ANSI: American National Standards Institute.
ASTM: American Society For Testing And Materials.
AWWA: American Water Works Association.
BUILDING SEWER: A private sewer that conveys sewage and polluted industrial wastes from a building to the public sanitary sewer.
CISPI: Cast Iron Soil Pipe Institute.
CUL-DE-SAC: A minor street having one open end and being permanently terminated at the other end by a vehicle turnaround.
DEVELOPMENT: Any construction or any installation of site improvements.
DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM: The network of water mains by which a water supply is delivered to consumers.
ENGINEER: A professional engineer registered as such in the state of Illinois.
INFILTRATION: The quantity of groundwater that leaks into a pipe through joints, porous walls, or breaks.
MAJOR STREET: A street of considerable continuity which serves or is intended to serve as a major traffic artery connecting large areas.
MINOR STREET: A street intended primarily as access to abutting properties.
OWNER: Any person having legal and equitable title to the land sought to be subdivided, developed or otherwise improved.
psi: Pounds per square inch of pressure.
psig: Pounds per square inch of gauge pressure.
PERSON: Any individual, firm, association, syndicate, corporation, trust, or any other legal entity.
PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY: A strip of public land which affords pedestrian and vehicle access to abutting private properties.
PUBLIC SEWER: A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights of connection and use, and is operated, maintained and controlled by the village.
SANITARY SEWER: A sewer that conveys sewage and polluted industrial wastes, and to which stormwater, surface drainage, groundwater or unpolluted wastewater are not intentionally admitted.
SECONDARY STREET: A street which is intended to carry traffic from minor streets to major streets and highways, including the principal entrance streets of residential subdivisions.
SEWAGE: A combination of the wastewater from residential, commercial, industrial and institutional buildings together with such groundwater infiltration and surface water inflow that may be in the sewers.
SHALL: Mandatory.
SIDEWALK: A paved walk for pedestrians in the public street right of way.
STORM SEWER: A sewer that conveys stormwater runoff and surface water drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
STORMWATER RUNOFF: That portion of precipitation which is not absorbed into the ground and which is drained from the ground surface to a natural outlet or watercourse.
STREET: A roadway for motor vehicles in the public right of way.
SUPERINTENDENT: The superintendent of public works of the village or his duly authorized deputy or representative.
VILLAGE: The village of Lake Villa, Illinois.
VILLAGE ENGINEER: The engineer duly designated or appointed by the village president and board of trustees, or his duly authorized deputy or representative.
WATER MAIN: A pressure pipe through which water supply is delivered for domestic, industrial and fire protection uses. (Ord. 2004-02-03, 2-25-2004)