Hallsville Definitions ordinance (§ 710.010)

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 Centigrade (20° C.), expressed in parts per million by weight.

BUILDING DRAIN: That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste or other drainage pipes inside the walls of a 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.

CITY: The City of Hallsville, Boone County, Missouri, or its authorized representative.

COOLING WATER: The water discharged from any system of condensation, air-conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other, but shall be free from odor and oil. It shall contain no polluting substances which would produce BOD or suspended solids in excess of ten (10) parts per million by weight.

DISSOLVED SOLIDS: Those in solution and those which can be determined by laboratory analysis.

DOMESTIC SEWAGE: Waterborne wastes normally discharging from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings (including apartment houses and hotels, office buildings, factories and institutions) free from storm surface water and industrial wastes.

DRAINAGE DITCH: Any artificially constructed open channel, ditch, swale or flume, whether lined or unlined, for the conveyance of stormwater and groundwater.

GARBAGE: Every refuse accumulation of solid animal, fruit or vegetable matter that attends to the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or storing of food and from handling, storage and sale of produce.

INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT PLANT: Any treatment plant device or facility used or intended to be used for the specific treatment of industrial wastes in which other wastes may or may not be present.

INDUSTRIAL WASTES: The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business, whose strength exceeds that as defined in "normal sewage."

INSPECTOR: The person or persons duly authorized by the City to inspect and approve the installation of building sewers and their connection to the public sewer system.

NATURAL OUTLET: Any outlet for drainage of stormwater into a watercourse, stream, creek, river, pond, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.

NORMAL SEWAGE: Waters or wastes having a five-day biochemical oxygen demand not greater than three hundred (300) parts per million by weight and a concentration of suspended solids not in excess of three hundred fifty (350) parts per million by weight.

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 low 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 owned and maintained by the City of Hallsville, Missouri.

SANITARY SEWAGE: Sewage discharging from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings (including apartment houses, hotels and motels, office buildings, factories or institutions) and free from storm and surface water and industrial wastes.

SANITARY SEWER: A sewer designed and intended to receive and convey only sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.

SEMI-PUBLIC SEWAGE DISPOSAL OR SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITY: A device or facility for treating or disposing of sewage and industrial wastes from a school, public building, institution, church, hotel, motel or other building or structure not classified as private.

SEWAGE: The water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings and institutional and industrial establishments, singularly or in any combination, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as cannot be avoided.

SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT: Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.

SEWER: Any public, semi-private or private pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.

SEWERAGE SYSTEM: Shall mean and include any or all of the following:

1. Sewerage systems and sewerage treatment plants, with all appurtenances necessary, useful, and convenient for the collection, treatment, purification and disposal in a sanitary manner of the liquid and solid waste, sewage, and domestic and industrial waste of any such municipality; and

2. Shall include combined stormwater and sanitary systems.

3. The term shall also mean and include the construction of such stormwater sewers as, in the judgment of the governing body of any such City, town or village or sewer district, may be necessary or desirable in order to relieve sewers carrying sanitary and stormwater loads of undue loads or in order to permit the efficient operation of any such sanitary sewers for the collection, treatment and disposal of sewage and domestic or industrial waste including combined storms and sanitary sewerage system.

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 low exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty-four-hour concentration of lows during normal operations. STORM SEWER

A sewer designed and intended to receive and convey only storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.

SUPERINTENDENT: As used herein, shall mean the Superintendent of the Sewerage Works of the City of Hallsville, Missouri, 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.

UNPOLLUTED WATER OR WASTE: Any water or waste containing none of the following: free or emulsified grease or oil; acid or alkali; phenols or other substances imparting taste and odor in receiving water; toxic poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution; and noxious or odorous gases. It shall contain not more than ten (10) parts per million each of suspended solids and BOD. The color shall not exceed fifty (50) parts per million.

WATERCOURSE: A natural surface drainage channel for stormwater and groundwater in which a low of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.

WATERS OF THE STATE: All rivers, streams, lakes and other bodies of surface or subsurface water which are not entirely confined and retained completely upon the property of a single individual, partnership or corporation.