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discharge into navigable waters of the United States pursuant to Sections 402 and 405 of the Act. 25. Natural Outlet. Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewers, which overflow into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or ground water. 26. Non-Contact Cooling Water. The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, or during which the only pollutant added, is heat. 27. Normal Domestic Strength Waste. Wastewater that is primarily introduced by residential users with a BODs concentration not greater than 250 mg/1 and a suspended solids (TSS) concentration not greater than 302mg/1. 28. Person. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group. 29. "pH" The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions in terms of grams per liter of solution. 30. Pretreatment. The treatment of wastewater from industrial sources prior to the introduction of the waste effluent into a publicly owned treatment works. (See Sec. 23.) 31. Properly Shredded Garbage. The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers with no particle greater than '/2 inch(1.27 cm) in any dimension. 32. Sewage_ The spent water of a community. The preferred term is wastewater. 33. Sewer. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. A. Collection Sewer. A sewer whose primary purpose is to collect wastewaters from individual point source discharges and connections. B. Combined Sewer. A sewer intended to serve as a sanitary sewer and a storm sewer. C. Force Main. A pipe in which wastewater is carried under pressure. D. Interceptor Sewer. A sewer whose primary purpose is to transport wastewater from collection sewers to a treatment facility.