§ 110-36. Definitions.

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:

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 20 degrees Celsius, expressed in milligrams per liter or parts per million (ppm).

Building drain means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system extending five feet outside the inner face of the outermost wall of any building or structure which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of any such building or structure and which conveys the discharge to the building sewer.

Building sewer means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.

City means those incorporated areas located within the county.

County means the board of county commissioners.

Director means the director of utilities services department.

Industrial wastes means any waste attributable to industrial manufacturing processes or to a trade, business or commercial enterprise other than standard wastes.

Infiltration means that portion of the wastewater entering a public sewer through a building sewer or private collection system, consisting of groundwater in excess of 100 gallons per inch of pipe diameter per mile of pipe (gal/in/mi).

Inflow means that portion of the wastewater entering a public sewer, consisting of stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water, swimming pool water or industrial process water.

Natural outlet means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.

Official notice means mailing of written notification by the assistant county administrator.

pH means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.

Polluted waters means any waters not in compliance with the water quality standards set forth in state law and state rules.

Private sewage disposal system means a system of piping, tanks or treatment devices and subsurface absorption field for the handling and disposing of standard wastes.

Privately owned utility means any person, firm, partnership, association, society, company, corporation or other legal entity, and any lessee, trustee or receiver thereof, owning, constructing, operating, managing or controlling any waterworks, water system, sewer system or combination thereof, located in whole or part within the unincorporated areas of the county, and serving or purporting to serve the public directly or indirectly, but it shall not mean or include any person, firm, partnership, association, society, company, corporation or other legal entity or any lessee, trustee or receiver thereof, whose activities are confined to selling, distributing or furnishing bottled water and who is not otherwise engaged directly or indirectly in owning, leasing, constructing, operating or managing any waterworks, water system, sewer system or combination thereof. Privately owned utility for the purpose of this article shall not include any political subdivision, special purpose or taxing district, authority, board or governmental agency created by special act of the legislature or any municipality, incorporated city, town or village, owning, constructing, operating, managing or controlling any waterworks, water system, sewer system or combination thereof in the incorporated or unincorporated areas of the county.

Properly shredded garbage means the wastes from the preparing, cooking and dispensing of foods that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in the sewer system, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.

Public sewer means any sewer or sewerage system owned, operated or maintained by the county.

Public water system means any potable water supply system owned, operated or maintained by the county.

Sanitary nuisance consists of the commission of any act by any person, or the keeping, maintaining, propagation, existence or permission of any thing by any person by which the health or life of any individual or individuals may be threatened or impaired, or by which or through which, directly or indirectly, disease may be caused.

Sanitary sewer means any sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwaters, surface waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.

Sewage means any combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be unintentionally contained therein.

Sewage treatment plant means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.

Sewer district means the Brevard County sewer district encompassing all of the county with the exception of those areas serviced by systems owned and operated by municipalities and established pursuant to legislative authority.

Sewer or sewerage system means any plant, system, facility or property used or useful, or having the present capacity for future use in connection with the collection, treatment, purification, or disposal of sewage and sewage effluent and residue for the public, including, but not limited to, treatment plants, pumping stations, intercepting sewers, pressure lines, mains, laterals and all necessary appurtenances and equipment thereto, and all property, property rights, easements and franchises relating to any such system and deemed necessary or convenient for the operation thereof, excluding therefrom all systems for the collection, treatment, purification or disposal of industrial wastes for manufacturing plants owned or operated by such manufacturing plants.

Standard waste means human and domestic wastes, liquids or matter from plumbing fixtures normally carried off by drains and sewers, including, but not limited to, bath and toilet wastes, laundry wastes, kitchen wastes and other similar wastes from household appurtenances, provided said waste does not exceed 200 ppm each of BOD and suspended solids.

Storm sewer means any drain or sewer for conveying stormwater, surface water or groundwater or unpolluted water from any other source.

Water service line means the extension of the water line from the water meter to or within the building it is servicing.

Water system means any plant, system, facility or property used or useful, or having the present capacity for future use, in connection with the collection, treatment, purification, storage and transmission of potable water to the public, including, but not limited to, wells, treatment plants, storage facilities, pumping stations, pressure lines, mains, laterals and all necessary appurtenances and equipment thereto, and all property, property rights, easements and franchises relating to any such system and deemed necessary or convenient for the operation thereof.

(Code 1979, § 23-35)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.