Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
ACT: | The federal water pollution control act, also known as the clean water act, as amended (33 USC 1251 et seq.). |
ADMISSIBLE WASTES: | Any "compatible pollutant" or "garbage" as defined in this chapter. At no time may any part of the discharge be greater than one-half inch (0.5") in any dimension. |
AMALGAM PROCESS WASTEWATER: | Any wastewater generated and discharged by a dental discharger through the practice of dentistry that may contain dental amalgam. |
AMALGAM SEPARATOR: | A collection device designed to capture and remove dental amalgam from the amalgam process wastewater of a dental facility. |
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER: | A. If the user is a corporation: |
1. By a responsible corporate officer - the president, secretary, treasurer, or a vice- president of the corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any other person who performs similar policy or decision-making functions for the corporation; or 2. The manager of one or more manufacturing, production, or operation facilities provided the manager is authorized to make management decisions that govern the operation of the regulated facility including having the explicit or implicit duty of making major capital investment recommendations, and initiate and direct other comprehensive measures to assure long-term environmental compliance with environmental laws and regulations; can ensure that the necessary systems are established or actions taken to gather complete and accurate information for individual wastewater permit (or general permit) requirements; and where authority to sign documents has been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures. B. If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship - a general partner or proprietor, respectively. C. If the user is a limited liability company (LLC) - any manager or managing member of the company. D. If the user is a federal, state, or local governmental facility - a director or highest official appointed or designated to oversee the operation and performance of the activities of the government facility, or their designee. E. The individuals described in paragraphs A through D above, may designate a duly authorized representative, if the authorization is in writing, the authorization specifies the individual or position responsible for the overall operation of the facility from which the discharge originates or having overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company, and the written authorization is submitted to the village. | |
F. If an authorization under paragraph E of this section is no longer accurate because a different individual or position has responsibility for the overall operation of the facility, or overall environmental matters for the company, a new authorization satisfying the requirements of paragraph E must be submitted to the village. If an authorization under paragraph E of this section is no longer accurate because the individual described in paragraphs A through D above has changed, a new authorization satisfying the requirements of paragraph E must be submitted to the village. | |
AVERAGE STRENGTH SEWAGE: | Sewage with characteristics not exceeding a five (5) day 20° centigrade BOD5 of 188 mg/l; a TSS of 213 mg/l; a COD of 565 mg/l; ammonia nitrogen of 23 mg/l and a total phosphorus of 25 mg/l based on POTW design. |
BASELINE MONITORING REPORT: | That report required by 40 CFR 403.12(b)(1-7). |
BASIC USER CHARGE: | The amount to be paid each billing period by all public sewer users for payment of operation and maintenance costs, debt service, and replacement of the sewerage works of the village. |
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE (BMP): | Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in section 7-3A-12. BMPs include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, biosolids or waste disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage. |
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD5): | The quantity of oxygen, expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l), utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures for five (5) days at twenty (20) degrees centigrade, usually expressed as a concentration (e.g. mg/l) as described in “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.” |
BUILDING COMMISSIONER: | The building commissioner of the village or his duly authorized deputy or representative. |
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, beginning five feet (5') (1.5 m) 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. |
BYPASS: | The intentional diversion of waste streams from any portion of an industrial user's treatment facility. |
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD OR CATEGORICAL STANDARD: | See definition of National Categorical Pretreatment Standard Or Categorical Standard. |
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD): | A measure of the oxygen required to oxidize all compounds, both organic and inorganic, in water. |
