ottawa county sewer district wastewater rules and regulations for ...

1.43.0 "SANITARY ENGINEER" shall mean the appointed representative of the
Board of County Commissioners in the Ottawa County Sanitary Engineering
Department who is a registered professional engineer.
1.44.0 "SANITARY SEWER (gravity)" shall mean a conduit that carries liquid and
water-carried wastes via conventional gravity methods from residences,
commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions together with minor
quantities of ground, storm, and surface waters that are not admitted
intentionally.
1.45.0 "SANITARY SEWER (pressure)" shall mean a conduit that carries liquid and
finely shredded wastes via small diameter low pressure methods from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, via a
pump station or residential grinder pump, together with minor quantities of
ground, storm, and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
1.46.0 "SANITARY WASTES" shall mean the combination of liquid and watercarried
wastes discharged from toilet and other wastewater plumbing
facilities.
1.47.0 "SEGREGATED DOMESTIC WASTES" are discharges from nonresidential
sources generated from normal human biological activities, separate and
distinct from industrial trade or process discharges.
1.48.0 "SERVICE CONNECTION" shall mean a pipe or conduit located within
the public right-of-way or easement boundaries which conveys
wastewater from a gravity or pressure building sewer to the gravity or
pressure public sanitary sewer main.
1.49.0 "SEWAGE" is the spent water of a community. (see "WASTEWATER"
1.62.0)
1.50.0 "SEWER" shall mean a pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or
drainage water by gravity or under pressure. Unless otherwise stated,
this term shall mean a publicly owned sanitary sewer.
1.51.0 "SEWER SERVICE CHARGES" shall mean charges levied for user
charges, capital charges, other charges for current services, or all of these.
1.52.0 "SHALL" is mandatory. (see "MAY" 1.24)
1.53.0 "SLUG" shall mean any discharge of water or wastewater which in
concentration of any constitute or in rate of flow, exceeds for any period of
duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five times the average 24 hour
concentration or flow during normal operation and shall adversely affect the
collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
1.54.0 "STANDARD METHODS" shall mean the most recent edition of the
STANDARD METHODS FOR THE EXAMINATION OF WATER AND
WASTEWATER published by the American Public Health Association.