The following words and terms as used in this chapter and Chapter 1048 shall be deemed to mean and be construed as follows, unless the context specifically indicates otherwise:
(1) "Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1251, et seq.).
(2) "Authorized or duly authorized representative of an industrial user" means:
A. A responsible corporate officer, if the industrial user submitting the reports is a corporation. For the purpose of this paragraph, a responsible corporate officer means:
1. A president, secretary, treasurer or vice-president of a 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 operating 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 discharge permit requirements; and where authority to sign documents has been assigned to the manger in accordance with corporate procedures.
B. A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user submitting the report is a partnership or sole proprietorship respectively.
C. 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 governmental facility, or their designee.
D. The individuals described in paragraphs A. through C. 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 written authorization is submitted to the Utility Superintendent.
(3) "Basic user charge" means the basic assessment levied on all users of the public sewer system.
(4) "Best Management Practices or BMPs" means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in Section 1046.09(a) and (b) [40 CFR 403.5(a) and (b)]. BMP's include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage.
(5) "BOD" or "biochemical oxygen demand" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five days at twenty degrees Celsius, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(6) "Building drain" means 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 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
(7) "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(8) "Bypass" means the intentional diversion of wastestreams from any portion of an industrial user's treatment facility.
(9) "Capital improvements charge" means a charge levied on users to improve, extend or reconstruct the sewage treatment works.
(10) "Categorical industrial user (CIU)" means any industrial user subject to National Categorical Pretreatment Standards.
(11) "Commercial user" means a transit lodging, a retail and wholesale establishment or a place engaged in selling merchandise or rendering services.
(12) Reserved.
(13) "Control manhole" means 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 City representatives to sample and/or measure discharges.
(14) "Daily maximum" means the arithmetic average of all effluent samples for a pollutant collected during a calendar day.
(15) "Daily maximum limit" means the maximum allowable discharge limit of a pollutant during a calendar day. Where daily maximum limits are expressed in units of mass, the daily discharge is the total mass discharged over the course of the day. Where daily maximum limits 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.
(16) "Debt service charge" means the amount to be paid each billing period for payment of the interest, principal and coverage of outstanding loans, bonds, etc.
(17) "Easement" means an acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
(18) "Effluent criteria" means those criteria defined in any applicable NPDES permit.
(19) "Environmental Protection Agency or EPA" means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate, the Regional Water Management Division Director, the Regional Administrator, or other duly authorized official of said agency.
(20) "Existing source" means any source of discharge that is not a "new source".
(21) "Floatable oil" means 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.
(22) "Garbage" means solid waste from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of food.
(23) "Grab sample" means a sample that is taken from a wastestream without regard to the flow in the wastestream and over a period of time not to exceed fifteen minutes.
(24) "Indirect discharge or discharge" means the introduction of pollutants into the POTW from any nondomestic source regulated under Section 307(b), (c) or (d) of the Act.
(25) "Industrial user" means 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, the transaction of business or the rendering of services to the public.
(26) "Industrial waste" means 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.
(27) "Instantaneous limit" means 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.
(28) "Interference" means a discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges 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 POTWs 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 more stringent State or local regulations): Section 405 of the Clean Water Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) (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 SWDA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act and the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act.
(29) "Local capital cost charge" means the charge for the costs other than the operation, maintenance and replacement costs, i.e. debt service and capital improvement costs.
(30) "Major contributing industry." Refer to subsection (72) hereof, "significant industrial user".
(31) "May" means permissible.
(32) "Milligrams per liter" or "mg/l" means a unit of the concentration of water or wastewater constituent. It is 0.001 grams of the constituent in 1,000 milliliters of water. It has replaced the unit formerly used commonly, i.e. parts per million, to which it is approximately equivalent, in reporting the results of water and wastewater analysis.
(33) "Medical waste" means 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.
(34) "Modification" means construction on a site at which an existing source is located where such construction does not create a new building, structure, facility or installation meeting the criteria of paragraph (40)B. or C. hereof, but otherwise alters, replaces or adds to an existing process or production equipment.
(35) "Monthly average" means the sum of all "daily discharges" measured during a calendar month divided by the number of "daily discharges" measured during that month.
