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. ~,. . 136.2 "Public Sewer" shall mean a primary sewer or secondary sewer in which all owners of abutting property have equal rights and which is controlled by the Sewage Works. 136.3 "Sanitary Sewer" shall mean a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface, and ground wa ters and unpolluted industrial wastewaters are not intentionally admitted. , . 136.4 "Storm Sewer' shall mean a seWer which carries storm and surface water drainage but excludes sewage. 137. "Sewerage System" or "Sewage System" shall mean the network of ' sewers and appurtenances used for collecting, transporting, and Pumping sewage to the sewage treatment plant. 138. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissible. 139.. "Slug" shall mean any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quan- tity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24 hour concentration or flows during normal operation. 140. "Standard Hethods" shall mean the laboratory procedures set forth in the latest edition, at the time of analysis, of "Standard Hethods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" prepared and published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation, and "Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for Ái1al- ysis of POllutants," Regulation 40 GFR Part 136, published in the Federal Register on October 16, 1973. . 141. "Superintendent" shall mean the Superintendent of the Sewage Department of the Town of Mooresvllle or his duly authorized representative. 142. "Surcharge" shall mean the extra charges for sewerage assessed customers whose sewage is of such a nature that it upon the Sewage Works a burden greater than that COvered basic service charge. service imposes by the 143. "Suspended Solids" shall mean solids which either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquid and which are removable by laboratory filtration. Their concentra- tion shall be expresed in milligrams per lite¡;-. Quantitative determinations shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in "Standard Methods." . l 144. "Total Revenue" for purposes of this Ordinance shall mean that revenue obtained from monthly minimum '1'>illing for the use of and service rendered by the Sewage Works and does not include front foot assessments, permit or inspection fees, or other charges. 145. "Total Solids" sball !Dean the sum of suspended and diuolved solids. -5- ,