Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in the rules and regulations of this title shall be as set forth in this chapter.
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shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20 degrees centigrade, expressed in parts per million by weight.
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shall mean 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.
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shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
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shall mean the city engineer of the city of Richland, or his duly authorized representative and/or designee.
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shall mean a sewer which carries both sewage and storm, surface, ground and other unpolluted waters.
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means any establishment that is not a residence. "Commercial establishment" includes, but is not limited to, multifamily residences, boardinghouses, rooming houses, hotels, motels and mobile home park offices, as well as restaurants, cafes, taverns, bars, grocery stores, schools, churches, hardware stores, specialty stores, etc.
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also known as condo or townhouse, is a single-family dwelling which may be connected or adjacent to other condos in a facility that shares parking lot area and often shares utility services such as refuse and water. Condominiums can be identified as privately owned buildings and are recorded as such with the Benton County auditor's office. The parcel the condo resides within is jointly owned by the individual condo owners.
(Ord. 28-08)
means the public works director or his designee.
(Ord. 07-04)
shall mean solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food to the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
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shall mean a building or portion thereof used for the production of articles from raw or prepared materials by giving the materials new forms, qualities, properties or combinations whether by hand labor or machines.
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shall mean liquid waste from industrial processes.
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refers to customers that are both residential and commercial and share a utility service. For example, a facility that has commercial businesses on the street level and residential units above the businesses.
(Ord. 28-08)
shall mean any building or establishment in which more than two families can be housed, including but not limited to such structures as apartments, condominiums and townhouses.
(Ord. 77; Ord. 07-04; Ord. 28-08)
shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, or other body of water.
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shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
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shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
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shall mean any facilities installed, maintained, and paid for by a property owner or user for the purpose of controlling the content, characteristics, volume, or flowrate of sewage.
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shall be defined as a continuous tract of land, building, or group of adjacent buildings under a single control with respect to use of water and responsibility for payment therefor. Subdivision of such use or responsibility shall constitute a division into separate premises as here defined.
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shall mean a sewer providing service to two or more parcels, in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and which is controlled by public authority.
(Ord. 77; Ord. 63-18 § 1)
shall mean the wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing 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.
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means any dwelling unit that houses an individual family or is rented as a separate living facility, including but not limited to mobile home units, manufactured homes and duplexes with separate kitchen and bathroom facilities.
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shall mean a sewer which carries sewage, and to which storm, surface, ground and other unpolluted waters are not intentionally admitted, except as herein provided.
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shall mean a combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, commercial establishments, institutions, industrial establishments, or other property, and includes industrial waste as defined herein.
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shall mean any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
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shall mean all municipally owned facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
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shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
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is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
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shall mean a sewer which carries storm, surface, ground and other waters, but excludes sewage of any kind.
(Ord. 77; Ord. 07-04)
shall mean 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.
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shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
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