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BOD (denoting BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
CITY
COOLING WATER
CUSTOMER
EASEMENT
ENGINEER
GARBAGE
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
NATURAL OUTLET
OWNER
PERSON
pH
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
SANITARY SEWER
SERVICE LATERAL
SEWAGE
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
SEWER
SEWERAGE SYSTEM
SLUG
STORM DRAIN (sometimes termed "storm sewer")
STREET
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
WATERCOURSE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
[Amended 10-26-2021 by Ord. No. 11-2021]
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 service lateral
or other place of disposal.
[Amended 7-15-1975 by Ord. No. 8-1975]
The City of Northfield.[1]
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other, but which shall be
free from odor and oil. It shall contain no polluting substances which
would produce BOD or suspended solids each in excess of 10 parts per
million by weight.
The owner of any property served by the sewerage system.
[Amended 7-15-1975 by Ord. No. 8-1975]
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
The duly appointed consulting engineer employed by the City.
The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking, serving and dispensing of food and the sale
of produce.
The wastewater from industrial processes, trade or business
as distinct from domestic or sanitary sewage.
Any outlet, including storm sewers, into a watercourse, pond,
ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
The person holding title of record to the property.
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.
A system of pipes, septic tanks, cesspools and other disposal
areas whose function is to separate the solids from the sewage and
dispose the liquid portion of the sewage underground. All components
of this system function independently of the public sewerage system.
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 public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
That part of the sewerage system from the public sewer to
one foot inside the curbline, easement line or abutting property line.
[Amended 7-15-1975 by Ord. No. 8-1975]
A combination of the water-carried wastes from any building
or structure, including but not limited to residences, business buildings,
institutions and industrial establishments, together with such groundwaters,
surface water and stormwaters as may be present.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
All facilities of the City utilized for collecting, pumping
and disposing of 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 of flows during normal
operation.
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling
water.
Any public right-of-way, including but not limited to any
street, road, lane, court, alley or public square.
The Superintendent of the Sewer Department and/or of Water
Pollution Control of the City of Northfield or his authorized deputy,
agent or representative.
Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface
of or is in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids, and which
is removable by laboratory filtering.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
[1]
Editor's Note: The former definition of "combined sewer,"
which immediately followed this definition, was repealed 10-26-2021
by Ord. No. 11-2021.
B.Â
Word usage. The word "shall" is mandatory; "may" is
permissive.
