For the purposes of this chapter, the following words, phrases,
abbreviations, terms and their derivatives shall be construed as specified
in this section. Words used in the singular include the plural and
the plural the singular. Words used in the masculine gender include
the feminine, and the feminine the masculine:
means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known
as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251, et seq.
means the physical separation between the free-flowing end
of a potable water supply pipeline and the overflow rim of an open
or non-pressure-receiving vessel. To be an "approved air gap," the
separation must be at least twice the diameter of the inlet piping
(supply pipe) measured vertically, and never be less than one inch.
means, for any specified pollutant, city prohibitive discharge
standards, city's specific limitations on discharge, state of Oregon
pretreatment standards, or categorical pretreatment standards (when
effective) whichever standard is most stringent.
means a person who applies for connection to a city utility.
means the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
or the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS).
means an assembly to counteract backpressure and/or prevent
back-siphonage. This assembly must appear on the list of approved
assemblies issued by the Oregon State Health Division and excludes
external AVBs and external PVBs.
means any system of water supply intended or used for human
consumption or other domestic use as approved by the city and regulated
by the Oregon Health Division as a public water supply.
means an auxiliary water supply which has been investigated
and approved by the health authority, meets water quality regulations,
and is accepted by the water purveyor. An "unapproved auxiliary" means
an auxiliary water supply which is not approved by the health authority.
means and includes all references to the form ASTM-C1. The
Standard Specifications or Methods of the American Society for Testing
Materials of the serial designation indicated by the number and, unless
otherwise stated, refer to the latest adopted revision of said specification
or method.
means a mechanical device consisting of a valve member opening
to the atmosphere when the pressure in the line drops to atmospheric
and shall be an approved backflow prevention assembly.
means any water source or system other than the public water
system that may be available in the building or on the property.
means the flow in the direction opposite to the normal flow
or the introduction of any foreign liquids, gases or substances into
the water system of the city.
means a charge for utility service charged in addition to
the consumption charge.
means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical
oxidation of organic matter under a standard laboratory procedure
in five days at twenty degrees C expressed in terms of weight and
concentration (milligrams per liter (mg/L)).
means 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 feet outside the inner face of the building
wall.
means the extension from the building drain to the property
line.
means any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits
promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of
the Act (33 U.S.C. 1317) which applies to a specific category of industrial
users and which appears in 40 CFR Chapter 1, Subchapter N, Parts 405-471,
incorporated herein by reference.
means the cross connection control manager or designee for
the city.
means a person who has successfully completed and maintains
all requirements as established by the Oregon Health Division to be
a tester in the state of Oregon.
means the city of Cannon Beach, a municipal corporation of
the state of Oregon.
means the person designated by the Cannon Beach city council
to act as the administrative head of the city government and who is
charged with certain duties and responsibilities by this chapter,
or the duly authorized representative of same.
means the city of Cannon Beach water system, which shall
include treatment mechanisms or processes, pumping stations, reservoirs,
supply trunk or feeder lines, service lines, meters and all other
appurtenances, device lines and things necessary to the operation
of the system and to supply water service to individual property or
premises and shall include the city's potable water with which the
system is supplied.
means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C.
1251 et seq.) and any subsequent amendments thereto.
means the plumbed location at which a customer of the city's
service carries on his activities of gaining a livelihood or performing
a public service, as distinguished from his residence, and such activity
may be of a business, industrial, professional or public nature.
means a charge placed on every hundred cubic feet (HCF) of
water delivered.
means the entry into or presence in a public water supply
system of any substance which may be deleterious to health and/or
quality of the water.
means the city council of the city of Cannon Beach.
means any physical arrangement where a potable water supply
is connected, directly or indirectly, with any other nondrinkable
water system or auxiliary system, sewer, drain conduit, swimming pool,
storage reservoir, plumbing fixture, swamp coolers, or any other device
which contains, or may contain, contaminated water, sewage, or other
liquid of unknown or unsafe quality which may be capable of imparting
contamination to the public water system as a result of backflow.