CHRONIC PROBLEM (FOG) FACILITIES: | Any facility that has been found to have caused a line blockage and/or sanitary sewer system overflow (SSO). Any facility found to have contributed significant amounts of grease to the sewer system, which has necessitated the sewer department to perform any unscheduled jet rodding or cleaning of the sewer main more than once in a two (2) year period. Any facility that has violated the village of Fox Lake's specific limitations on discharge (section 7-3A-13 of this chapter) of the pretreatment ordinance on more than three (3) consecutive sampling events. Any facility that has violated any provision of this program more than two (2) times in a one year period, or any facility, which violates three (3) or more different provisions of the Fox Lake Pretreatment Program in a one (1) year period. |
COLLECTION SYSTEM: | The network of sewers, lift stations and all equipment used to convey wastewater to the POTW for treatment owned and operated by the village of Fox Lake. |
COMBINED WASTE STREAM FORMULA: | The formula as found in 40 CFR section 403.6(e). |
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT: | Pollutants that are capable of being processed: a) under normal loading conditions by a biological wastewater treatment plant, and b) in concentrations that are normally present in wastewaters, without any detrimental effect on the plant's performance such as: biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), chemical oxygen demand (COD), suspended solids (SS), ammonia nitrogen, phosphorus, pH, and fecal coliform bacteria. |
COMPOSITE SAMPLE: | A sample based on a flow proportional or time proportional method. |
CONSTRUCTION: | Considered to have commenced when: a) installation or assembly of facilities or equipment has begun; b) significant site preparation has begun for installation or assembly; c) the owner or operator has entered into a binding contractual obligation. |
CONTROL MANHOLE: | A sampling chamber or structure specifically designed and constructed for sampling and/or metering industrial wastes discharged to a public sewer; must be constructed in accordance with the standards approved by the POTW with a minimum of a twenty four inch (24") diameter opening and a minimum of forty eight inch (48") diameter interior. |
COOLING WATER: | The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, to which the only pollutant added is heat. |
DAILY MAXIMUM LIMIT: | The maximum allowable discharge limit of a pollutant during a calendar day. Where daily maximum are expressed in terms of a concentration, the daily discharge is the arithmetic average measurement of the pollutant concentration derived from all measurements taken that day. Where daily maximum are expressed in units of mass, the daily discharge is the total mass discharged over the course of a day. |
DEBT SERVICE CHARGE: | The amount to be paid each billing period by all public sewer users for payment of principal and interest of outstanding bonds and to provide bond reserve funds required by bond ordinances of the village. |
DENTAL AMALGAM: | An alloy of elemental mercury and other metal(s) that is used in the practice of dentistry. |
DENTAL DISCHARGER: | A facility where the practice of dentistry is performed, including, but not limited to, institutions, permanent or temporary offices, clinics, home offices, and facilities owned and operated by federal, state or local governments, that discharges wastewater to a POTW. |
DIRECTOR OF THE POTW: | The chief administrator of the POTW or his/her designee. |
DISCHARGER: | Any person, firm, establishment or institution that discharges wastewater into the POTW from any non-domestic source regulated under Section 307(b), (c), or (d) of the Act and 35 Ill. Adm. Code (IAC) 307. Discharger is used interchangeably with user. |
DISCHARGE PERMIT: | An individual or general permit issued to a user, which specifies the requirements for discharge of wastewater or the requirements for zero discharge of wastewater as appropriate. |
DISSOLVED SOLIDS: | Any minerals, salts, metals, cations or anions dissolved in water. Total dissolved solids (TDS) comprise of inorganic salts (principally calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, bicarbonates, chlorides, and sulfates) and some small amounts of organic matter that are dissolved in water. |
DULY AUTHORIZED AGENT: | The president and board of trustees of Fox Lake and designated employees and agents of the village. |
EASEMENT: | An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others. |
EFFLUENT CRITERIA: | As defined in an applicable NPDES permit. |
EXISTING DENTAL DISCHARGE SOURCE: | A dental discharger that is not a new source. |
EXISTING SOURCE: | Any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is or may be a discharge, which is not a new source. |
FATS, OILS AND GREASE OR FOG: | Organic polar compounds derived from animal and/or plant sources that contain multiple carbon chain triglyceride molecules. These substances are detectable and measurable using analytical test procedures established in 40 CFR 136, as may be amended from time to time. All are referred to herein as "grease" or "oil and grease" or "fats, oil and grease". In addition, those components of wastewater amendable to measurement by the methods described in "Standard Methods For The Examination Of Water And Wastewater", latest approved edition, or other methods approved by 40 CFR 136. For purposes of this chapter, the term FOG shall include polar fats, oil and grease and other components extracted from wastewater by these methods, excluding the nonpolar fraction. |
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 water pollution control act as amended by the federal water pollution control act of amendments of 1972 and the clean water act of 1977. |
