[Code 1985 § 27-128; Code 2005 § 110-141]
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:
Means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20º C. expressed in milligrams per liter.
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 (1.5 meters) 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 the city manager or his authorized deputy, agent or representative such as the superintendent of sewage works and/or of water pollution control.
Means a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Means every water customer of the city to whom sewer service is available and shall be deemed ipso facto a sewer service user and customer unless the water customer produces evidence to the contrary. In addition, each person, whether a water customer of the city or not, who discharges any sewage into the sewer main of the city or any sewer pipe connected thereto or which ultimately, by intermediate pipes or mains, reaches and discharges into a sewer main of the city, shall be deemed a sewer user and customer.
Means the liquid wastes from the noncommercial preparation, cooking and handling of food or human excrement and similar matter from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions.
Means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
Means the liquid waste resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade or business including cooling water that is discharged to the sanitary sewerage system.
Means any nongovernmental user of publicly owned treatment works identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented under the following divisions: Division A, Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing; Division B, Mining; Division D, Manufacturing; Division E, Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services; Division I, Services. A user in the division listed may be excluded if it is determined that it will introduce primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
Means milligrams per liter.
Means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
Means sewage discharged by a user into the sanitary sewers and in which the average concentrations of total SS is not more than 300 mg/l and BOD is no more than 300 mg/l.
Means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
Means that person designated by the city manager to inspect work and compliance with ordinances and laws governing the installation and operation of sewer, water and gas plumbing.
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 one-half inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
Means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and is controlled by public authority.
Means the domestic wastewater as defined in this section.
Means a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
Means all sanitary sewer trunk lines, main lines, submain lines, lateral lines, lift stations and sewage treatment plants, and all sewer lines connected to the city's sewer lines or treatment plants, whether owned by the city or not.
Means the building sewer as defined in this section.
Means a combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and stormwaters as may be present and includes the domestic wastewater and industrial sewage in any combination.
Means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
Means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage. Sewers, sewer mains, public sewers, sewer system or words of like import shall mean the conduits, pipes, mains and works that are used to collect and dispose of sewage and that are owned by the city or connected to sewers that empty into or connect with sewers owned, maintained or operated by the city.
Means the property to be served is adjacent to or abuts any available gravity sewer under the jurisdiction of the city for its operation, repair and maintenance.
Means the price per unit (mg/l, 1,000 gallons, pounds, etc.) of waste discharged into the sanitary sewerage system of the city.
Means any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
Means a sewer which carries stormwater and surface water and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
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 a customer whose property also discharges sewage into the sanitary sewerage system of the city in any quantity.
Means the monthly charge fixed for the user based upon the volume and strength of sewage determined to be discharged by the user into the sanitary sewerage system of the city.
Means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.