Unless the text specifically indicates otherwise the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(1) "Available frontage or frontage" means the frontage for all parcels that abut the sanitary sewer main. On corner parcels, the frontage shall be the shortest frontage that abuts a street right-of-way. Parcels, that already abut a sanitary sewer main, shall not be considered part of the available frontage.
(2) "Carbonaceous Biochemical Oxygen Demand 5 (CBOD5)" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter in which the nitrogenous bacteria has been suppressed under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees centigrade expressed in milligrams per liter.
(3) "Capacity fees" are fees assessed on a one-time basis when a customer desires to connect to the sewer system. These fees pay for capital improvement costs associated with the sewer treatment plant and collection system.
(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 COD, suspended solids, pH and E.coli coliform bacteria plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit, if the publicly owned treatment plant 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) CBOD5;
(b) Total organic carbon;
(c) Phosphorous and phosphorous compounds;
(d) Nitrogen and nitrogen compounds;
(e) Fats, oils and greases (FOG) of animal or vegetable origin except as prohibited under Section 921.02
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(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, but not classified as an institutional or industrial unit.
(8) "Consumer" means the owner or person in control of any premises supplied by or in any manner connected to a public water system.
(9) "Cooling water" means the water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, where the only pollutant added to the water is heat.
(10) "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.
(11) "Director" means the director of environmental protection or the director's duly authorized representative.
(12) "Residential unit or class" means a building or part of a building used by one family, exclusively as a place of abode.
(13) "Engineer" means the Village Engineer as designated by Council.
(14) "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.
(15) "Floatable oil" means fats, oils or grease (FOG) in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
(16) "Garbage" means the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of food.
(17) "Incompatible pollutant" means any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined in subsection (6) hereof.
(18) "Industrial class" means any governmental or publicly funded user of the publicly owned treatment works not engaged in profit oriented business.
(19) "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.
(20) "Industrial users or class" means any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of publicly owned treatment works, which discharges sanitary wastes and 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, Fishing
Division B. Mining
Division C. Manufacturing
Division D. Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services
Division E. Services.
(a) In determining the amount of a user's discharge, the grantee may exclude domestic wastes of discharge from sanitary conveniences.
(b) After applying the sanitary waste exclusion in subsection (20)(a) hereof (if grantee chooses to do so), discharges in the above divisions that exceed the weight of carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand (CBOD-5) or suspended solids (SS) of sanitary waste are considered industrial users. Sanitary wastes, for purposes of this calculation of equivalency, are the wastes discharged from residential users. The strength of residential discharges is herein defined as CBOD-5 less than or equal to 275 milligrams per liter and suspended solids less than or equal to 300 milligrams per liter. Any nongovernmental user of a publicly owned treatment works, which discharges wastewater to the treatment works that 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 interfere with any sewage treatment process, or 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 subpart. (See 35.918(a) (3).
(21) "Industrial wastes" means the wastewater from industrial processes, trade or business as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
(22) "Major contributing industry" means an industrial user of the publicly owned Treatment works that:
(a) Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more than 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 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 the 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.
(23) "May" is permissive; "shall" is mandatory.
(24) "MG/L" means milligrams per liter.
(25) "Natural outlet" means any outlet including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows into a water way, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(26) "NPDES" permit means the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.
(27) "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.
(28) "Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(29) "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
(30) "Pollutant" means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater, garbage, waste water sludge, munition, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into the water.
(31) "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) in any dimension.
(32) "Pretreatment" means the treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into publicly owned wastewater treatment facilities.
(33) "Public sewer" means a common sanitary sewer controlled by the Village of Granville.
(34) "Replacement" means expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment accessories or appurtenances that 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.
(35) "Right-of-Way" means the right to build and operate a road or utility on land belonging to another.
(36) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer that carries liquid and wastewater from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with minor quantities of ground, storm and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
(37) "Service Connection" 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.
(38) "Sewage" means wastewater after it has been used and discharged into a sewer.
(39) "Sewer Lateral" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, also called house connection
(40) "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 charges include debt service charges and user charges.
(41) "Slug" means any discharge of water or wastewater 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.
(42) "Storm drain or storm sewer" means a drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source.
(43) "Storm water" means any flow occurring 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, which do not undergo any use or contamination prior to disposal
(44) "Superintendent" means the Wastewater Treatment Superintendent of the Village or his authorized representative.
(45) "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 non-filterable residue.
(46) "Toxic pollutant" includes, but not necessarily is limited to, aldrin-dieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) and toxaphene. Pollutants included as toxic shall be those promulgated as such by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(47) "User charge" means the charge levied on the users of the treatment works for the cost of operation and maintenance of such works, pursuant to Section 204 (b)of Title 11 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-500) and amendments thereto.
(48) "Unpolluted water" means water of a quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of water quality standards and would not be benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
(49) "Village" means the Village of Granville, and any authoritative member such as the Village Manager, Utilities Director or Wastewater Superintendent.
(50) "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.
(51) "Wastewater facilities" means the structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry away and treat domestic industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
(52) "Wastewater treatment works" means an arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes and sludge. Sometimes used synonymous with "waste treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "water pollution control plant."
(Ord. 07-15. Passed 6-17-15.)