§ 19-101. Definitions.

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

Building drain means that part of the lower horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes (not including storm drains) inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five (5) feet outside the inner face of the exterior wall of the building.

B.O.D. (biochemical oxygen demand) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty (20) degrees Celsius, expressed in parts per million by weight.

Building sewer means the piping extending from the building drain to the point of connection with the public sewer or other place of disposal.

City engineer means the person duly designated by the governing authority to oversee and supervise the activities incident to the operation and maintenance of the sewage works.

Garbage means the solid waste matter resulting from the preparation, cooking or dispensing of food or from the handling, storage or sale of produce or other food products.

Industrial waste means the liquid waste resulting from industrial or other technical processes.

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

pH means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.

Properly shredded garbage means garbage 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 greater than one-half inch in dimension.

Public sewer means a sewer owned or controlled by the city to which property owners in the vicinity may have access. In general, the public sewer includes the main sewer in the street and the service branch, if any, to the curb or to the property line of the owner having access to the public sewer.

Sanitary sewage means the liquid waste normally originating in quarters inhabited or frequented by human beings and may include human excreta, bath water, kitchen wastes (with or without properly shredded garbage) and laundry waste.

Sanitary sewer means a sewer designed to carry sanitary sewage to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.

Sewage means any combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm water as may be adventitiously present.

Sewage treatment plant means any arrangement of equipment, devices and structures used for treating (reducing the B.O.D.) of sewage.

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

Sewer means any pipe or other conduit outside a building for conveying sewage.

Storm drain. See "Storm sewer."

Storm sewer means a pipe or other conduit outside a building for conveying rain and other surface water and drainage.

Suspended solids means solids that float on the surface of or are suspended in water, sewage or other liquid and which are removable by laboratory filtering.

Watercourse means a channel in which a flow of storm, surface, or ground water occurs continuously or intermittently.

(Code 1955, § 23-21)

Cross reference

Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2.