For purposes of this chapter the word "shall" is mandatory, and the word "may" is permissible. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
Administrator: That administrator of the United States environmental protection agency.
BOD (Denoting BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND): The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five (5) days at twenty degrees centigrade (20°C), expressed in milligrams per liter.
Beneficial Interest: Any interest, regardless of how small or minimal such interest may be, in a land trust held by a trustee for the benefit of beneficiaries of such land trust.
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 a building and conveys it to the building sewer or other approved point of discharge, which begins five feet (5') outside the interface 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 that is designed and intended to receive wastewater, storm, surface, and ground water drainage.
Commercial Unit: All premises that are not residential units, that have plumbing fixtures connected to the village sanitary sewer system, and which are designed for use and occupancy by the owner of the premises or by an individual tenant.
Commercial User: Shall include transit lodging, retail and wholesale establishments, or places involved in selling merchandise or rendering services.
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 a village representative to sample and/or measure discharges.
Director: The director of the Illinois environmental protection agency.
Director Of Finance: The director of finance of the village of Deerfield or such other official who shall perform the duties and functions ordinarily performed by the director of finance.
Director Of Public Works And Engineering: The director of public works and engineering of the village of Deerfield or designee, or such other village officer who shall perform the duties and functions ordinarily performed by the director of public works and engineering.
Easement: An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
Effluent Criteria: Defined in applicable "NPDES permit".
Federal Act: The federal clean water act (33 USC 466 et seq.) as amended (Pub. L. 95-217).
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. Wastewater shall be considered free of floatable oil if it is properly treated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system.
Garbage: Solid waste from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of food.
IEPA: The Illinois environmental protection agency.
Industrial Users: Shall include establishments engaged in manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials of substance into products.
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.
Institutional/Governmental User: Shall include schools, churches, penal institutions, and users associated with federal, state, and local governments.
Major Contributing Industry: An industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that:
(a) Has a flow of fifty thousand (50,000) gallons or more per average workday; or
(b) Has a flow greater than ten percent (10%) of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste.
(c) Has in its waste, a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under section 307 (A) of the federal act; or
(d) Is found by the permit issuing authority, in connection with the issuance of the 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.
Manager: The village manager of the village of Deerfield, or his designee.
Milligrams Per Liter: A unit of concentration of water or wastewater constituent. It is 0.001 grams of the constituent in one thousand milliliters (1,000 ml) of water. It has replaced the unit formerly used, parts per million, to which it is approximately equivalent, in reporting the results of water and wastewater analysis.
NPDES Permit: Any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued by the administrator, or, where appropriate, by the director, after enactment of the federal clean water act to regulate the discharge of pollutants pursuant to section 402 of the federal act.
Natural Outlet: Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water.
Operation And Maintenance Cost: Shall include all costs associated with the operation and maintenance of the sewerage system and the wastewater treatment work, and further includes administrative and replacement costs.
Ordinance: Ordinance 0-13-51.
ppm: Parts per million by weight.
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.
pH: A logarithm "base ten" of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration expressed by one of the procedures outlined in the IEPA division of laboratories "Manual Of Laboratory Methods".
Population Equivalent: A term used to evaluate the impact of industrial or other waste on a treatment or stream. One population equivalent is one hundred (100) gallons of sewage per day, containing 0.17 pounds of BOD and 0.20 pounds of suspended solids as described in section 301.345 population equivalent of the latest Illinois administrative code.
Pretreatment: The treatment of wastewater from the sources before introduction into the wastewater treatment works.
Properly Shredded Garbage: The waste from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such 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") in any dimension.
Public Sewer: The sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the village. It shall also include sewers within or outside village boundaries that serve one or more persons and ultimately discharge into the village sanitary or storm system, even though those sewers may not have been constructed with village funds.
Recreational Vehicles: A vehicular type unit that is designed as temporary living quarters for recreational camping, travel, or seasonal use that either has its own motive power or is mounted on or towed by another vehicle. Recreational vehicles include camping trailers, fifth wheel trailers, motor homes, travel trailers, and truck campers.
Replacement Costs: Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary for the ordinary operation and maintenance of the wastewater works during the useful life of the treatment works, but not expenditures for the improvement, extension, or reconstruction of such works. The term "operation and maintenance" includes replacement.
Residential Unit: A dwelling consisting of one or more rooms, including individual bathroom and kitchen facilities, which are arranged, designed or used as a dwelling unit for one family, including detached single-family residences, two-family attached residences and multi-family residences. Residential unit shall not include multiple-family dwelling units that are limited to persons sixty two (62) years of age or more or to handicapped persons regardless of age; hotels; or, extended stay lodging facilities as defined in the zoning ordinance of the village of Deerfield.
Residential User: All dwelling units such as houses, mobile homes, apartments, and permanent multi-family dwellings.
Sanitary Sewer: A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes or a combination of both, and into which storm, surface, and ground waters or polluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
Sewage: Shall mean and may be used interchangeably with wastewater.
Sewer: A pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other waste liquids, including storm, surface, and ground water drainage.
Sewer Fund: The principal accounting designation for all revenues received in the operation of the sewerage system.
Sewer Permit: A written permit issued by the director of public works and engineering that authorizes a person to connect with or open into or otherwise use, alter, or disturb a public sewer.
Sewerage: The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation, and pumping of sewage.
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 and/or more than five (5) times the average twenty four (24) hour concentration of flows during normal operation.
Storm Sewer: Sewer that carries storm, surface, and ground water drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
Stormwater Runoff: That portion of the precipitation, including storm, surface, and ground water, that is drained into the sewers.
Suspended Solids (SS): The solids that either float on the surface of or in suspension in water, sewage, or industrial waste, which are removable by a laboratory filtration device. Quantitative determination of suspended solids shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in IEPA division of laboratories "Manual For Laboratory Methods".
Unpolluted Water: Water 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.
Useful Life: The estimated period during which the collection system and/or treatment works will be operated.
User Charge: The charge or charges levied on users of the sewerage system and wastewater facilities as defined in section 16-45 of this chapter.
User Class: One or more of the following types of user: "residential", "institutional/governmental", "commercial" or "industrial" as defined herein.
Village: The village of Deerfield, Lake and Cook Counties, Illinois.
Village Code: The municipal code of the village of Deerfield, as amended.
Wastewater: The spent water of any person. It may be a combination of a liquid and water carried waste from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and stormwater that may be present.
Wastewater Facilities: The structures, equipment, devices, and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial waste and transport effluent to a watercourse, meeting all current permit requirements.
Wastewater Treatment Works: An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial waste, and sludge. It shall also mean "wastewater treatment plant" or "waste treatment plant" or "pollution control plant".
Water Quality Standards: Defined in the water pollution regulations of Illinois.
Watercourse: A channel in which a flow of water occurs continuously or intermittently. (Ord. 0-13-51, 11-4-2013)