As used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given them in this section:
Shall mean the city manager or his duly authorized representative.
Shall mean the quantity of oxygen by weight, expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/1), utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory conditions for five (5) days at a temperature of twenty (20) degrees centigrade.
Shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal (also called house lateral and house connection).
Shall mean the City of Brownfield, Texas, or any authorized person acting in its behalf.
Shall mean measure of the oxygen consuming capacity of inorganic and organic matter present in the water or wastewater expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/1) as the amount of oxygen consumed from a chemical oxidant in a specific test, but not differentiating between stable and unstable organic matter and thus not necessarily correlating with biochemical oxygen demand.
Shall mean a manhole giving access to a building sewer at some point before the building sewer discharge mixes with other discharges in the public sewer.
Shall mean a point of access to a course of discharge before the discharge mixes with other discharges in the public sewer.
Shall mean animal and vegetable wastes and residue from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, processing, storage and sale of food products and produce.
Shall mean waste resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade. or business from the development of any natural resource, or any mixture of the waste with water or normal wastewater, or distinct from normal wastewater.
Shall mean the charge made on those persons who discharge industrial wastes into the city's sewerage system.
Shall mean the same as parts per million and is a weight-to-volume ratio; the milligram-per-liter value multiplied by the factor 8.34 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons of water.
Shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
Shall mean wastewater, excluding industrial wastewater, discharged by a person into sanitary sewers and in which the average concentration of total suspended solids is not more than two hundred fifty (250) mg/1 and BOD is not more than two hundred fifty (250) mg/l.
Shall mean the imposition of organic or hydraulic loading on a treatment facility in excess of its engineered design capacity.
Shall include corporation, organization government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association and any other legal entity.
Shall mean the reciprocal of the logarithm (base 10) of the hydrogen ion concentration expressed in grams per liter.
Shall mean a pipe or conduit carrying wastewater or unpolluted drainage in which owners of abutting properties shall have the use, subject to control by the City of Brownfield.
Shall mean a public sewer that conveys domestic wastewater or industrial wastes or a combination of both; and into which storm water, surface water, groundwater and other unpolluted wastes are not intentionally passed.
Shall mean any discharge of water, wastewater 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 hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
Shall mean the examination and analytical procedures set forth in the latest edition at the time of analysis.
Shall be prepared, approved and published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
Shall mean a public sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage and into which domestic wastewater or industrial wastes are not intentionally passed.
Shall mean rainfall or any other forms of precipitation.
Shall mean the water and wastewater superintendent of the City of Brownfield or his duly authorized deputy, agent or representative.
Shall mean solids measured in mg/1 that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, wastewater or other liquids, and which are largely removable by a laboratory filtration device.
Shall include to deposit, conduct, drain, emit, throw, run, allow to seep or otherwise release or dispose of, or to allow, permit or suffer any of these acts or emissions.
Shall mean a device designed to skim, settle or otherwise remove grease, oil, sand, flammable wastes or other harmful substances.
Shall mean water containing:
No free or emulsified grease or oil;
No acids or alkalis;
No phenols or other substances producing taste or odor in receiving water;
No toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution;
No noxious or otherwise obnoxious or odorous gases;
Not more than ten (10) mg/1 each of suspended solids and BOD; and
Color not exceeding fifty (50) units as measured by the Platinum-Cobolt method of determination as specified in standard methods.
Shall mean rejected, unutilized or superfluous substances in liquid, gaseous or solid form resulting from domestic, agricultural or industrial activities.
Shall mean a combination of the water carried waste from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with any ground, surface and storm water that may be present.
Shall include all facilities for collection, pumping, treating and disposing of wastewater and industrial wastes.
Shall mean any city owned facilities, devices and structures used for receiving, processing and treating wastewater, industrial waste and sludges from the sanitary sewers.
Shall mean the charge on all users of the public sewer system whose wastes do not exceed in strength the concentration values established as representative of normal wastewater.
Shall mean a natural or man-made channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(1965 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 21, Article III, Section 21-81)