For purposes of Chapters 13.20 through 13.28, the following words and phrases have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
This term, denoting biochemical oxygen demand, means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees centigrade, expressed in parts per million by weight.
means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system that receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning two feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
means the extension from the building drain, beginning two feet from the outside of the building, to the public sewer or other place of disposal including the lower lateral.
means an inspection of a building sewer lateral that consists of the retention of a pre-qualified contractor by the owner in order to visually examine and inspect a building sewer lateral in the manner deemed appropriate by the director of public works. Such an inspection shall, at a minimum, include the use of a closed-circuit television inspection device for the purposes of determining whether the building sewer lateral complies with the requirements of this chapter.
means a sewer line fitting placed on a sewer to facilitate inspection, cleaning or maintenance of the sewer.
means a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
means any real property not used for residential purposes and not a common interest development.
means a development characterized by apartments, individual ownership of a condominium housing unit, or a residential parcel coupled with the shared ownership of (or right to use) common areas and facilities, including, but not limited to, condominium projects, community apartment projects, stock cooperatives and planned unit developments, which contains two or more dwelling units and which has a building sewer lateral shared by two more dwelling units.
means any official agent, branch or function of the city responsible for the design, construction, maintenance and operation of sanitary sewers in the city. It shall include all officers, agents and employees engaged in sewer services.
means the horizontal piping or pipe fittings that facilitate(s) the proper cleaning, inspection and physical access to the building sewer or lower lateral in either direction, upstream or downstream from the same entry point.
means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage of food waste or the sale of produce.
means the liquid wastes from industrial processes, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
means a contractor having a valid license issued pursuant to the California Business and Professions Code which license includes the activities listed on the permit applied for.
means any piece or parcel of land bounded and defined or shown upon a plot or deed recorded in the office of the county recorder, as a separate or individual parcel, except that in any event any building or structure covers more than a lot, the word "lot" shall include all such pieces or parcels of land upon which such building or structure is wholly or partly located.
means horizontal pipe and fittings forming a connection to the sewer main line for the purposes of connecting a building sewer. The lower lateral extends from the public sewer main to the edge of the public right-of-way and terminates at a double cleanout.
means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
means the notice and order issued by the director of public works to the owner advising that the owner appears to be in violation of the city of El Cajon Municipal Code with respect to the owner's building sewer lateral, or in violation of the code in the manner of the building sewer lateral's connection to the city sewer system, which notice and order directs the abatement of the identified apparent violation in a timely manner or, in the alternative, proof that the conditions identified in the notice and order do not exist.
means any person, partnership, association, corporation or fiduciary having legal title (or any partial interest) in any real property situated within the city.
means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
means the wastes from the preparation and/or cooking of food that has 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 one-half inch in any dimension.
means any main line sewer constructed in any street, highway, alley, place, or right-of-way dedicated for public use. Such term shall not include building drain, building sewer, or lower lateral.
means a pipeline that carries wastewater and to which stormwaters, surface waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
means a combination of wastewater, carried waters from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such groundwaters, surface waters and stormwaters as may be present.
means any arrangement of devices and structures used for wastewater treatment.
means a pipe or conduit for carrying wastewater.
means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of wastewater.
means a pipeline that carries stormwaters and surface waters and drainage, but excludes wastewater and polluted industrial wastes.
means solids that either float on the surface or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
means horizontal pipe and fittings forming a connection to the sewer main line for the purposes of connecting a building drain. The upper sewer lateral extends from the edge of public right-of-way and located by a double cleanout plug to the building drain.
means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 4930 § 4, 2009)