§ 13.16.010. Definitions
Unless otherwise indicated by the specific context, the meanings of the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
"Actual cost" means the total cost to install wastewater facilities. It includes construction, engineering, legal, easement, and all other expenses related to installation of the facilities.
"Appurtenance" means all accessory items associated with the wastewater facilities proposed for or under construction.
"Building" means any enclosed structure, having a roof and outside walls, designed and constructed for temporary or permanent shelter for persons.
"Building codes" means the city's currently effective building, plumbing, fire, mechanical, electrical, zoning, dangerous building or energy codes or regulations, or mandate of any nature concerning the same. Said building codes are incorporated into these regulations, except for any penalty provisions contained therein. Should there be irreconcilable conflict between any of the provisions of these regulations and any of those building codes, the more stringent requirements of the conflicting provisions shall be applicable. Should a dispute arise between the city and any person concerning the applicability of such conflicting provisions, the dispute shall be resolved in the manner set forth in the particular building code, a provision or the provisions of which conflict with these regulations.
"Building drain" means the plumbing system that serves a building and is considered to terminate two and one-half feet outside of the building's exterior wall.
"Building sewer" means the sewer line and appurtenances that extend from the building drain to the public sewer. The superintendent will make the final determination as to whether a sewer line will be classified as a private building sewer or a public sewer or a public sewer line.
"BOD" (denoting biochemical oxygen demand) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty (20) degrees Centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter.
"Collection system" or "system" means all structures, equipment, pumping stations, sewers, treatment processes, and appurtenances, whether publicly or privately owned, that are located within the Pratt service area.
"Connected tap" means the building sewer has been connected to the collection system.
"Customer" or "user" means any person (including successors and assigns) who has been issued a permit and to whose building the utility's sewer services are being furnished. The term may also be applied to a person who has the right to discharge, or control the discharge of, wastewater from a building to a public sewer.
"Director" means the city manager of the city or his or her designee.
"Easement" means a dedicated legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
"EPA" means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
"Equivalent tap" means any source of wastewater that could contribute three hundred fifty (350) gpd to the collection system, and may also be referred to as "tap."
"Industrial wastes" means wastewaters from industrial and commercial processes that are considered distinct from domestic wastes.
"Large nonresidential user" means any nonresidential contributor to the city's treatment works whose average monthly winter water usage exceeds eight thousand five hundred (8,500) cubic feet.
"May" means permissive.
"Monthly" means a calendar month or any part thereof.
"Normal domestic waste" means normal wastewater for the city in which the average concentration of suspended solids is established at two hundred forty (240) mg/l; the average concentration of five-day BOD is established at one hundred sixty-five (165)/l.
"Operation and maintenance" means all expenditures during the useful life of the treatment system for materials, labor, utilities and other items which are necessary for managing and maintaining the wastewater system to achieve the capacity and performance for which such systems were designed and constructed.
"Owner" means the person(s) who holds fee title (either wholly owned or as the mortgagee) to the building being served by the utility.
"Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, governmental organization, society, corporation or group.
"pH" means the negative logarithm (base 10) of the hydrogen ion concentration. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of 7 and a hydrogen concentration of 10-7 moles/liter.
"Private" means wastewater facilities for which the city has not accepted ownership and maintenance responsibility.
"Public" means wastewater facilities for which the city has accepted ownership and maintenance responsibility and which are located over, under, across, and through dedicated streets, rights-of-way or easements.
"Replacement" means expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary to maintain the capacity and performance during the service life of the treatment system for which such systems were designed and constructed, including the debt service payments associated with such replacement expenditures.
"Residential user" means any contributor to the city's treatment system whose lot, parcel or real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes only or any other user as determined by the director.
"Right-of-way" means land occupied and used by persons who have been granted the authority to use private or public lands for a specific purpose.
"Sewer" or "sanitary sewer" means a pipe or conduit that carried domestic and/or industrial wastes from buildings.
"Shall" and "must" are mandatory.
"Small nonresidential user" means any nonresidential contributor to the city's treatment work whose average monthly winter usage does not exceed eight thousand five hundred (8,500) cubic feet.
"Storm drain," sometimes termed "storm sewer," means a drain for conveying surface water, groundwater, or other unpolluted waters from any source.
"Suspended solids (SS)" means solids that either float on the surface of, or are suspended in, water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
"Treatment system" means any devices and/or systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal wastewater or industrial wastes of a liquid nature to implement Section 201 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 933 U.S.C. 1251 et seq. as amended by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (Pub. L. 92-50 and Pub. L. 93-243), or necessary to recycle or reuse water at the most economical cost over the useful life of the system, including intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, wastewater collection systems, individual systems, pumping, power and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions, improvement, remodeling, additions and alternations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clearwell 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 or residues resulting from such treatment; or any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating or disposing of municipal waste, including storm runoff, or industrial waste, including waste in combined stormwater and sanitary sewer systems.
"Unpolluted water" means water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the collection system and treatment plant.
"Useful life" means the estimated period during which a treatment system will be operated.
"User" means any dwelling unit, business, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group which contributes wastewater either directly or indirectly to the treatment system.
"User charge" means the total wastewater service charge which is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of the operation, maintenance, replacement and debt retirement of the wastewater treatment system.
"Wastewater" means a combination of the water-carried wastes that contain liquid and suspended wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments together with such ground, surface and storm waters that may be present and that are conveyed to treatment facilities via the sanitary sewer system.
"Wastewater facilities" or "facilities" means structures, equipment, and process required to collect, pump, convey and treat domestic and industrial wastewater and the sludges produced in the treatment process.
"Water meter" means 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.
(Ord. 9113 § 1, 1991: prior code § 15-301)