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II i I 'i I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 150.01 SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS 150.011 OBJECTIVES The objectives of this chapter are to provide to the extent possible, with on-site systems, adequate and safe methods of sewage disposal and to prevent the contamination of any existing or future water supply by existing or future sewage disposal systems. However, the system, procedt~res, and other requirements of this chapter amc not to be construed such as to afford direct protection to an individual land owner, but rather the purpose of this chapter is to adopt a general public policy relating to sewage disposal and clean water supplies. 150.012 DEFINITIONS For the purpose of this chapter, certain tez~ns or words used herein shall be interpreted as follows: The word "shall" is mandatory; the words "should" and "may" are permissive. Ail distances, unless otherwise specified, shall be measured horizontally. 1) "Administrator" is the plun~bing inspector, 2) "Agency" is the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. 3) "Agency Approved Disposal Facility" is any disposal facility which has a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit or State Disposal System Permit or letter of approval from the agency. 4) "Alternative System" is an individual sewage treatment system employing such methods and devices presented in Section 150.014G 5) "Baffle" is a device installed in a spetic tank for proper operation of the tank and to provide maximum retention of solids, and includes vented sanitary tees and su]smerged pipes in addition to those devices that are normally called baffles. 6) "Bedroom" is any room within a dwelling that, in the judg- ment of the Building Official and in compliance with the State Building Code might reasonably be used as a sleeping room, including but not limited to rooms designated as den, office or study, and unfinished areas with potential development to same. 7) "Building Drain" is that part of the lowest piping of the drainage system which ~eceives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys to the building sewer beginning at least one (1) foot outside the building footing. 8) "Building Sewer" is that part of the drainage system which extends from the end of the building drain and conveys its discharge to an individual sewag~ treatment system or to a public sanitary sewage collection system. 9) "Capacity" is the liquid volume of a sewage tank using in- side cimensions telow the outlet. 10) "Cesspool" is an underground pit into which raw household sewa[~ or other · ntreated liquid waste is discharged and from which the iix seep~ into the s~,rrounding soil.