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<br /> <br />5 <br />“Capacity” – is the liquid volume of a sewage tank using inside dimensions <br />below the outlet. <br /> <br />“Cesspool” (or see Seepage Pits) – is an underground pit into which raw <br />household sewage or other untreated liquid waste is discharged and from which <br />the liquid seeps into the surrounding soil. <br /> <br />“Distribution Pipes” – is a device which is used to distribute sewage tank <br />effluent to the distribution pipes, including but not limited to distribution boxes, <br />drop boxes and valve boxes. <br /> <br />“Dosing Device” – or pump pit, siphon, or other device that discharges <br />sewage tank effluent from the dosing chamber to the soil treatment system. <br /> <br />“Drain Field” – is also called the tile disposal field or soil absorption field and <br />uses distribution pipes placed in favorable soil so that sewage from the septic <br />tank can percolate through and into the soil. <br /> <br />“Dwelling” – is any building or place used or intended to be used by human <br />occupants as a single-family or two-family unit. <br /> <br />“Filter Material” – is clean, rock, crushed igneous rock or similar insoluble, <br />durable, and decay-resistant material free from sand, silt, or clay. The size shall <br />range from three-fourths (3/4) inch minimum diameter to one and one-half (1 ½) <br />inches effective diameter. <br /> <br />“Floodway” – the channel of a river, a stream, and those parts of the flood <br />plain and adjoining the channel which are reasonably required to carry and <br />discharge the flood water, a flood flow of the river or stream. <br /> <br />“Gray Water” – liquid waste from a dwelling or other establishment produce <br />by bathing, laundry, floor drains, other than toilet wastes. <br /> <br />“Holding Tank” – is a water-tight tank for storage of sewage until it can be <br />transported to a point of approved disposal. <br /> <br />“Impermeable” – with regard to soils, is a soil horizon or layer having a <br />vertical permeability less than one (1) inch in twenty-four (24) hours and shall be <br />considered impermeable. <br /> <br />“Individual Sewage Treatment System” – is a sewage treatment <br />system or part thereof, serving a dwelling or other small living or business unit, or <br />group thereof, which utilizes subsurface soil treatment and disposal. <br />