§ 14.08.030. Definitions.

The definitions given in this section shall be used in the interpretation of this chapter, the issuance of permits, the making of charges for service and all other operations of this chapter unless another meaning for the word is apparent from the context:

1.

"Ad valorem tax" means the tax levied for the benefit of the city on the assessed value of property within its boundaries.

2.

"Assessed value" means that portion of the total assessed value of the property upon which individual city taxes are levied.

3.

"BOD" or "biochemical oxygen demand" means the measure of decomposable organic material in domestic or industrial wastewaters as represented by the oxygen utilized over a period of five days at twenty degrees centigrade and as determined by the appropriate procedure in "Standard Methods."

4.

"Chlorine demand" means the difference between the amount of chlorine added to a wastewater sample and the amount remaining at the end of a thirty minute period as determined by the procedures given in "Standard Methods."

5.

"COD" or "chemical oxygen demand" means the measure of chemically decomposable material in domestic or industrial wastewater as represented by the oxygen utilized as determined by the appropriate procedure described in "Standard Methods."

6.

"City" means the city of Weed.

7.

"Director of public works" means the director of public works of the city and is at some places referred to in this chapter as the director.

8.

"Discharger" means any person who discharges or causes a discharge to a public sewer.

9.

"Dissolved solids" or "dissolved matter" means the solid matter in solution in the wastewater and shall be obtained by evaporation of a sample from which all suspended matter has been removed by filtration as determined by the procedures in "Standard Methods."

10.

"Domestic wastewater" means the water carried wastes produced from noncommercial or nonindustrial activities and which result from normal human living processes.

11.

"Effluent" means the liquid outflow of any facility designed, constructed and operated for the purpose of removing and retaining dangerous, deleterious or prohibited constituents from wastewater by differential gravity separation before discharge to the public sewer.

13.

"House connection" means the sewer connecting the building sewer or building waste drainage system to the public sewer for the purpose of conveying domestic wastewater.

14.

"Industrial connection sewer" means the sewer connecting the building sewer or building waste drainage system to the public sewer for the purpose of conveying industrial wastewater.

15.

"Industrial wastewater" means all water carried wastes and wastewater of the community excluding domestic wastewater and uncontaminated water, and shall include all wastewater from any producing, manufacturing, processing, institutional, commercial, agricultural or other operation where the wastewater discharged includes significant quantities of wastes of nonhuman origin.

16.

"Inspector" means a person authorized by the director of public works to inspect wastewater generation, conveyance, processing and disposal facilities.

17.

"Lateral sewer," "collecting sewer," or "main line sewer" means the public sewer used to collect wastewater from house connection and industrial connection sewers and transport it to trunk sewers. Lateral, collecting or main line sewers are built by the city or by others, authorized so to do by the city, and maintained by the city, but no public sewer hereafter constructed shall be of less than six inches in internal diameter.

18.

"Ordinance" means, unless otherwise specified, the ordinance codified in this chapter.

19.

"Peak flow rate" means the average rate at which wastewater is discharged to a public sewer during the highest thirty-minute flow period in the preceding twelve months.

20.

"Person" means any individual, partnership, committee, association, corporation, public agency, and any other organization or group of persons, public or private.

21.

"Public corporation" means this state and any political subdivision thereof, any incorporated municipality therein, any public agency of the state or any political subdivision thereof, or any corporate municipal instrumentality of this state.

22.

"Public sewer" means any sewer dedicated to public use and whose use is controlled by a public corporation.

23.

"Radioactive material" means material containing chemical elements that change their atomic structure spontaneously by emitting any particles, rays or energy forms.

24.

"Section" means a section of this chapter and "subsection" means a subsection of any section of this chapter.

25.

"Sewage" means wastewater.

26.

"Sewage pumping plant" means any facility designed and constructed to raise wastewater in elevations or to overcome head losses due to pipeline friction.

27.

"Sewerage" means any and all facilities used for collecting, conveying, pumping, treating and disposing of wastewater.

28.

"Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.

29.

"Solid wastes" means the nonliquid carried wastes normally considered to be suitable for disposal with refuse at sanitary landfill refuse disposal sites.

30.

"Standard Methods" means the current edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater as published by the American Public Health Association.

31.

"Suspended solids" or "suspended matter" means the insoluble solid matter suspended in wastewater that is separable by laboratory filtration in accordance with the procedure described in "Standard Methods."

32.

"Trade secrets" include but are not limited to any formula, plan, pattern, process, tool, mechanism, compound, procedure, production data, or compilation of information which is not patented or copyrighted, which is known only to certain individuals within a commercial concern who are using it to fabricate, produce or compound an article of trade or a service having commercial value, and which gives its user an opportunity to obtain a business advantage over competitors who do not know or use it.

33.

"Trunk sewer" means a sewer constructed, maintained and operated by the city that conveys wastewater to the city's treatment facilities and into which lateral and collecting sewers discharge.

34.

"Uncontaminated water" means any wasted water of the community not contaminated or polluted with wastewater and which is suitable or could readily be made suitable for discharge to the municipal storm water drainage system.

35.

"User" means discharger. (See subsection 8).

36.

"Wastewater" means the water carried wastes of the community derived from human or industrial sources including domestic wastewater and industrial wastewater. Rainwater, groundwater or drainage of uncontaminated water is not wastewater.

(Ord. 217-78 §416, 1978)