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"'.' " .' .' . . . Ordinance No. 912 , P~ge 4 from soil, waste, and other drain~ge pipes inside the walls of the buildi~g and conveys to the building sewer, b~ginni~g three feet outside the inner face of the buildi~g wall. (t) . "Building Sewer" shall mean the extension from the building drain to the sewer or other place of disposal. (u). "Natural Outlet" shall mean any outlet into a water-course, pond, ditch, lake or other body of water, either surface or, ground water. (v). "Water-course" shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (w). "Parts per Million" shall mean a we~ght to we~ght ratio; the parts-per-million value multiplied by the factor 8.345 shall be equivalent to pofinds per million, gallons of water. (x). "Sewage Service Charge" shall mean the charge made on all users of the public sewer system whose wastes do not exceed in stre~gth the concentration values established as repre- sentative of normal sew~ge. (y) . "Surcharge" shall mean the charge in addition to the sew~ge service which is made on those persons whose wastes are, greater in stre~gth than the concentration values established as representative of normal sew~ge. (z). "Storm Water Runoff" shall mean that portion of the rain-fall that is drained into the sewers. (aa). "Industrial Waste" shall mean water-borne solids, liquids or, gaseous wastes resulti~g from and discha!ged, per- mitted to flow or escapi~g from any commercial, industrial manu- facturing or food processi~g operation or process or from the development of any natural resource, or any mixture of these with water or domestic sew~ge as distinct from normal domestic sewage. SECTION TWO. From and after the effective date of this Ordinance, the monthly rates for industrial sewer service prov~ded by the City of La Porte, Texas, shall be and are hereby fixed as follows: