§ 106-171. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this division, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Authority means the city.

Building drain means 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 feet outside the inner face of the building wall.

Building sewer means the extension for the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal (also called "house connection").

Combined sewer means a sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.

Compatible pollutant means such pollutants as BOD, suspended solids, pH, fecal coliform bacteria, and other such pollutants as are now or may be in the future specified and controlled in the city's NPDES permit for its wastewater treatment works for which such works have been designed and used to remove such pollutants.

Cooling water means the water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration during which the only pollutant added to the water is heat.

Easement means an acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.

Garbage means the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of foods.

Jurisdiction means all areas within ten miles of the city limits of the city on the north side of the Arkansas River, exclusive of the jurisdiction of the cities of Jacksonville, Sherwood, and Maumelle New Town. This area includes, but is not limited to, the territories lying within the White Oak Basin, the Five Mile Creek Basin, the Kellogg Creek Basin, the Woodruff Creek Basin, and the Dark Hollow Basin.

Licensed master plumber means any person skilled in the installation of plumbing and licensed as a master plumber by the state board of health.

Manager means the manager of the city's wastewater utility, who shall be the authorized administrative representative of the sewer committee.

Natural outlet means any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water.

O and M means operation and maintenance.

Other wastes means decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, lime, refuse, ashes, garbage, offal, oil, tar, chemicals, and all other substances except sewage and industrial wastes.

POTW means any sewage treatment works and the sewers and conveyance appurtenances discharging thereto, owned and/or operated by the authority.

Private disposal system means that facility owned, operated and maintained by any person for the purpose of collecting and disposing of sewage within the property owned by such person.

Properly shredded garbage means the wastes from the preparation, handling, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such 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 inch in any diameter.

Public sewer means a common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public utility.

Sanitary sewer means a sewer that carries liquid and watercarried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions together with minor quantities of ground, storm, and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.

Sewage means the water-carried human wastes or a combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface, storm or other waters as may be present.

Sewer means any pipe, conduit, ditch or other device used to collect and transport sewage or stormwater from the generating source.

Sewer system means the North Little Rock wastewater utility as operated by the sewer committee of the city.

Sewerage means the system used for the purpose of collecting and conveying the sewage and the treatment works used for the processing and treatment of sewage.

Storm drain (sometimes termed "storm sewer") means a drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source.

Unpolluted water means water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.

Wastewater means the spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may be present.

Wastewater facilities means the structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.

Wastewater treatment works means an arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "waste treatment plant" or "wastewater pollution control plant."

Watercourse means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.

(Code 1980, § 32-141)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.