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. |
FLOW: | Volume of wastewater per unit of time. |
FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT (FSE): | Any user engaged in the activities of manufacturing, preparing, serving, or otherwise making available for consumption foodstuffs that use one or more of the following preparation activities: blending, cooking by frying (all methods), baking (all methods), grilling, sauteing, rotisserie cooking, broiling (all methods), boiling, blanching, roasting, toasting, or poaching and infrared heating, searing, barbecuing, and any other food preparation or servicing activity that produces a consumable food product in or on a receptacle requiring washing to be reused. A limited food preparation establishment is not considered to be a FSE when only engaged in reheating, hot holding or assembly of ready to eat food products and as a result, there is no wastewater discharge containing significant amounts of FOG. |
GARBAGE: | Solid wastes, including, but not limited to, waste from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from commercial handling, storage, and sale of products. At no time may any part of the discharge be greater than one-half inch (1/2"). |
GRAB SAMPLE: | A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a onetime basis without regard to the flow of the waste stream, and over a period of time not to exceed fifteen (15) minutes. |
GREASE INTERCEPTOR: | A device designed and installed to separate and retain grease and other related undesirable matter from normal wastes and permit normal sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into a wastewater collection system by gravity. Interceptors differ from fixture traps in that, in addition to preventing the back passage of gases from drainage systems into a building, they also protect the drainage and wastewater collection systems from substances that could plug, block or otherwise be harmful to those systems. |
GREASE MITIGATION FEE: | A fee charged to an owner/operator of a FSE when there are physical limitations to the property that make the installation of the usual and customary grease interceptor or grease control device for the FSE under consideration, impossible or impracticable. The grease mitigation fee is intended to cover the costs of the increased maintenance of the sewer system for inspection and cleaning of FOG and other viscous or solidifying agents that a properly employed grease control device would otherwise prevent from entering the sewer system. |
GREASE REMOVAL DEVICE: | Any type of device that is designed to remove FOG from a waste stream before it reaches the sanitary sewer system. |
HAULED WASTE: | Sanitary or process wastewater transported as a commercial venture. |
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT: | All other pollutants, other than compatible pollutants as described in this section. |
INDIRECT DISCHARGE OR DISCHARGE: | The introduction of pollutants into the POTW from any nondomestic source regulated under section 307(b), (c), or (d) of the act. |
INDUSTRIAL USER OR USER: | A source of indirect discharge, including, but not limited to, a manufacturing, commercial or process facility, or other facility engaged in the purchase or sale of goods, transaction or business or who otherwise renders services to the public. |
INDUSTRIAL WASTE: | The wastewater 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 employees' wastes or wastewater from sanitary conveniences. |
INFILTRATION: | The water entering a sewer system, including building drains and sewers, from the ground, through such means as, but not limited to, defective pipes, pipe joints, connections or manhole walls. (Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.) |
INFILTRATION/INFLOW: | The total quantity of water from both infiltration and inflow without distinguishing the source. |
INFLOW: | The water discharged into a sewer system, including building drains and sewers, from such sources as, but not limited to, roof ladders; cellar, yard and area drains; foundation drains; unpolluted cooling water discharges; drains from springs and swampy areas; manhole covers; cross connections from storm sewers and combined sewers, catch basins, stormwaters, surface runoff, street wash waters or drainage. (Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.) |
INSTANTANEOUS LIMIT: | The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete or composited sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the duration of the sampling event. |
INTERFERENCE: | Any discharge which alone or in conjunction with discharges from other sources, both: A. Inhibits or disrupts the POTW and any of its process or operations, or its sludge use and 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 the 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 more stringent state or local regulations): section 405 of the clean water act, the solid waste disposal act (SWDA), the resource conservation and recovery act (RCRA), including any state regulation contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to subtitle D of the SWDA, the clean air act, the toxic substances control act, and the marine protection, research and sanctuaries act. | |