Bypass arrangements, jumper connections, removable sections, swivel
or changeover devices, or other temporary or permanent devices through
which or because of which backflow may occur, are considered to be
cross connections.
means a location within three feet of the edge of a city-maintained
street, excluding such area separated from the street by a fence or
enclosure. For residences on nonmaintained streets or private driveway,
curbside shall be the point where the driveway or nonmaintained street
intersects the publicly maintained street, or at such location agreed
upon between the franchisee and customer or as determined by the city.
means the person in whose name service is rendered, as evidenced
by a request for service, receipt of service, signature on an application
for service or by receipt and payment of bills for service.
means the total principal and interest payments for a year
on long-term debt issues.
means the low or high hazard classification that shall be
assigned to all actual or potential cross connections.
means any service location which has been altered by grading
or filling of the ground surface, or by construction of any improvement
or impervious surface area, which affects the hydraulic or hydrologic
properties of the parcel.
means any man-made change to improved or unimproved real
property, including but not limited to buildings or other structures,
mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling
operations.
means the person designated by the city manager to supervise
the public works department and who is charged with certain duties
and responsibilities by this chapter, or the duly authorized representative.
means the discharge or introduction of pollutants into the
municipal wastewater treatment system from any nondomestic source
regulated under Section 307(b), (c) or (d) of the Act.
means any person who contributes, causes, or permits the
contribution of wastewater into the city's treatment works that is
of a similar volume and/or chemical make up as that of a residential
dwelling unit. Discharges from a residential dwelling unit typically
include up to one hundred gallons per capita per day, 0.20 pounds
of BOD per capita per day, and 0.17 pounds of TSS per capita per day.
Generally, there are only trace quantities of other organic or inorganic
solids or chemicals.
means an assembly which consists of two independently-operating
check valves which are spring-loaded or weighted. The assembly comes
complete with a shut-off valve on each side of the checks, as well
as test cocks to test the checks for tightness.
means detail design requirements for storm drainage facilities
as approved by the city council.
means a building or buildings containing two dwelling units
with or without a common wall or ceiling and where there are no direct
interior connecting doorways.
means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or where
appropriate the term may also be used as a designation for the administrator
or other duly authorized official of said agency.
means a unit of measure of impervious surface. One ESU is
equal to the estimated amount of impervious surface that would contribute
the same amount of runoff to the city's storm and surface water drainage
system as the impervious surface on the average single family residential
use in the city. One ESU is therefore equal to three thousand one
hundred twenty-five square feet of impervious surface area or any
portion thereof.
means organic polar compounds derived from animal and/or
plant sources that contain multiple carbon chain triglyceride molecules.
These substances are detectable and measurable using analytical test
procedures established in the United States Code of Federal Regulations
40 CFR 136, as may be amended from time to time. All are sometimes
referred to within the utility code as "grease" or "greases."
means those establishments that are engaged in the preparation
or service of food for consumption by the public such as a restaurant,
commercial kitchen, caterer, care facility, espresso stand, ice cream
parlor, deli counter, bakery, or kitchen wash down or rinse facility.
means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
means a sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration
of time.
means a grease trap or a grease interceptor as defined in
this chapter.
means a structure or device designed for the purpose of removing
and preventing fats, oils and grease from entering the sanitary sewer
collection system. These devices are often belowground units in outside
areas and are built as two or three chamber baffled tanks.
means a device for separating and retaining waterborne greases
and grease complexes prior to the wastewater exiting the trap and
entering the sanitary sewer collection and treatment system. Such
traps are typically compact under-the-sink units that are near food
preparation areas.
means material, including any substance, waste, or combination
thereof, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical,
chemical, or infectious characteristics may cause or significantly
contribute to a substantial present or potential hazard to human health,
safety, property, or the environment when improperly treated, stored,
transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed.
means an actual or potential threat of contamination of a
physical, chemical, or biological nature to the public potable water
system or the consumer's potable water system that would be a danger
to health.
means those areas served by the city's water utility that
require secondary pumping to provide adequate service.
means the classification assigned to an actual or potential
cross connection that potentially could allow a substance that may
cause illness or death to backflow into the potable water supply.
means waste from holding tanks such as chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, and septic tanks, including contents of trucks
consolidating waste from such sources.
means any surface area which either prevents or retards saturation
of water into the land surface, or a surface which causes water to
run off the land surface in greater quantities or at an increased
rate of flow from that present under natural conditions pre-existent
to development. Common impervious surfaces include, but are not limited
to, rooftops, concrete or asphalt sidewalks, walkways, patio areas,
driveways, parking lots or storage areas, graveled, oiled or macadam
surfaces or other surfaces which similarly impede the natural saturation
or runoff patterns which existed prior to development.
means any parcel of property which has sewer and water connections
to it. Improved premises does not include public ways under the jurisdiction
of the city, county, state or federal government.
means the liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct
from sanitary sewage.
means a person who has successfully completed and maintains
all requirements as established by the Oregon Health Division to be
an inspector in the state of Oregon. Inspector may be employed with
the city or contracted by the city.
means a plot, parcel, or tract of land.
means the total area of a lot measured in a horizontal plane
within the lot boundary lines exclusive of public and private roads,
except that the measurement of lot area shall not include portions
of a lot located west of the Oregon Coordinate Line.
means the classification assigned to an actual or potential
cross connection that potentially could allow a substance that may
be objectionable, but not hazardous to one's health, to backflow into
the potable water supply.
means an extension of transmission or distribution pipelines,
exclusive of service connections, beyond existing facilities.
means the piping which takes water from the water main to
the premises for potable use.