(36) "Monthly average limit" the highest allowable average of "daily discharges" over a calendar month, calculated as the sum of all "daily discharges" measured during a calendar month divided by the number of "daily discharges" measured during that month.
(37) "National Categorical Pretreatment Standard or Categorical Standard" means 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 from time to time by the USEPA in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405-471.
(38) "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit" or "NPDES permit" means 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.
(39) "Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(40) "Net/gross adjustment" means a CIU may obtain a net/gross adjustment to a categorical pretreatment standard in accordance with the following paragraphs of this section. [Note: See 40 CFR 403.15]
A. Categorical pretreatment standards may be adjusted to reflect the presence of pollutants in the industrial user's intake water in accordance with this section. Any industrial user wishing to obtain credit for intake pollutants must make application to Freeport. Upon request of the industrial user, the applicable standard will be calculated on a "net" basis (i.e., adjusted to reflect credit for pollutants in the intake water) if the requirements of paragraph B. of this section are met.
B. Criteria.
1. Either (i) the applicable categorical pretreatment standards contained in 40 CFR subchapter N specifically provide that they shall be applied on a net basis; or (ii) the industrial user demonstrates that the control system it proposes or uses to meet applicable categorical pretreatment standards would, if properly installed and operated, meet the standards in the absence of pollutants in the intake waters.
2. Credit for generic pollutants such as biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), total suspended solids (TSS), and oil and grease should not be granted unless the industrial user demonstrates that the constituents of the generic measure in the user's effluent are substantially similar to the constituents of the generic measure in the intake water or unless appropriate additional limits are placed on process water pollutants either at the outfall or elsewhere.
3. Credit shall be granted only to the extent necessary to meet the applicable categorical pretreatment standard(s), up to a maximum value equal to the influent value. Additional monitoring may be necessary to determine eligibility for credits and compliance with standard(s) adjusted under this section.
4. Credit shall be granted only if the user demonstrates that the intake water is drawn from the same body of water as that into which the POTW discharges. Freeport may waive this requirement if it finds that no environmental degradation will result.
(41) "New source" means
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, 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;
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 paragraph A.2. or 3. above but otherwise alters, replaces or adds to existing process or production equipment.
C. Construction of a new source, as defined in this subsection, has commenced if the owner or operator has begun, or caused to begin as part of a continuous on-site construction program, any placement, assembly or installation of facilities or equipment, or 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 if the owner or operator has 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 definition.
(42) "Noncategorical industrial user (NIU)" means any industrial user not subject to National Categorical Pretreatment Standards.
(43) "Noncontact cooling water" means water used for cooling that does not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product, or finished product.
(44) "Non-significant categorical industrial user (NSCIU)" means Freeport may determine that an industrial user subject to categorical pretreatment standards is a non-significant categorical industrial user rather than a significant industrial user on a finding that the industrial user never discharges more than 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:
A. The industrial user, prior Freeport's finding, has consistently complied with all applicable categorical pretreatment standards and requirements;
B. The industrial user annually submits the certification statement required in Section 6.14 B [see 40 CR 403.12(q)], together with any additional information necessary to support the certification statement; and
C. The industrial user never discharges any untreated concentrated wastewater.
(45) "Pass through" means a discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
(46) "Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, municipal or private corporation, institution, enterprise, governmental agency or other entity.
(47) "pH" means the intensity of the acid or base condition of a solution, calculated by taking the logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration.
(48) "Pollutant" means any dredged soil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, medical wastes, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharge equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt or industrial, municipal and agricultural wastes and certain characteristics of wastewater (e.g.: pH, temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD, toxicity or odor).
(49) "Population equivalent" means 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 wastewater per day containing 0.17 pounds of BOD and 0.20 pounds of suspended solids.
(50) "POTW treatment plant" means that portion of the POTW which is designed to provide treatment (including recycling and reclamation) of municipal sewage and industrial waste.
(51) "Ppm" means parts per million by weight.
(52) "Pretreatment" means 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 the POTW. This reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes; by process changes or by other means, except by diluting the concentration of pollutants unless allowed by an applicable pretreatment standard.
(53) "Pretreatment requirement" means any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment, other than a pretreatment standard, imposed on an industrial user.
