Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
ACT OR THE ACT: The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.
AGENCY: The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
APPROVED: Backflow prevention devices or methods approved by the Research Foundation for Cross Connection Control of the University of Southern California (USC), the American Water Works Association, American National Standards Institute, American Society of Sanitation Engineers, (ASSE) and certified by the National Sanitation Foundation.
APPROVING AUTHORITY: The City Manager of the City of Carbondale or his duly authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
ASSESSMENT FEE: The fee charged the user for the privilege of using the water and/or sewer system which was installed by the City. The purpose of the assessment fee is to pay the fair share of the amortized cost of the existing, capital improvements, or replacement.
ATMOSPHERIC VACUUM BREAKER: A backflow prevention device used as protection against cross-connection where the device is not subjected to back pressure due to pumps or any other conditions which may cause back pressure. This device may never have a downstream shut off valve or be installed where it will be in continuous operation for more than twelve (12) hours.
AUXILIARY WATER SYSTEM: Any water source or system on or available to the premises other than the public water supply system and includes the water supplied by the system. These auxiliary waters may include water from another purveyor's public water supply system, water from a source such as wells, lakes, or streams, process fluids, or used water. These waters may be polluted or contaminated or objectionable or constitute a water source or system over which the water purveyor does not have control.
AVERAGE DAILY FLOW (in MGD): The total measured volume recorded by a properly operating and calibrated sewer meter in a given period of time divided by the number of days included in said period of time.
BACK SIPHONAGE: The flowing back of used, contaminated or polluted water due to a negative gauge or sub-atmospheric pressure in that pipe.
BACKFLOW: The flow of water, foreign liquids, gases or other substances back into the distribution pipes of the potable water system.
BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICE: Any device, method or type of construction intended to prevent backflow into a potable water system in accordance with the standards of the Illinois Plumbing Code and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD): The amount of oxygen required for the biochemical degradation of dissolved organic material to occur under standard laboratory procedures in five (5) days at twenty degrees centigrade (20°C) expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN: That part of the lowest horizontal 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, ending five feet (5') 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.
CISTERN: An artificial reservoir for storing water.
CITY: The City of Carbondale, Illinois.
COMBINED SEWER: A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
COMMERCIAL: Any designated building structure used for the purpose of sale, purchase, barter, wares, merchandise, or services, the operation or maintenance of office or recreational and amusement enterprises primarily for sale or profit.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT: Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus any additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit which the treatment works was designed to treat and remove.
CONNECTION CHARGE: The charge made for the installation of the water or sewer connection and reimburses the City for expenses of materials, equipment, labor and overhead.
CONTAMINATION: An impairment of the quality of the water by the presence of any substance to a degree which could create a health hazard.
CROSS-CONNECTION: Any physical connection or arrangement between two (2) otherwise separate piping systems; one of which contains potable water and the other a substance of unknown or questionable safety or quality, whereby there may be a flow from one system into the other.
Direct Cross-Connection: A cross-connection formed when a water system is physically joined to a source of unknown or unsafe substance.
Indirect Cross-Connection: A cross-connection through which an unknown substance can be forced, drawn by vacuum or otherwise introduced into a safe potable water system.
CROSS-CONNECTION CONTROL DEVICE INSPECTOR OR CCCDI: A plumber who holds an Illinois plumbing license issued in accordance with 225 Illinois Compiled Statutes 320/3(1), and who has successfully completed both the written and performance examinations offered by the Agency. These examinations demonstrate an understanding of the principles of backflow and back siphonage, and the hazard presented to a potable water system; identifying locations which require installation of cross-connection control devices; identifying, locating, inspecting, testing, maintaining and repairing cross-connection control methods and devices in-line, as located throughout each system, which connect to a community public water supply. These requirements are described in 35 Illinois Administrative Code 653.802(d)(1)(D) through (F), and as thereafter amended.
