Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
(a) “Biochemical 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 reserves the discharge from the soil, waste, and other drainage pipe inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, which begins five (5) feet 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 a “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 pollutants, 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, and (e) fats, oils, and greases of animal or vegetable origin except as prohibited under Section 921.02.
(g) “Commercial unit” or “Commercial Class” shall mean a building or part of a building used by one commercial, private, or public enterprise for use(s) other than as a dwelling, but not classified as an institutional or industrial unit.
(h) “Debt Service Charge” shall mean the charges levied on users to make principal and interest payments required for the amortization of the cost of the wastewater collection and treatment facilities.
(i) “Discharge unit” shall mean 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 of Luckey.
(j) “Residential unit” or “Residential class” shall mean a principal family residence or habitation classified as a single family, multi-family, or apartment dwelling that discharges domestic sanitary wastewater into the public wastewater treatment system, works, and facility.
(k) “Engineer” shall mean the Village Engineer as designated by the Village of Luckey Council.
(l) “Federal Act” shall mean the Federal Water Pollution Contract Act Amendments of 1972 and 1977, Public Law 92-500, and any amendments thereof; as well as any guidelines, limitations, and standards and promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
(m) “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.
(n) “Garbage” shall mean the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and serving of food.
(o) “Incompatible pollutant” shall mean any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined in subsection (f) hereof.
(p) “Domestic Sanitary Wastewater” shall mean a wastewater discharge having the average characteristics equivalent to 250 mg/l BOD and 250 mg/l suspended solids concentrations.
(q) “Industrial users” or “Industrial class” shall mean any non-governmental, 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 C. Manufacturing
Division D. Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, and Sanitary Services.
Division I. Services Industrial shall include manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into other products.
These activities occur in establishments usually described as plants, factories, or mills and characteristically use power driven machines and material handling equipment.
A. In determining the amount of a user’s discharge, the grantee may exclude domestic wastes of discharges from sanitary conveniences.
B. After applying the sanitary waste exclusion in subparagraph A of this subsection (q) hereof (if the Village choose 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 equal to the definition set forth in this section. The strength of residential discharges is herein defined as BOD5 less than or equal to 250 mg per liter and suspended solids less than or equal to 250 mg per liter.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, “industrial User’ or “Industrial Class” shall also include any non-governmental 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 or creates a public nuisance or creates any hazard in or has an adverse effect on the waters receiving any discharge from the treatment works.
(r) “Industrial wastes” shall means the wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or business, as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
(s) “Major contributing industry” shall mean an industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that:
A. Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day; or
B. Has a flow greater than five (5) percent of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste; or
C. Has in its waste toxic pollutant(s) 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 quantity of effluent from that treatment works.
(t) “May” is permissive; “Shall” is mandatory.
(u) “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.
(v) “NPDES” permit shall mean the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.
(w) “Operation, Maintenance, and Replacement Costs” shall mean all costs associated with the operation, maintenance, and replacement 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.
(x) “Person” shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
(y) “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-.
(z) “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 discharge into the water.
(aa) “Properly 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.
(bb) “Pretreatment” shall mean the treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into publicly owned wastewater treatment facilities.
(cc) “Public sewer” shall mean a common sewer controlled by a government agency or public utility.
(dd) “Replacement” shall mean 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.
(ee) “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.
(ff) Sewer Service Charge” shall mean the charge levied on users for capital cost amortization (debt service charges) and for operation, maintenance, and replacement costs (user charges). Such sewer service charge includes debt service charges and user charges.
(gg) “Slug” shall mean any discharge of water or wastewater which in the concentration of any given constituent, or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration of flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the collection systems and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
(hh) “Storm drain” (sometimes termed “storm sewer”) shall mean a drain or sewer for conveying water, ground water, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source.
(ii) “Superintendent” shall mean the Village Administrator or the Water Pollution Control Operator of the Village of Luckey or other authorized representative.
(jj) “Suspended solids” shall mean total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is suspended 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.
(kk) “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.
(ll) “Connection Fee” means the charge levied by the Village on new users connecting to the Village sanitary sewer system, which is charged to maintain equitable capital recovery amounts for use of the sewer system by new connections.
(mm) “Toxic pollutants” shall include but not necessarily be limited to, aldrindieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and toxaphene. Pollutants included as “toxic” shall be those promulgated as such by the United States Environmental Protection Agency .
(nn) “User Charge” is the charge levied on the users of the treatment works for the cost of operation, maintenance, and replacement of such works, pursuant to Section 204(b) of Title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (Public law 92500) and amendments thereto.
(oo) “Unpolluted water” is 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 benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
(pp) “Wastewater” (Sanitary water) 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 ground water, surface water, and storm water that may be present.
(qq) “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.
(rr) “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”.
(ss) “Storm water” means any flow occurring during or immediately following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom. It also means 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.
(tt) “Institutional unit” or Institutional class” shall mean hospitals, nursing homes, schools; and Village, County, State, or Federal Buildings or facilities not engaged in profit-oriented businesses that discharge wastewater into the public wastewater treatment system, works, and facility.
(uu) Septic tank” shall mean a precast concrete or approved plastic tank formerly located on or used in building sewers within the Village, which shall be now prohibited in the Village upon enactment of this chapter.
(vv) Where the context requires, singular words shall be read as plural and gender based words shall be deemed interchangeable.
(Ord. 686. Passed 12-19-07.)