CHAPTER 2
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SEWERS

SECTION:

8-2-1: Definitions

8-2-2: Powers And Authority Of Inspectors

8-2-3: Use Of Public Sewers Required; Restrictions

8-2-4: Private Sewage Disposal Systems

8-2-5: Building Sewers And Connections

8-2-6: Application Permit Forms

8-2-7: Wastewater Service Charges

8-2-8: Billings; Delinquencies

8-2-9: Lien For Nonpayment

8-2-10: Revenues; Sewerage Fund

8-2-11: System Of Accounts

8-2-12: Notice Of Rates

8-2-13: Access To Records

8-2-14: Prohibited Discharges; Tests And Analyses

8-2-15: Protection Of Sewage Works From Damage

8-2-16: Discharging Wastes To Storm Drains Prohibited

8-2-17: Penalty

8-2-1: DEFINITIONS:

Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:

CLARIFICATION OF WORD USAGE: "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissible.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT:

Administrator: The Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Federal Act: The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) as amended by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of Amendments of 1972 (Pub. L. 92-500) and (Pub. L. 93-243).

Federal Grant: The U.S. Government participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works as provided for by Title II - Grants for Construction of Treatment Works of the Act and implementing regulations.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT:

Approving Authority: The Public Works Director.

City: The City of Barry, Illinois.

Ordinance: This Ordinance (termed throughout as "this Chapter").

NPDES PERMIT: Any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued by the Administrator, or, where appropriated by the Director, after enactment of the Federal Water Pollution Control Amendments of 1972, to regulate the discharge of pollutants pursuant to section 402 of the Federal Act.

PERSON: Any and all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm, company, municipal or private corporation, association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency or other entity.

SEWER TYPES AND APPURTENANCES:

Building Drain: That part of the lowest piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer or other approved point of discharge, beginning five feet (5') (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.

Building Sewer: The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.

Combined Sewer: A sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater, storm, surface and ground water drainage.

Easement: An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.

Public Sewer: A sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the City. It shall also include sewers within or outside the City boundaries that serve one or more persons and ultimately discharge into the City sanitary (or combined) sewer system, even though those sewers may not have been constructed with City funds.

Sanitary Sewer: A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes or a combination of both, and into which storm, surface, and ground waters or unpolluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.

Sewer: A pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other waste liquids, including storm, surface and ground water drainage.

Sewerage: The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation and pumping of sewage.

Storm Sewer: A sewer that carries storm, surface and ground water drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.

Storm Water Runoff: That portion of the precipitation that is drained into the sewers,

STATE GOVERNMENT:

Director: The Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

State Act: The Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act of 1970.

State Grant: The State of Illinois participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works as provided for by the Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act and for making such grants as filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Illinois.

TREATMENT:

Pretreatment: The treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into the wastewater treatment works.

Wastewater Treatment Works: An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge, Sometimes used as synonymous with "waste treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "pollution control plant".

TYPES OF CHARGES:

Basic User Charge: The basic assessment levied on all users of the public sewer system.

Bimonthly: Every two (2) months.

Debt Service Charge: The amount to be paid each billing period for payment of interest, principal and coverage of bonds outstanding and shall be computed by dividing the annual debt service by the number of users connected to the wastewater facilities.

Replacement: Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance" includes replacement.

Sewerage Fund: The principal accounting designation for all revenues received in the operation of the sewerage system.

Surcharge: The assessment in addition to the basic user charge and debt service charge which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration values established in Section 8-2-7 of this Chapter.

Useful Life: The estimated period during which the collection system and/or treatment works will be operated and shall be twenty (20) years from the date of start-up of any wastewater facilities constructed with a State grant.

User Charge: A charge levied on users of treatment works for the cost of operation and maintenance.

Wastewater Service Charge: The charge bimonthly levied on all users of the wastewater facilities. The service charge shall be computed as outlined in Section 8-2-7 of this Chapter and shall consist of the total of the basic user charge, the debt service charge and a surcharge, if applicable.

