(A) For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning. Further, when used in this chapter, the word SHALL is mandatory; MAY is permissible.
ADMINISTRATOR. The Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
BOD (denoting BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20°C, expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN. The part of the lowest piping of a building drainage system within five feet outside of an exterior wall which receives the discharge from soil pipes, waste pipes and floor drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer or other approved point of discharge, beginning five feet outside of the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the public sanitary sewer or other place of disposal.
CAPACITY CONNECTION FEE. The fee due and payable from customer at time of start of service to account for the anticipated usage of customer of the village’s wastewater treatment and conveyance facilities. The capacity connection fee shall also be due and payable from customer whenever a change of use occurs on the premises which results in an increase of sue by the customer of the village’s facilities.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater, storm, surface and groundwater drainage.
COMMERCIAL USER. Includes 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 or commercial wastes are discharged. Where feasible, the manhole shall have an interior drop. The purpose of a CONTROL MANHOLE is to provide access for a village representative to sample and/or measure discharges.
CUSTOMER, CONSUMER. The party contracting for wastewater service to a property as herein classified and a separate contract shall be required for each property described as follows:
(1) A building under one roof owned by one party and occupied by one person or family as a residence;
(2) A building under one roof owned by one party and occupied by one person, firm or corporation as one business;
(3) A combination of buildings in one common enclosure owned by one party and occupied by one person or family as a residence;
(4) A combination of buildings in one common enclosure owned by one party and occupied by one person, firm or corporation as one business;
(5) The one side of a double house or duplex having a solid vertical partition wall;
(6) A building owned by one party containing more than one apartment;
(7) A building owned by one party and having a number of offices or business spaces which are rented to tenants using in common, one or more means of entrance;
(8) A single lot, park or playground;
(9) Each house in a row of houses; or
(10) A single apartment or unit in a building of multiple dwelling units.
(11) A single retail or commercial business space within a building of multiple commercial spaces owned by one party.
CUSTOMER’S SERVICE LINE. A pipe with appurtenances installed, owned and maintained by the owner of a premises between the sanitary sewer service connection to the village’s sanitary sewer and the structure or other point of service on the owner’s premises as described in the application for wastewater service connection.
DIRECTOR. The Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
EASEMENT. An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
EFFLUENT CRITERIA. Criteria for the content of waste water as defined in any applicable NPDES permit.
FEDERAL ACT. The Federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. §§ 466 et seq.) as amended (Pub. L. No. 95-217).
FEDERAL GRANT. The U.S. government participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works as provided for by Subchapter II, Grants for Construction of Treatment Works of the Act and implementing regulations.
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 OIL 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 food.
IDM (INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN MANUAL). The Manual of design requirements and construction procedures required by the Village of Mahomet intended to provide a uniform design criteria for installation of public infrastructure.
IDPH (ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH). The Agency of the State of Illinois, any divisions thereof or successors thereto, authorized by present and subsequent acts of the legislature to regulate and control matters with respect to the implementation, management, and operation of private wastewater facilities.
IEPA (ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY). The agency or agencies of the state, any divisions thereof or successors thereto, authorized by present and subsequent acts of the legislature thereof to regulate and control matters in respect to the environment, and particularly in respect to the management, maintenance and operations of the village’s wastewater treatment and collection facilities.
INDUSTRIAL USERS. Includes establishments engaged in manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials of substance into products.
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 domestic sanitary sewage.
INSTITUTIONAL/GOVERNMENTAL USER. Includes schools, churches, penal institutions, and users associated with federal, state and local governments.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY. An industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that:
(1) Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day;
(2) Has a flow greater than 10% of the flow carried by the municipal systems receiving the waste;
(3) Has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under § 307(a) of the Federal Act; or
(4) Is found by the permit issuant 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 the treatment works.
MILLIGRAMS PER LITER. A unit of the concentration of water or wastewater constituent. It is 0.001 grams of the constituent in 1,000 milliliters 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.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body or surface or groundwater.
NPDES (NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM) PERMIT. Any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued by the Administrator, or where appropriate by the Director, after enactment of the Federal Clean Water Act to regulate the discharge of pollutants pursuant to the § 402 of the Federal Act.
OWNER. Whenever the same appears herein, means the person, firm, corporation or association having the sole ownership and interest in any premises which is or is about to be supplied with wastewater service by the village, and the word OWNERS means all so interested.
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.
pH. The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration expressed by one of the procedures outlined in the IEPA Division of Laboratories Manual of Laboratory Methods.
POPULATION EQUIVALENCY. A term used to evaluate the impact of industrial or other waste on a treatment works or stream. One population equivalent is 100 gallons of sewage per day, containing 0.17 pounds of BOD and 0.20 pounds of suspended solids.
PPM. Parts per million, by weight.
PRETREATMENT. The treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into the public wastewater collection and treatment works.
PRIVATE SANITARY SEWER. A sewer line owned and operated by an individual property owner intended to provide a connection from a property to the public sanitary sewer which is utilized for the purposes of wastewater disposal.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to the 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.
PUBLIC SANITARY SEWER. A sewer owned and operated by the village constructed for the purpose of conveying wastewater to the village wastewater treatment facilities from multiple properties.
RESIDENTIAL USER. All dwelling units such as houses, mobile homes, modular homes, apartments and permanent multi-family dwellings.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes or a combination of both, and into which storm, surface water and ground water or polluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE. Used interchangeably with WASTEWATER.
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.
SLUG. Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration of flows during normal operation.
STATE ACT. The Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act of 1970, being ILCS Ch. 30, Act 405.
STATE GRANT. The state 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 Illinois.
STORM DRAIN. A sewer that carries storm, surface and groundwater drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
STORMWATER RUNOFF. The portion of the precipitation that is drained into the storm drains.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS). 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 the IEPA Division of Laboratories Manual of Laboratory Methods.
UNPOLLUTED WATER. Water 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.
USEPA (UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY). An agency of the federal government of the United States which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress.
USER CLASS. The type of user: residential, institutional/governmental, commercial or industrial as defined herein.
VILLAGE. The Village of Mahomet, Champaign County, Illinois.
VILLAGE ADMINISTRATOR. The person appointed by the President of the Board of Trustees to enforce the provisions of this Chapter. The Village Administrator may designate other village employees to act on his/her behalf.
WASTEWATER. The spent water of a community. 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.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES. The structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and transport effluent to a watercourse.
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.
WATER QUALITY STANDARDS. As defined in the Water Pollution Regulations of the state.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 18-04-01, passed 4-24-2018)