Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
AGENT The Macomb County Health Department.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD) 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 Any structure, including a mobile home, that requires a supply of potable water and/or a means of disposal of wastewater.
BUILDING DRAIN The drainage water pipes in a building which convey roof drainage, footing drainage water or stormwater to the building service drain, located five feet (1.52 meters) outside the outer face of the building.
BUILDING SERVICE DRAIN Any drainage water pipe extension from a building drain outlet point, located five feet (1.52 meters) outside of a building, to a point of connection with a public drain or with any private drain upstream of a public drain.
BUILDING SERVICE SEWER The sewer extension from a building sewer outlet point, located five feet (1.52 meters) outside of a building, to a point of connection with a public sanitary sewer.
BUILDING SEWER That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building plumbing system that receives the sanitary sewage from pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it from the building to the building service sewer, located five feet (1.52 meters) outside of the outer face of the building.
DEPARTMENT The City Department of Water and Sewers charged with operating and maintaining the wastewater (sewage disposal) system.
DIRECTOR The person appointed by the City Council to manage the Department of Water and Sewers.
[Amended 7-27-1999 by Ord. No. 1125]
DRAIN or STORM DRAIN A watercourse, ditch, drainage swale or pipe intended for the conveyance of drainage water.
DRAINAGE SYSTEM Any part or all of the property, structures, equipment, drains, watercourses, materials and appurtenances used in conjunction with the collection and disposal of drainage water.
DRAINAGE WATER Stormwater, subsurface groundwater, melting snow or ice, roof and/or other surface water runoff or unpolluted water.
DWELLING UNIT A building or a unit thereof (including an apartment, house trailer or mobile home) that is occupied by one or more persons as a residence (with a single set of culinary facilities) intended for a single family.
FLOATABLE OIL Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility. Wastewater shall be considered free of floatable oil if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system.
GARBAGE The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of foods.
MG/L Milligrams per liter.
PERSON Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or other legal entity.
pH The reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The degree of acidity or alkalinity of a solution is measured by pH. A pH value from zero to seven indicates acidity and from seven to 14 indicates alkalinity. Neutral water has a pH value of seven.
POLLUTED WATER Water which exceeds the water quality standards established from the receiving waterway.
PREMISES A parcel of real estate owned by a person served as a single user by a water supply outlet and/or a wastewater disposal outlet. Each mobile home park is considered separately as a premises.
PRIVATE SANITARY SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM Any septic tank with subsurface soil absorption facilities or any other private wastewater treatment facilities that may be approvable by the Michigan Water Resources Commission (MWRC) or by its designated agent, the Macomb County Health Department.
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 (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
PUBLIC DRAIN A drain under the control of the City or other public agency, which is located in public easements or public rights-of-way.
PUBLIC SEWER A sanitary or combined sewer under the control of the City or other public agency and located in public easements or public rights-of-way.
SANITARY SEWAGE Usual domestic sewage or equivalent sewage, not including industrial sewage, as herein defined.
SETTLEABLE SOLIDS Total particulate matter in water or wastewater that will settle out of the liquid as prescribed in Standard Methods.
SLUG Any discharge of water or wastewater which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for 15 minutes of duration more than five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration of flows during normal operation and which adversely affects the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
STANDARD METHODS The laboratory procedures set forth in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, as prepared, approved and published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation, or methods acceptable to the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
STREET Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, alley or other right-of-way that provides for vehicular or pedestrian access to abutting properties by the general public, and includes the land between the street right-of-way lines, whether improved or unimproved.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS 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. Suspended solids includes settleable solids.
TOTAL SOLIDS Includes total suspended solids and total dissolved solids.
UNPOLLUTED WATER Water that would not cause violation of the water quality standards established for the receiving waterway.
USER The owner or occupants of any premises connected with and/or using any of the facilities operated by the Department of Water and Sewers.
WASTEWATER OR SEWAGE Spent water which may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, institutions or other land uses, including drainage water inadvertently present in said waste.
WASTEWATER SYSTEM OR SEWER SYSTEM Any part or all of the property, structures, equipment, sewers, materials and/or appurtenances used in conjunction with the collection and disposal of wastewater.
WATERCOURSE A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water, either continuously or intermittently.