8.1. SR 03-18-2013 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

-CODE OF ORDINANCES Chapter 78- UTILITIES ARTICLE III. -SEWERS AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL DIVISION 2. -SEWER USE AND DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS Subdivision I. - In General Public sewer means a sewer owned, maintained and controlled by a public authority. Sanitary sewer means a sewer intended to carry only liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions together with minor quantities of groundwater, stormwater and surface water which are not admitted intentionally. Storm sewer and storm drain mean a drain or sewer intended to carry stormwater, surface runoff, groundwater, subsurface water, street washwater, drainage and unpolluted water from any source. Sewer system means pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, force mains and all other devices and appliances appurtenant thereto used for collecting or conducting sewage, industrial wastes or other waste to a point of ultimate disposal. Significant industrial user means any industrial user of the wastewater treatment facility: (1) Which has a discharge flow in excess of 25,000 gallons per average work day; (2) Which has exceeded five percent of the total flow received at the treatment facility; (3) Whose waste contains a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts pursuant to section 307(a) of the Act; or (4) Whose discharge has a significant effect, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater disposal system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality or emissions generated by the treatment system. Slug means any discharge of water or wastewater 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 of flows during normal operations and which adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works. State disposal system (SDS) permit means any permit, including any terms, conditions and requirements thereof, issued by the MPCA pursuant to Minn. Stats. § 115.07 for a disposal system as defined by Minn. Stats. § 115.01, subd. 8. Storm drain and storm sewer mean a sewer which carries stormwater and surface water and drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling or process water. Suspended solids 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, in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater. Toxic pollutant means the concentration of any pollutant or combination of pollutants which upon exposure to or assimilation into any organism will cause adverse effects as defined in standards issued pursuant to section 307(a)of the Act. Unpolluted water means clean water uncontaminated by industrial waste or other wastes or any substance which renders such water unclean or noxious or unpure so as to be actually or potentially harmful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare, to domestic, commercial, industrial or recreational use, or to livestock, wild animals, birds, fish or other aquatic life. User means any person who discharges or causes or permits the discharge of wastewater into the city's wastewater disposal system. Wastewater facilities means the structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent. Elk River, Minnesota, Code of Ordinances Page 5