ARTICLE 2
DEFINITIONS
As used in these Rules and Regulations, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the words defined below shall have the respective meanings set forth for them:
2-1 ABANDON: To discontinue the use of any connection with the District System in such a manner or in such circumstances as to permit the reasonable inference that such connection is no longer needed or desired by the Property Owner, such as the destruction and non-replacement of improvements to which a service line had been connected.
2-2 ACTUAL COSTS: All direct and indirect costs attributable to any project or undertaking. Actual costs to the District shall include its engineering, legal, labor, material, equipment, administrative and overhead expenses calculated in accordance with the rates set forth in Appendix A hereto, and all direct payments to third parties, at cost.
2-3 BOARD or BOARD OF DIRECTORS: The duly constituted Board of Directors of the District.
2-4 BOD: Biochemical Oxygen Demand.
2-5 CDPHE: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
2-6 CFR: Code of Federal Regulations
2-7 CONTRACTOR: Any person who performs any work, either for himself or another, on any water or sewer facilities, public or private, within the District, including all subcontractors, agents, employees, officers and other representatives of such person.
2-8 DISTRICT: Copper Mountain Consolidated Metropolitan District, Summit County, Colorado, and its manager, authorized employees, agents, officers, directors, insurers, and professional consultants.
2-9 DISTRICT ENGINEER: Licensed engineer who has contracted to do engineering work and consultation for the District.
2-10 DISTRICT SYSTEM: The Plant, facilities, systems and assets owned or directly controlled by the District. As used herein, the term includes both water and sewer systems unless otherwise specified. Service lines are not part of the District system.
2-11 EPA: Environmental Protection Agency.
2-12 FOREIGN MATERIALS: Objects or substances not normally and ordinarily transmitted by sanitary sewer facilities.
2-13 FRONTAGE EXTENSIONS: Extensions of District owned water and sewer lines to any side of a lot or developer owned property that is adjacent to a street
2-14 GROUNDWATER: Water below the surface of the earth; including underground streams and percolating water.
2-15 INCLUSION FEE: A fee charged for adding property to the District by reforming the District's legal boundaries to include the added property.
2-16 INDUSTRIAL WASTES: The combination of liquid and water-carried waste discharged from any industrial processes, including the wastewater from pre-treatment facilities and polluted cooling water, as distinct from residential and commercial wastewater. Any waste material, the discharge of which requires a permit under Environmental Protection Agency or Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Regulations.
2-17 INSPECTION FEES: Fees assessed for time expended by the District engineer, inspector or other agent for the inspection and observation of construction of new elements of the District system when the District is not itself contracting for the construction.
2-18 LICENSED CONTRACTOR: Any person or commercial entity authorized by the District to perform work and to furnish materials within the District on the basis of a determination by the District's engineer and/or manager that that person's or entity's references and record of prior performance justify such authorization.
2-19 MAIN: Any pipe and appurtenant facility of the District system used for carrying water (water main) or wastewater (sewer main).
2-20 MAIN EXTENSION: The construction of any main, or the main itself, which is intended to become a part of the District System upon acceptance by the District in accordance with Article 6.
2-21 MANAGER: Person employed by the District to act in a managerial capacity.
2-22 NPDES: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
2-23 PERMITTED PREMISES: The land area and improvements thereto to which sewer service is limited under any particular Tap Permit.
2-24 PERSON: Associations, corporations, firms, partnerships and bodies politic and corporate, as well as individuals.
2-25 POTW: Publicly-Owned Treatment Works.
2-26 PRIVATE SEWER SYSTEM: Any and all lines, facilities and appurtenances for the collection of wastewater discharge from more then one building to a common sewer main or mains that connect to the District System, but have not been accepted for ownership and maintenance by the District and are not part of the District System, including all such lines, facilities and appurtenances upstream from and including the wye or saddle fitting on the District’s main or the wye within a manhole.
2-27 PRIVATE WATER SYSTEM: Any and all wells, lines, conduits, facilities, and appurtenances for the distribution of water within the District that have not been accepted for ownership and maintenance by the District and are not part of the District system. Any connection between a private water system and any District water distribution facilities is strictly prohibited.
