Fayette Definitions ordinance (§ 715.020)

Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Chapter 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 (5) days at twenty degrees Celsius (20° C), expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).

MAY: Is permissive.

NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER: Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than three hundred (300) mg/l and a suspended solids concentration of not more than three hundred (300) mg/l.

OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE: All expenditures during the useful life of the treatment works for materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary for managing and maintaining the sewage works to achieve the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.

REPLACEMENT: Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works are designed and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance" includes replacement.

RESIDENTIAL CONTRIBUTOR: Any contributor to the City's treatment works whose lot, parcel of real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes only.

SHALL: Is mandatory.

SS (denoting "suspended solids"): 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.

TREATMENT WORKS: Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage, or liquid industrial wastes. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, individual systems, pumping, power and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions, improvement, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works, including site acquisition of the land, that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment; or any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating, or disposing of municipal waste or industrial waste, including waste in combined stormwater and sanitary sewer systems.

USEFUL LIFE: The estimated period during which a treatment works will be operated.

USER CHARGE: That portion of the total wastewater service charge which is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation, maintenance, and replacement of the wastewater treatment works.

WATER METER: A water volume measuring and recording device furnished and/or installed by the City of Fayette.