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<br />caused by operational error, improperly designed treatment
<br />facilities, inadequate treatment facilities, lack of preven-
<br />tive maintenance, or careless or improper operation thereof.
<br />(92) "User" is a person that discharges, causes, or permits the
<br />discharge of wastewater into the sewerage system.
<br />(93) "User charge" is the fee imposed upon all users serviced by
<br />the sewage disposal works of the City of North Olmsted in a
<br />total amount sufficient to pay the costs of operation and
<br />maintenance, including the costs of replacement of equipment
<br />in the wastewater disposal system.
<br />(94) "User class" is a group of users that discharges, causes, or
<br />permits the discharge of wastewater with similar characteris-
<br />tics into the sewerage system. All users classified as com-
<br />mercial, governmental, industrial, institutional, and resi-
<br />dential users comprise, respectively, commercial user class,
<br />governmental user class, industrial user class, institutional
<br />user class, and residential user class.
<br />(95) "Volatile organic matter" is the material in the sewage sol-
<br />ids transformed to gases or vapors when heated at 500 degrees
<br />Centigrade for 15 to 20 minutes.
<br />(96) "Wastewater" is the liquid and water-carried industrial or
<br />domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, indus-
<br />trial facilities, and institutions, together with any ground-
<br />water, surface water, and storm water that may be present,
<br />whether treated or untreated, which is discharged into or
<br />permitted to enter the City's wastewater disposal system.
<br />(97) "Wastewater Treatment Plant" (See Sewage Treatment Plant, 73).
<br />(98) "Watercourse" refers to a channel in which a flow of water
<br />occurs, whether continuously or intermittently.
<br />(99) "Waters of the State" means all streams, lakes, ponds, mar-
<br />shes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, resezvoirs,
<br />aquifiers, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all
<br />other bodies of accumulations of water, surface or under-
<br />groun8, natural or artificial, public or private, which are
<br />contained within, flow through, or border upon the State or
<br />any portion thereof.
<br />911.04 TWO SEWER SYSTEMS.
<br />The City of North Olmsted operates two separate sewer systems:
<br />(a) Storm Sewer System. This system takes stormwater (unpol-
<br />luted) from the community through appropriate outlets into the public
<br />waters of the State of Ohio.
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