LICENSED WASTE HAULER: | Any person, company, corporation or other entity that is licensed through the state and county health departments to collect, transport, and dispose of grease waste. All licensed waste haulers must be approved and permitted by the NWRWRF before any pumping and/or cleaning may take place at any facility which discharges into the sanitary sewer collection system owned by the village of Fox Lake. |
LIMITED DENTAL DISCHARGER SOURCE: | A dental discharger that does not place dental amalgam, and does not remove dental amalgam except in limited emergency or unplanned, unanticipated circumstances. A new limited dental discharge source means a limited dental discharger whose first discharge to a POTW occurs after July 14, 2017. An existing limited dental discharge source means a limited dental discharger that is not a new source. |
LOCAL LIMIT: | Specific discharge limits developed and enforced by the village upon non-residential users or facilities to implement the general and specific discharge prohibitions listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b). |
mg/l (MILLIGRAMS PER LITER): | A unit of the concentration of water or wastewater constituent. It is 0.001 gram of the constituent in one thousand milliliters (1,000 ml) of water or one part per million parts and is used in reporting the results of water and wastewater analysis. |
MAY: | Is permissive. |
MEDICAL WASTES: | Isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood products, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding, surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory wastes, and dialysis wastes. |
MOBILE UNIT: | A specialized mobile self-contained van, trailer, or equipment used in providing dentistry services at multiple locations. |
MONTHLY AVERAGE: | The sum of all daily discharges measured during a calendar month divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that month. |
MONTHLY AVERAGE LIMIT: | The highest allowable average of daily discharges over a calendar month, calculated as a sum of all the daily discharges measured during a calendar month divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that month. |
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD OR CATEGORICAL STANDARD: | Any pretreatment standard specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged to a POTW by industrial users in specific industrial subcategories as established in regulations promulgated from time to time by the USEPA in accordance with sections 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. §1317) which apply to specific category of users and which appear in 40 CFR chapter I, subchapter N, parts 405-471. |
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT OR STATE DISCHARGE PERMIT: | A permit issued pursuant to section 402 of the federal water pollution control act (33 USC 1342). |
NATURAL OUTLET: | Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface water. |
NEW DENTAL DISCHARGER SOURCE: | A dental discharger whose first discharge to a POTW occurs after July 14, 2017. |
NEW FACILITY (FOG PRODUCING): | Any new construction or transfer of ownership which would require the village to issue a new business license. |
NEW SOURCE: | A. Any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is (or may be) a discharge of pollutants, the construction of said facility, commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards under section 307(c) (33 USC 1317) 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 point 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 installations 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 A2 and A3 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 done one of the following: 1. Begun, or caused to begin as part of a continuous on site construction program: |
a. Any placement, assembly, or installation of facilities or equipment; or 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. 2. Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase of facilities or equipment which are intended to be used in its operation within a reasonable time. Options to purchase 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 subsection C2. | |
NONCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANTS: | Parameters that are not able to be handled under normal loading conditions in biological waste treatment plants and may in fact be detrimental to the biota of the treatment plant. |
NONCONTACT COOLING WATER: | Water used for cooling which does not come in direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product, or finished product. |
NON-SIGNIFICANT CATEGORICAL INDUSTRIAL USER (NSCIU): | See significant industrial user definition. |
OILS AND GREASE: | Any hydrocarbons, fatty acids, soaps, fats, waves, oils and any other material that is extracted by a solvent in a method approved in 40 CFR 136. |
ORDINANCE: | This chapter. |
OWNER: | An individual, person, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group on whose property the building or structure is located or will be constructed. |
PASS-THROUGH: | A discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the state or waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, causes 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 article A of this chapter. |
PERSON: | Any individual, partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity, or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agent or assignees. This definition includes all federal, state, and other local governmental entities. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context. |
