shall mean authority having jurisdiction.
shall mean the mayor and the council of the city of Brookings, or its duly authorized representative.
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 milligrams per liter.
shall mean any structure built and maintained for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind.
shall mean that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which received 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.
shall mean the extension from a building of the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
shall mean the amount of chlorine, in parts per million by weight, which must be added to sewage to produce a specified residual chlorine content, or to meet the requirements of some other objective, in accordance with procedures set forth in “standard methods.”
shall mean the city of Brookings, Oregon, as represented by the city manager or his designee.
shall mean the city engineer of the city of Brookings, Oregon, or the city’s duly authorized agent.
shall mean all buildings or premises used for any purpose other than a dwelling unit having a sewage discharge of a kind, type and volume similar to a single-family dwelling unit or multiunit residential structure including a manufactured dwelling park or recreational vehicle park, but not an industrial waste contributor.
shall mean the owner, occupant or lessee of any premises used for commercial or business purposes which is not an industrial user as defined in this article.
shall mean the city council of the city of Brookings, Oregon.
shall mean the period during which a treatment works is planned and designed to be operated.
shall mean any person who discharges only domestic sewage, or the owner of property which is connected to the public sewer system of the city.
shall mean each single-family dwelling unit used for permanent human habitation, including manufactured homes and recreational vehicles if so used.
shall mean the residue from the preparation and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of food products and produce.
shall mean the residue from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely in suspension under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
shall mean any business, occupation or enterprise having a sewage discharge which, by reason of the manufacture or industrial process involved or through services rendered, is any volume in excess of a single-family residence or is of a kind or type dissimilar to that of a single-family residence because of the discharge of chemicals or by-products of the nonresidential or industrial process.
shall mean any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of a publicly owned treatment works which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented under one of the divisions cited in 40 CFR, Part 35, Section 35.2005[19].
shall mean any nondomestic liquid, gaseous substance or semi-solid from any producing, manufacturing business or trade, or processing operation of whatever nature (as distinct from sanitary sewage), and the contents of chemical toilets, septic tanks, and wasteholding tanks.
shall mean any water other than wastewater that enters a sewer system (including sewer service connections and foundation drains) from the ground through such means as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections or manholes. Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.
shall mean any water other than wastewater that enters a sewer system (including sewer service connections) from sources such as, but not limited to, roof leaders, cellar drains, yard drains, area drains, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections between storm sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, stormwaters, surface runoff, street wash waters, or drainage. Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.
shall mean a transportable single-family dwelling conforming to the Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Code (also referred to as the HUD code).
shall mean a transportable single-family dwelling conforming to the Oregon State Structural Specialty Code and Fire Life Safety Regulations, latest edition, and intended for permanent occupancy.
shall mean any building or dwelling unit as herein defined, designed or modified to be used as two or more dwelling units.
shall mean activities required to assure the dependable and economical function of sewage disposal works:
“Maintenance”
means preservation of functional integrity and efficiency of equipment and structures. This includes preventative maintenance, corrective maintenance and replacement of equipment.
“Operation”
means control of the unit processes and equipment which make up the sewage disposal works. This includes administration, financial and personnel management, records, laboratory control, process control, safety and emergency operation planning.
“Operation and maintenance”
shall also mean “replacement.”
shall mean a weight-to-weight ratio; the parts per million value multiplied by the factor 8.345 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons of water.
shall mean any and all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm, company, municipal or private corporation, association, society, institution, enterprise, government agency, or other entity.
shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
shall mean a nonpublic sewer disposal system approved by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), and operated and maintained in conformity with requirements of DEQ.
shall mean a sanitary sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
shall mean the public works director for the city of Brookings or the city’s authorized representative.
shall mean a self-propelled or towable mobile designed and used for temporary dwelling purposes by nonresident travelers.
shall mean a facility connected to a public sewer which accepts liquid wastes dumped from holding tanks of recreational vehicles such as travel trailers, motor homes, campers and other mobile living units where such wastes pass into the public sewer system, regardless of whether such wastes are accepted by the recreational vehicle dumping station operator with or without charge.
shall mean a lot upon which two or more recreational vehicles occupied for living or sleeping purposes are located, regardless of whether a fee is paid for such service or accommodations.
shall mean obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the design or useful life, whichever is longer, of the sewage disposal works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
shall mean buildings, structures and manufactured or modular units, including recreational vehicles that are constructed and/or used primarily for single-family residential purposes.
shall mean a conduit intended to carry liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions together with minor quantities of ground, storm and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
shall mean a watertight receptacle which receives the discharge of sewage from a sanitary private drainage system and which is so designed, constructed and operated as to separate solids from liquids, digest organic matter during a period of detention and allow the liquids to discharge into the soil outside of the tank through an absorption facility, all of which must be located upon and within the site or property which it serves.
shall mean the monthly fee charged for service to all users of the public sewer system.
shall mean the water-carried human and animal wastes from residences, buildings and industrial establishments or other sources together with such groundwater infiltration and surface water as may be present.
also referred to as “treatment works” shall mean all facilities for collecting, transporting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage and industrial waste, including sewerage as well as the sewage treatment plant.
shall mean an assemblage of devices, structures, and equipment for treating sewage and industrial wastes and may be used synonymously with the term “wastewater treatment plant.”
shall mean every person using a public sewer who owns a building connected to a public sewer, or who has a residence, commercial building, or industry within 200 feet of an available sewer, and who puts to use a sewer which requires sewage facilities, though not connected therewith.
shall mean the system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation, and pumping of sewage and industrial wastes.
is mandatory; “may” is permissible.
shall mean the examination and analytical procedures set forth in the most recent edition of “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage, and Industrial Wastes,” published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Federation of Sewage and Industrial Wastes Associations.
shall mean a sewer that carries storm, surface, and groundwater drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
shall mean a charge or assessment in addition to the service or user charge levied for a specific purpose.
shall mean solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage, or industrial waste, and which are removable by a laboratory filtration device. Quantitative determination of suspended solids shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in “standard methods.”
shall mean the period during which a treatment works operates.
shall mean a charge levied on users of a treatment works for the user’s proportionate share of the cost of operation and maintenance (including replacement) of such works, and the term “user charge” shall have the same meaning and may be used synonymously with the term “service charge.”
shall mean liquid or water-carried pollutants including any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the publicly owned treatment works.
shall mean the same and may be used synonymously with the term “sewage treatment plant.”
(Ord. 88-O-430 Art. I; Ord. 91-O-430.C § 2; Ord. 14-O-725 § 2)