The mayor or his duly authorized representative.
The quantity of oxygen by weight, expressed in 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.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal (also called house lateral and house connection).
The City of Pottsboro, Texas, or any authorized person acting in its behalf.
Measure of the oxygen consuming capacity of inorganic and organic matter present in the water or wastewater expressed in 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.
A manhole giving access to a building sewer at some point before the building sewer discharge mixes with other discharges in the public sewer.
A point of access to a course of discharge before the discharge mixes with other discharges in the public sewer.
Animal and vegetable wastes and residue from preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food; and from the handling, processing, storage and sale of food products and produce.
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.
The charge made on those persons who discharge industrial wastes into the city's sewerage system.
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.
Any outlet into a watercourse, ditch, lake, or other body of surfacewater or groundwater.
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 250 mg/1 and BOD is not more than 225 mg/1.
The imposition of organic or hydraulic loading on a treatment facility in excess of its engineered design capacity.
Includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership association, and any other legal entity.
The logarithm (Base 10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration.
The 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 Pottsboro, Texas.
A public sewer that conveys domestic wastewater or industrial wastes or a combination of both, and into which stormwater, surfacewater, groundwater, and other unpolluted wastes are not intentionally passed.
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 (24) hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the latest edition, at the time of analysis, of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" as prepared, approved, and published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
A public sewer which carries storm and surfacewaters and drainage, and into which domestic wastewater or industrial wastes are not intentionally passed.
The rainfall or any other form of precipitation.
The water and wastewater superintendent of the City of Pottsboro or his duly authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
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.
Includes 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 omissions.
A device designed to skim, settle, or otherwise remove grease, oil, sand, flammable wastes or other harmful substances.
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 an insignificant amount in mg/1 each of suspended solids and BOD, as determined by the Texas Water Quality Board; and
color not exceeding fifty (50) units as measured by the Platinum-Cobalt method of determination as specified in Standard Methods.
The rejected, initialized or superfluous substances in liquid, gaseous, or solid form resulting from domestic, agricultural, or industrial activities.
A combination of the water carried waste from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with any ground, surface, and stormwater that may be present.
Includes all facilities for collection, pumping, treating, and disposing of wastewater and industrial wastes.
Any city owned facilities, devices, and structures used for receiving, processing and treating wastewater, industrial waste, and sludges from the sanitary sewers.
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.
A natural or manmade channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(1996 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 11, Article 8.00, Section 8.01)