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The following definitions shall apply when the words and phrases defined are used in this chapter, except when a particular context requires a different meaning:

Access” means entry into or upon any real estate or structure including any part thereof.

Administrative agency” means the City of Olathe Municipal Services Department is hereby designated as the agency responsible for administering the provisions of this regulation.

Infiltration” means the water entering a sewer system, including sewer service connection, from the ground, through such means as, but not limited to, defective pipes, pipe joints, connections or manhole walls. Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.

Infiltration/inflow” means a combination of infiltration and inflow wastewater volumes in sewer lines, with no way to distinguish either of the basic sources, and with the same effect of usurping the capacities of sewer systems and other sewer system facilities.

Inflow” means the water discharged into a sewer system, including service connections, from such sources as, but not limited to, roof leaders, cellar, yard and area drains; foundation drains, cooling water discharges; drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers; cross connections from storm sewers, catch basins; stormwaters, surface runoff; street washwaters; or drainage. Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.

Sanitary sewage system” means a system of pipes, tanks, conduits, structures or other devices for the collection, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of sewage.

Schedule of compliance” means a schedule of actions or operations leading to compliance with any control regulation or effluent limitation.

Sewage” means a combination of liquid wastes which may include chemicals, house wastes, laundry wastes, human excreta, animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution and other solids in suspension or solution, and which is discharged from a dwelling, building or other establishment.

Sewage treatment works” means a system or facility for treating, neutralizing, stabilizing or disposing of sewage, which system or facility has a designed capacity to receive more than two thousand gallons of sewage per day. The term “sewage treatment works” includes appurtenances such as interceptors, collection lines, outfall and outlet sewers, pumping stations and related equipment. (Ord. 90-14 § 1, 1990.)