Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this Part
1 shall be as follows:
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMPs)
Practices determined to be the most efficient, practical,
and cost-effective measures identified to guide a particular activity
or to address a particular problem.
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN
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,
the building drain terminating five feet outside the inner face of
the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
FOG
Any substance such as a vegetable or animal product that
is used in, or is a byproduct of, the cooking or food preparation
process, and that turns or may turn viscous or solidifies with a change
in temperature or other conditions.
FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT (FSE)
Any facility where food is prepared and intended for individual
portion service, and includes the site at which individual portions
are provided.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
GREASE TRAP
A trap in a drain or waste pipe to prevent grease from passing
into a sewer system. The grease trap must comply with Carroll County,
state, Environmental Protection Agency, and industry standards.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
Ph
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
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 any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage to and which stormwaters, surface
waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
SEPTAGE
Material removed from septic tanks, cesspools, holding tanks,
or other sewage treatment storage units.
SEPTAGE HAULER
Any licensed person engaged in the removal or transportation
of septage.
SEWAGE/SEWER SYSTEM
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwaters, surface waters and stormwaters as may be unintentionally
admitted.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which
in concentration of any given consistency or in quantity of flows
exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than
five times the concentration of any consistency or flow over 24 hours'
concentration of normal operation.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of Sewage Works of the Town of Mount Airy,
or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
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.
TOWN
The Town of Mount Airy, a municipal corporation, its duly
authorized officers or agents.
WATERCOURSE
A.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
B.
The word "shall" is mandatory; the word "may" is permissive.