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w <br />(54) "Person", for the purposes of this ordinance, shall mean any <br />and all persons, natural or artificial, including any indi- <br />vidual, firm, company, municipal or private corporation, <br />partnership, copartnership, joint stock company, trust, asso- <br />ciation, institution, enterprise, governmental agency, the <br />State of Ohio, the United States of America, or other legal <br />entity, or their representatives, agents, or assigns. The <br />masculine gender shall include the feminine, the singular <br />shall include the plural where indicated by the context. <br />(55) "pH" notation means the logarith, base ten, of the reciprocal <br />of the hydrogen-ion concentration expressed in moles per <br />liter. It shall be determined by one of the procedures out- <br />lined in Standard Methocis, as defined in Section 911.03(82). <br />(56) "Pollutant" means the dredged spoil, solid waste, incineratoz <br />residue, wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge, munition, <br />wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and <br />industrial, municipal, commercial, domestic, and agricultural <br />waste discharged into water. <br />(57) "Pollution" is an alteration of the quality of the waters of <br />the State by waste to a degree which unreasonably affects <br />such waters for beneficial uses or facilities which serve <br />such beneficial uses. Pollution is the man-made or man- <br />induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological, and <br />radiological integrity of water. <br />(58) "Premises" means any piece of real estate having one or more <br />sewers which may be connected either individually or through <br />a common sewer and directly or indirectly to the wastewater <br />disposal system. <br />(59) "Pretreatment" is the process of reducing the amount of pol- <br />lutants, eliminating pollutants, or altering the nature of <br />pollutant properties in wastewater introducing such pol- <br />lutants into the City's wastewater disposal system. The <br />reduction, elimination, or alteration may be obtained by phy- <br />sical, chemical, or biological processes, process changes or <br />other means, except as prohibited by this Ordinance. <br />(60) "Pretreatment requirements" are any substantive or procedural <br />requirements related to pretreatment, other than a National <br />Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial user. <br />(61) "Properly shredded garbage" means the wastes from the prepa- <br />ration, cooking, and dispensing of food that have been shred- <br />dec3 to such a degree that all particles will be carried <br />freely, under the conc3itions normally prevailing in municipal <br />sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any <br />dimension. <br />-8-