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.
ADEQ: The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
AWWA: The American Water Works Association
BIG PARK DOMESTIC WASTEWATER IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT: The name of the District in which the wastewater treatment plant and collection system is located. The District is geographically located approximately 8 miles south of Sedona, Arizona, and encompasses the Village of Oak Creek.
BEDROOM: One room (intended to be used as a sleeping room) that includes a closet.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: The Board of Directors of the Big Park Domestic Wastewater Improvement 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 Big Park Domestic Wastewater Improvement 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 (800) 659-7149 or (928) 443-9484 / FAX (928) 443-9486.
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
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.
MAY: is permissive
MANHOLE: A mainline access point on the sewer line including base with formed invert, barrel sections, cone section, frame and lid.
NACOG: Northern Arizona Council of Governments
OWNER: A person 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 sewers, with no particle greater than ½ 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.
UPC: Uniform Plumbing Code
YAG: Yavapai Association of Governments Standards publication.
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