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510 UPON MOTION of Commissioner Nash, seconded by Commissioner Payne and unanimously carried, the Board approved the following change to the proposed Sewer Ordinance. Page 18. Section XVI (d) (4) In the case of discontinuance of service for any reason except repairs or other necessary work by the Board, the customer shall pay the Board for all past due service charges and all costs of disconnecting and reconnecting service. UPON MOTION of Commissioner Milloway, seconded by Commissioner Payne and unanimously carried, the Board adopted the following Cabarrus County Sewer Ordinance as corrected. CABARRUS COUNTY SEWER ORDINANCE March, 1984 An ordinance to regulate, restrict and limit, in the interest of the public health and safety, the deposit or discharge of certain substances into any sanitary sewer now maintained and/or owned by or which may become the property of or which may be leased to the County of Cabarrus, State of North Carolina. WHEREAS, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, PL 92-500 (hereinafter referred to as the "Act") have resulted in an unprecedented program of cleaning up our Nation's waters; WHEREAS, the County of Cabarrus has already made and will continue to make a substantial financial investment in the regional wastewater treatment system to achieve the goals of the Act; and WHEREAS, the County of Cabarrus seeks to provide for the use of the regional wastewater treatment system by industries served by it without damage to the physical facilities, without impairment of their normal function of collecting, treating and discharging domestic wastewater, and without the discharge by the regional wastewater treatment system of pollutants which would violate the discharge allowed under its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit and the applicable rules of all governmental authorities with jurisdiction over such discharges. BE IT ORDAINED AND ENACTED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF CABARRUS, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA BY ADOPTING THE FOLLOWING: Section I - Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise the following terms, as used in this Ordinance, shall have the meanings hereinafter designated: (a) "Biochemical Oxygen Demand" (BOD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at 20oC, expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams per liter). (b) "Board" is the Board of Commissioners of the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina. (c) "City" means the City of Concord, North Carolina. (d) "COD" (Chemical Oxygen Demand) means the quantity of equivalent oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation or organic matter as measured by standard laboratory methods, as set out herein, expressed in parts per million. (e) "Color" shall mean the "true color" due to substances in solution which may cause any variation in the hue of the receiving stream and is expressed in parts per million. (f) "Commercial/Industrial User" means a user not meeting the requirements of a "Residential User". (g) "Compatible pollutant" means BOD, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, and such additional pollutants as are now or may be in the future specified and controlled in the City's NPDES permit for the regional wastewater treatment works where said works have been designed and used to reduce or remove such pollutants. (h) "Cooling Water" means the water discharged from any u~ such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, during which~the only pollutant added to the water is heat. (i) "Director" shall mean the Director of Utilities of the Board of Light and Water Commissioners of the City of Concord, North Carolina.