Unit III - Sanitary Sewer Design Standards - City of Fort Wayne

Water Resources Development Criteria/Standards Manual Chapter 1UNIT III - Sanitary Sewer Design StandardsIntroductionMonolithic – Cast-in-place as one unit.Non-City Utility Designed Project – Project designed by outside consultant, engineer,developer, etc.Off-site – Everything not on-site.On-site – The entire area included in the legal description of the land on which thedevelopment or land disturbing activities take place.Peak Hourly Flow – The largest volume of flow to be received during a continous 24-hour period.Permanent Easement – A permanent right-of-way to use a described parcel of land forthe purposes to construct, operate, control, maintain, reconstruct, or remove a sewer lineand appurtenances along, under, and across said easement.Permit – Written permission to do something from agency with authority to controloperation.Plans – Official drawings or reproductions of drawings pertaining to the work associatedwith specific project.Population, Equivalent – A hypothetical number of persons for which flow contributionsare calculated.Population, Saturation – The actual (equivalent) population that exists or would existwhen an area is fully developed.Precast – An item which is formed or molded and distributed by the manufacturer as acomplete unit.Private Sewer – Sewer owned and maintained by a private person or company.Public Sewer – Sewer to the use of which all owners of abutting property have equalrights to and is controlled and maintained by the City of Fort Wayne or other publicauthority.Sanitary Sewer – A pipe or conduit designed to convey wastewater. Storm, surface, andground waters together with unpolluted industrial wastewaters are not permitted withinsanitary sewers.Service Area – A geographical area served by a public utility or sewage collectionsystem.Springline of Pipe – The horizontal midpoint of a sewer pipe.Submersible Pump – A pump capable of being fully placed beneath a water surface.Created: January 1, 2002 III - 1 - 5 City of Fort WayneRevised: