Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
BOD (denoting biochemical oxygen demand)
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 DRAIN
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.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
CITY MANAGER
The City Manager or his authorized representative.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade, or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
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 SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water, and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwater, surface water, and stormwater as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SLUG
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.
STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface water and drainage
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling
water.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS)
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.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
The City Manager is hereby authorized to make
such rules and regulations as may be deemed proper and necessary for
the safe and efficient management, operation, and protection of the
wastewater system.
The tapping or connecting of premises with main
or intercepting sewers is hereby prohibited, unless a special permit
or permission has been granted by the City Manager, which permit shall
be subject to such conditions as may be by him specified. It shall
be unlawful for any person to make any connection with any lateral
sewer of the wastewater system without first obtaining a connection
permit.
No unauthorized person shall maliciously or
willfully break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface, or tamper with
any structure, appurtenance, or equipment which is part of the wastewater
system.