Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(a) “Biochemical oxygen demand” (BOD) shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at 20 degrees C, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(b) “Building drain” shall mean 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, beginning five (5) feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
(c) “Building sewer” shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, also called house connection.
(d) “Chemical oxygen demand” (COD) shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
(e) “Combined sewer” shall mean a sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
(f) “Compatible pollutant” shall mean 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:
(1) COD;
(2) Total organic carbons;
(3) Phosphorous and phosphorous compounds;
(4) Nitrogen and nitrogen compounds;
(5) Fats, oils, and greases of animal or vegetable origin except as prohibited under Section 921.15
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(g) “Debt service charge” shall mean 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.
(h) “Engineer” shall mean the consulting engineer designated by the Council of the Village of Haskins.
(i) “Federal Act” shall mean the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, Public Law 92-500, Clean Water Act (33 USC 1251 et seq.) and any amendments thereto; as well as any guidelines; limitations and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
(j) “Floatable oil” is oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
(k) “Garbage” shall mean the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of food.
(l) “Incompatible pollutant” shall mean any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined above.
(m) “Industrial cost recovery” shall mean 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).
(n) “Industrial User” shall mean any non-governmental user of the Village treatment works identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented under the following divisions:
(1) Division A. Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing.
(2) Division B. Mining.
(3) Division D. Manufacturing.
(4) Division E. Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, and Sanitary Services.
(5) Division I. Services. A user in the Divisions listed may be excluded if it is determined that is will introduce primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(o) “Industrial wastes” shall mean the wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or business as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
(p) “Major contributing industry” shall mean an industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that:
(1) Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more than average work day;
(2) Has a flow greater than five percent (5%) of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste;
(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 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.
(q) “May” is permissive; “shall” is mandatory.
(r) “Natural outlet” shall mean any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water.
(s) “NPDES” permit shall mean the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.
(t) “Operations and maintenance costs” shall mean 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.
(u) “Person” shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(v) “pH” shall mean 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.
(w) “Pollutant” shall mean 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.
(x) “Property shredded garbage” shall mean 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 ½ inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
(y) “Pretreatment” shall mean the treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into publicly owned wastewater treatment facilities.
(z) “Public sewer” shall mean a common sewer controlled by a government agency or public utility.
(aa) “Replacement” shall mean expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works are designed and constructed. The term “operation and maintenance” includes replacement.
(bb) “Sanitary sewer” shall mean 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.
(cc) “Sewer service charge” shall mean 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.
(dd) “Slug” shall mean any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds from any 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 and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
(ee) “Storm sewer” (sometimes termed “storm drain”) shall mean a drain or sewer for conveying water, ground-water, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source.
(ff) “Superintendent” shall mean the Water Pollution Control Operator of the Village of Haskins or his authorized representative.
(gg) “Surcharge statement” Sewer users outside the corporate limits will be required to pay the basic user charges plus an additional amount for sewer system costs previously incurred 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.
(hh) “Suspended solids” shall mean 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 nonfilterable residue.
(ii) “Toxic pollutants” shall include but not necessarily be limited to aldrindieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, poly-cholorinted biphenyls (PCB’s) and toxaphene. Pollutants included as “toxic” shall be those promulgated as such by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(jj) “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).
(kk) “Unpolluted water” is water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criterial in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefitted by discharging to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
(ll) “Wastewater” shall mean 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 stormwater that may be present.
(mm) “Wastewater facilities” shall mean the structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
(nn) “Wastewater treatment works” shall mean 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.” (Ord. 386-1997. Passed 12-15-97.)