A.Â
This chapter has been prepared and adopted by the
Town of North Beach, Maryland to prescribe rules and regulations for
the administration of sanitary sewer and water facilities.
B.Â
Benefit and user charges as may be established from
time to time by the Town shall be as equitable as possible. All charges
shall be directly related to construction, operation, and maintenance
costs and may be increased or decreased as required.
C.Â
The regulations, restrictions, and rules set forth
in this chapter may from time to time be amended, supplemented, changed,
or repealed in compliance with the Town Charter and state law.
D.Â
Should any section or provision of the chapter be
declared by the courts to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision
shall not affect the validity of the chapter as a whole or any part
thereof other than the part so declared to be unconstitutional or
invalid.
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Throughout the chapter various fees and user charge
rates are discussed. The amount of such fees and rates shall be as
required and established by the Town separate and apart from this
manual.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
-- Biochemical oxygen demand; the quantity of oxygen, expressed
in mg/L, used in the oxidation of waste under standard laboratory
procedures for five days at 20° C.
A one-time charge to a new customer being connected to the
Town's sewer or water facilities.
The amount of chlorine which must be added to waters and
wastes to produce a residual chlorine content in such waters and wastes
after a fifteen-minute contact time.
-- Chemical oxygen demand; the quantity of oxygen, expressed
in mg/L, used in chemical oxidation of organic matter in accordance
with standard laboratory procedures.
A combination of individual samples of water or wastewater
taken at selective intervals, generally hourly, for a specified time
period, generally 24 hours, to minimize the effect of individual sample
variability.
A one-time charge to reimburse the Town the actual cost of
construction of the service lateral to the vicinity of the customer's
property line.
Also referred to as "applicant," "property owner," or "permittee;"
the applicant for sewer or water service at one household, business
or institution.
-- Equivalent housing unit; a means of measuring the impact
of a development or industry on the sewer usage.
A professional engineer registered to practice in the State
of Maryland.
Applications for a sewer connection will be accepted subject
to there being an existing main in a right-of-way abutting the property
for which application is made.
A set of values assigned to various plumbing fixtures that
could contribute to a sewage system; used to measure the extent of
such contribution, assuming one house to have total fixture - unit
values of 24 or less.
A charge against a piece of property, unimproved or unimproved,
that benefits from having ready access to a water and/or sewer main.
Solid wastes from preparation, washing and dispensing of
food, and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
Fats, grease or oils extractable from wastes in accordance
with standard laboratory procedures.
Private water or sewer connection; private connections; sewer
or water connection; that part of the water or the sewer system on
private property extending normally from Town's water meter setting
or sewer cleanout location at the property line to the house or building
it serves; that part of the water or sewer system constructed and
maintained by the property owner.
Any property on which there is a building in which potable
water is used and/or sewage is generated.
Sewage from improved property used for manufacturing, processing,
cleaning, laundering, assembling, etc., from which waste is discharged
distinct from normal water-carried household and toilet wastes.
Sewer mains, water mains; the Town-owned piping in public
streets, alleys, and rights-of-way.
A structure designed to provide access to the sewer.
Milligrams per liter; a measure of concentration.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
group, or other private or public entity.
An indication of the degree of acidity or alkalinity of substance;
the logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions,
expressed in grams per liter or solution.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to, or in lieu of, discharging,
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the public sewage system.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that has 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.
The sewer system owned, controlled, administered, maintained
and used by the Town of North Beach.
Any sewage treatment works and the sewers and conveyance
appurtenances discharging thereto, owned and operated by, or used
by, the Town of North Beach.
A sewer which carries wastewater and to which storm, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
Service lateral; the public sewer or water lateral on Town
property or right-of-way, from the sewer or water main to near the
property line; that part of the system constructed and maintained
by the Town.
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from improved
property.
Any discharge or wastewater having a concentration of any
given constituent sufficiently above the average and for a period
to be considered harmful to the collection system or the performance
of the POTW.
The procedures outlined in Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater, latest addition, as published by the American
Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and
Water Pollution Control Federation.
Solids that either float on the surface or are in suspension
in water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory
filtration.
The Town of North Beach, Maryland, its officials and/or its
duly authorized representatives.
Any substance, gaseous, liquid, or solid, which when discharged
to a sewer may tend to interfere with any waste treatment process,
or to constitute a hazard to human beings or animals, or to damage
aquatic life or to create a hazard to recreation in the receiving
water of the effluent, should this toxic substance pass through the
treatment process.
A quarterly charge billed to, and payable by, property owners
connected to the Town's sewer and/or water facilities.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, commercial and industrial establishments,
together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing
of wastewater.
