Fulton Definitions ordinance (§ 114-171)

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

BOD (biochemical oxygen demand) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at five degrees Celsius, expressed in milligrams per liter.

Building drain means 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 means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.

Combined sewer means a sewer receiving both surface runoff water and sewage.

Garbage means solid waste from domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.

Industrial wastes means liquid wastes resulting from an industrial manufacturing process, trade or business.

Natural outlet means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.

Person shall mean 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 waste 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 being greater than one-half inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.

Public sewer means a sewer controlled by public authority to which all owners of abutting property have equal rights of access.

Sanitary sewer means a sewer carrying sewage into which stormwater, surface water or groundwater is not intentionally admitted.

Sewage means a combination of water-carried wastes, together with such groundwater, surface water or stormwater as may be present.

Sewage treatment plant means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.

Sewage works means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.

Sewer means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.

Slug means any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any period longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration of flows during normal operation.

Storm sewer means a sewer which carries stormwater, surface water, drainage and unpolluted cooling water, but not sewage or waste.

Suspended solids means solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.

Watercourse means a channel in which a flow of water occurs continuously or intermittently.