Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of
terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
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, beginning five
feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other
place of disposal.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking
and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
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 (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights,
and which is controlled by a public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface and ground
waters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such
ground-, surface and stormwaters as may present.
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 constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of
duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average twenty-four-hour
concentration or flows during normal operation.
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage, but
excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.[1]
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 Middletown as defined under its Charter as a municipal
corporation.
A channel in which a flow of water works, either continuously or
intermittently.
" Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
