Section 13.12.010 Definitions.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this chapter
shall be as follows:
"Base rate" means a fixed monthly charge set by Resolution of the
city council payable by
property owners with wastewater service to cover the cost of improvements to the existing
wastewater system.
"B.O.D." (Denoting biochemical oxygen demand) means the quantity
of oxygen utilized in
the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at
twenty (20) degrees Celsius expressed in pans per million by weight.
"Building," means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage
system.
"Building sewer" means the extension sewer pipe from the building
drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
"Combined sewer," means a sewer receiving both surface runoff and
sewage.
"Director of public works" means manager of the sewage works of the
city or his/her
authorized deputy, agent or representative.
"Drain" means received the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage
pipes inside the
walls of a building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner
surface of the building wall.
"Garbage" means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food, and
from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
"Industrial wastes," means the liquid wastes from industrial processes
as distinct from
sanitary sewage.
"Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch,
lake or other of surface or
ground water.
"Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society,
corporation or group.
"pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter
of solution.
"Properly shredded garbage" means the wastes from the preparation,
cooking and dispensing
of food that has been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the
flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch
in any direction.
"Recreation Vehicle Sewer Dump Station" or "RV Sewer Dump Station"
means a connection
to the city sewer system for the purpose of disposal of sewage generated by recreational
vehicles.
"Sanitary sewer" means a sewer, which carries sewage, and to which
storm, surface and
ground wastes are not intentionally admitted.
"Sewage" means a combination of water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings,
institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface, or storm waters as
may be present.
"Sewage treatment plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures
used for treating
sewage.
"Sewage waste" means the spent water, or
wastewater, of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and
water carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water and storm water that may be present.
"Sewer" means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
"Sewer main" means the publicly owned pipe or conduit and appurtenance
including
manholes for carrying sewage.
"Sewer service line" means a private sewer pipe or conduit for carrying
sewage from the
connection to the sewer main to and within the owners’ premises.
"Sewer system, public" means publicly owned facilities for collecting,
pumping, treatment,
and disposing of sewage.
"Shall and May": "Shall" is mandatory; "May" is
permissive.
"Storm sewer" or "storm drain" means a sewer, which carries
storm and surface waters and
drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
"Suspended solids," means 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" means a channel in which a now of water occurs, either
continually or
intermittently. (Ord. 215 (part), 2003: Ord. 111 (part), 1996: prior code § 4.05.010)
