Legal Documents of Gatlinburg

Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this policy shall be as follows:

1. "City" shall mean the Board of Commissioners of the City of Gatlinburg, acting through its city manager, employees and other agents authorized to conduct business on behalf of the commissioners.
2. "Superintendent" shall mean the Superintendent of the Wastewater System of the City of Gatlinburg, or the authorized deputy, agent or representative of the superintendent.

3. "BOD" (denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand) shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under

   standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at 20°C, expressed in milligrams per liter.

4. "C.O.D." (Chemical Oxygen Demand) shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the rapid oxidation of organic matter by a strong standard chemical oxidant in accordance with "Standard Methods", expressed in milligrams per liter.
5. "Color" shall be measured by Nessler Tube Colorimater utilizing a standard platinum cobolt color wheel for the determination of color in water.
6. "Chlorine demand" shall mean the amount of chlorine required to produce a free chlorine residual after thirty minutes contact time, expressed in milligrams per liter.
7. "Building drain" shall mean that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five (5) feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
8. "Building sewer" shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, excepting force mains, sewage pumped or under pressure, see subsection (39).
9. "Combined sewer" shall mean a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
10. "Wastewater department" shall mean the agency of the city charged with operating its sewage treatment plant, its authorized employees and agents.
11. "Gatlinburg Utility Service Area" shall mean those areas authorized to receive sewer service from the City of Gatlinburg.
12. "Garbage" shall mean solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparatiopn, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
13. "Industrial wastes" shall mean the liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, or business as distinct from domestic sewage.
14. "Natural outlet" shall mean any outlet into a water-course, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
15. "Person" small mean individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group. This term shall be synonymous with user.
16. "ph" shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
17. "Properly shredded garbage" shall mean the wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (1/2) inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
18. "Public sewer" shall mean a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
19. "Sanitary sewer" shall mean a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
20. "Sewage" shall mean a combination of the watercarried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments; together with such ground, surface and stormwaters as may be present.
21. "Wastewater" - synonymous with "sewage".
22. "Sewage treatment plant" shall mean any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
23. "Wastewater treatment plant" - synonymous with "Sewage Treatment Plant".
24. "Sewage works" shall mean all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
25. "Sewer" (same as public sewer) shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage, manholes, and other physical systems that provide a path for wastewater to the sewage plant.
26. "Slug" shall mean any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceed for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
27. "Storm drain" (sometimes termed "storm sewer") shall mean a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
28. "Suspended solids" shall mean solids that are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
29. "Watercourse" shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
30. "Connection" shall mean any physical tie or hookup made to a sewer owned, operated and maintained by the City of Gatlinburg.
31. "Permit" shall mean written authorization from the superintendent of wastewater, or his authorized agents and employees, to make connection with or opening into, use, alter, or disturb a public sewer or appurtenance.
32. "User" shall mean any occupied property or premise having a connection to the sewer system or having access thereto.
33. "User charge" shall mean a charge to assure that each recipient of sewerage treatment services will pay its proportionate share of the costs of operation and maintenance of all waste treatment services provided by the city.
34. "Compatible wastes" shall mean such wastes or Bio-chemical Oxygen Demand, settleable solids, total suspended solids, and nitrogen as defined in Table I, § 18-218(5)(k).
35. "Incompatible wastes" shall mean the wastes that are not compatible, and as specified in Table I, § 18-218(5)(k).

36. "Normal domestic sewage" shall be as regarded "normal" for the city. Normal domestic sewage shall contain a daily average of not more than

    300 milligrams per liter of B.O.D. and not more than 300 milligrams per liter of suspended solids.

37. "Industrial user" shall mean any nongovernmental user of publicly owned treatment works identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented under the following divisions:

    1. Division A, Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing.
    2. Division B, Mining.
    3. Division D, Manufacturing.
    4. Division E, Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services.
38. "Standard methods" shall mean the "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater", latest edition, published by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Association.
39. "Force main" shall mean any building drain conveying wastewater to a city sewer entirely or partially by means of pump or pressure, or by any means other than gravity flow. (1976 Code, § 13-202)