CURRENT LABOR RATE: The City of Carbondale's water and sewer fund employee's direct labor rate, payroll burden rate and overhead rate.
DEPARTMENT: The Department of Public Works of the City of Carbondale, Illinois. However, "Department" when used in the context of Chapter 5, Cross-Connection Control of this Title, shall mean the Illinois Department of Public Health.
DIRECTOR: The Director of the Department of Public Works for the City of Carbondale or his designee.
DOUBLE CHECK DETECTOR ASSEMBLY: An assembly designed to prevent contamination of the potable water system due to backflow from the fire protection system containing nontoxic substances.
DOUBLE CHECK VALVE ASSEMBLY: An assembly which is effective against backflow caused by back pressure and back siphonage, which is used to protect the potable system from pollutants that would not constitute an actual health hazard, but might be objectionable to the water supply system. The double check valve assembly is used to isolate nonhealth hazards.
DRAIN: Any pipe that carries wastewater or water-borne wastes in a building drainage system.
DWELLING: Any building which is wholly or partly used, designed or intended to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants; provided, that "temporary housing" as hereinafter defined shall not be regarded as a dwelling.
DWELLING UNIT: Any room or group of rooms located within a dwelling forming a single habitable unit with facilities which are used, designed, or intended to be used for living, sleeping, working, and eating.
FIXED PROPER AIR GAP: The unobstructed vertical distance through the free atmosphere between the water discharge point and the flood level rim of the receptacle.
GARBAGE: Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
HEALTH HAZARD: Any condition, device, practice or substance in a water system or its operation resulting from a real or potential danger to the health and well-being of consumers. The word "severe" as used to qualify "health hazard" means a hazard to the health of the user that could be expected to result in death or significant reduction in the quality of life.
HYDROGEN ION CONCENTRATION: See definition of pH.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT: Any pollutant that does not meet the criteria as set forth in the definition of "compatible pollutant" above.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE: The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants from any source regulated under section 307(b) or (c) of the Act 1 , into the POTW (including holding tank waste discharged into the system).
INDUSTRIAL WASTES: The wastewater discharged from industrial, trade, or business processes as distinct from their employees' domestic waste or waste from sanitary conveniences.
INDUSTRY: Any firm or business primarily concerned with producing a product or by-product for sale or profit.
INFILTRATION: The entrance of storm and/or ground water into the sanitary sewer through cracks, bad joints, or other flaws in piping and/or manholes.
INFLOW: The entrance of storm and/or ground water into the sanitary sewer through a pipe or manhole.
INSPECTION: A plumbing inspection to carefully and critically examine all materials, fixtures, piping and appurtenances, appliances and installation of a plumbing system to maintain compliance with requirements of the Illinois Plumbing Code, 77 Illinois Administrative Code 890.
INTERFERENCE: The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes or operations which contribute to a violation of any treatment processes or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement of the City's NPDES permits. The term includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance with Section 405 of the Act 2 , or any criteria, guidelines, or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, or more stringent State criteria (including those contained in any State sludge management plan prepared pursuant to title IV of SWDA) applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the POTW.
LATERAL: The sanitary service line between the main line and the building.
mg/l: Milligrams per liter.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY: Any industrial user of the City's waste water disposal system who:
A. Has a discharge flow of twenty five thousand (25,000) gallons or more per average work day, or:
B. Has a flow greater than five percent (5%) of the flow in the City's wastewater treatment system, or
C. Has in his wastes "toxic pollutants" as defined pursuant to the City, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency or the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality, or air emissions generated by the system.
MAY: "May" is permissive; "shall" is mandatory.
MULTIPLE DWELLING: Any dwelling containing more than two (2) dwelling units and\or rooming units.
MULTIPLE RESIDENTIAL UNIT: Any structure or structures containing more than one dwelling unit or rooming unit and where the water and/or sewer service is metered or recorded by a single meter.
