As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated; "shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter in five days at 20° C., expressed in milligrams
per liter, as determined in accordance with the latest issue of the
American Public Health Association's Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater or by a method acceptable to the State Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene.
[Amended 3-4-2014]
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 (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building
wall.
The extension from the building drain to the property line.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Includes solid wastes from domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking, and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage, and
sale of produce.
Includes the liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing
processes, trade, or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Includes any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake,
or other body of surface water or groundwater.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, public
or private corporation, the state, or other entity whatsoever.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
The County Plumbing Inspector.
[Amended 3-4-2014]
Include those waters which have been contaminated by the
addition of sewage, industrial wastes or other harmful or objectionable
materials.
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 the flow conditions normally prevailing in
public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch (1.27 centimeters)
in any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water, and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
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.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
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 twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during
normal operation.
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface water and drainage
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling
water.[1]
Include 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.
The duly designated Town Engineer of the Town of Smithsburg,
Maryland.
Includes all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating
and disposing of sewage.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
