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e . e -- . " . . ORDINANCE NO. /~~/ Page 2 (6) "CONTROL MANHOLE" means a manhole giving access to a building sewer at some point before the building sewer discharge mixes with other dis- charges in the public sewer. (7) "CONTROL POINT" means point of access to a course of discharge before the discharge mixes with other discharges in the public sewer. (8) "GARBAGE" means animal and vegetable wastes and residue from preparation, cooking and dis- pensing of food; and from the handling, proc- essing, storage and sale of food products and produce. (9) "INDUSTRIAL WASTE" means waste resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade, or business from the development of any natural resource, or any mixture of the waste with water or normal wastewater, or distinct from normal wastewater. (10) "INDUSTRIAL WASTE CHARGE" means the charge made on those persons who discharge industrial wastes into the city's sewerage system. (11) "MILLIGRAMS PER LITER" (mg/1) means the same as parts per million and is a weight-to-vo1ume ratio; the mil1igram-per-1iter value multiplied by the factor 8.34 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons of water. (12) "NATURAL OUTLET" means any outlet into a water- course, ditch, lake, or other body of surface water or groundwater. (13) "NOIDIJAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER" means wastewater ex- cluding industrial wastewater discharged by.a per- son into sanitary sewers and in which the average concentration of total suspended solids is not more than 300 mg/1 and BOD is not more than 250 mg/1. (14) "OVERLOAD" means the imposition of organic or hydraulic loading on a treatment facility in ex- cess of its engineered design capacity. (15) "PERSON" means any individual and includes any corporation, organization, government or govern- mental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership association, or other legal entity. (16) "pH" means the logarithm (Base 10) of the recip- rocal of the hydrogen ion concentration. (17) "PUBLIC SEWER" means pipe or conduit carrying wastewater or unpolluted drainage in which owners of abutting properties shall have the use, subject to control by the City of La Porte, Texas. (18) "SANITARY SEWER" means a public sewer that conveys domestic wastewater or industrial wastes or a com- bination of both, and into which storm water, sur- face water, groundwater, and other unpolluted wastes are not intentionally passed.