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AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING REGULATIONS COVERING INDUST-
RIAL WASTES; DEFINING TERMS; PROHIBITING SOME WASTES;
PROVIDING LIMITS FOR B.O.D.; TEMPERATURE, ACIDS, ALKLINES,
SYNTHETIC PRODUCES, EXPLOSIVE MIXTURES, GREASES AND OILS;
REQUIRING PRETREATMENT; PROVIDING FOR RATES AND SUR-
CHARGES; PROHIBITING OUTSIDE SOURCE OF WATER; REQUIRING
SUBMISSION AND APPROVAL OF PLANS & SPECIFICATIONS;
SETTING FORTH REQUIREMENTS FOR TREATING AND CONTROL
FACILITIES; PROVIDING AUTHORITY TO DISCONNECT; REPEAL-
ING ALL CONFLICTING ORDINANCES; PROVIDING A PENALTY;
PROVIDING FOR METHOD OF PUBLICATION AND ETFECTIVE DATE; -
AND CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
WHEREAS, The City Council of Georgetown, Texas, finds that it is necessary and
essential in the public interest of the health, safety and general welfare of the
citizens of the City of Georgetown, Texas, to enact provisions governing the dis-
charge of wastes into the city sewage facilities, to read hereafter in full as
more particularly provided in the body of this ordinance.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN,
}ERAS :
1� SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. The following words and phrases shall have the
meanings herein ascribed to them.
B.O.D.. denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand means the quantity of oxygen utilized
in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter by standard methods procedure in
five (5) days at twenty (20) degrees C., expressed in parts per million by weight.
City means the City of Georgetown, Texas, or any authorized person acting in
its behalf.
Domestic Sewage means water -borne wastes normally discharged from sanitary
conveniences of dwellings, including apartment houses and hotels, office buildings,
factories and institutions, free from stoTn surface water and industrial wastes,
Normal domestic sewage shall mean normal sewage for Georgetown, Texas, in which
the average concentration of sue ended materials and five (5) day B.O.D. is estab-
lished at two hundred fifty (2505 parts per million each, by weight, on the basis
ofthe normal contribution of twenty hundredths (0.20) pounds per capita. It is
further expressly provided that for the purpose of this ordinance, any waste that
exceeds the above concentration of suspended materials and/or B.O.D. shall be
classified as industrial wastes and made subject to all regulations pertaining there
to, whether or not such waste was partially of domestic origin.
Garbage means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and disposing of food,
and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
Industrial wastes means all water -borne solids, liquids, or gaseous wastes
resulting from any industrial, manufacturing or food processing operation or process,
or from the development of any natural resource, or any mixture of these with water
or domestic sewage as distinct from normal domestic sewage.
Manager means the City Manager or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
Person, establishment or owner means any indidual, firm, company, association,
society, corporation, partnership, or group; their agents, servants or employees.
PH means the logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen -ion concent-
ration of a solution.
Properly shredded garbaze means the wastes from the preparation cooking, and
dispensing of food, exclusive of egg shells, bones, etc., that have been shredded
to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions
normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particles greater than one-half ()
inch in any dimesion.
Public sewer means a sewer in which all owners abutting properties shall have
equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
Sanitary sewer means a public sewer which carries sewage and to which storm,
surface, and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
Sewage means a combination of the water -carried wastes from residences, busi-
ness buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.