[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
The quantity of oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
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.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
The division of sanitary sewer customers into classes by similar process or discharge flow characteristics as follows:
RESIDENTIAL USERAn individual home or dwelling unit, including a mobile home, apartment, condominium or multifamily dwelling, that discharges only segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
COMMERCIAL USERAny retail or wholesale business engaged in selling merchandise or a service that discharges only segregated domesticated wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
GOVERNMENTAL USERAny federal, state, or local governmental office or governmental service facility that discharges only segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
Any nongovernmental user of publicly owned treatment works which discharges liquid waste from industrial processes distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any nongovernmental user of a publicly owned treatment works which discharges wastewater to the treatment works which contains toxic pollutants or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in, or have an adverse effect on, the waters receiving any discharge from the treatment works.
All commercial users of an individual system constructed with grant assistance under Section 201(h) of the Clean Water Act [33 U.S.C. § 1281(h)] and this article.
INSTITUTIONAL USERAny educational, religious or social organization such as a school, church, nursing home, hospital or other institutional user that discharges only segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus any additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit if the treatment works was designed to treat pollutants to a substantial degree. The term "substantial degrees" generally means removals in the order of 80% or greater.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
Any pollutant that is not a compatible pollutant, as defined in this section.
The recovery from each industrial user, as defined, of that portion of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant which is allocable to the treatment of industrial wastes from such industries. The industrial cost recovery charge is defined in Article VI, Rates and Charges, of this chapter.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business as district from segregated domestic strength wastes, or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
Any waters entering the system from the ground through such means as, but not limited to, defective pipes, pipe joints, connections or manhole walls. Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.
The total quantity of water from both infiltration and inflow.
Any waters entering the system through such sources as, but not limited to, building downspouts, footing or yard drains, cooling water discharges, seepage lines from springs and swampy areas, and storm drain cross-connections.
Any person authorized by the City to inspect and approve the installation of building sewers and their connection to the public sewer system.
A discharge that, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and, therefore, is a cause of a violation of the City's NPDES permit or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with any of the following statutory/regulatory provisions or permits issued thereunder, or any more stringent state or local regulations: Section 405 of the Clean Water Act; the Solid Waste Disposal Act, including Title II commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); any state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; the Clean Air Act; the Toxic Substances Control Act; and the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act.
The Superintendent or their authorized operator, agent or representative.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
A sanitary wastewater flow containing an average daily BOD of not more than 350 mg/l or an average daily suspended solids concentration of not more than 250 mg/l.
The permit issued pursuant to the national pollution discharge elimination system for the discharge of wastewater into the waters of the state.
All costs, direct and indirect, other than debt service, necessary to ensure adequate wastewater treatment on a continuing basis, to conform with all related federal, state and local requirements, and to assure optimal long-term facility management (O&M costs include depreciation and replacement costs).
A discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the City's NPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
The treatment of extra strength wastewater flows in privately owned pretreatment facilities prior to discharge into publicly owned sewage works.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and which is controlled by public authority.
A treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned by the City. This definition includes any devices or systems used in the collection, storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature and any conveyances, which convey wastewater to a treatment plant.
Necessary expenditures made during the service life of the treatment works to replace equipment and plant appurtenances required to maintain the intended performance of the treatment works.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be present. The three most common types of sewage are:
COMBINED SEWAGEWastes including sanitary sewage, industrial sewage, stormwater and infiltration and inflow carried to the wastewater treatment facilities by a combined sewer.
INDUSTRIAL SEWAGEA combination of liquid and water-carried wastes discharged from any industrial establishment and resulting from any trade or process carried on in that establishment; this shall include the wastes from pretreatment facilities and polluted cooling water.
SANITARY SEWAGEThe combination of liquid and water-carried wastes discharged from toilet and other sanitary plumbing facilities.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Any discharge of sewage or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given constituent, exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration during normal operation.
Any industrial user subject to categorical standards.
Any industrial user of the City's wastewater disposal system who:
Discharges 25,000 gallons per day or more of process wastewater;
Contributes a process waste stream which makes up 5% or more of the dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the sewage treatment facility; or
Has a reasonable potential, in the opinion of the City, to adversely affect the sewage treatment facility.
A sewer which carries stormwater, surface water and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
Solids that either float on the surface of, or in suspension in, water, sewage or other liquids and which can be removed by laboratory filtering.
The charge levied on all users of the sewage works for the cost of any bond debt of which debt repayment is to be met from the revenues of such works.
The charge levied on all users of the sewage works for the operation and maintenance, and/or for the cost of any bond debt of which debt repayment is to be met from the revenues of such works.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
A local service connection to the sewer that is made at an angle similar to a "Y" so that a sewer cleaning rod will not come into the sewer at a right angle and penetrate the far side, but will travel down the course of the sewer.