NPDES PERMIT: A permit issued under the national pollutant discharge elimination system for discharge of wastewaters to the navigable waters of the United States pursuant to section 402 of PL 92-500.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD OR PRETREATMENT STANDARD: Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act 3 which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
NATIONAL PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD OR PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD: Any regulation developed under the authority of section 307(b) of the Act and 40 CFR section 403.5.
NATURAL OUTLET: Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
NEW SOURCE: Any source, the construction of which is commenced after the publication of proposed regulations prescribing a section 307(c) 4 categorical pretreatment standard which will be applicable to such source, if such standard is thereafter promulgated within one hundred twenty (120) days of proposal in the federal register. Where the standard is promulgated later than one hundred twenty (120) days after proposal, a "new source" means any source, the construction which is commenced after the date of promulgation of the standard.
NONPOTABLE WATER: Water not safe for consumption, personal or culinary use.
NORMAL DOMESTIC SEWAGE: Wastewaters from segregated domestic and/or sanitary conveniences as distinct from wastes from industrial, trade or business process, when such domestic wastes do not exceed a BOD strength of two hundred milligrams per liter (200 mg/l) or a suspended solids in excess of two hundred fifty milligrams per liter (250 mg/l).
PERSON: Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, limited liability company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, political subdivision, or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents, or assigns.
pH: The intensity of the acid or base condition of a solution, calculated by taking the logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration.
PLUMBING: The actual installation, repair, maintenance, alteration or extension of a plumbing system by any person. Plumbing includes all piping, fixtures, appurtenances and appliances for a supply of water for all purposes, including, without limitation, lawn sprinkler systems, from the source of private water supply on the premises or from the main in the street, alley or at the curb to, within and about any building or buildings where a person or persons live, work or assemble. Plumbing includes all piping, from discharge of pumping units to and including pressure tanks in water supply systems. Plumbing includes all piping, fixtures, appurtenances and appliances for a building or buildings where a person or persons live, work or assemble from the point of connection of such building drain to the building sewer or private sewage disposal system five feet (5') beyond the foundation walls.
POLLUTION: The presence of any foreign substance (organic, inorganic radiological or biological) in water that tends to degrade its quality so as to constitute, reduce or impair the usefulness of the water.
POTABLE WATER: Any water used for human or domestic consumption, including, but not limited to, water used for drinking, bathing, swimming, washing dishes, or preparing foods.
PRETREATMENT: Treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into the joint treatment works.
PROCESS FLUID(S): Any fluid or solution which may be chemically, biologically or otherwise contaminated or polluted in a form or concentration such as would constitute a health, pollution or system hazard if introduced into the public or a consumer's potable water system. This includes, but is not limited to:
A. Polluted or contaminated waters;
B. Process waters;
C. Used waters originating from the public water supply system which may have deteriorated in sanitary quality;
D. Cooling waters;
E. Questionable or contaminated natural waters taken from wells, lakes, streams, or irrigation systems;
F. Chemicals in solution suspension;
G. Oils, gases, acids, alkalis and other liquid and gaseous fluids used in industrial or other processes, or for firefighting purposes.
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 within the city's sanitary sewer system with no particle greater than one-half inch (1/2") in any dimension.
PROPERTY OWNER: A person who legally owns any premises supplied with or in any manner connected to a public water supply.
PROPERTY OWNER'S WATER SYSTEM: Any water system located upon a user's premises. A building plumbing system is considered to be a user's water system.
PUBLIC SEWER: A sewer in which all owners or abutting projects have equal rights and which is controlled by public authority.
PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY: All mains, pipes, and structures through which water is obtained and distributed to the public, including wells, and well structures, intakes, and cribs, pumping stations, treatment plants, reservoirs, storage tanks and appurtenances, collectively or severally, actually used or intended for use for the purpose of furnishing water for drinking or general domestic use and which serve at least fifteen (15) service connections or which regularly serve at least twenty five (25) persons at least sixty (60) days per year. A public water supply is either a "community water supply" or a "noncommunity water supply".
