ORDINANCE NO. 9498

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS, AMENDING CHAPTER 19, ARTICLE 5, SECTION 19-503, OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS, 2018 EDITION AND AMENDMENTS THERETO, PERTAINING TO SEWER USE REGULATIONS, AND REPEALING EXISTING SECTION 19-503.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS:

SECTION 1. Chapter 19, Article 5, Section 19-503, of the Code of the City of Lawrence, Kansas 2018 Edition and amendments thereto, is hereby amended to read as follows:

19-503             DEFINITIONS.

The following words and terms as used in this Article shall be deemed to mean and be construed as follows, unless the context specifically indicates otherwise:

(A)       Biochemical Oxygen Demand or BOD shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/L) as established in the 19th edition of "Standard Methods." (Ord. 6958)

(B)       Building Drain shall mean that part of the lowest piping of drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, or other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning three (3) feet outside the inner face of the foundation wall.

(C)       Building Sewer shall mean the extension from the building drain to the sanitary sewer collection system.

(D)       City shall mean the City of Lawrence, Kansas.         

(E)       Director shall mean the Director of Utilities the Municipal Services and Operations Department of the City, or his or her authorized deputy, agent or representative.

(F)       Domestic Waste shall mean waste from the noncommercial preparation, cooking and handling of food or toilet and sanitary waste from residential, institutional or commercial establishments. Domestic waste also includes non-process industrial wastewater that is solely of toilet origin. All other waste shall mean nondomestic.

(G)       Garbage shall mean solid waste from domestic, institutional and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food or beverage, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.

(H)       Industrial Waste shall mean nondomestic waste from industrial manufacturing processes as distinct from domestic waste.

(I)         Infiltration shall mean the water entering a sewer pipe, including service connections, from the ground. Defective pipes, pipe joints, connections or manhole walls are a few of the common locations where infiltration may occur.

(J)        Inflow shall mean the water discharged into a sanitary sewer collection system and service connections from such sources as, but not limited to, roof leaders, cellar, yard and area drains, foundation drains, cooling water discharges, drains from springs and swampy areas, around manhole covers or through holes in covers, cross connections from storm and combined sewer systems, catch basins, storm waters, surface runoff, street wash waters or drainage. 

(K)       Person shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.

(L)        pH shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.

(M)      Properly Shredded Garbage shall mean the waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food 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-half (1/2) inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.

(N)       Publicly Owned Treatment Works or POTW shall mean a treatment works which is owned and operated by the City. It includes any sewers that convey wastewaters thereto from users located either within or outside the City, but not including pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected to the facility providing treatment.

 (O)      Sanitary Sewer Collection System shall include, but not be limited to all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and transfer of wastewater.

(P)       Sewage shall mean a combination of the water-carried waste from residences, institutions, commercial and industrial facilities, whether treated or untreated, together with such ground, surface, and storm waters as may be present as a result of I and I.

(Q)       Sewer shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying wastewater.

(R)       Shall is mandatory; May is permissive.

(S)       Slug shall mean any discharge of waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration or flows during normal operation.

(T)       Storm Drain or Storm Sewer shall mean a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes wastewater.

(U)       Surcharge shall mean a charge applicable to users of the POTW.  Any user who is found to discharge waste having a biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) that exceeds three hundred mg/L and/or suspended solids that exceed three hundred mg/L will be subject to a surcharge. Surcharges shall be calculated according to the formula in Chapter 19, Article 3, Section 19-314.2.

(V)       Suspended Solids shall mean 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 as established in the 19th edition of Standards Methods.

(W)      User shall mean any person and/or connection to the sanitary sewer collection system that contributes, causes, or allows the contribution of waste into the City’s POTW.

(X)       Waste shall mean the liquid and water-carried domestic or nondomestic waste whether treated or untreated.

(Y)       Wastewater shall mean any liquid-containing substance discharged directly or indirectly to the sanitary sewer collection from any source, either domestic or nondomestic waste.

(Z)       Watercourse shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.         

(AA)     Wastewater Treatment Plant shall mean any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating wastewater. (Code 1979, 19-503)

SECTION 2. Existing Chapter 19, Article 5, Section 19-503, of the Code of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, 2018 Edition, and amendments thereto, is hereby repealed in its entirety, it being the intent of the Governing Body that this ordinance supersede the repealed Code section.

SECTION 3. If any section, sentence, clause, or phrase of this ordinance is found to be unconstitutional or is otherwise held invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, it shall not affect the validity of any remaining parts of this ordinance. 

SECTION 4. After passage, approval, and publication, as provided by law, this ordinance shall be in full force and effect commencing January 1, 2019.

PASSED by the Governing Body of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, this _ day of _______, 2018.

 APPROVED:

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Stuart Boley, Mayor

ATTEST:

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Sherri Riedemann, City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM:                   

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Toni R. Wheeler, City Attorney