2-28 PROPERTY OWNER: Any person who, solely or with others, owns real property within the District. When property is owned by more than one person, the term includes all owners thereof. As used in these Rules and Regulations, the term shall apply to such person only in connection with his ownership of any specific parcel of real property involved in any specific matter governed by these Rules and Regulations. For purposes of clarity, the masculine singular pronoun is used in these Rules and Regulations to refer to Property Owner. In Article 6 hereof, the owner of Main Extensions and Appurtenant facilities is designated "Grantor."
2-29 RECORD DRAWINGS: Representations of installation based on information available from construction observation, measurements, and construction contract requirements. The District does not warrant the accuracy of record drawings in its possession.
2-30 RULES AND REGULATIONS: These Rules and Regulations, as amended from time to time by the Board of Directors.
2-31 SANITARY WASTEWATER: The combination of liquid and water- carried wastes discharged from toilet and other sanitary plumbing facilities.
2-32 SERVICE: The provision of water or sewer service by the District to a property.
2-33 SERVICE LINES: Any pipe, system of piping and appurtenances used as a conduit between a connection to the District System and a residential, commercial or industrial improvement. Service Lines are owned by, and are the sole responsibility of, the Property Owner.
2-33-1 Sewer Service Lines. Any sewer lines or portions thereof beginning with the point of connection to the district’s sewer main including the wye or saddle fitting, if any, on the District's Sewer Main, or the wye or other connection within a manhole intended or used to convey wastewater from Permitted Premises to the District Sewer System.
2-33-2 Water Service Lines. All pipe, fittings, and appurtenances (excluding BFV and/or PRV), which convey water from the District System to the plumbing of any improvement. The dividing point between the District System and privately-owned service lines is the corporation stop tapped into the Main or, where applicable, the M.J. valve or tapping valve closest to the Main.
2-34 SEWAGE: See Section 2-49, Wastewater.
2-35 SEWER/SEWERAGE SYSTEM: See Article 2-10, District System. Also may refer in generic sense to any facilities used to transmit wastewater.
2-36 SFE: Single Family Equivalent. This term is used to describe the basic unit of measurement for service availability and Tap Fee and Service Fee determination. The method of calculating the SFE rating for residential and commercial units is set forth in Appendix A.
2-37 SPECIAL SERVICE FEES: Fees imposed by the District for providing extraordinary water or sewer services for which it is inappropriate to charge the usual residential or commercial tap fees and services charges.
2-38 SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES: Any and all pipe, cable, conduits, wires, portions of buildings, drainage facilities and any and all other man-made things of any kind or nature, all or some part or portion of which is located below the surface of the ground.
2-39 SURFACE WATER: Water from rain, springs, melting snow, sprinkling systems, lakes, ponds, streams or any other source which lies upon or above the surface of the ground, whether or not in a defined location, course, or channel, and including water on and/or flowing from the roof or any part of any building or structure.
2-40 SWIMMING POOL DISCHARGE: Filter backwash effluent from any swimming pool conveyed to the District Sewer System.
2-41 TAP or SERVICE CONNECTION: The physical connection to a District main which, together with the Tap Permit for same, effects water or sewer service to any permitted premises, or water for irrigation.
2-42 TAP FEE: A fee imposed by the District as a prerequisite for connecting to the District water system or sewer system. This fee is based upon the total availability of services provided by the District, and is not limited to or a reflection of costs incurred in simply making the connection to the District system.
2-43 TAP OWNER OF RECORD: The person in whose name the tap is registered in the records of the District.
2-44 TAP PERMIT: The written authority to make a Tap for water or sewer service to Permitted Premises from the District System.
2-45 TECHNICAL STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS: The provisions of the “Standard Specifications and Details” of these Rules and Regulations, which prescribe the minimum technical standards and related operating rules for the design, installation, construction, and maintenance of all water and sewer facilities, public and private, within the District.
2-46 TSS: Total Suspended Solids.
2-47 TURN-OFF/TURN-ON FEES: Fees assessed for turning water services on or off.
2-48 UNAUTHORIZED TAP OR SERVICE CONNECTION: Any tap, which is made without having obtained a tap permit.
2-49 USER: Any person who receives water service from the District or who discharges or causes the discharge of wastewater to the District System.
2-50 WASTEWATER: The combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, including polluted cooling water.
2-51 WATER SYSTEM: All facilities owned by the District and used for collecting, pumping, treating and delivering water. |
