Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this ordinance shall be as follows:
(A) Abbreviations. The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
BOD Biochemical oxygen demand (5-day)
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
COD Chemical oxygen demand
FOG Fats, oils, and grease
IEPA Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
mg/L Milligrams per liter
NCPS National categorical pretreatment standards
NPDES National pollution discharge elimination systems
POTW Publicly owned treatment works
PSES Pretreatment standards for existing sources
PSNS Pretreatment standards for new sources
RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
SIC Standard industrial classification
SWDA Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 USC 6901 et seq.
TSS Total suspended solids
TTO Total toxic organics
USC United States Code
USEPA United States Environmental Protection Agency
(B) For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 USC 1251 et seq.
ADMINISTRATOR. The Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
APPLICABLE PRETREATMENT STANDARDS or PRETREATMENT STANDARDS. For any specified pollutant, the village’s prohibitive discharge standards, the village's specific limitations on discharge, the state pretreatment standards, or the national categorical pretreatment standards (when effective), whichever standard is most stringent.
AUTHORITY. The village.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER.
(a) A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice-president, if the industrial user is a corporation;
(b) A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively;
(c) A duly authorized representative of the individual designated above. A person is a duly authorized representative only if the authorization is made in writing to the village by a person described above.
APPROVING AUTHORITY. The Director of Public Works.
BASELINE REPORT. That required by 40 CFR 403.12(b)(1) through (7).
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND or BOD. The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in 5 days at 20 degrees C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES or BOARD. The Board of Trustees of the village.
BOD. See BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND.
BUILDING DRAINAGE SEWER. A sewer which carries storm drainage, surface water, foundation drainage, and roof drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes from the building plumbing to a public storm sewer or natural outlet.
BUILDING SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries only sewage and industrial wastes from the building plumbing to the public sanitary sewer.
BYPASS. Intentional diversion of waste streams from any portion of an industrial user’s treatment facility.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT CHARGE. A charge levied on users to improve, extend, or reconstruct the sewage treatment works.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND or COD. The quantity of oxygen consumed from a chemical oxidant (standard potassium dichromate solution) under standard laboratory procedures as described in Standard Methods.
COD. See CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater, storm, and surface and groundwater drainage.
COMBINED WASTE STREAM FORMULA. The formula as found in 40 CFR 403.6(e)(1)(i).
COMMERCIAL USER. Includes transit lodging, retail and wholesale establishments, or places engaged in selling merchandise or rendering service.
COOLING WATER. The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling, or refrigeration or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. Biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, FOG, suspended solids, pH, and fecal coliform bacteria, plus any additional pollutants identified in the village’s POTW NPDES permit where the POTW treats such pollutants and, in fact, does treat such pollutants to the degrees required by the POTW’s NPDES permit.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE. A sample of wastewater based on a flow proportional or time proportional method.
CONSISTENT POTW TREATMENT WORK REMOVAL, POLLUTANT REMOVAL, or REMOVAL. Reduction in the amount of a pollutant or alteration of the nature of a pollutant in the influent of the POTW to a less incompatible or harmless state in the effluent. Consistent village removal efficiency shall be the difference between the average concentration of the pollutant in the influent of the treatment plant and the average concentration of the pollutant in the effluent of the treatment plan divided by the average concentration of the pollutant in the influent.
CONTROL AUTHORITY. USEPA, until IEPA has an approved pretreatment program, at which time IEPA shall be the control authority, provided that the village will be the control authority when the submission of its pretreatment program under 40 CFR 403.11 has been approved as provided in said section.
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 village representative to sample and/or measure discharges.
DEBT SERVICE CHARGE. The amount to be paid each billing period for payment of interest, principal, and costs and expenses of outstanding loans or bonds.
DIRECTOR. The Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
DISCHARGE. See INDIRECT DISCHARGE.
EASEMENT. A legal right for the use of land owned by others.
EFFLUENT CRITERIA. As defined in any applicable NPDES permit.