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. |
PHOSPHORUS: | The total concentration of orthophosphate, polyphosphates and organic phosphorus compounds in wastewater, the quantity of which is determined by standard laboratory test procedures and expressed in mg/l of elemental phosphorus. |
POLAR FOG: | FOG derived from animal or vegetable sources and determined by methods found in "standard methods". |
POLLUTANT: | Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water. |
POPULATION EQUIVALENT: | A term used to evaluate the impact of industrial or other wastes on a treatment works or stream. One population equivalent is one hundred (100) gallons of sewage per day, containing 0.17 pound of BOD5 and 0.20 pound of suspended solids or two hundred three milligrams per liter (203 mg/l) BOD5 and two hundred forty milligrams per liter (240 mg/l) TSS. |
POTENTIAL PROBLEM: | Any discharge which alone or in combination with discharges from other sources inhibits or disrupts the POTW or any of its processes or operations including plant emissions or any conditions which create public nuisance, causing the POTW to expend additional resources or manpower or take additional steps to protect the POTW processes or receiving stream. |
PRETREATMENT: | The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of the pollutant properties in wastewater prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the POTW. This reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical, or biological processes; by process changes; or by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR section 403.6(d). |
PRETREATMENT COORDINATOR: | The assistant director of NWRWRF of the village or his designee. |
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS: | Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment, other than a pretreatment standard, imposed on an industrial user. |
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS: | For any specific pollutant, village prohibited discharge standards, national categorical pretreatment standards, and village local limits. |
PRIORITY POLLUTANTS (PRIORITY TOXIC POLLUTANTS): | Refers to a list of specific compounds, originally identified by the EPA for initial development of categorical pretreatment standards. |
PROHIBITED MATERIALS: | Any materials that are barred from being discharged into a POTW by a regulatory agency. |
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE: | Garbage that has 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 (1/2") (1.27 cm) in any dimension. |
PUBLIC SEWER: | A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights of connection and use, and is operated, maintained and controlled by the village or other public agencies. |
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS OR POTW: | A treatment works as defined by section 212 of the act, owned by the village of Fox Lake. This definition includes any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature that convey wastewater to the POTW treatment plant regardless of ownership, but does not include sewers, pipes, and other conveyances not connected to the POTW treatment plant. The term also means village of Fox Lake, which has jurisdiction over the indirect discharges to and the discharges from such a treatment works. |
REMODEL: | Any construction at a facility which involves the replacement or alteration of at least fifty percent (50%) of the currently existing piping and appurtenances. |
REPLACEMENT COSTS: | Expenditures for purchasing and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the sewerage works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance" includes replacement. |
RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER EQUIVALENT: | A term used as a basis of billing for sewage collection and treatment service which is equivalent to a single-family residential user with an average sewage load of two and one-half (21/2) times that of a population equivalent. Each residential dwelling unit shall be considered to be one residential customer equivalent, whether it be in a single-family building or in a building with multiple dwelling units. The residential customer equivalent of commercial and industrial buildings shall be based on the metered water consumption per two (2) month period, divided by fifteen thousand (15,000) gallons. |
RESIDENTIAL OR NONINDUSTRIAL USER: | Any user of the sewerage works not classified as an industrial user or excluded as an industrial user. Each dwelling unit of a residential building having two (2) or more dwelling units shall be considered a separate and individual single-family residential user. |
SANITARY SEWER: | A sewer which is designed to carry sanitary and industrial wastewater, and to which storm, surface and ground water are not intentionally admitted. |
SERVICE AREA: | The boundaries of a region within which a municipality has authority to collect, treat, and dispose of the wastewater generated by all parties located therein. |
SEWAGE: | A combination of the wastewater from residential, commercial, industrial and institutional buildings together with such groundwater infiltration and surface water inflow that may be in the sewers. |
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT: | An arrangement of devices, structures and processes for the treating and disposing of sewage. |
