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-- "NATURAL OUTLET" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water. "OTHER WASTES" shall mean garbage, municipal refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, lime, sand, ashes, oil tar, chemicals, offal and other substances except sewage and industrial wastes. "PERSON" meanS any individual, firm, company, associations, society, corporation, municipal corporation, governmental unit, or group. "pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution. "PROCESS WATER" means any water used in the manufacturing, preparation or production of goods, materials or food. Process water, is an industrial waste. "PUBLIC SEWER" means any sewer owned or operated by a unit or agency of government. "SANITARY SEWER" means a sewer which carries sewage and,to which storm .surface, and ground water are not intentionally admitted. "SANITARY WASTES" means the liquid and water-carried wastes discharged from sanitary plumbing facilities. "SEWAGE or WASTEWATER" means the water carried waste products from residences, public buildings, institutions, industrial establishments or other buildings including the excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals, together with such ground water infiltration and storm and surface water as may be present. "SEWER" means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage, industrial waste or other waste liquids. "SEWER SYSTEM" means pipe lines or conduits, pumping stations, forcemains, and all other devices and applicances appurtenant thereto, used for collecting or conducting sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes to a point of ultimate disposal. "SHALL" is mandatory; "MAY" is permissive. "SLUG" means any discharge of water, wastewater or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration of flows during the normal operation. "STom SEWER" (sometimes termed "storm drain") means a sewer which carries storm 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 of the examination of water and wastewater. -2-