For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings
respectively ascribed to them by this section:
Backflow Prevention Device. A backwater valve or other device approved for use by
the Uniform Plumbing Code used to prevent reverse flow.
Brine Waste. A concentrated solution of dissolved solids which may be produced as
a result of regeneration of a water softener exchange bed that has been used to soften
water.
Discharge. To place or cause to be placed in the district's sewer system.
District. Laguna County Sanitation District.
District's Sewer System. All district's facilities required for the conveyance of
wastes to the district's treatment facility.
District Treatment Facilities. Any works, equipment or structure utilized by the district
in the physical, chemical or biological treatment of waste prior to final disposal.
Fats, Oils and Grease. Any substance such as vegetable or animal product used in or
is a byproduct of cooking or food preparation that may turn viscous or may solidify
with a change in temperature.
Food Service Establishment. An establishment that prepares and serves foodstuffs by
frying, baking, grilling, sautéing, rotisserie cooking, broiling, boiling, blanching,
roasting, toasting, poaching. Also included are heating, searing, barbecuing, and
other food preparation activity that produces a hot, non-drinkable food product in
or on a receptacle that requires washing.
Manager. Manager of the Laguna County Sanitation District or his duly authorized representative.
Pretreatment Facility. Any works, equipment or structure employed by the user for
the physical, chemical or biological treatment or flow limitation of waste prior to
its discharge into the district's sewer system.
Properly Shredded Garbage. Solid waste derived from domestic, commercial or industrial
preparation, cooking and dispensing of food which has been shredded to such a degree
that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing
in the district's sewer system.
Protective Facilities. Any works, equipment or structure required to ensure that industrial
waste does not have a deleterious effect on the receiving waters, the district's sewer
system or treatment facilities (1) including physical, chemical and biological treatment
prior to discharge to the district's sewer system, (2) storage to contain accidental
spillage or eliminate sludge flows, and (3) all other facilities for the proper management
of industrial wastes.
Receiving Waters. Those waters (including groundwater) to which effluent or its constituents,
in total or in part, are ultimately returned after having passed through the district's
sewer system and treatment facility.
Recycled Water. Water which, as a result of treatment of waste, is suitable for direct
beneficial use or a controlled use that would not otherwise occur and is therefore
considered a valuable resource.
Strong Concentrations. Any material not specifically mentioned in this article which
is of sufficient concentration to result in deleterious effects on the district's
sewer system or the receiving-waters.
Unusual Strength or Character Waste. Waste treatable by the district using processes
designed for domestic waste but exhibiting higher concentrations of specific constituents
such as chemical oxygen demands, biochemical oxygen demand and suspended solids.
User. Any person that discharges, causes or permits the discharge of waste into the
district's sewer system.
Waste. Any material discharged into the district's sewer system.
Waste, Domestic. The water derived from the ordinary living processes, free from industrial
waste and of such character as to permit satisfactory discharge without special treatment
into the district's sewer system.
Waste Constituents and Characteristics. The individual chemical, physical, bacteriological
and radiological parameters, including volume and flow rate and such other parameters,
that serve to define, classify or measure the contents, quality, quantity and strength
of waste.
Waste, Industrial. Any waste, as distinct from domestic waste, including but not limited
to liquid, solid, gaseous and radioactive material resulting from any producing, manufacturing,
processing of either a commercial or industrial operation of whatever nature, discharged
in the district's sewer system.
Water-Softening System or Device. Any apparatus which removes compounds of calcium
and magnesium from the water supply.
