For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ADMINISTRATOR. The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
APPROVING AUTHORITY. The City of Galena.
BASIC USER RATE. The charge levied on users of treatment works for the cost of operation and maintenance.
BOD (denoting BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND. The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20 degrees Centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter.
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 meters) 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.
CITY. The City of Galena and its duly authorized officials.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater, storm, surface and groundwater drainage.
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.
DIRECTOR. The Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
EASEMENT. An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
EFFLUENT CRITERIA. Defined in any applicable NPDES permit.
FEDERAL ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 USC 1251 et seq.) as amended by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of Amendments of 1972 (Pub. L 92-500) and (Pub. L 93-243).
FEDERAL GRANT. The United States 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.
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.
GARBAGE. Wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food; waste from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL USER. Any nongovernmental user of publicly owned treatment works identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under the following divisions. A user in the divisions listed may be excluded if it is determined by the city that it will introduce primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(1) Division A — Agriculture, forestry, and fishing.
(2) Division B — Mining.
(3) Division D — Manufacturing.
(4) Division E — Transportation, communication, electric, gas and sanitary services.
(5) Division I — Services.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE. Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance discharged, permitted to flow or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing, commercial or business establishment or process or from the development, recovery or processing of any natural resource as distinct from sanitary sewage.
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 greater than 10% 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 treatment works.
MILLIGRAMS PER LITER. A unit of the concentration of water or wastewater constituent. One milligram per liter is 0.001 gram of the constituent in 1,000 millileter 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.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface water or groundwater.
NPDES PERMIT. Any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued by the Administrator, or, where appropriated 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.
PERSON. Any and all persons, natural or artificial including any individual, firm, company, municipal, or private corporation, association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency or other entity.
pH. The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration expressed by one of the procedures outlined in Standard Methods.
POPULATION EQUIVALENT. A term used to evaluate the impact of industrial or other waste on a treatment works or stream. One POPULATION EQUIVALENT is 60 gallons of sewage per day, containing .17 pounds of BOD and .22 pounds of suspended solids.
ppm. Parts per million by weight.
PRETREATMENT. The treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into the wastewater treatment works.
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.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer of eight inches or more in diameter including and terminated by manholes provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the city. It shall also include sewers within or outside the city boundaries that serve two or more properties and ultimately discharge into the city sanitary system, even though those sewers may not have been constructed with city funds.
PUBLIC WATER MAIN. A water main of minimum two inches or more in diameter provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the city. It shall also include water mains and appurtenances within or outside the city boundaries that serve two or more properties and ultimately discharge into the city sanitary system, even though those sewers may not have been constructed with city funds.
REPLACEMENT. Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the service 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.
RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL OR NONINDUSTRIAL USER. Any user of the treatment works not classified as an industrial user or excluded as an industrial user as provided for in this section.
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.
SERVICE LINE. The water line or sewer pipe that extends from the public water or sewer main to the residence or premises. Such SERVICE LINE also includes the connection between the public water or sewer main and said service line. The property owner is responsible for maintenance and repair of the entire line including said connection to the public water or sewer main.
SEWAGE. Used interchangeably with WASTEWATER.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other waste liquids, including storm, surface and groundwater drainage.
SEWERAGE. The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation and pumping of sewage.
SEWERAGE AND WATERWORKS SYSTEM FUND. The principal accounting designation for all revenues received in the operation of the sewer and water system.
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 of flows during normal operation.
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.
STATE ACT. The Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act of 1970, being ILCS Ch. 30, Act 405, §§ l et seq.
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 State of the State of Illinois.
STORM SEWER. A sewer that carries storm, surface and groundwater drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
STORMWATER RUNOFF. The portion of the precipitation that is drained into the sewers.
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.
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.
USER CLASS. The type of user either “residential or commercial” (nonindustrial) or “industrial” as defined herein.
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.
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 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.
WATER QUALITY STANDARDS. Defined in the Water Pollution Regulations of Illinois.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
WATERWORKS. The system of mains and appurtenances for the storage, transportation and pumping of water.
(Ord. O-09-20, passed 8-24-09)