For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(A) Federal Government:
FEDERAL ACT. The Federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 466 et seq.) as amended, (Pub. L. 95-217).
ADMINISTRATOR. The Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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.
(B) State Government:
STATE ACT. The Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act of 1970.
DIRECTOR. The Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
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 the State of Illinois.
(C) Local Government:
ORDINANCE. This chapter.
CITY COUNCIL. The City Council of the City of Farmer City.
CITY. The City of Farmer City, DeWitt County, Illinois.
SUPERINTENDENT. The superintendent of the Combined Waterworks and Sewerage Departments of the City of Farmer City or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
COLLECTOR. The Treasurer or the person designated by the City Council to render bills for water and sewer service and to collect all money due therefrom.
TREASURER. The duly elected Treasurer of the City.
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.
(D) NPDES PERMIT. Any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued by the Administrator, or, where appropriate 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.
(E) Clarification of word usage: SHALL is mandatory; MAY is permissible.
(F) Wastewater and its characteristics:
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 groundwater, surface water, and stormwater that may be present.
SEWAGE. Used interchangeably with WASTEWATER.
EFFLUENT CRITERIA. Defined in any applicable NPDES permit.
WATER QUALITY STANDARDS. Defined in the Water Pollution Regulations in Illinois.
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.
ppm. parts per million by weight.
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.
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.
BOD (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 200° C. expressed in milligrams per liter.
pH. The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration expressed by one of the procedures outlined in Standard Methods.
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.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
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 (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
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.
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 0.17 pounds of BOD and 0.20 pounds of suspended solids.
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 15 minutes more than five times the average 24 hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE. Any solid, liquid or gaseous substances discharged, permitted to flow, or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing, commercial or business establishment or processor 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 50,000 gallons or more per average work day; or
(2) has a flow of greater than ten percent 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 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.
(G) Sewer types, and appurtenances:
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other waste liquids, including storm, surface and groundwater drainage.
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 groundwaters or unpolluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
STORM SEWER. A sewer that carries storm, surface and groundwater drainage but excludes
sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater, storm, surface and groundwater drainage.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
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 (1.5 meter) outside the inner face of the building wall.
STORMWATER RUNOFF. That portion of the precipitation that is drained into the sewers.
SADDLE. A sewer connection device designed for use when tapping an existing main.
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.
SEWERAGE. The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation and pumping of sewage.
EASEMENT. An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
(H) 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.”
(I) WASTEWATER FACILITIES. The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and transport effluent to a watercourse.
(J) Watercourse and connections:
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or groundwater.
(K) User types:
USE CLASS. The type of user “residential, institutional/governmental, commercial,” or “industrial” as defined herein.
RESIDENTIAL USER. All dwelling units such as houses, mobile homes, apartments, permanent multi-family dwellings.
COMMERCIAL USER. Includes transit lodging, retail and wholesale establishments or places engaged in selling merchandise, or rendering services.
INSTITUTIONAL/GOVERNMENTAL USER. Includes schools, churches, penal institutions, and users associated with federal, state, and local governments.
INDUSTRIAL USERS. Includes establishments engaged in manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials of substance into products.
(L) Water mains and appurtenances:
WATER MAIN. A pipe or conduit for carrying water.
PUBLIC WATER MAIN. A water main in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
WATER SERVICE PIPE. The extending from a building to water main.
(Ord. 652, passed 8-21-95)