Amending Certain Portions of Chapter 17 Sewers and Water

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BILL NO. ORDINANCE NO. 7s4f':1,,s ORDINANCE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, AMENDING CERTAIN PORTIONS OF CHAPTER 17 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, COMMONLY KNOWN AS SEWERS AND WATER STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND INTENT: The City of South Bend has been ordered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to develop and implement a program for the pretreatment of industrial waste . Pursuant to that mandate , an Industrial Pretreatment Program has been developed and has received the approval of both the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Indiana State Board of Health. A proposed Sewer Use Ordinance was a part of that approved plan and the Common Council now desires to adopt that Ordinance in order to bring the City of South Bend into compliance with federal requirements. SECTION I. Chapter 17, Section 17-5 of the Municipal Code of South Bend is amended as follows : Sec . 17-5 Definitions : (-s-) As used in this article : ( 1) BOARD means the City of South Bend acting through its Board of Wastewater Commissioners . (1) (2) BOD (denoting biochemical oxygen demand) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five ( 5) days at twenty ( 20) degrees Celsius, expressed in milligrams per liter. (-2-) (3 ) 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 (5) feet ( 1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall . ( 3) (4) BUILDING SEWER means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer of other place of disposal . (-14-) (5) CITY ENGINEER means the City Engineer of the City, or his authorized deputy, agent or representative . ( 6) CFR means Code of Federal Regulations . (-5-) (7) COMBINED SEWER means a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage . (8) EFFLUENT DATA means information necessary to determine the identity, amount, frequency, concentration, temperature, or other characteristics of any pollutant discharged . (9) EPA means The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or a duly authorized official of that agency.