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT CONNECTION FEE: | The amount to be paid by all new public sewer users for connecting to sanitary sewers tributary to the sewage treatment plant of the village, which amount shall be used for partial payment of principal and interest of outstanding bonds and to provide bond reserve funds required by bond ordinances of the village. |
SEWER: | A pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other wastewater, including stormwater, surface water and groundwater drainage. |
SEWER CONNECTION FEE: | The amount to be paid by all new public sewer users for connecting to the sanitary sewers of the village. |
SEWER USER SERVICE CHARGE: | The total amount to be paid each billing period by public sewer users including the basic user charge, the debt service charge and a surcharge, if applicable. Sewer user service charges in areas serviced by the NWRWRF are composed of "regional sewer user service charges" and "local sewer user service charges" as per subsection 7-3-7A of this chapter. |
SEWERAGE REVENUE FUND: | The principal accounting designation for all revenues received in the operation of the sewerage works. |
SEWERAGE WORKS: | All facilities of the village for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage and industrial wastes. |
SHALL: | Is mandatory. |
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER (SIU): | A user of the POTW (except as provided by paragraphs C and D) who: A. A user subject to any national categorical pretreatment standards; or B. A user that: 1. Has an average process wastewater discharge flow of twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons or more per work day (excluding sanitary, non-contact cooling and boiler blow-down wastewater); or 2. Has a discharge flow of process wastewater that makes up five percent (5%) or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW; or 3. Is designated as such by the village on the basis that it has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW’s operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement. C. The village may determine that a user subject to categorical pretreatment standards is a non-significant categorical industrial user rather than a significant industrial user on a finding that the user never discharges more than one hundred (100) gallons per day (gpd) of total categorical wastewater (excluding sanitary, non-contact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater, unless specifically included in the pretreatment standard) and the following conditions are met: 1. The user, prior to the village’s finding, has consistently complied with all applicable categorical pretreatment standards and requirements; 2. The user annually submits the certification statement required in section 7-3A-23C [see 40 CFR 403.12(q)], together with any additional information necessary to support the certification statement; and |
3. The user never discharges any untreated concentrated wastewater. D. Upon a finding that a user meeting the criteria in subsection C of this part has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW’s operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the village may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from a user, determine that such user should not be considered a significant industrial user in accordance with 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6). | |
SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE (SNC): | The term significant noncompliance shall be applicable to all significant industrial users and categorical industrial users (or any other user that violates paragraphs C, D, or E below) and shall mean: A. "Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits", defined as those in which sixty six percent (66%) or more of all of the measurements taken for the same pollutant parameter during a six (6) month period exceed (by any magnitude) a numeric pretreatment standard or requirement, including instantaneous limits, as defined by sections 7-3A-12 through 7-3A-14. B. "Technical review criteria (TRC) violations", defined as those in which thirty three percent (33%) or more of all of the measurements for the same pollutant parameter taken during a six (6) month period equal or exceed the product of the numeric pretreatment standard or requirement, including instantaneous limits, as defined by sections 7-3A-12 through 7-3A-14 multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC = 1.4 for BOD5, TSS, and FOG; TRC = 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH) (e.g., limit for Cu = 1.0 mg/l, TRC limit for Cu = 1.2 x 1.0 = 1.2 mg/l). C. Any other violation of a pretreatment standard or requirement as defined in sections 7-3A-12, 7-3A-13 and 7-3A-14 (daily maximum, long-term average, instantaneous limit, or narrative standard) that the pretreatment coordinator determines has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference, pass-through, or endangered the health of POTW personnel or the general public. |
