New Franklin Definitions ordinance (§ 705.130)

Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of the terms used in this Article shall be as follows:

BOD: Biochemical oxygen demand or 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: 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 (5) feet outside the inner face of the building wall.

BUILDING SEWER OR LATERAL: The extension from the building drain to the public sewerage system or other place of disposal.

CAPITAL CHARGE: That portion of the total charges for sewage service which are levied for local capital costs, local investment in plant facilities and other local costs excluding operation, maintenance and replacement costs.

CITY: The City of New Franklin, Missouri.

COMBINED SEWER: Any sewer receiving both stormwater and sewage.

COMMERCIAL WASTES: The liquid or water-carried wastes from commercial establishments or those concerns engaged in buying, selling or exchanging goods or services.

DIRECTOR: The Director of Sewer Utilities of the City or his/her authorized deputy, agent or representative as appointed by the Board.

GARBAGE: The waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.

INDIVIDUAL SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM: Includes every means of disposing of industrial, commercial, household, domestic or other water-carried waste or sewage, other than a public sanitary sewerage system.

INDUSTRIAL WASTES: The liquid or water-carried wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.

LATERAL: The extension of the building drain to the public sewerage system or other place of disposal, also called "building sewer".

MG/L: Milligrams per liter.

NATURAL OUTLET: Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.

NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER: Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than two hundred fifty (250) 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.

pH: The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration in grams per liter of solution.

PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE: Garbage that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles shall be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in the public sanitary sewer, with no particle larger than one-half (½) inch in any dimension.

PUBLIC SEWERAGE SYSTEM: A sewer line and/or treatment unit that is controlled by the City.

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 were designed and constructed. The term "operating 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.

SANITARY SEWAGE: The liquid or water-carried waste discharged from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, including apartment houses and hotels, office buildings, factories or institutions.

SANITARY SEWER: A sewer line to which stormwaters are not intentionally admitted.

SEWAGE: Any liquid or water-carried waste from residences, business buildings, institutions, laboratories and industrial and commercial establishments, together with such stormwater as may be present.

SEWAGE SERVICE CHARGE: The total monthly charge for sewage service based upon the amount and strength of sewage determined to be discharged into the sewage system of the City.

SEWER: A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.

SEWERAGE SYSTEM OR SYSTEM: The complete sewerage system of the City and shall be construed to include all treatment plants, works, pumps, valves, mains and lateral sewers, instrumentalities and properties, now or hereafter existing, used or useful in connection with the collecting, pumping, disposal and treatment of wastewater as now or hereafter added to, expanded or improved.

SHALL, MAY: The word "shall" is mandatory; the word "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 of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration or flow during normal operation.

STANDARD METHODS: The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the most recent edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Waterworks Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.

STORM DRAIN OR STORM SEWER: Any drain or sewer, either natural or artificial, which is intended expressly for the conveyance of stormwater and uncontaminated industrial wastes.

STORMWATER: That part of precipitation which reaches the sewers as runoff from the natural land surface, building roofs or pavements or as ground water infiltration.

SURCHARGE: The assessment in addition to the service charge which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration values established as representative of normal sewage.

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 in accordance with standard laboratory procedure.

TOXIC POLLUTANTS: Any pollutants, gaseous, liquid or solid, which when discharged into the sewage system may tend to interfere with any waste treatment process or to constitute a hazard to human beings or animals or to inhibit aquatic life or to create a hazard to recreation in the receiving water of the effluent from the sewage treatment plant.

TREATMENT WORKS: Any devices and systems for the transporting, storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage or liquid industrial waste. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, individual systems, pumping, power and other equipment and their appurtenances; extension 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.

UNCONTAMINATED INDUSTRIAL WASTES: Wastewater which has not come into contact with any substance used in or incidental to industrial processing operations and to which no chemical or other substance has been added.

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

USER CHARGE: That portion of the total charges for sewage service which are levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement of the sewage system and is also called "sewage service charge".

WASTEWATER: Includes commercial wastes, industrial wastes, sanitary sewage and uncontaminated industrial wastes.

WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT: Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating wastewater.

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

WATER METER: A water volume measuring and recording device furnished and/or installed by the City or furnished and/or installed by a user and approved by the City.