[Amended 10-7-2013 by Ord. No. 2013-14]
A.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMPs)
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
FOG
FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT (FSE)
GARBAGE
GREASE TRAP
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
NATURAL OUTLET
PERSON
Ph
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
SANITARY SEWER
SEPTAGE
SEPTAGE HAULER
SEWAGE/SEWER SYSTEM
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT/WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT (WWTP)
SEWAGE WORKS
SEWER
SLUG
STORM DRAIN (sometimes termed "storm sewer")
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOWN
WATERCOURSE
Unless
the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms
used in this Part 1 shall be as follows:
Practices determined to be the most efficient, practical,
and cost-effective measures identified to guide a particular activity
or to address a particular problem.
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.
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.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
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.
Any facility where food is prepared and intended for individual
portion service, and includes the site at which individual portions
are provided.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
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.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
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.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and is controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage to and which stormwaters, surface
waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
Material removed from septic tanks, cesspools, holding tanks,
or other sewage treatment storage units.
Any licensed person engaged in the removal or transportation
of septage.
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.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
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.
A sewer which carries stormwaters and surface waters and
drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted
cooling water.
The Superintendent of Sewage Works of the Town of Mount Airy,
or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
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.
The Town of Mount Airy, a municipal corporation, its duly
authorized officers or agents.