"Water main" means the transmission or distribution pipelines
located in streets, highways, and public and private rights-of-way
which supply water for general public usage.
means units connecting to the water system through a hydrant,
hosebib, or other appurtenance of a permanent nature that is part
of the city water system or a permanent water service to a premises.
Examples can include, but are not limited to, the following: water
trucks, pesticide applicator vehicles, chemical mixing units or tanks,
waste or septage haulers trucks or units, sewer cleaning equipment,
carpet or steam cleaning equipment other than for homeowner use, rock
quarry or asphalt/concrete batch plants, or any other mobile equipment
or vessel. Uses that are excluded from this definition are recreational
vehicles at assigned sites or parked in accordance with other city
ordinances pertaining to recreational vehicles, and homeowner devices
that are used by the property owner in accordance with other provisions
of this, or other, city ordinances pertaining to provision of water
service to a premises.
means where more than one service unit exists per water meter.
means a building or facility under unified ownership and
control and consisting of more than two dwelling units with each such
unit consisting of one or more rooms with bathroom and kitchen facilities
designed for occupancy by one family and having a common water meter.
means the provision of water to governmental or public entities.
means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or
other body of surface or ground water.
means nonputrescible material including, but not be limited
to: inoperable vehicles, vehicle parts, tires, residential, commercial
and industrial appliances, equipment and furniture; scrap metal, residential,
commercial and industrial building demolition or construction waste;
plastic, glass, cardboard and wastepaper.
means the Oregon Health Division.
means a natural or manmade path, ditch, or channel which
has the specific function of transmitting natural stream water or
storm runoff water from a point of higher elevation to a point of
lower elevation.
means all expenditures during the useful life of the utility
for materials, labor, utilities and other items which are necessary
for managing and maintaining the utility to achieve the capacity and
performance for which such utilities were designed and constructed.
The term operation and maintenance includes replacement.
means any partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation,
association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity,
or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents,
or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine; the singular
shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
means the owner, agent, occupant, lessee, tenant, contract
purchaser or other person having possession or control of property
or the supervision of a construction project on the property.
means the logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
means the period over which a works is evaluated for cost-effectiveness
which shall be a period of twenty years.
means approved receptacle or devices intended to receive
water, liquids or other permissible wastes, and which discharge the
same into the soil pipe, waste pipe or special waste pipe with which
they are connected and shall include all floor drains.
means a single-family or commercial premises, in or on any
portion of which water from the city mains is piped and controlled
by one or more installed plumbing fixtures. Water so piped onto a
dwelling porch or installed at a service station island constitutes
a plumbed premises.
means the appropriate backflow prevention within the consumer's
water system at or near the point at which the actual or potential
cross connection exists.
means an actual or potential threat to the physical properties
of the water system or the potability of the public or the consumer's
potable water system, but which would not constitute a health or system
hazard, as defined. The maximum intensity of pollution to which the
potable water system could be degraded under this definition would
cause a nuisance or be aesthetically objectionable or could cause
minor damage to the system or its appurtenances.
means any piece of property to which utility service is provided,
including, but not limited to, all improvements, mobile structures
and other structures located upon it.
means the appropriate backflow prevention at the service
connection between the public water system and the premises. This
location will be at or near the property line and downstream from
the service connection meter.
means a mechanical device consisting of one spring-loaded
check valve in the supply line and a spring-loaded air inlet on the
downstream side of the check valve(s) which will open to atmosphere
when the pressure in the device drops below one pound per square inch.