(54) "Pretreatment standards" means, for any specified pollutant, prohibitive discharge standards as set forth in Section 1046.09, or specific local limitations on discharge as set forth in Section 1046.10, or the State of Illinois pretreatment standards, or the applicable National Categorical Pretreatment Standards.
(55) "Properly shredded garbage" means 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 a public sewer, with no particle greater than one-half inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
(56) "Public sewer" means a sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the City. The term "public sewer" shall also include sewers within or outside the City boundaries that serve one or more persons and ultimately discharge into the City sanitary sewers, even though those sewers may not have been constructed with City funds.
(57) "Public users" means schools, churches, penal institutions and users associated with Federal, State and local governments.
(58) "Publicly owned treatment works" or "POTW" means a treatment works as defined in Section 212 of the Act, owned by the City. The term includes any devices and systems used in the collection, 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.
(59) "Regional Administrator" means the appropriate Regional Administrator of EPA as the approval authority in a nonapproved state.
(60) "Replacement" means 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 and maintenance" includes replacement.
(61) "Residential user" means all dwelling units, such as houses, mobile homes, apartments and permanent multifamily dwellings.
(62) "Sanitary sewage" means sewage discharging from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings (including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, factories or institutions and free from storm water, surface water and industrial wastes.
(63) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which is designed to carry sanitary and industrial wastewater, and into which storm, surface and ground waters or polluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
(64) "Search warrants." If the City Manager or his/her designee has been refused access to a building, structure, or property, or any part thereof, and is able to demonstrate probable cause to believe that there may be a violation of this chapter, or that there is a need to inspect and/or sample as part of a routine inspection and sampling program of the City of Freeport designed to verify compliance with this chapter or any permit or order issued hereunder, or to protect the overall public health, safety and welfare of the community, the City Manager or his/her designee may seek issuance of a search warrant from the 15th Judicial Circuit Stephenson County Courthouse in Freeport, Illinois.
(65) "Septic tank waste (STW)" means any sewage from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, and septic tanks.
(66) "Severe property damage" means 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 bypass. The term "severe property damage" does not mean economic loss caused by delays in production.
(67) "Sewage" means human excrement and gray water (household showers, dishwashing operations, etc.)
(68) "Sewer" means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage and other waste liquids.
(69) "Sewerage" means the system of sewer appurtenances for the collection, transportation, pumping and treatment of sewage.
(70) "Sewerage Fund" is the principal accounting designation for all revenues received in the operation of the sewerage system.
(71) "Shall" means mandatory.
(72) "Significant industrial user (SIU)" or "major contributing industry" shall mean any industrial user of the POTW's wastewater disposal system who:
A. Discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of process wastewater ("excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling and boiler blowdown wastestreams"); or
B. Contributes a process wastestream which makes up five percent or more off the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW treatment plant; or
C. Is designated by the POTW, EPA or USEPA on the basis that it has reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement; or
D. Is subject to any National Categorical Pretreatment Standard.
Upon finding that a user meeting the criteria in paragraphs (72)A. through C. hereof has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the City Manager or his/her authorized designee may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from a user, and in accordance with procedures set forth in 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine that such user should not be considered a significant industrial user.
(73) "Significant noncompliance (SNC)" means:
A. Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here as those in which sixty-six percent or more of all the measurements taken for the same pollutant parameter during a six-month period exceed (by any magnitude) a numeric pretreatment standard or requirement, including any instantaneous limits established by the City or its authorized designee.
B. Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as those in which thirty-three percent or more of wastewater measurements taken for each pollutant parameter during a six-month period equals or exceeds the product of the numeric pretreatment standard or requirement including any instantaneous limits established by the City or its authorized designee multiplied by the applicable criteria (1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oil and grease, and 1.2 for all other pollutants, except pH);
C. Any other violation of a pretreatment standard or requirement as defined by Sections 1046.09 through 1046.11 (daily maximum, long-term average, instantaneous limit, or narrative standard) that the Department of Public Works - Water and Sewer Division determines has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass through, including endangering the health of POTW personnel or the general public;
D. Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to the public or to the environment or has resulted in the POTW's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge;
E. Failure to meet, within ninety days of the scheduled date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in an individual wastewater discharge permit or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction or attaining final compliance;
F. Failure to provide, within forty-five days after the due date, any required reports including baseline monitoring reports, reports on compliance with categorical pretreatment standard deadlines, periodic self-monitoring reports, and reports on compliance with compliance schedules;
G. Failure to accurately report noncompliance; or
H. Any other violation(s), which may include a violation of Best Management Practices, which the Department of Public Works - Water and Sewer Division determines will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the City's pretreatment program.
