup the City's costs of the operation, improvement, maintenance, and replacement of such public sewers and treatment works:
The Westwood Estates/St. Mary's/Steeplechase/St. Peters Estates Special Service Area. That area comprising all real property within the areas described in the following record plats on file in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County:
Westwood Estates Plat One: Book 14, Pages 34-35; |
Westwood Estates Plat Two: Book 15, Pages 44-48; |
St. Mary's Subdivision: Book 5, Page 56; |
St. Mary's Subdivision Addition: Book 6, Page 62; |
St. Mary's Subdivision East Side: Book 6, Page 68; |
St. Mary's Subdivision Addition West Side: Book 7, Page 11; |
Steeplechase: Book 7, Pages 2-3; |
St. Peters Estates: Book 1, Page 43; |
St. Peters Estates No. 2: Book 8, Page 12; |
St. Peters Estates No. 3: Book 10, Page 32; and |
St. Peters Estates Plat 4: Book 11, Page 25. |
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.
Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage, or liquid industrial wastes. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, individual systems, pumping, power, and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions improvement, 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 the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment (including land for composting sludge, temporary storage of such compost, and land used for the storage of treated waste water in land treatment systems before land application); 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 stormwater and sanitary sewer systems.
The estimated period during which a treatment works will be operated.
That portion of the total waste water service charge which is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation, maintenance, and replacement of the waste water treatment works.
A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished and/or installed by the City of St. Peters or furnished and/or installed by a user and approved by the City of St. Peters.