The complete assembly consists of two shut-off valves and two test
ports for checking water tightness of the check valve. The assembly
shall be an approved backflow prevention assembly.
means the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to, or in lieu of, discharging
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the treatment works.
means absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain
types or characteristics of wastewater as established by EPA, DEQ
and/or the director.
means the wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of foods that have been shredded to such degree that all particles
will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing
in public sewers.
means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties
have equal rights and is controlled by public authority.
means solid waste or waste material including bones, meat
and meat scraps, fat, grease, fish and fish scraps, food containers
contaminated with food wastes, particles or residues, vegetable and
fruit food wastes, manure, dead fowl, dead animals, or similar organic
wastes which cause offensive odors or create a health hazard or which
are capable of attracting or providing food for potential disease
carriers, such as birds, rodents, flies and other vectors.
means those rates, charges, rentals, and regulations as they
are set forth and amended from time to time by the city council.
means the replacement of equipment, equipment components,
or other utility components which have been in service for its useful
life.
means those materials designated from time to time by the
Department of Environmental Quality or materials designated by the
city. An exemption to this definition is an inoperable vehicle commonly
manufactured of ferrous metals.
means an assembly containing two independently-acting approved
check valves together with a hydraulically-operated, mechanically-independent
pressure differential relief valve located between the check valves,
and at the same time, below the first check valve. The assembly shall
include properly located test cocks and two tightly closing shut-off
valves.
means the hours between eight a.m. and five p.m., Monday
through Friday, except city holidays.
means expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment,
accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful
life of the utility to maintain the capacity and performance for which
the utility was designed and constructed.
means a person or persons living within the area(s) served
by the city utility system.
means the process of obtaining useful material or energy
resources from solid waste and includes:
"Energy recovery,"
which means recovery in which all or a part of the solid
waste materials are processed to utilize the heat content, or other
forms of energy, of or from the material.
"Material recovery,"
which means any process of obtaining from solid waste, by
presegregation or otherwise, materials which still have useful physical
or chemical properties after serving a specific purpose and can, therefore,
be reused or recycled for the same or other purpose.
"Recycling,"
which means any process by which solid waste materials are
transformed into new products in such manner that the original products
may lose their identity. The process includes collection, transportation,
storage and transfer of solid waste and placing the solid waste in
the stream of commerce for resource recovery.
"Reuse,"
which means the return of a commodity into the economic stream
for use in the same kind of application as before without change in
its identity.
means either liquid or solid material removed from a septic
tank, cesspool, portable toilet, Type III marine sanitation device,
or similar treatment works that receives only domestic sewage. Septage
does not include liquid or solid material removed from a septic tank,
cesspool, or similar holding tank that receives industrial waste and
does not include grease removed from a grease trap at a restaurant.
means the pipes, valves, meter boxes, and appurtenances necessary
to supply water from mains through the meter, but this does not include
the piping from the meters to the point of service.
means any pipe between the main sewer lines of the city and
the user's plumbing facilities.
means all piping and appurtenances from the meter to the
point of service. The service line is privately owned and maintained.
means each self-contained living unit or independent business
activity that is served from a single meter.
means a combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together
with such ground, surface, and storm waters as may be present.
means any arrangement of devices and structures used for
treating sewage.
means all city-owned facilities for collecting, pumping,
treating and disposing of sewage.
means a permit issued to connect buildings or structures
to a public sewer.
means a pipe or conduit ditch, or other device used to collect
and transport wastewater or stormwater from the generating source
or from a given location.
"Public sewer" means a sewer provided by or subject to the
jurisdiction of the city. It also includes sewers within or outside
the city boundaries that serve one or more persons and ultimately
discharge into the city sanitary sewer system, even though those sewers
may not have been constructed with city funds.
"Sanitary sewer" means a sewer that conveys only wastewater
and into which storm, surface, and ground waters are not intentionally
admitted.
"Storm sewer" means a sewer that conveys storm, surface,
and ground waters and into which wastewaters are not intentionally
admitted.
means the current version of the facility plan for the development
of the wastewater treatment plant and sanitary sewer system as amended
or updated.
means the assessment levied on all users of the public sewer
system.
is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
means the plumbed dwelling of a householder and/or his family,
who is a customer of the city's service, which premises may be an
individual residence, family apartment in an apartment house, or a
cottage, cabin, trailer house or tent, a residential court, motel,
auto court or camp, or a similar use.
means that part of a building or structure which contains
one or more rooms with a bathroom and kitchen facilities designed
for occupancy by one family and where the units are sold and deeded
as individual units and have individual water meters. A SFU is presumed
to have three thousand one hundred twenty-five square feet of impervious
surface area for purposes of this chapter. The term "SFU" shall be
inclusive of those units identified as detached single-family residences,
unit ownership, and condominiums, etc.