(74) "Sludge" means the settleable solids separated from the liquids during the wastewater treatment processes.
(75) "Slug" means any discharge of water, wastewater or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given pollutant, as measured by a grab or composite sample, exceeds more than five times the allowable concentrations as set forth in Sections 1046.09 to 1046.11, inclusive, or any pollutant, including oxygen demanding pollutants (BOD, etc.) released in a discharge at a flow rate and/or pollutant concentration which will cause interference with the POTW.
(76) "Standard Methods" means 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 and the Water Pollution Control Federation, and any other procedures recognized by the USEPA and IEPA.
(77) "Storm sewer" or "storm drain" means a pipe or conduit which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes. It may, however, carry cooling water and unpolluted water.
(78) "Storm water" means that portion of the precipitation that is drained into the storm sewers; and any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation, including snowmelt.
(79) "Suspended solids" or "SS" means 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 the IEPA Division of Laboratories Manual of Laboratory Methods.
(80) "T," as in "cyanide-T," means total.
(81) "Total solids" means the sum of suspended and dissolved solids.
(82) "Total suspended solids" or "TSS" means 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 and is removable by laboratory filtration using a glass fiber filter disc as prescribed in Standard Methods.
(83) "Total toxic organics" means the summation of all quantified values greater than 0.01 milligrams per liter for the toxic organics as specified in the applicable regulation.
(84) "Toxic pollutants" means, but is not necessarily limited to, aldrin, dieldrin, Benzedrine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT endrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyl's (PCB's) and toxaphene. Pollutants included as "toxic" shall be those promulgated as such by the USEPA.
(85) "Unpolluted water" means water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect as set forth in 35 Ill. Adm. Code, Part 304, as amended, or water that would not cause a violation of receiving water quality standards as set forth in 35 Ill. Adm. Code, Parts 302 and 303, as amended, and would not be benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
(86) "Upset" means an exceptional incident in which there is unintentional and temporary noncompliance with applicable 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.
(87) "Useful life" means the estimated period during which the collection system and/or treatment works shall be operated.
(88) "User" means any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater into the POTW treatment plant.
(89) "User charge" means a charge levied on users of treatment works for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement.
(90) "User class" means the type of user, such as residential, institutional/ governmental, commercial or industrial, as defined herein.
(91) "Wastewater" means a combination of liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, manufacturing facilities, and institutions, including polluted cooling water whether treated or untreated. The term "wastewater" includes the following terms:
A. "Sanitary wastewater" means the combination of liquid and water-carried wastes discharged from toilet and other sanitary plumbing facilities.
B. "Industrial wastewater" means the combination of liquid and water-carried waste discharged from any industrial user, including the wastewater from pretreatment facilities and polluted cooling water.
(92) "Wastewater facilities" means the structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and transport effluent to a watercourse.
(93) "Wastewater service charge" means the charge per month levied on all users of the wastewater facilities. The service charge shall be computed as outlined in Chapter 1048 and shall consist of the total or the basic user charge and the local capital cost.
(94) "Wastewater treatment works" means an arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes and sludge. The term "wastewater treatment works" is sometimes used synonymously with "waste treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "pollution control plant."
(95) "Water quality standards" is defined in the Water Pollution Regulations of Illinois.
(96) "Watercourse" means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(97) "Waters of the State of Illinois" means 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 upon the State or any portion thereof.
(Ord. 96-68. Passed 10-7-96; Ord. 2002-36. Passed 6-3-02; Ord. 2017-45. Passed 6-5-17; Ord. 2020-11. Passed 3-2-20; Ord. 2023-39. Passed 8-21-23.)