Glasgow Definitions ordinance (§ 700.200)

As used in this Article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:

BOD (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 centigrade (20° C.), expressed in milligrams per liter.

BUILDING DRAIN: The 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 (5) 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.

COMBINED SEWER: A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.

GARBAGE: Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.

HEARING BOARD: That board appointed according to the provisions of Section 700.600.

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.

PERSON: Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.

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 foods 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 one-half (1/2) inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.

PUBLIC SEWER: A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and 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 TREATMENT PLANT: Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.

SEWER: A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.

SHALL: Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.

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 or duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty-four-hour concentration of flows during normal operation.

STORM DRAIN (SOMETIMES TERMED STORM SEWER): A sewer which carries stormwater and surface water and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.

SUPERINTENDENT: The Superintendent of Water and Sewer of the City of Glasgow, or his/her authorized deputy, agent or representative.

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.

WATERCOURSE: A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.