WASTEWATER AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS:

BOD (denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand): The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees (20°) C, expressed in milligrams per liter.

Effluent Criteria: Are defined in any applicable "NPDES permit".

Floatable Oil: Oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system.

Garbage: Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.

Industrial Waste: Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance discharged, permitted to flow or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing, commercial or business establishment or process or from the development, recovery or processing of any natural resource as distinct from sanitary sewage.

Major Contributing Industry: An industrial user of the publicly-owned treatment works that: 1) has a flow of fifty thousand (50,000) gallons or more per average work day; or 2) has a flow greater than ten percent (10%) of the flow carried by the Municipal system receiving the waste; or 3) has in its waste, a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under section 307(a) of the Federal Act; or 4) is found by the permit issuance authority, in connection with the issuance of the NPDES permit, to be publicly-owned treatment works receiving the waste, to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on that treatment works or upon the quality of effluent from that treatment works.

Milligrams Per Liter: A unit of the concentration of water or wastewater constituent. It is 0.001 g of the constituent in 1,000 ml of water. It has replaced the unit formerly used commonly, parts per million, to which it is approximately equivalent, in reporting the results of water and wastewater analysis.

pH: The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration expressed by one of the procedures outlined in "Standard Methods".

ppm: Parts per million by weight.

Population Equivalent: A term used to evaluate the impact of industrial or other waste on a treatment works or stream. One population equivalent is one hundred (100) gallons of sewage per day, containing seventeen one-hundredths (0.17) pounds of BOD.

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 one-half inch (1/2") (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.

Sewage: Is used interchangeably with "wastewater".

Slug: Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty four (24) hour concentration of flows during normal operation.

Standard Methods: The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the most recent edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.

Suspended Solids: Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage, or industrial waste, and which are removable by a laboratory filtration device. Quantitative determination of suspended solids shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in "Standard Methods".

Wastewater: The spent water of a community. From this standpoint, of course, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with any ground water, surface water, and storm water that may be present.

Water Quality Standards: Are defined in the Water Pollution Regulations of Illinois.

Unpolluted Water: Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.

WASTEWATER FACILITIES: The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and transport effluent to a watercourse.

WATERCOURSE AND CONNECTIONS:

Natural Outlet: Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water.

Watercourse: A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.

USER TYPES:

Control Manhole: A structure located on a site from which industrial wastes are discharged. Where feasible, the manhole shall have an interior drop. The purpose of a "control manhole" is to provide access for the City representative to sample and/or measure discharges.

Industrial User: Any nongovernmental user of publicly- owned treatment works identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under the following divisions:

   A.   Division A - Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing.

   B.   Division B - Mining.

   C.   Division D - Manufacturing.

   D.   Division E - Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services.

   E.   Division I - Services.

A user in the divisions listed may be excluded if it is determined by the Public Works Director that it will introduce primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.

Residential Or Commercial Or Nonindustrial User: Any user of the treatment works not classified as an industrial user or excluded as an industrial user as provided for in this Section.

User Class: The type of user either "residential or commercial" (nonindustrial) or "industrial" as defined herein. (Ord. 78-12, 3-6-1978)

8-2-2: POWERS AND AUTHORITY OF INSPECTORS:

   A.   Right Of Entry:

      1.   The Public Works Director and other duly authorized employees of the City, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter. The Public Works Director or his/her representative shall have no authority to inquire into any processes, including metallurgical, chemical, oil refining, ceramic, paper, or other industries beyond that point having a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the sewer or waterway or facilities for waste treatment.

      2.   The Public Works Director and other duly authorized employees of the City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the City holds a duly negotiated easement for the purposes of but not limited to inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair and maintenance of any portion of the sewage works lying within said easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said easement, shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.

   B.   Observe Safety Rules: While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in subsection A above, the Public Works Director or duly authorized employees of the City, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company and the company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the City employees and the City shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by City employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the company and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in subsection 8-2-14I of this Chapter. (Ord. 78-12, 3-6-1978)