E. Failure to accurately report noncompliance. F. Failure to meet, within ninety (90) days after the schedule date, a compliance milestone contained in a wastewater discharge permit or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction, or attaining final compliance. G. Failure to provide, within forty-five (45) calendar days after the due date, any required reports such as baseline monitoring reports (BMRs), reports on compliance with categorical pretreatment standard deadlines, periodic self-monitoring reports, and reports on compliance with compliance schedules. H. Any other violation or group of violations which the pretreatment coordinator determines will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the local pretreatment program, including, but not limited to, violations of best management practices (BMPs). | |
SLUDGE: | Any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility or any such other waste having similar characteristics and effects. |
SLUG (Including SLUG DISCHARGE AND SLUG LOAD): | Any discharge at a flow rate or concentration, which could cause a violation of the prohibited discharge standards in section 7-3A-12 of this title. A slug discharge is any discharge of a non-routine, episodic nature, including, but not limited to, an accidental spill or noncustomary batch discharge, which has a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass through, or in any other way violate the POTW’s regulations, local limits or permit conditions. |
STATE ACT: | The Illinois environmental protection act 1 effective January 1, 2010, and any and all amendments thereto from time to time. |
STORM SEWER OR STORM DRAIN: | A sewer that conveys stormwater runoff and surface water drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes. |
STORMWATER RUNOFF: | That portion of precipitation which is not absorbed into the ground and which is drained from the ground surface to a natural outlet or watercourse. |
SUPERVISOR OF SEWER AND WATER (OR SEWER AND WATER SUPERVISOR): | The chief administrator of the village's local sewer and water system or his/her designee. |
SURCHARGE: | The amount to be paid each billing period by certain public sewer users in addition to the basic user charge and the debt service charge. |
T: | As in "cyanide-T" means total. |
TOTAL SOLIDS: | The sum of suspended and dissolved solids. |
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS (TSS) OR SUSPENDED SOLIDS: | Total suspended matter, expressed in milligrams per liter, that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in water, wastewater and other liquids. It is removed by laboratory filtration. |
TOTAL TOXIC ORGANICS (TTO): | The summation of all quantified values greater than the 0.01 milligrams per liter for the toxic organics as specified in the applicable regulation. |
UNPOLLUTED WASTEWATER: | Wastewater that would not cause any violation of water quality standards of the water pollution regulations of Illinois when discharged to a natural outlet or watercourse. |
UNPOLLUTED WATER: | The water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria set forth in 35 Illinois administrative code part 304 or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards set forth in 35 Illinois administrative code parts 302 and 303 and would not be benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and 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. |
USEFUL LIFE: | The estimated period during which the sewerage works will be operated from the date of startup of any facilities constructed with a federal grant. |
USER: | Any person who contributes, causes, or permits the contribution of wastewater into the POTW treatment plant. Any user of the sewer system whether commercial, industrial or residential. Each dwelling unit of a residential building having two (2) or more dwelling units shall be considered a separate and individual user. Each separate commercial or industrial unit in a commercial or industrial building shall also be considered a separate and individual user. |
USER CLASS: | The type of user either residential or commercial (nonindustrial) or industrial as defined herein. |
VILLAGE: | The village of Fox Lake of Lake and McHenry Counties, Illinois. |
WASTEWATER: | The combination of liquid and water carrying wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, including polluted cooling water. A. "Sanitary wastewater" means the combination of liquid and water carried wastes discharged from toilet and other sanitary plumbing facilities. B. "Industrial wastewater" means a combination of liquid and water carried wastes discharged from any industrial user including the wastewater from pretreatment facilities and polluted cooling water. |
WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT: | The document or documents allowing discharge to the POTW issued to a user by the POTW in accordance with the terms of article A of this chapter. |
WASTEWATER HAULER: | Any person, partnership, or corporation engaged in transporting sanitary wastewater as a commercial venture. |
WATERCOURSE: | Any stream, creek, brook, branch, natural or artificial depression, slough, gulch, ditch, reservoir, lake, pond, or other natural or manmade drainage in or into which stormwater runoff and surface water drainage flow either continuously or intermittently. |
WATERS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS: | All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, 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 the state of Illinois or any portion thereof. |
WORK DAY: | A day on which work or service is performed by an industry. (Ord. 2010-01, 1-26-2010; amd. Ord. 2011-18, 6-28-2011; Ord. 2013-20, 9-24-2013; Ord. 2015-04, 1-13-2015; Ord. 2015-08, 1-27-2015; Ord. 2021-08, 4-27-2021) |
Notes
| 1 | 1. 415 ILCS 5/1 et seq. |