Ordinance - #84-02 - 02/28/1984 - Laserfiche WebLink

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-4- constructed to receive the discharge of sewage from a building sewer, separate solids from liquid, digest organic matter, and store solids throagh a period of detention, and allow the clarified liquids to discharge to a soil treatment system. 33. "Shoreland" means land located within the folloing distances from public waters: One thousand (1,000) feet from the normal high water mark of a lake, pond or flowage; and be Three hundred (300) feet from a river or stream or the landward extend of a flood plain designated by ordinance on such a river or stream, whichever is greater. 34. "Site" is the proposed on-site sewage treament system area. 35. "Slope" is the ratio of vertical rise or fall to horizontal distance. 36. "Soil Boring" is any type of excavation capable of revealing in detail characteristics of soils penetrated. 37. "Soil Characteristics, Limiting" are those soil characteristics which preclude the installation of a standard system, including but not limited to evidence of seasonal high ground water table or bedrock closer than three (3) feet to the ground surface and percolation rates faster than one-half (1/2) or slower than sixty (6) minutes per inch. 38. "Soil Classification" is where soil particle sizes or textures are specified in this regulation, they refer to the Guide for USDA Soil Textural C las s ificat ion. 39. "Soil Treatment Area" is an areawhere sewage tank effluent is treated and dispoed of below the ground surface by filtration and percolation through the soil an also by evapotranspiration, and includes those systems commonly known as seepage bed, trench drainfield, disposal field, and also includes mounds and seepage pits. 40. "Standard System" is an individual sewage treatment system employing a sewage tank and the soil treatment system commonly known as seepage bed or trenches, drainfield or leachfield. 41. "Surface Water Flooding" is the one hundred (100) year flood plain along rivers and streams as defined by the DMt or, in the absence of such data, the highest flood level of record; on lakes, high water levels as determined or recorded by the Department of Natural Resources or, in the case of no D~R record, by local records or experience. Other surface water flooding or high water areas should be determined by local information. 42. 'Valve Box" is any device which can stop sewage tank effluent from flowing to a portion of the soil treatment area, and includes but is not l~m~ted to caps or plugs on distribution or drop box outlets, divider boards, butterfly valves, gate valves or other mechanisms.