A.
ACT
ASTM
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
BUILDING SEWER
COMBINED SEWER
COMMERCIAL USER (CLASS II)
COUNCIL
DAY
EASEMENT
EPA
GARBAGE
GROUNDWATER
INDUSTRIAL USER (CLASS III)
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
INTERFERENCE
MAJOR CONTRIBUTION INDUSTRY
(1)
(2)
MANAGER
MAYOR
NATURAL OUTLET
NPDES
OWNER
PERMITTEE
PERSON
pH
PRETREATMENT
PRETREATMENT STANDARD
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
RESIDENTIAL USER (CLASS I)
SANITARY WASTEWATER
STANDARD METHODS
STATE
STORM SEWER
SURFACE WATER
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOWN
TOXICS
WASTEWATER
WASTEWATER FACILITY
WASTEWATER SEWER
WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY
WPCF
Unless the context of usage indicates otherwise, the meaning of specific terms in this Part 1 of this chapter shall be as follows:
The Federal Clean Water Act, as amended.
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
The quantity of oxygen used in the biochemical oxidation of organic
matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20º C., expressed
in milligrams per liter.
The extension from a building wastewater plumbing facility to the
public wastewater facility.
A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm- or surface
water.
Any property occupied by a nonresidential establishment not within
the definition of an "industrial user (Class III)" and which is connected
to the wastewater facilities.
The governing body of the Town of Millsboro, Delaware.
The twenty-four-hour period beginning at 12:01 a.m.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
The solid animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the domestic
or commercial handling, storage, dispensing, preparation, cooking and serving
of foods.
Water within the earth.
Any nonresidential user identified in Division A, B, D, E or I of
the Standard Industrial Classification Manual. Class III shall also include
any user which discharges wastewater containing toxic or poisonous substances
or any substance(s) which cause(s) interference in the wastewater facilities.
The liquid wastes from industrial processes, as distinct from domestic
or sanitary waste.
Inhibition or disruption of any sewer system, wastewater treatment
process, sludge disposal system or their operation, which substantially contributes
to a violation of applicable discharge permits.
As defined in Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 35,
Subpart E, § 35.905 (Federal Register of September 27, 1978, page
44051) shall mean
Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of a publicly owned treatment
works which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day
(gpd) of sanitary wastes and which is identified in the Standard Industrial
Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and
supplemented under one of the following divisions:
Any nongovernmental user of a publicly owned treatment works which 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 which 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.
The person designated by the Town Council or an authorized designee.
The Mayor of the Town of Millsboro, Delaware.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or any other body
of surface or ground water.
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program, administered
by the State of Delaware.
The person or persons who legally own, lease or occupy private property
with wastewater facilities which discharge or will discharge to the town's
wastewater facilities.
Any person who has been issued a permit for discharge of industrial
waste by the town.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, partnership,
corporation, municipality or other similar organization, agency or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration,
expressed in grams per liter of solution, as determined by Standard Methods.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants
or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior
to discharge to the town's wastewater facilities.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with § 307(b) and (c) of the Act, which
applies to industrial users.
Garbage that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles
will be carried freely under flow conditions normally prevailing in the wastewater
sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
All premises used only for human residency and which is connected
to the wastewater facilities.
Wastewater discharged from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings,
office buildings, industrial plants or institutions.
The latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water
and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association, Water
Pollution Control Federation and American Water Works Association.
The State of Delaware.
A sewer for conveying storm- , surface and other waters, which is
not intended to be transported to a treatment facility.
Water which occurs when the rate of precipitation exceeds the rate
at which water may infiltrate into the soil.
The total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of,
or is in suspension in, water or wastewater, as determined by Standard Methods.
The Town of Millsboro in Sussex County, Delaware.
Any of the pollutants designated by federal regulations pursuant
to § 307(a)(1) of the Act.
A combination of liquid- and water-carried wastes from residences,
commercial buildings, industries and institutions, together with any groundwater,
surface water or stormwater that may be present.
The combination of the wastewater sewers and treatment facilities.
The structures, processes, equipment and arrangements necessary to
collect and transport wastewaters to the treatment facility.
The structures, processes, equipment and arrangements necessary to
treat and discharge wastewaters.
The Water Pollution Control Federation.
B.
"May" is permissible; "shall" is mandatory.
Unless the context of usage indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms in this Part 1 of this chapter and not defined in § 161-1 above shall be as defined in the Glossary: Water and Wastewater Control Engineering, prepared by Joint Editorial Board of the American Public Health Association, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Water Works Association and Water Pollution Control Federation, copyright 1969.