EXISTING SOURCE. Any building, structure, facility, or installation from which there is or may be discharge, which is not a new source.
FATS, OILS, OR GREASE or FOG. Any hydrocarbons, fatty acids, soaps, fats, waxes, oils, and any other material that is extracted by any oil and grease test method contained in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
FECAL COLIFORM. Any number of organisms common to the intestinal tract of man and animals whose presence in sanitary sewage is an indicator of pollution.
FEDERAL ACT. The Federal Clean Water Act, 33 USC 1251 et seq., as amended.
FEDERAL GRANT. The U.S. government participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works, as provided for by USC Title 33, Chapter 26, Subchapter II, Grants for Construction of Treatment Works of the Act (33 USC 1281 et seq.), and implementing regulations.
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.
FLOW. Volume of wastewater per unit of time.
FOG. See FATS, OILS, OR GREASE.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of food.
GENERAL MANAGER. The Director of Public Works of the village.
GENERAL PRETREATMENT REGULATIONS. General pretreatment regulations for existing and new sources, 40 CFR Part 403, as amended.
GRAB SAMPLE. A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a onetime basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of time.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. All pollutants other than COMPATIBLE POLLUTANTS, as defined in this section.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE or DISCHARGE. The introduction of pollutants into a POTW from any non-domestic source regulated under Section 307(b), (c), or (d) of the Act (33 USC 1317(b), (c), or (d)).
INDUSTRIAL USERS. Includes establishments engaged in manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substance into products.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. 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.
INTERFERENCE. A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge from other sources, both:
(a) Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use, or disposal; and
(b) Therefore is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW’s NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with the following statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or under more stringent state or local regulations): Section 405 of the Clean Water Act (33 USC 1345 et seq.), the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SDWA) (42 USC 6901 et seq.) (including Title II, more commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and including state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the SDWA), the Clean Air Act (42 USC 7401 et seq.), the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 USC 2601 et seq.), and the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (16 USC 1431 et seq. and 33 USC 1401 et seq.).
INSTITUTIONAL/GOVERNMENTAL USER. Includes schools, churches, penal institutions, and users associated with federal, state, and local governments.
LOCAL CAPITAL COST CHARGE. Charges for costs other than the operation, maintenance, and replacement costs—that is, debt service and capital improvement costs.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY. An industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that:
(a) Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day.
(b) Has a flow greater than 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 the Federal Act.
(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 the treatment works.
MAY. The term is permissive.
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.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD. Any pretreatment standard specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants which may be discharged to a POTW by industrial users in specific industrial subcategories as established in regulations promulgated by the USEPA in 40 CFR Chapter I, SubchapterN.
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMIT or 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 the Act.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body surface or ground water.
NEW SOURCE.
(a) Any building, structure, facility, or installation from which there is or may be a discharge of pollutants, the construction of which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards under Section 307(c) of the Act (33 USC 1317(c)) which will be applicable to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section, provided that:
1. The building, structure, facility, or installation is constructed at a site at which no other source is located; or
2. The building, structure, facility, or installation totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at an existing source; or
3. The production or wastewater generating processes of the building, structure, facility, or installation are substantially independent of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these are substantially independent, factors, such as the extent to which the new facility is integrated with the existing plant and the extent to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity as the existing source should be considered.
(b) Construction on a site at which an existing source is located results in a modification rather than a new source if the construction does not create a new building, structure, facility, or installation meeting the criteria of subsections (a)(2) and (3) above of this definition but otherwise alters, replaces, or adds to existing process or production equipment.
(c) Construction of a new source as defined under this definition has commenced if the owner or operator has:
1. Begun or caused to begin as part of a continuous onsite construction program:
a. Any placement, assembly, or installation of facilities or equipment;
b. Significant site preparation work, including clearing, excavation, or removal of existing buildings, structures, or facilities which is necessary for the placement, assembly, or installation of new source facilities or equipment; or
2. Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase of facilities or equipment or contracts which can be terminated or modified without substantial loss, and contracts for feasibility, engineering, and design studies do not constitute a contractual obligation under this section.
