Section 2871. Definitions
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this ordinance shall be as follows:
Applicant: shall mean any person requesting approval to discharge wastewater to the wastewater works or requesting approval to construct a new connection to the public sewer system.
Council: shall mean the City Council of Gardiner, Maine.
BOD (denoting the Biochemical Oxygen Demand): shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at 20 degrees C, expressed in milligrams per liter.
Building Drain: shall mean that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning four (4) feet (1.25 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
Building Sewer: shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
City: shall mean the City of Gardiner.
Combined Sewer: shall mean a sewer receiving both surface runoff and wastewater.
Composite Sample: the sample resulting from the combination of individual wastewater samples taken at selected intervals based on an increment of either flow or time or any sample collected in the manner specified in any controlling Industrial Discharge Permit.
Cooling Water: shall mean the water discharged from any use such as air conditioning cooling, or refrigeration, during which the only pollutant added to the water is heat.
Domestic Water: shall mean the wastewater derived principally from dwellings, business buildings, institutions and the like. It may or may not contain ground water, surface water, or stormwater.
EPA: shall mean the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Excessive: shall mean amounts or concentrations of a constituent of a wastewater which in the judgment of the City (a) will cause damage to any city facility; (b) will be harmful to a wastewater treatment process; (c) cannot be removed in the regional treatment works to the degree required to meet the limiting stream classification standards of the Kennebec River and/or EPA and State effluent standards; (d) can other wise endanger life, limb, or public property; and (e) can constitute a nuisance.
Facilities: shall include structures and conduits for the purpose of collecting, treating, neutralizing, stabilizing, or disposal of by means of such structures, conduits, including treatment and disposal stations, integral to such facilities with sewers, equipment and furnishing and other connected appurtenances.
Garbage: shall mean the animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of food. It is composed largely of putrescible organic matter and its natural moisture content.
Grab Sample: a sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis without regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of time or any sample collected in the manner specified in any controlling Industrial Discharge Permit.
Hazardous Waste: a hazardous waste as that term is defined in 40 CFR 261 or Maine Department of Environmental Protection regulations Chapter 850.
Heavy Metals: shall include but are not limited to mean those metal such as Cadmium (Cd), Chromium (Cr), Copper (Cu), Mercury (Hg), Nickel (Ni), Lead (Pb), Zinc (Zn) that accumulate in the sludge, and are generally toxic in low concentrations to animal and plant life.
Incompatible Pollutant: shall mean any pollutant, other than biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH, coliform bacteria, or additional pollutants identified in the permit, which the treatment works were not designed to treat and do not remove to a substantial degree.
Industrial Waste: shall mean the wastewater in which solid, liquid, or gaseous wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, laboratory, trade, or business predominate, as distinct from domestic wastewater.
Industry: shall mean an establishment with facilities for mechanical, testing, trade, or manufacturing processes.
Industrial User: shall mean any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of a publicly owned treatment works which: (1) discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day of sanitary wastes; (2) has a flow greater that five percent of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste; (3) has Section 307 (a) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; or (4) has a significant impact either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on a publicly owned treatment works or on the quality or effluent from that treatment works.
Natural Outlet: shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or groundwater.
NPDES: shall mean the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System as defined in Section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
Medical Waste: Isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood products, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding, surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory wastes and dialysis wastes.
Owner: The owner, tenant, occupant or person in charge of any building or premises or any person acting in the owners behalf.
Person: Any individual, partnership, firm, company, association, society, corporation, group, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any other legal entity of whatever relationship or their legal representatives, agents or assigns. This definition includes all federal, state or local governmental entities.
pH: shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
Pretreatment: shall mean the treatment of wastewater by the user before the introduction into the publicly owned system.
Pretreatment Effluent Standard: shall mean all applicable rules and regulations contained in Part 403 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) as established in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, under Section 307.
Prohibited Discharge Standard or Prohibited Discharges: Absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances. These prohibitions appear in § § 2822 and 2875.
Properly Shredded Garbage: shall mean garbage that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (1/2) inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
Public Sewer: shall mean a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
Receiving Waters: shall mean any watercourse, river, pond, ditch, lake, aquifer, or other body of surface or groundwater receiving wastewater discharges.
Sanitary Sewer: shall mean a sewer which carries wastewater and to which storm, surface, and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
Sewer: shall mean a pipe or conduit which carries wastewater.
Shall: is mandatory; May is permissive.
Sludge: shall mean the solid residues removed from the wastewater during wastewater treatment.
Sludge Disposal: shall mean the disposal of stabilized sludge by methods such as composting, landfilling, land spreading and incineration.
Slug: shall mean any discharge of water, wastewater, or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes, more than five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
Storm Drain (sometimes termed Storm Sewer): shall mean a pipe which carries storm and surface waters and drainage but excludes wastewater and industrial wastes, other that unpolluted cooling water when discharge of such cooling waste into the storm drain is approved by the City Manager or Commissioner of Public Works.
Superintendent: The Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent of the Citys Wastewater Facilities or his or her authorized deputy, agent or representative.
Suspended Solids: shall mean solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, wastewater, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering, and are referred to as non-filterable residue in the laboratory test prescribed in Standard Methods for Examination of Water and Wastewater.
State: shall mean the State of Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
Total Suspended Solids: Solids or other matter that either floats on the surface of or is in suspension in water, wastewater or other liquids and which is removable by laboratory filtering.
Wastes: shall mean substances in liquid, solid or gaseous form that can be carried in water.
Wastewater: shall mean the spent water of a community and may be a combination of the liquid and water carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and stormwater that may be unintentionally present.
Wastewater Treatment Works: shall mean any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating wastewater.
Wastewater Works: shall mean all structures, equipment and processes operated and maintained by the City for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of wastewater.
Watercourse: shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
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