ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS
Section 101
The definitions of certain words and abbreviations used in this Ordinance shall be as follows:
ADMINISTRATOR: The person(s) designated by the Board of Directors to manage the administration of the District or his/her authorized representative.
ANNEXATION: The addition of territory to the District.
AMERICAN RANCH SANITARY DISTRICT: The name of the District in which the wastewater treatment plant and collection system is located. It is a recorded sanitary district formed in 2001, under Title 48 “Special Taxing Districts”, Chapter 14 of the Arizona Revised Statutes.
BEDROOM: One room (intended to be used as a sleeping room) that includes a closet.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: The Board of Directors of the American Ranch Sanitary District, an elected 3-member Board of property owners and/or registered voters within the boundaries of the District.
CAPACITY: The volume of ERUs designated for use in the District’s Wastewater System. The capacity and the right to sewer capacity runs with the land and is limited to the approved and paid for capacity.
COLLECTION SYSTEM: Any system of wastewater or sewer lines connected to the District system.
DISTRICT: The American Ranch Sanitary District.
DISTRICT CLERK: A person appointed as the Clerk of the District Board of Directors.
DISTRICT ENGINEER: A qualified engineer appointed or employed as District Engineer.
DISTRICT OFFICE: c/o Improvement District Services, Inc., 117 E. Gurley Street, Suite 206, Prescott, Arizona 86301 (928) 443-9484.
ERU: An ERU (Equivalent Residential Unit) is a unit of measure for wastewater based upon the average discharge of flow and strength from an average residential dwelling. An ERU for each user class contains an industry-wide average for sewage flow that includes strengths.
GARBAGE: The solid animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the domestic or commercial handling, storage, dispensing, preparation, cooking, and serving of foods.
G.P.D.: Gallons Per Day.
GRINDER PUMP: A pump designed to reduce the size of all solid materials in a wastewater stream and capable of producing sufficient pressure to convey wastewater into the District's low pressure collection system.
INDUSTRIAL USER: Any non-residential user identified in Divisions A, B, D, E, or I of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual or any user discharging wastewater potentially containing toxic or poisonous substances which cause interference or increased operating costs in the sanitary wastewater system.
LATERAL LINE: A sewer line serving an individual structure, from the sewer mainline connection to the building foundation. The lateral line shall run directly from the structure to the sewer mainline and shall not cross another person’s property. The lateral line may, however, intersect the right-of-way easement for connection to the sewer mainline.
LIFTSTATION: The equipment and facility used to lift and/or transport wastewater to a location where gravity flow is again possible.
MAG: Maricopa Association of Governments Uniform Standard Specifications and Details publication.
MANHOLE: A mainline access point on the sewer line including base with formed invert, barrel sections, cone section, frame and lid.
MAY: is permissive.
OWNER: A person(s) holding legal or equitable title in any real property subject to this Ordinance.
OPERATOR: The person, or their authorized representative, that is a State Certified Wastewater Operator (minimum grade required by law), designated by the Board of Directors to manage the operation and maintenance of the District’s wastewater system.
pH: Chemically, the logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration expressed in moles per liter of solution. It is a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of water.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE: Garbage that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under flow conditions normally prevailing in the wastewater collection system, with no particle greater than 1/4 inch in any dimension.
RESIDENTIAL UNIT: A room (or group of rooms) designed for one or more persons living as one socially homogeneous body (including relatives and servants, if any) and containing sleeping accommodations. Including townhouses, condominiums and apartments.
SANITARY WASTEWATER: Liquid wastes or water from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions, together with incidental infiltration and inflow from ground or surface water sources, but exclusive of storm sewers and other facilities designed to collect and dispose of storm water.
SANITARY WASTEWATER SYSTEM: District owned and maintained sewers, treatment facilities and other appurtenances required to collect, treat and dispose of sanitary wastewater.
SEWER LINE: A pipe or conduit for carrying wastewater.
SHALL: is mandatory.
STRENGTH: The sewage leaving a facility contains a load (or solids) of many materials including fecal matter, food, chemicals, and grease. These additives to the flow constitute the strength. The treatment plant must treat and process these loads. As the strength increases the cost of treating the sewage also increases.
STORM SEWER: A sewer for conveying storm, surface, and other unpolluted waters, but which is not intended to carry sanitary wastewater.
SURFACE RUN-OFF: Water, which occurs when the rate of precipitation exceeds the rate at which water may infiltrate into the soil.
YAG: Yavapai Association of Governments Standards publication.
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