NPDES PERMIT. See NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMIT.
ORDINANCE. This chapter.
PASS THROUGH. A discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United State in quantities or concentration which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW’s NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
PERMITTED WASTEWATER HAULER VEHICLE. A vehicle used for hauling wastewater which has been granted a permit under the requirements of the village's applicable ordinances and/or state’s applicable laws or regulations.
PERSON. Any and all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm, company, municipal or private corporation, association, society, corporation, or group, institution, enterprise, governmental agency, or other entity, and their successors, administrators, heirs, and assigns.
pH. The logarithm (base 10) 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.
POLLUTANT. Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water.
POLLUTANT REMOVAL. See CONSISTENT POTW TREATMENT WORK REMOVAL.
POPULATION EQUIVALENT. A term used to evaluate the impact of industrial or other waste on a treatment works or stream. One population equivalent is 100 gallons of sewage per day, containing .17 pounds of BOD and .22 pounds of suspended solids.
POTW. See PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS.
POTW TREATMENT PLANT. That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to wastewater and sludges produced.
ppm. Parts per million by weight.
PRETREATMENT. The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW.
PRETREATMENT COORDINATOR. That person designated by the General Manager of the village or the person designed by the General Manager who is responsible for the operations of the village’s pretreatment program.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS. Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment, other than a national categorical pretreatment standard, imposed on an industrial user.
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS. See APPLICABLE PRETREATMENT STANDARDS.
PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD. Any regulations developed under the authority of Section 307(b) of the Act (33 USC 1317(b)) and 40 CFR 403.5.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particles greater than one-half inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the village. It shall also include sewers within or outside the village boundaries that serve one or more persons and ultimately discharge into the village sanitary sewer system, even though those sewers may not have been constructed with village funds.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS or POTW. A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33 USC 1292), owned by the District. This definition includes any interceptor sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW treatment plan regardless of ownership but does not include pipes, sewers, or other conveyances not connected to a facility providing treatment. For the purposes of this chapter, POTW shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters to the POTW from persons outside the District who are, by contract or agreement with the District, users of the District’s POTW.
QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL. An individual with working knowledge of facility processes and wastewater discharge.
REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR. The regional administrator for the USEPA for Region V.
REPLACEMENT. Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. The term “operation maintenance” includes REPLACEMENT.
REMOVAL. See CONSISTENT POTW TREATMENT WORK REMOVAL.
RESIDENTIAL USER. All dwelling units, such as houses, mobile homes, apartments, and permanent multi-family dwellings.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer, which conveys sewage or industrial wastes or a combination of both and into which storm, surface, and groundwaters or polluted industrial waste are not intentionally admitted.
SEVERE PROPERTY DAMAGE. Substantial physical damage to property, damage to the treatment facilities which causes them to become inoperable, or substantial and permanent loss of natural resources which can reasonably be expected to occur in the absence of a bypass. SEVERE PROPERTY DAMAGE does not mean economic loss caused by delays in production.
SEWAGE. Used interchangeably with wastewater.
SEWAGE WORKS. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage or any other waste liquids, including storm, surface, and groundwater discharge.
SEWER FUND. The principal accounting designation for all revenues received in the operation and pumping of sewage.
SEWERAGE. The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation, and pumping of sewage.
SHALL. The term is mandatory.
SIGNIFICANT VIOLATION. A violation of the chapter which remains uncorrected 45 days after notification of noncompliance; which is part of a pattern of noncompliance over a 12-month period; which involves failure to accurately report noncompliance; or which resulted in the District exercising its emergency authority under §§53.075 et seq.
SLUDGE. The settleable solids separated from the liquids during the wastewater treatment processes.
