BOD (denoting biochemical oxygen demand): The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty (20) degrees centigrade expressed in parts per million (ppm) in weight.

Branch sewer: A sewer which receives sewage from lateral sewers from a relatively small area.

Building sewer or house sewer: The extension from the building drain to the building connection or other place of disposal.

Combined sewer: A sewer receiving both surface run-off and sewage.

Consumer: Property owner or renter, lessee or tenant for sewer customers.

Developer: A person, firm, partnership, joint venture, trust, syndicate, association, corporation, limited liability company or other legal entity who desires to improve or otherwise engage in any development of property within the City of Show Low, including the owner of the property.

Garbage: Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.

Industrial wastes: The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.

Lateral sewer: A sewer which discharges into a branch or other sewer and has no other common sewer tributary to it. A lateral sewer can only serve a single parcel. Any sewer serving more than one (1) parcel must be a public sewer.

Main sewer: A sewer which receives sewage from one (1) or more branch sewers as tributaries.

Natural outlet: Any outlet into a watercourse, ditch, or other body of surface or ground water.

pH: The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.

Properly shredded garbage: Garbage that has 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-fourth (1/4) inch in any dimension.

Public sewer: A sewer controlled by public authority.

Public sewer availability: A gravity sewer connection that is located within two hundred (200) feet of a parcel.

Sanitary sewer: A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.

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

Sewage treatment plant: Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.

Sewage works: All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.

Sewer connection: The connection to the public sewer and the extension therefrom of the sewer to the property line at the alley or the curb line of the street, whichever is applicable, depending on the location of the public sewer.

Storm sewer or storm drain: A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.

Suspended solids: Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.

Trunk sewer: A sewer which receives sewage from many tributary main sewers, and serves as an outlet for a large territory.

Watercourse: A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously or intermittently. (Ord. No. 470, § 1, 6-20-00; Ord. No. 2008-09, §§ 1, 2, 8-19-08; Ord. No. 2011-07, § 2, 5-17-11; Ord. No. 2019-02, § 1, 2-5-19. 1976 Code § 11-1-1)