<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 78-19. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:
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               <span class="ital">Approving authority</span> means the county or its duly authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
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               <span class="ital">BOD (biochemical oxygen demand)</span> means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter
               under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20 degrees C expressed in milligrams
               per liter.
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               <span class="ital">Building drain</span> means 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 five feet outside the inner-face of
               the building wall.
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               <span class="ital">Building sewer</span> means the extension from the building drain to the sewer lateral or other place of
               disposal.
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               <span class="ital">COD (chemical oxygen demand)</span> means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter
               under standard laboratory procedure expressed in milligrams per liter.
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               <span class="ital">Combined sewer</span> means a sewer which carries surface runoff along with sanitary sewer.
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               <span class="ital">Commercial sewage</span> means sewage that is primarily derived from businesses, shopping centers and like
               manufacturing.
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               <span class="ital">Domestic sewage</span> means that derived principally from family residences and institutions.
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               <span class="ital">Garbage</span> means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing
               of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
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               <span class="ital">Industrial sewage</span> means the liquid wastes and suspended solids from industrial manufacturing processes,
               as distinct from domestic sewage.
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               <span class="ital">Natural outlet</span> means any outlet into a water course, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface
               water or groundwater.
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               <span class="ital">Person</span> means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
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               <span class="ital">pH</span> means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per
               liter of solution.
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               <span class="ital">Properly shredded garbage</span> means the wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have
               been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under flow
               conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half
               inch in any dimension.
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               <span class="ital">Public sewer</span> means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and which
               is controlled by public authority.
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               <span class="ital">Sanitary sewer</span> means a sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwaters, surface waters, and
               groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
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               <span class="ital">Sewage</span> means a combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings,
               institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such groundwater, surface
               water and stormwater as may be present.
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               <span class="ital">Sewage treatment plant</span> means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
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               <span class="ital">Sewer</span> means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
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               <span class="ital">Sewer connection</span> means the extension of the building sewer beginning at the street or easement right-of-way
               line and extending into a public sewer.
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               <span class="ital">Sewerage system</span> means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
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               <span class="ital">Slug</span> means any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste which in concentration
               of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration
               longer than 15 minutes, more than five times the average 24 hour concentration or
               flows during normal operation.
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               <span class="ital">Storm sewer</span> means a sewer which carries stormwaters and surface waters and drainage, but excludes
               sewage and industrial waste, other than unpolluted cooling water.
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               <span class="ital">Suspended solids</span> means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension, in water,
               sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
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               <span class="ital">Watercourse</span> means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
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               (Ord. of 7-19-1983, Â§ I)
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