SLUG. Any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentration of any given pollutant, as measured by a grab sample, exceeds more than five times the allowable concentrations as given in §53.022(A), “...or any pollutant, including oxygen demanding pollutants (BOD and the like) released in a discharge at a flow rate and/or pollutant concentration which will cause interference with the POTW.”
SS. See SUSPENDED SOLIDS.
STANDARD METHODS. The laboratory procedures set forth in the latest edition, at the time of analysis, of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, prepared and published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation and any other procedures recognized by the USEPA and IEPA.
STATE ACT. The Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act of 1970, ILCS Chapter 30, Act 40, §§1 et seq.
STATE GRANT. The state participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works as provided for by the Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act, ILCS Chapter 30, Act 40, §§1 et seq.,and for making such grants as filed with the Secretary of State of the state.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN. A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
STORM WATER RUNOFF. That portion of the precipitation that is drained into the sewers.
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 this chapter.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS or SS. Solids which 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 the IEPA Division of Laboratories Manual of Laboratory Methods.
TOTAL METAL. The sum of the concentration of copper, nickel, total chromium, and zinc.
TOTAL SOLIDS. The sum of suspended and dissolved solids.
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS or TSS. Total suspended matter, expressed in milligrams per liter, that either floats on the surface of or is in suspension in water, wastewater, or other liquids and is removable by laboratory filtration using a Reeve Angel type 9344A or 9534H glass fiber filter disc as prescribed in Standard Methods.
TOTAL TOXIC ORGANICS. The summation of all quantified values greater than 0.01 milligrams per liter for the toxic organics as specified in the applicable regulations.
TSS. See TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS.
UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or USEPA. Includes the Administrator or other duly authorized official of said agency, as appropriate.
UNPOLLUTED WATER. Water of quality equal to or better than the IEPA effluent criteria in effect, or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
UPSET. An exceptional incident in which there is unintentional and temporary noncompliance with categorical pretreatment standards because of factors beyond the reasonable control of the industrial user. An UPSET does not include noncompliance to the extent caused by operational error, improperly designed treatment facilities, inadequate treatment facilities, lack of preventive maintenance, or careless or improper operation.
USER. Any person who contributes, causes, or permits the contribution of wastewater into the District's POTW.
USER CHARGE. A charge levied on users of treatment works for the cost of operation, maintenance, and replacement.
USER CLASS. The industrial, commercial or residential users defined herein.
VILLAGE. The village of East Dundee.
VILLAGE ENGINEER. The Chief Engineer of the village registered as a professional engineer by the state.
WASTEWATER. The combination of the liquid and water carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, including polluted cooling water.
(a) COMBINED WASTEWATER. Wastewater, including sanitary wastewater, industrial wastewater, storm water, infiltration, and inflow carried to the POTW treatment facilities by a sewer.
(b) INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER. A combination of liquid and water carried waste discharged from any industrial establishment and resulting from any trade or process carried on in that establishment, including the wastewater from pretreatment facilities and polluted cooling water.
(c) SANITARY WASTEWATER. The combination of liquid and water carried wastes discharged from toilets and other sanitary plumbing facilities.
WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT. The document or documents allowing discharge to the POTW issued to a user by the village in accordance with the terms of this Chapter.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES. The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and transport effluent to a watercourse.
WASTEWATER HAULER. Any person, partnership, or corporation engaged in transporting sanitary wastewater as a commercial venture.
WASTEWATER SERVICE CHARGE. The charge per billing period levied on all users of the wastewater facilities. The service charge shall be computed as outlined in this chapter and shall consist of the total user charge, the local capital cost, and a surcharge, if applicable.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used and synonymous with “waste treatment plant” or “wastewater treatment plant” or “pollution control plant” or “sewage treatment plant.”
WATERS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, water courses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through, or border upon the state or any portion thereof.
WATER QUALITY STANDARDS. As defined in the water pollution regulations of the state and other applicable regulatory agencies.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which there is a flow of water course, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 03-19, passed 10-20-2003)