For the purpose of this title, the words, terms and phrases used in this title shall have the meanings defined in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.00; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Apartment" means multiple-dwelling units not individually owned and on a single lot.
(Ord. 1895 § 1, 2003)
"Applicant" means any person, or group of persons, applying for sewer service.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.01; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Billable parameters" means those parameters, including, without limitation, flow, BOD, capacity, SS, volume and 1/1, for which the treatment works is designed to treat and for which average user charge unit costs are calculated pursuant to Chapter 15.20 of this title.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.02; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)" means the measure of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of the organic matter in a sample of sewage for five days at 20 degrees centigrade, as determined by the method of testing for BOD pursuant to the standard methods.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.03; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Capacity" means all or a portion of the total volume of sewage and industrial waste, expressed in terms of gallons per day, average dry weather flow ("GPDADWF"), that the city is entitled to collect and discharge into the treatment plant, and which may be allocated to users.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.04; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Charge" means the rental or other charge established by this title for services and facilities furnished by the city to any premises in connection with the operation of sewer facilities.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.05; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Chemical oxygen demand (COD)" means the measure of oxygen utilized in the oxidation of the organic matter in a sample of sewage by a strong oxidant, as determined by the method of testing for COD pursuant to the standard methods.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.06; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"City" means the city of Pleasanton, county of Alameda, state of California.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.07; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"City council" means the city council of the city.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.08; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"City sewer" means any sewer serving as a part of the sewerage system which is owned by the city.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.09; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Commercial building" means any building devoted principally to a nonresidential use allowed by the zoning ordinance codified in Title 18 of this code.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.10; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Commercial garbage grinder" means a mechanical unit for pulverizing large quantities of wastes by a commercial user.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.11; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Commercial user" means any nonresidential user that the director determines discharges to the sewerage system primarily sanitary sewage.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.12; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Condominium" means three or more attached dwelling units, consisting of an undivided interest in common in a portion of real property coupled with a separate interest in a space called a dwelling unit.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.12.5; Ord. 1203 § 2, 1985; Ord. 1895 § 1, 2003)
"County" means the county of Alameda.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.13; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Developer" means any person who applies to the city for permission to build, improve, expand or convert any premises or tract of land to a use which will require the use of, or expanded use of, the sewerage system.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.14; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Director" means the operations services director for the city or the authorized representative thereof.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.15; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983; Ord. 2000 § 1, 2009)
"District" means the Dublin-San Ramon services district.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.16; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Duet" means two attached dwelling units located on two separate lots.
(Ord. 1895 § 1, 2003)
"Duplex" means two attached dwelling units located on a single lot.
(Ord. 1895 § 1, 2003)
"Dwelling unit" means a distinct attached or a detached space, which provides complete independent living facilities for one household. A dwelling unit shall include permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation within the unit.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.17; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983; Ord. 1895 § 1, 2003)
"Existing users" means all users discharging into the sewerage system on the effective date hereof.
(Prior code 2-15.01.18; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Flow" means the movement of a quantity of sewage or other liquid past a given point or through a given section of sewer.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.19; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Gallons per day (GPD)" means the volume, measured in gallons per day, of any flow.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.20; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Garbage" means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.21; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Grease, oil and fats" means any material or like material that is soluble by the freon extraction process.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.22; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Industrial building" means any building devoted principally to uses permitted by the zoning ordinance other than residential and retail uses.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.23; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Industrial user" means an establishment engaged in producing, manufacturing or processing operations, and all other users engaged in any activity resulting in the production of industrial wastes which enter the sewerage system.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.24; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Industrial wastes" or "industrial sewage" means a combination of liquid or water carried sewage or waste resulting from a manufacturing process employed in industrial establishments, including, without limitation, any washing water, cleaning water or drain water from such process. The same shall also include waste from Zeolite type softening regeneration plants and water from commercial laundries.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.25; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Infiltration and inflow" means the infiltration and inflow of water into the sewerage system.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.26; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Livermore" shall mean the city of Livermore, California.
(Ord. 1979 § 1, 2008)
"Local costs" means costs which are borne in their entirety by the city and include all expenses incurred up to the point of delivery of effluent to the district system and all expenses associated with disposing of city effluent via the Livermore-Amador Valley water management agency's wastewater export system.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.27; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Major contributing industry" means an industrial user who meets one or more of the following criteria, as determined by the director:
A. 
The user is one of the 34 natural resources defense council ("NRDC") industries for which the United States environmental protection agency intends to set categorical standards, and the user is not in an exempt subcategory;
B. 
The user's average flow exceeds 25,000 GPD or the average BOD or SS loading exceeds 50 pounds per day;
C. 
The user's average flow exceeds 2,500 GPD, and priority pollutants or prohibited discharge pollutants are known to be present;
D. 
The user's average flow is less than 2,500 GPD, and priority pollutants or prohibited discharge pollutants are known to be present in significant concentrations;
E. 
The user is known to have caused, is suspected to have caused, or has the potential to cause, operational problems at the treatment plant.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.28; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Million gallons/million gallons per day (MG/MGD)" means 1,000,000 gallons and 1,000,000 gallons per day, respectively.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.29; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Mobilehome" means any dwelling unit so constructed as to allow relocation from place to place.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.30; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983; Ord. 1895 § 1, 2003)
"Multi-family unit" means any dwelling unit located on a single lot containing three or more dwelling units, including, without limitation, triplexes, quadplexes, apartments, and mobilehomes in mobilehome parks.
(Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983; Ord. 1203 § 1, 1985; Ord. 1895 § 1, 2003)
"New users" means all persons who commence discharging into the sewerage system after the effective date hereof.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.32; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"NPDES" means the national pollution discharge elimination system.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.33; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Occupant" means and includes individual, firm, corporation or other organization owning, renting, leasing or otherwise occupying any premises.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.34; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Person" means and includes any firm, association, corporation, partnership or governmental agency.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.35; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.36; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Pollute" means to alter the quality of water by intentional or unintentional means that render it less usable or unusable for any beneficial use of prohibit it from being safely discharged to surface waters or to storm drains.
(Prior code § 2-15-01.37; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Premises" means any lot, parcel of land, building or establishment.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.38; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Pretreatment" means the use of any works or device for treatment, alteration, control or flow limitation of sewage or industrial waste, prior to discharge into the sewerage system.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.39; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Regional costs" means costs which are shared by the city and district in accordance with the cost of providing service for each agency, including all wastewater treatment costs incurred by the district.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.40; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Residential discharge equivalent (RDE)" means a sewage discharge equal in volume and strength to the discharge from a typical single-family dwelling, as such discharge shall be determined from time to time by the director. Sewage discharge, for purposes of calculating RDE, shall be comprised of flow, BOD and SS, and any other constituent which may be added from time to time by the director.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.41; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983; Ord. 1146 § 1(a), 1984)
"Residential user" means any user introducing into the sewerage system sanitary sewage from a single-family dwelling, or from a single unit of a multiple-family dwelling.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.42; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Sanitary sewage" means wastewater containing only human excrement and sanitary and household wastes derived from dwellings or other places of abode, institutions, restaurants and restrooms, locker rooms, showers, and washrooms of commercial and industrial premises.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.43; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"School" means any public or private institution of learning which discharges into the city's sewerage system primarily sanitary sewage.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.44; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Auxiliary (accessory dwelling) unit" means any dwelling unit added to a lot of a single-family dwelling unit as defined in Government Code Section 65852.2, as may be amended or as provided in city of Pleasanton local ordinances. Also referred to as "in-law unit," "au pair unit," "granny unit," "auxiliary dwelling unit," "guest unit," or "second unit."
(Prior code § 2-15.01.44.5; Ord. 1203 § 3, 1983; Ord. 1895 § 1, 2003; Ord. 2161 § 1, 2017)
"Service lateral" means the pipe between the trunk line and the user's side sewer connection at the edge of the street or easement.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.45; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Sewage" means water carrying wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such other waters as may be present, or any combination of such wastes and waters, but excluding unpolluted water.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.46; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Sewer" means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.47; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Sewerage system" means all sewers and facilities operated for carrying, collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.48; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
The term "shall" is mandatory; the term "may" is permissive.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.49; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Side sewer" means a pipe connecting to a service lateral from a house or other structure.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.50; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Single-family dwelling unit" means a detached dwelling unit on a single lot with no common wall.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.51; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983; Ord. 1203 § 1, 1985; Ord. 1895 § 1, 2003)
"Standard methods of testing" means the measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of water and wastes as determined in accordance with the most recent edition of the "Standard Methods For The Examination of Water And Waste Water", published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation. If such testing standards are not provided in the standard methods, the procedures contained in Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 136, as amended, shall apply. In the event specific value limits have been established, such values shall be determined from 24-hour composite samples that are representative of the waste. However, if intermittent discharges are made that are not representative of the 24-hour discharge, sampling requirements shall be determined on a case by case basis.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.52; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"State" means the state of California.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.53; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Storm drains" means those pipes, canals and conduits provided to carry storm and surface waters and unpolluted wastewater.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.54; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Stormwater" means water derived from a rainfall or resulting therefrom.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.55; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Suspended solids" means the measure of solids that float or are in suspension in a sample of sewage which are removable by filtration, as determined by the method of testing for SS pursuant to the standard methods.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.56; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Total dissolved solids (TDS)" means the measure of all solids that are colloidal or in solution in a sample of sewage that are not removable by filtration, but which remain after evaporation, as determined by the method of testing for TDS pursuant to the standard methods.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.57; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Townhome or townhouse" means three or more attached dwelling units, consisting of an individual ownership interest in real property and a dwelling unit.
(Ord. 1895 § 1, 2003)
"Treatment plant" or "treatment works" means the district wastewater treatment facilities defined by the district as "treatment works".
(Prior code § 2-15.01.58; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Trunk line" or "trunk sewer" means a main sewer line to which two or more service laterals are connected and which serves the primary purpose of transporting sewage from service laterals to the treatment plant.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.59; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Uncommitted capacity" means the total capacity to which the city is entitled, less the sum of the following:
A. 
That capacity being used, or which may be permitted to be used, by existing users;
B. 
That capacity committed under connection permits outstanding but not connected to the sewerage system; and
C. 
That capacity committed to future use by agreements, reservations, or other specific purposes, as determined by the city, remaining to be reserved in such agreements, reservations of other specific purposes.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.60; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"User" means a person who uses the sewerage system by discharging sewage or industrial wastes therein.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.61; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Volume" means the wastewater flow occurring over a specified period of time.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.62; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Wastewater" has the same meaning as the term "sewage".
(Prior code § 2-15.01.63; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Wastewater discharge permit" means the permit required of all major contributing industries and available to other users as provided in Chapter 15.36 of this title.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.64; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Water softener" means a unit using the ion exchange process requiring sodium ion chloride to regenerate the exchange bed.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.65; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
"Zoning ordinance" means Title 18 of this code.
(Prior code § 2-15.01.66; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)