Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, in this Part 3 the following words have the meanings indicated.
The science or art of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20 degrees Celsius (293 degrees Kelvin), expressed in milligrams per liter.
The Chief Sanitary Engineer or an authorized deputy, agent, or representative of the Chief.
Those lines and appurtenances that gather flows from individual buildings and deliver the wastewater to a transmission system.
The County Commissioners of Queen Anne's County, a body politic and corporate and a political subdivision of the State of Maryland.
The Department of Public Works of the County.
The Director of Public Works of the County or an authorized deputy, agent, or representative of the Director.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
The variations in the flow rate in a particular sector or for a particular user. These variations are typically described by such terms as "average daily flow," "peak daily flow," "minimum monthly flow," "maximum hourly flow," etc.
The length in feet of the property line or lines abutting a wastewater collection system.
That system or program required by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to assess an industrial user a charge equal to that portion of the federal grant amount allocable to the treatment of the industrial user's wastes.
Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of a publicly owned treatment works that:
Any nongovernmental user of a publicly owned treatment works that discharges wastewater to the treatment works that:
Contains toxic pollutants or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to contaminate the sludge of any municipal systems, or to injure or to interfere with any sewage treatment process; or
Constitutes a hazard to humans or animals, creates a public nuisance, or creates any hazard in or has an adverse effect on the waters receiving any discharge from the treatment works.
A charge on real or personal property for the satisfaction of a debt or duty.
Any plot or parcel of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a principal building or use, or a group of buildings, and its accessory buildings and uses, and having frontage on a road.
Any industrial user:
Any industrial user:
A tract or plot of land.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration.
A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public utility.
A schedule, table, or chart detailing specific charges for each service by unit of flow volume, pollutant loading, front footage, or other measurement.
Any private home, tenant house, apartment, hotel, marina, mobile home, institution, or places where people reside for any period of time.
A public or private right-of-way that provides a public means of access to abutting property.
The County Commissioners of Queen Anne's County who sit as the Sanitary Commission having jurisdiction over the Sanitary District.
Queen Anne's County, State of Maryland, exclusive of any incorporated municipality.
The spent water of a residence, commercial building, industrial plant, institution, or community. The preferred term is "wastewater."
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
The total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and referred to as "nonfilterable residue."
Those lines and appurtenances which gather flows from the various collection systems and deliver the wastewater to a treatment system.
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge.
A house, building, mobile home, condominium unit, commercial business, rental or leasehold unit, vessel, pleasure craft, or any similar structure or facility.
A charge levied on users of a wastewater system for the cost of operation and maintenance of the system.
The spent water of a residence, commercial business, industrial plant, institution, or community.
The Queen Anne's County Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance as amended from time to time.[1]