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW): A "treatment works" as defined by section 212 of the federal water pollution control act 5 , as amended, which is owned in this instance by the city. This definition includes any sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected to a facility providing treatment. For the purpose of this title, "POTW" shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters to the POTW from persons outside the city who are, by contract or agreement with the city, users of the (city's) POTW.
REDUCED PRESSURE PRINCIPLE BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICE: A device containing a minimum of two (2) independently acting check valves together with an automatically operated pressure differential relief valve located between the two (2) check valves and approved under ASEE standard 1013 and USC manual for RPZ devices. During normal flow and at the cessation of normal flow, the pressure between these two (2) checks shall be less than the supply pressure. In case of leakage of either check valve, the differential relief valve, by discharging to the atmosphere, shall operate to maintain the pressure between the check valves at less than the supply pressure. The unit must include tightly closing shut off valves located at each end of the device, and each device shall be fitted with properly located test cocks.
REDUCED PRESSURE ZONE (RPZ): A reduced pressure principle backflow preventer.
REGULATORY AGENCY: The state and federal environmental protection agencies.
RELIABLE PAYMENT RECORD: A user has not had services terminated due to nonpayment nor been late in making a payment in the previous twelve (12) months.
ROOMING HOUSE: Any dwelling or part of a dwelling containing one or more rooming units in which space is rented by the owner or operator to three (3) or more persons who are not the husband or wife, father or mother, son or daughter, grandparent or grandchild, brother or sister, uncle or aunt, nephew or niece, or cousin of the first degree, of the owner or operator.
ROOMING UNIT: Any room or group of rooms intended to be used for living or sleeping but not for cooking purposes.
SANITARY BUILDING DRAIN: That part of the lowest horizontal piping of the sanitary drainage system inside the walls of any building which receives the discharge from soil or waste stacks and branches and conveys the same to a point three feet (3') outside the building walls where it connects with its respective building sewer.
SANITARY SEWER: A sewer that conveys sewage from domestic and industrial sources and is constructed and operated by the City on a properly conveyed easement or right of way and is not designed for the admission of storm, surface and ground waters.
SERVICE CONNECTION: The opening, including all fittings and appurtenances, at the water main through which water is supplied to the user.
SERVICE DEPOSIT: A deposit for water and sewer service.
SEWAGE OR WASTEWATER: A combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments together with such ground, surface, and storm water as may be present.
SEWAGE OR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT: Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE OR WASTEWATER WORKS: All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage to meet State and Federal standards.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT: Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage to meet State and Federal standards.
SEWAGE WORKS: All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating to meet State and Federal standards and disposing of sewage.
SEWER: A pipe or conduit for carrying sanitary sewage.
SEWER LATERAL: Those sewer pipes lying in the street, right of way, alley or easement which are used as sanitary collectors for an individual building or structure.
SEWER MAIN: Those sewers lying in streets, alleys, or rights of way or in easements which are used for collectors for two (2) or more individual services.
SEWER SERVICE: Service of sewer provided by the City of Carbondale.
SEWER SERVICE USER CHARGE: The current established rate on all users of the public sewer system whose wastes do not exceed in strength the concentration values established as representative of normal usage.
SHALL: "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER: Any industrial user of the City's wastewater disposal system who:
A. Has a discharge flow of twenty five thousand (25,000) gallons or more per average work day, or
B. Has a flow greater than five percent (5%) of the flow in the City's wastewater treatment system, or
C. Has in his wastes "toxic pollutants" as defined pursuant to section 307 of the act or state of Illinois statutes and rules, or
D. Is found by the city, Illinois environmental protection agency or the U.S. environmental protection agency (EPA) to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality, or air emissions generated by the system.
SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING: A structure designed for a family to reside. A "family" shall be defined as in section 15.11.4 of this code.
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 or any temporary discharge that has "the potential" to disrupt the collection system or wastewater treatment process.