"Solid waste"
means all putrescible and nonputrescible wastes including,
but not limited to: garbage, rubbish, refuse, ashes, wastepaper, cardboard,
grass clippings, compost, tires, equipment and furniture; commercial,
industrial, demolition and construction wastes; discarded home or
industrial appliances; manure, vegetable or animal solid and semisolid
wastes, dead animals, biomedical waste and other wastes.
"Solid waste"
a.
b.
c.
does not include:
Materials defined as principle recyclable materials in OAR 340-090-070,
and any others designated by the city, which have been correctly source-separated
and placed for collection or taken to a depot by the generator;
Hazardous wastes as defined in ORS 466.005;
Material used for fertilizer or for other productive purposes
or which are salvageable as such materials are used on land in agricultural
operations and growing or harvesting of crops and the raising of fowls
or animals. (OAR 340-090-010(36).
The fact that materials that would otherwise come within the
definition of solid waste may from time to time have value and thus
be utilized does not remove them from the definition.
means the prevention or reduction of solid waste, management
of the storage, transfer, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization,
processing and final disposal of solid waste, resource recovery from
solid waste, and facilities used for those activities.
means the collection, transportation, storage, transfer,
disposal of or resource recovery of solid waste, including solid waste
management.
means the separation or setting aside of waste, by the source
generator or producer of the waste, for recycling or reuse.
means any structure or configuration of the ground that is
used or by its location becomes a place where stormwater flows or
is accumulated, including but not limited to pipes, sewers, curbs,
gutters, manholes, catch basins, ponds, open drainage ways and their
appurtenances.
means the collecting of stormwater discharged from property
on which development exists and its deposit directly or indirectly
into public storm drainage facilities.
means water from precipitation, surface or subterranean water
from any source, drainage and nonseptic wastewater.
means irrigation sprinkling or delivery devices that are
located below the surface of the landscaped area in which they are
installed.
means the public works director of the city or authorized
deputy, agent, or representative.
means all natural and man-made facilities utilized by the
surface water utility to regulate the quantity and quality of surface
water, including drainage easements, culverts, storm drains, catch
basins, stream corridors, rivers, ponds, wetlands and impoundments.
means 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.
means fees designated by the city as prescribed in Chapter 3.16 of the municipal code.
means service that will not be of a permanent nature such
as construction.
means the pressure created by the expansion of heated water.
means the complete separation by the source generator or
producer of the waste by type or kind of waste from all other types
or kinds of waste. Total source separation requires each type or kind
of recyclable material such as newsprint, computer paper, cardboard,
glass, ferrous cans and aluminum cans to be distinctly separated into
a separate package, container or stack in preparation for collection.
For example, newspaper, cardboard, glass, ferrous cans and waste wood
are each placed in a separate container and no two or more recyclables
are mixed in the same container.
means the total suspended matter that floats on the surface
of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater, or other liquids and which
is removable by laboratory filtering.
means one of the pollutants or combination of those pollutants
listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the Environmental Protection
Agency under the provision of Section 307 (33 U.S.C. 1317) of the
Act.
means 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 and their appurtenances, extensions, improvements,
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 wastewater, or any other
method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating,
separating, or disposing of municipal waste or industrial waste).
means any location which has not been altered by grading
or filling of the ground surface, or by constructions of any improvements
or other impervious surface area, which affects the hydraulic or hydrologic
properties of the parcel.
means water supplied by a public water system to a water
user's system after it has passed through the service connection.
means the estimated period during which a treatment works
will be operated, as defined by the planning period.
means the total wastewater service charge which is levied
in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation and
maintenance of the treatment works, and the costs of debt service
as applicable, and the costs associated with reconstruction as applicable.
means sanitary sewer, water, and surface water management
services provided by the city.
means the combined water, sewer and surface water management
service rates imposed pursuant to this chapter.
means material that is no longer wanted or usable by the
source, the source generator or producer of the material, and the
material is to be disposed of or resource recovered by another person,
and includes both source separated material and nonsource separated
materials.
means the liquid and water-carried wastes from dwellings,
commercial buildings, and institutions, whether treated or untreated,
which is contributed into or permitted to enter the treatment works.
means any wastewater treatment works and the sewers, conveyances,
and appurtenances discharging thereto, owned and operated by the city.
Same as treatment works.
means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
means a water volume measuring and recording device, furnished
and installed by the city, or by a user, and approved by the city.
means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways,
wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage
systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or
underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through, or border upon the state, or any portion thereof.
means the current version of the master plan for development
of the water system as amended or updated.
(Ord. 04-2; Ord. 05-4 § 2; Ord. 05-7 § 1)
