Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:

(a)   City shall mean the City of Florence acting through its duly elected and appointed officials.

(b)   Superintendent shall mean the Superintendent of Sewage Works of the City of Florence, or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.

(c)   Sewage shall mean a combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground water, surface and storm waters as may be present.

(d)   Sewage Works shall mean all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.

(e)   Sewer shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.

(f)   Sewage Treatment Plant shall mean any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.

(g)   Public Sewer shall mean a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and is controlled by public authority.

(h)   Combined Sewer shall mean a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.

(i)    Sanitary Sewer shall mean a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.

(j)    Storm Sewer or Storm Drain shall mean a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.

(k)   Industrial Wastes shall mean the liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.

(l)    Garbage shall mean solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.

(m)  Properly Shredded Garbage shall mean the wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such 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 in any dimension.

(n)   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 five feet (5’) outside the inner face of the building wall.

(o)   Building Sewer shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.

(p)   B.O.D. (denoting biochemical oxygen demand) shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five (5) days at twenty (20) degrees Centigrade, expressed in parts per million by weight.

(q)   pH shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.

(r)    Suspended Solids shall mean 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.

(s)   Natural Outlet shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.

(t)    Watercourse shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.

(u)   Person shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.

(v)   Shall is mandatory; May is permissive.

(Prior Code 13-101; Code 2023)