[Amended 9-15-2008]
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this Part 2, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Means biochemical oxygen demand, or the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter.
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 five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
Means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
Means, for the purpose of this article, an individual system for the disposal of sanitary sewage other than to a public sewer.
Means the division of sanitary sewer customers into classes by similar process or discharge flow characteristics as follows:
COMMERCIAL USERMeans any retail or wholesale business engaged in selling merchandise or a service that discharges only segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
GOVERNMENTAL USERMeans any federal, state or local government office or government facility that discharges only segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
INDUSTRIAL USERMeans:
Any nongovernmental user of a publicly owned treatment works which discharges more than 25,000 gallons per day of sanitary waste, or a volume of process waste, or combined process and sanitary waste, equivalent to 25,000 gallons per day of sanitary waste;
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 contaminate the sludge of the treatment works, or which constitutes a hazard to humans or animals, creates a public nuisance, or creates any hazard in or has an adverse effect on the waters receiving any discharge from the treatment works.
INSTITUTIONAL USERMeans any 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.
RESIDENTIAL USERMeans an individual home or dwelling unit, including mobile homes, apartments, condominiums or multifamily dwellings, that discharges only segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
Means chemical oxygen demand, or the total demand or quantity of oxygen required by the sanitary sewage as specified in the current edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" expressed in milligrams per liter.
Means a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Means the liquid or water-carried wastes from commercial establishments or those concerns engaged in buying, selling or exchanging goods or services.
Means 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 such pollutants and can, in fact, remove such pollutants to a substantial degree. The term "substantial degree" generally means removals in the order of 80% or greater.
Means any Township, agency, or corporation, which has a contract with the county wastewater management system for wastewater treatment.
Means the county of Muskegon, Michigan.
Means the director of the wastewater management system of the county or his authorized deputy, agent or representative, as appointed by the county board of public works.
Means the person designated by the Township or its authorized agency, to exercise control over its treatment works.
Means solid wastes from domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
Means any pollutant that is not a compatible pollutant, as defined in this section.
Means and includes every means of disposing of industrial, commercial, household, domestic or other water-carried waste or sewage other than a public sanitary sewer.
Means the recovery from each industrial user as defined in this section, that portion of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant which is allocable to the treatment of industrial wastes from said industries.
Means the liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business as distinct from segregated domestic strength wastes, or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
Means any waters entering the system from the ground through such means as, but not limited to, defective pipes, pipe joints, connection or manhole walls.
Means the total quantity of water from both infiltration and inflow.
Means any water entering the system through such sources as, but not limited to, building downspouts, footing or yard drains, cooling waters discharges, seepage lines from springs and swampy areas, and storm drain cross connections.
Shall mean any licensed plumbing inspector authorized by the Township to inspect and approve the installation of building sewers and their connection to the public sewer systems.
Means milligrams per liter.
Means the county wastewater management system number one.
Means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
Means a sanitary wastewater flow containing an average daily BOD of not more than 250 mg/l or an average daily SS concentration of not more than 250 mg/l.
Means the permit issued pursuant to the national pollution discharge elimination system for the discharge of wastewater into the waters of the state.
Means all costs, direct and indirect (other than debt service), necessary to insure adequate wastewater collection and treatment on a continuing basis, to conform with all related federal, state, MCWWMS, and local requirements, and to assure optional long-term facility management (O&M costs include depreciation and replacement costs).
Means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
Means the treatment of extra strength wastewater flows in privately owned pretreatment facilities prior to discharge into a publicly owned treatment works.
Means 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.
Means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and which is controlled by the Township.
Means expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances that are necessary to maintain the capacity and performance during the service life of the treatment works for which such works were designed and constructed.
Means the liquid or water-carried waste discharged from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, including apartment houses and hotels, office buildings, commercial establishments, industries and institutions.
Mean a sewer intended to carry only sanitary or sanitary and industrial wastewaters from residents, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions.
Means any arrangement of devices and/or structures used for treating sewage.
Means any discharge of sewage or industrial waste that, in concentration of any given constituent, exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration during normal operation.
Means a sewer intended to carry only stormwaters, surface runoff, street washwaters, and drainage.
Means 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.
Mean all of the common sanitary sewers within the publicly owned treatment system that are primarily installed to receive wastewater directly from individual structures, and shall also be known as the county wastewater system number one (Township extension) and any further extension.
Means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating sewage and disposing of treated sewage and disposing of resulting sludge from the treatment process.
Mean the charge levied on all users of the system for the cost of operation and maintenance (O&M), including replacement/depreciation of such treatment works.
Means the charge levied on all users of that system for the cost of any bond debt of which debt repayment is to be met from the revenues of such works.
Means the same as "sewage" or "sanitary sewage."
Means a channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously or intermittently.
Means a local service connection to the sewer that is made at an angle similar to a wye so that a sewer cleaning rod will not come down the lateral and enter the sewer at a right angle and penetrate the far side, but will travel down the course of the sewer. The wye is considered part of the lateral and not part of the treatment works or system,