SMALL BUSINESS: A commercial or industrial type structure occupied by a business which does not normally use water for other than personal sanitary purposes where the number of persons employed does not exceed eight (8), and public restrooms are not provided.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC): A classification pursuant to the "Standard Industrial Classification Manual" issued by the executive office of the president, office of management and budget, 1972.
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 Environment Control Federation.
STORM DRAIN (Sometimes Termed STORM SEWER): A pipe or conduit which is designated to carry storm and surface waters and drainage, but not sanitary sewage and industrial wastes.
SURCHARGE: The assessment in addition to the service charge which is levied on those persons who have been issued a significant industrial user permit whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration value established as representative of normal sewage or wastewater.
SURVEY: The collection of information pertaining to a user's piping system regarding the location of all connections to the public water supply and must include the location, type and most recent inspection and testing date of all cross connection control devices and methods located within that user's piping system. The survey must be in written form, and should not be an actual plumbing inspection.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS): Matter that is suspended in a sample and can be retained by a glass fiber filter which is dried to a constant weight at one hundred three to one hundred five degrees Celsius (103 - 105°C).
SYSTEM HAZARD: A condition through which an aesthetically objectionable or degrading material, not dangerous to health, may enter the public water supply system or a consumer's potable water system.
TRUNK SEWER (Sometimes Called INTERCEPTOR LINE): A sewer that receives the sewage from the collection system and conveys the sewage to the wastewater treatment plant.
USEPA: The United States environmental protection agency.
USFDA: The United States Food and Drug Administration.
USED WATER: Any water supplied by a public water supply system to a consumer's water system after it has passed through the service connection and is no longer under the control of the water supply official custodian.
USER: The property owner, tenant, occupant, or person in control of any premises supplied or in any manner connected to a public water supply.
USER TYPES:
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
Residential Or Commercial Nonindustrial: Any user of the treatment works not classified as an industrial user or excluded as an industrial user as provided for in this definition.
User Class: The type of user either "residential" or "commercial" (nonindustrial) or "industrial" as defined herein.
VACUUM: Any pressure less than that exerted by the atmosphere.
WATER CONNECTION: That part of the water distribution system connecting the water main to a point between the water main and the property line, including the curb stop, meter box, meter, and lid, completely installed and ready for service to the user's water service pipe.
WATER MAIN: That part of the water distribution system located within street or alley rights of way or nonprivate easements which is designed to supply more than one water connection.
WATER METER: A device used to measure the consumption of water.
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL FACILITIES: The sanitary sewer collection system, including both collector and interceptor trunk sewer, force mains, lift stations, wastewater treatment plant and appurtenances operated by the City.
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT AND/OR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT: The complete treatment facilities, including, but not limited to, grit chamber, aeration basins, final clarifiers, tertiary lagoons, chlorination facilities, buildings, and appurtenances used to treat sanitary and industrial sewage constructed and operated by the City and includes both the southeast and northwest wastewater treatment plants.
WATER PURVEYOR: The owner or official custodian of a public water system.
WATER SERVICE: Service of water supplied by the City of Carbondale.
WATER SERVICE PIPE OR USER SERVICE LINE: The connection between the meter and the user's structure or property being served.
WATERCOURSE: A channel or conduit in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
WELL: A shaft, hole or other structure used to retrieve water from the ground.
WET INDUSTRY: An entity of any kind which discharges industrial waste in excess of two hundred milligrams per liter (200 mg/l) of BOD or two hundred fifty milligrams per liter (250 mg/l) of SS within any one hour time period of any day. (Ord. 98-42; 1998 Code; Ord. 2000-04; Ord. 2004-64; Ord. 2013-21)
Notes
| 1 | 1. 33 USC 1317. |
| 2 | 1. 33 USC 1345. |
| 3 | 1. 33 USC 1347. |
| 4 | 2. 33 USC 1317. |
| 5 | 1. 33 USC 1292. |