(a) Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(1) "Biochemical oxygen demand" (BOD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees Centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(2) "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from the soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, which begins five feet (one and one-half meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
(3) "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, also called house connection.
(4) "Chemical oxygen demand" (COD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
(5) "Combined sewer" means a sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
(6) "Compatible pollutant" means BOD, suspended solids, pH, and fecal coliform bacteria plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit if the publicly owned treatment works was designed to treat such pollutant, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree. Examples of such additional pollutants may include:
A. COD;
B. Total organic carbon;
C. Phosphorus and phosphorus compounds;
D. Nitrogen and nitrogen compounds;
E. Fats, oils and greases of animal or vegetable origin except as prohibited under Section 929.02.
(7) "Commercial unit" means a building or part of a building used by one commercial, private or public enterprise for uses other than as a dwelling.
(8) "Debt service charge" means the charge levied on users to make principal and interest payments required for the amortization of the cost of the wastewater collection and treatment facilities.
(9) "Discharge unit" means any residence, commercial establishment, industry, or private or public facility generating, accumulating and/or otherwise discharging liquid waste either directly or ultimately into any of the sewer systems of the Village.
(10) "Residential unit" means a building or part of a building used by one family, exclusively, as a place of abode.
(11) "Engineer" means the consulting engineer designated by Council.
(12) "Federal Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Amendments of 1972 and 1977, Public Law 92-500 and any amendments thereto; as well as any guidelines, limitations and standards promulgated by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
(13) "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.
(14) "Garbage" means the animal and vegetable waste.resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of food.
(15) "Incompatible pollutant" means any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined in subsection (a)(6) hereof.
(16) "Industrial cost recovery" means recovery by the Village from the industrial users of a treatment works of the grant amount allocable to the treatment of wastes from such users pursuant to Section 204(b) of Title II Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (Public Law 92-500) and amendments thereto.
(17) "Industrial user" means any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of a publicly owned treatment works which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day (gpd) of sanitary wastes and which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented under one of the following divisions:
Division A. Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing.
Division B. Mining.
Division D. Manufacturing.
Division E. Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services.
Division I. Services.
A. In determining the amount of a user's discharge for purposes of industrial cost recovery, the grantee may exclude domestic wastes or discharges from sanitary conveniences.
B. After applying the sanitary waste exclusion in subsection (a)(17)A. hereof (if grantee chooses to do so), discharges in the above divisions that have a volume exceeding 25,000 gpd or the weight of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) or suspended solids (SS) equivalent to that weight found in 25,000 gpd of sanitary waste are considered industrial users. Sanitary wastes, for purposes of this calculation of equivalency, are the wastes discharged from residential users. The grantee, With the Regional Administrator's approval, shall define the strength of the residential discharges in terms of parameters including, as a minimum, BOD and SS per volume of flow.
Any nongovernmental user of a publicly owned treatment works which discharges wastewater to the treatment works which contains toxic pollutants or poisonous solids, liquids or gases in sufficient quantity either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to contaminate the sludge of any municipal systems, or to injure or to interfere with any sewage treatment process, or which constitutes a hazard to humans or animals, creates a public nuisance, or creates any hazard in or has an adverse effect on the waters receiving any discharge from the treatment works.
All commercial users of an individual system constructed With grant assistance under Section 201(h) of the Act and this subsection. (See 35.918(a)(3))
(18) "Industrial wastes" means the wastewater from industrial processes, trade or business as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
(19) "Major contributing industry" means an industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that:
A. Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day;
B. Has a flow greater than five percent (5%) of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste;
C. Has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under Section 307(a) of the Federal Act; or
D. Is found by the permit issuance authority in connection with the issuance of an 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.
(20) "May" is permissive; "shall" is mandatory.
(21) "Natural outlet" means any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(22) "NPDES" permit means the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.
(23) "Operation and Maintenance Costs" means all costs associated with the operation and maintenance of wastewater collection and treatment facilities as well as costs associated with periodic equipment replacement necessary for maintaining capacity and performance of the wastewater collection and treatment facilities.
(24) "Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(25) "pH" means the reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of 7 and a hydrogen ion concentration of 10-7.
(26) "Pollutant" means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, waste- water, garbage, wastewater sludge, munition, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into the water.
(27) "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 public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch (.127 centimeters) in any dimension.
(28) "Pretreatment" means the treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into publicly owned wastewater treatment facilities.
(29) "Public sewer" means a common sewer controlled by a government agency or public agency.
(30) “Replacement” means 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.
(31) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with minor quantities of ground, storm and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
(32) "Sewer service charge" means the charge levied on users for capital cost amortization (debt service charges) and for operation and maintenance costs (user charges). Such sewer service charge includes debt service charges and user charges.
(33) "Slug" means any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen minutes more than five times the average twenty-four hour concentration or flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
(34) "Storm drain", sometimes termed "storm sewer" means a drain or sewer for conveying water, ground-water, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source.
(35) "Superintendent" means the Water Pollution Control Operator of the Village or his authorized representative.
(36) "Surcharge statement" means that sewer users outside the corporate limits will be required to pay the sewer service charges plus an additional amount to equalize capital investments and those costs which may be incurred in the future by Village residents through taxes and assessments levied only in the Village. The amount of the surcharge shall be determined at the time of the connection to the Village system.
(37) "Suspended solids" means total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering, as prescribed in "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" and referred to as nonfilter able residue.
(38) "Cooling water" means the water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, during which the only pollutant added to the water is heat.
(39) “Toxic pollutants” includes, but is not necessarily limited to aldrin- dieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, poly- chlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) and toxaphene. Pollutants included as "toxic" shall be those promulgated as such by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(40) "User charge" means the charge levied on the users of the treatment works for the cost and operation and maintenance of such works, pursuant to Section 204(b) of Title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-500) and amendments thereto.
(41) "Unpolluted water" means 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 benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
(42) "Wastewater" (sanitary water) means the spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, 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 storm water that may be present.
(43) "Wastewater facilities" means the structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
(44) "Wastewater treatment works" means 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 "water pollution control plant".
(45) "Storm water" means any flow occurring during or immediately following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom. Water originating from precipitation which is captured in roof drains and down spouts, footer and foundation tiles, ground drainage tiles and catch basins and which does not undergo any use or contamination prior to disposal. (Ord. 6-86. Passed 2-20-86.)