BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND. The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five days at 20ºC, expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN. The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from the soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, which begins five feet (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, also called HOUSE CONNECTION.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures, expressed in milligrams per liter.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
COMMERCIAL UNIT. A building or part of a building used by one commercial, private, or public enterprise for uses other than as a dwelling.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. BOD, suspended solids, pH, and fecal coliform bacteria plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit if the publicly owned treatment works was designed to treat the pollutant, and in fact does remove the pollutants to a substantial degree. Examples of these additional pollutants may include: COD; total organic carbon; phosphorous and phosphorous compounds; nitrogen and nitrogen compounds; fats, oils, and greases of animal or vegetable origin except as prohibited under § 51.016.
COOLING WATER. The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling, or refrigeration, during which the only pollutant added to the water is heat.
DEBT SERVICE CHARGE. The charge levied on users to make principal and interest payments required for the amortization of the cost of the wastewater collection and treatment facilities.
DISCHARGE UNIT. Any residence, commercial establishment, industry, or private or public facility generating, accumulating, and/or otherwise discharging liquid waste either directly or ultimately into any of the water systems of the village.
DWELLING UNIT. A building or part of a building used by one family, exclusively, as a place of abode.
ENGINEER. The consulting engineer designated by the Council of the village.
FEDERAL ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 and 1977, Pub. L. No. 92-500, being 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq., and any amendments thereto; as well as any guidelines, limitations, and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
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.
GARBAGE. The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and serving of food.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined above in this section.
INDUSTRIAL COST RECOVERY. Recovery by the village from the industrial users of a treatment works of the grant amount allocable to the treatment of wastes from the users pursuant to Section 204(b) of Title II, Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Amendments of 1972 (Pub. L. No. 92-500), being 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq., and amendments thereto.
INDUSTRIAL USER.
(1) Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of a publicly owned treatment works which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day (gpd) of sanitary wastes and which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented under one of the following divisions:
Division A. | Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing |
Division B. | Mining |
Division D. | Manufacturing |
Division E. | Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, and Sanitary Services |
Division I. | Services |
(a) In determining the amount of a user’s discharge for purposes of industrial cost recovery, the grantee may exclude domestic wastes or discharges from sanitary conveniences.
(b) After applying the sanitary waste exclusion in division (1)(a) of this definition (if the grantee chooses to do so), discharges in the Divisions tabulated under division (1) above that have a volume exceeding 25,000 gpd or the weight of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) or suspended solids (SS) equivalent to that weight found in 25,000 gpd of sanitary waste are considered
INDUSTRIAL USERS. Sanitary wastes, for purposes of this calculation of equivalency, are the wastes discharged from residential users. The strength of residential discharges is herein defined as BOD5 less than or equal to 300 mg per liter and suspended solids less than or equal to 300 mg per liter.
(2) Any nongovernmental user of a publicly owned treatment works which discharges wastewater to the treatment works which contains toxic pollutants or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to contaminate the sludge of any municipal systems, or to injure or to interfere with any sewage treatment process, or which constitutes a hazard to humans or animals, creates a public nuisance, creates any hazard in or has an adverse effect on the waters receiving any discharge from the treatment works.
(3) All commercial users of an individual system constructed with grant assistance under Section 201(h) of the Act, being 33 U.S.C. § 1281, and this division.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or business as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY. An industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that:
(1) Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more than average work day;
(2) Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste;
(3) Has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under Section 307(a) of the Federal Act, being 33 U.S.C. § 1317(a); or
(4) Is found by the permit issuance authority in connection with the issuance of an NPDES permit to the 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.
MAY. The action referred to is permissive.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water,
NPDES PERMIT. The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS. All costs associated with the operation and maintenance of wastewater collection and treatment facilities as well as costs associated with periodic equipment replacement necessary for maintaining capacity and performance of the wastewater collection and treatment facilities.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
pH. The reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of 7.0 and a hydrogen ion concentration of 10-7
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POLLUTANT. Dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge, munition, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into the water.
PRETREATMENT. The treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into publicly owned wastewater treatment facilities.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The wastes from 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 (0.127 centimeter) in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A common sewer controlled by a government agency or public utility.
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 the works were designed and constructed. The term “operation and maintenance” includes REPLACEMENT.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with minor quantities of ground, storm, and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
SEWER SERVICE CHARGE. The charge levied on users for capital cost amortization (debt service charges) and for operation and maintenance costs (user charges). This SEWER SERVICE CHARGE includes debt service charges and user charges.
SHALL. The action referred to is mandatory.
SLUG. Any discharge of water or wastewater which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration or flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
STORM DRAIN (sometimes termed STORM SEWER). A drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source.
STORM WATER. Any flow occurring during or immediately following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom. Water originating from precipitation which is captured in roof drains and downspouts, footer and foundation tiles, ground drainage tiles and catch basins and which does not undergo any use or contamination prior to disposal.
SUPERINTENDENT. The Water Pollution Control Operator of the village or his or her authorized representative.
SURCHARGE STATEMENT. Sewer users outside the corporate limits will be required to pay the sewer service charges plus an additional amount to equalize capital investments and those costs which may be incurred in the future by village residents through taxes and assessments levied only in the village. The amount of the surcharge shall be determined at the time of the connection to the village system.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering, as prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and referred to as non-filterable residue.
TOXIC POLLUTANTS. Include but are not necessarily limited to aldrin-dieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and toxaphene. Pollutants included as “toxic” shall be those promulgated as such by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
UNPOLLUTED WATER. Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect, or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
USER CHARGE. The charge levied on the users of the treatment works for the cost and operation and maintenance of the works, pursuant to Section 204(b) of Title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (Pub. L. No. 92-500), being 33 U.S.C. § 1284(b), and amendments thereto.
WASTEWATER (SANITARY WATER). The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and storm water that may be present.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES. The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS. An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used us synonymous with WASTE TREATMENT PLANT or WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT or WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT.
(Ord. 15-79, passed 4-2-1979)