Marlborough Sounds Resource Management Plan 21 August 2008 SEPTIC TANK means a primary treatment unit comprising of single or multiple chambered tank through which domestic wastewater is allowed to flow slowly to permit suspended matter to settle and be retained, so that organic matter contained therein can be decomposed (digested) by anaerobic bacterial action within the sludge. SERVICE INDUSTRY means activities which are directed at providing service as opposed to the production of goods and includes catering depots, laundries, steam pressing and drycleaning premises, sign writing and sign making, caravan and motor vehicle rental premises, premises for the rental of household equipment and effects, fruit and produce markets, shoe repair and upholstery repair workshops, and household appliance repair workshops. SERVICE STATION means any site where the dominant activity is the retail sale of motor vehicle fuels and may also include any one or more of the following: • The sale of kerosene, alcohol-based fuels, lubricating oils, tyres, batteries, vehicle spare parts and other accessories normally associated with motor vehicles; • Mechanical repair and servicing of motor vehicles; • Warrant of fitness testing; and • The sale or hire of other merchandise where this is an ancillary activity to the main use of the site. SET INTERVAL means the time interval at which the Data Recording Device shall record and store data. SEWAGE means the contents of sewers carrying the waterborne wastes of a community. This is sometimes called ‘wastewater’ to distinguish it from stormwater. SEWERAGE means the pipes and infrastructure through which sewage flows. SHELLFISH GATHERING WATER QUALITY means that the median faecal coliform content of samples collected over the shellfish gathering season should not exceed 14 MPN (most probable number) per 100 ml. Nor should more than 10 per cent of samples exceed 43 MPN for a five tube decimal dilution test. SHIP has the meaning given to that term by section 2 of the Act. ADVISORY NOTE: Ship includes every description of ship, boat, ferry, or craft used in navigation, whether or not it has any means of propulsion, and regardless of that means; and includes: • A barge, lighter, or other like vessel; • A hovercraft or other thing deriving full or partial support in the atmosphere from the reactions of air against the surface of the water over which it operates; and • A submarine or other thing used in navigation whilst totally submerged. SHIP SPEED means speed of a ship measured relative to the speed of the adjacent water averaged over a period of approximately 5 minutes as determined from an accurate, appropriately calibrated and maintained hull-mounted instrument or, where such an instrument is not available or is faulty, calculated in accordance with Appendix K. SIDECASTING means a technique of road, track or a landing construction that requires the placing of spoil immediately to the side of the site of construction. SIDECUTTING means excavation cuts across the side of a hill. SIDE YARD means a yard between a side boundary of the site and a line parallel thereto extending: • From the front yard to the rear yard; • if there is to be no front yard, from the front boundary to the rear yard; • if there is to be no rear yard, from the front yard or boundary as the case may be to the rear boundary of the site; or • if there are two or more front yards, from yard to yard. 25 - 14