Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
CLARIFICATION OF WORD USAGE: "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissible.
GOVERNMENT, FEDERAL:
Administrator: The Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Federal Grant: The U.S. government participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works as provided for by Title II-Grants for Construction of Treatment Works of the Act and implementing regulations.
GOVERNMENT, LOCAL:
Approving Authority: The Superintendent of Public Works.
Ordinance: This Ordinance.
Village: The Village of Grant Park.
GOVERNMENT, STATE:
Director: The Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
State Act: The Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act of 1970.
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.
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.
SEWER TYPES AND APPURTENANCES:
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 (5') (one and five-tenths [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.
Combined Sewer: A sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater, storm, surface and groundwater drainage.
Easement: An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
Public Sewer: A sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the Village of Grant Park. It shall also include sewers within or outside the Village boundaries that serve one or more persons and ultimately discharge into the Village sanitary sewer system, even though those sewers may not have been constructed with Village funds.
Sanitary Sewer: A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial waste or a combination of both, and into which storm, surface and groundwaters or unpolluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
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.
Storm Sewer: A sewer that carries storm, surface and groundwater drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
Stormwater Runoff: That portion of the precipitation that is drained into the sewers.
TREATMENT:
Pretreatment: The treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into the wastewater treatment works.
Wastewater Treatment Works: An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "waste treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "pollution control plant".
USER TYPES:
Commercial User: Transit lodging, retail and wholesale establishments or places engaged in selling merchandise or rendering services.
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 Village representative to sample and/or measure discharges.
Industrial Users: Establishments engaged in manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials of substance into products.
Institutional/Governmental User: Schools, hospitals, churches, penal institutions and users associated with Federal, State and local government.
Residential User: All dwelling units such as houses, mobile homes, apartments and permanent multi-family dwellings.
User Class: The type of user either "residential", "commercial", "industrial" or "institutional/governmental" as defined herein.
WASTEWATER AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS:
BOD (denoting biochemical oxygen demand): The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees (20°) centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter.
Effluent Criteria: Defined in any applicable NPDES permit.
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: Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
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:
(A) Has a flow of fifty thousand (50,000) gallons or more per average work day; or
(B) Has a flow greater than ten percent (10%) of the flow carried by the Municipal system receiving the waste; or
(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 the NPDES permit to the publicly-owned treatment works receiving the waste, to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on that treatment works or upon the quality of effluent from that treatment works.
Milligrams per Liter: A unit of the concentration of water or wastewater constituent. It is one-thousandth (0.001) g of the constituent in one thousand (1,000) ml of water. It has replaced the unit formerly used commonly, parts per million, to which it is approximately equivalent, in reporting the results of water and wastewater analysis.
pH: The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration expressed by one of the procedures outlined in "Standard Methods".
ppm: Parts per million by weight.
Population Equivalent: A term used to evaluate the impact of industrial or other waste on a treatment works or stream. One population equivalent is one hundred (100) gallons of sewage per day, containing twenty two-hundredths (0.22) pounds of BOD and twenty five-hundredths (0.25) pounds of suspended solids.
Sewage: Used interchangeably with "wastewater".
Slug: Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any given period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty four (24) hour concentration or 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.
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 benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
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.
WATERCOURSE AND CONNECTIONS:
Natural Outlet: Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
Watercourse: A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
Notes
| 1 | 1. 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq. |
| 2 | 2. Pub. L. 92-500 and Pub. L. 93-243. |
| 3 | 1. S.H.A. 415 ILCS 5/11 et seq. |