Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
APPLICANT, CONSUMER, CUSTOMER, DEVELOPER, OWNER, PERSON, or PROPERTY OWNER. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, group or organization using or applying to use any of the village utilities, including sanitary.
APPROVED LABORATORY PROCEDURES. The measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of water and wastes in accordance with analytical federal guidelines as established in 40 C.F.R. Part 136, or as required or approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
ASTM. The most recent standards published, updated, or amended by the American Society for Testing and Materials.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter as determined by standard laboratory procedures in five days at 20°C expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
BUILDING DRAIN. That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage system which receives the discharge from waste drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER. The sanitary sewer line extending from the building drain to the public sewer main or other place of disposal into the main sewer line owned by the village; also called the “house connection” or “lateral”.
BYPASS. The intentional diversion of waste streams from any portion of an industrial user's pretreatment/treatment facility or of the publicly-owned sewer to the treatment plans to which that sewer discharges.
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS. National Categorical Pretreatment Standards specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged or introduced into a publicly-owned treatment works (POTW) by specific industrial dischargers.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD). The amount of oxygen consumed from a chemical oxidant as determined by approved laboratory procedures and expressed in milligrams per liter.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer intended to receive both sanitary sewage and storm or surface water runoff.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE. A sample that is collected over time, formed either by continuous sampling or by mixing discrete samples.
COOLING WATERS. Water discharging from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other similar use and which shall be free from odor or oil. It shall not contain polluting materials or substances which produce BOD or suspended solids in excess of 10 mg/l of each.
COUNCIL. Shall mean the Council of the Village of Minster, Ohio.
DAILY MAXIMUM. The maximum allowable discharge of a pollutant during a calendar day. Where daily maximum limitations are expressed in units of mass, the daily discharge is the total mass discharged over the course of a 24-hour period. Where daily maximum limitations are expressed in terms of concentration, the daily discharge is the average measurement of the pollutant concentration, derived from all measurements taken during a 24-hour period or from a composite sample collected during a 24-hour period, provided that the individual aliquots were collected during average or above average production and discharge.
DEBT SERVICE CHARGE. The amount of the principal and interest due on money borrowed for the construction of improvements to the existing wastewater treatment facility. Debt service is usually expressed in annual amounts.
DELETERIOUS SUBSTANCES. Any material which may be harmful to the sewage system, treatment process, personnel or a residual product.
DISCHARGE. The addition of any pollutant to the POTW or its collection system.
DISCHARGER or INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGER or INDUSTRIAL USER. Any nonresidential user who discharges an effluent into the POTW by means of pipes, conduits, pumping stations, force mains, and all constructed devices and appliances appurtenant thereto.
EASEMENT. An acquired legal right for a specific use of land by others.
FLOATABLE OIL. Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from the wastewater after treatment in an approved pretreatment facility. Wastewater shall be considered free of floatable oil if it is properly pretreated and does not interfere with the collection or treatment process.
GARBAGE. Any solid animal and/or vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and serving of foods and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
GRAB SAMPLE. An individual sample collected in less than 15 minutes, without specific regard to flow or time, but collected during periods of average or above production and discharge.
ILLICIT OR ILLEGAL CONNECTIONS. Intentional and physical connections of storm drain tiles, roof downspouts, footer drains, or sump pump discharges of footer drainage or other uncontaminated water to the sanitary sewer system.
INCOMPATIBLE. Any wastewater that is:
(1) Deleterious to or which degrades the quantity of the POTW effluent or its sludges and residual products; or
(2) Not susceptible to treatment by biologically based treatment processes of the wastewater treatment facility; or
(3) Not removed to a substantial degree and thereby remains in the effluent discharged by the wastewater treatment facility.
INFLOW AND ILLEGAL CONNECTIONS or I AND I. Uncontaminated water that enters the sanitary sewer system from broken joints, connections, or means other than illicit or illegal connections.
INTERFERENCE. A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, both inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and therefore is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with the following statutory provision and regulations or permits issued there or under (or more stringent state or local regulations): Section 405 of the Clean Water Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) (including Title II, more commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)) and including state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the SWDA, the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substance Control Act and the Marine Protection, Research and Sanitation Act.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR. Any wastewater contributor that meets one or more of the following criteria:
(1) A discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average work day; or
(2) A flow or pollutant loading greater than 5% of the design capacity of the treatment works; or
(3) In its waste stream has toxic pollutants in toxic amounts as defined in the standards issued under Section 307(a) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, as subsequently amended; or
(4) Is found by the village to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries on the treatment facility, sludge process or upon the quality of the effluent discharged from the treatment facility.
MAY. Is permissive. See also “shall” as defined in this section.
METER. An approved device for measuring water or wastewater for billing purposes, provided at the expense of the customer, which may be owned by the village or the customer.
MICROGRAMS PER LITER or UG/L. The micrograms of substance per liter of solution, and is one thousandth of a milligram per liter or part per billion.
MILLIGRAMS PER LITTER or MG/L. The milligrams of substance per liter of solution, and is equivalent to 10-6 kilograms per liter or parts per million, assuming unit density.
MONTHLY AVERAGE. The arithmetic mean of the values for effluent samples collected during a calendar month.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD. Any and all regulations containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the United State Environmental Protection Agency or the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Clean Water Act, and amendments thereto, which apply to specific categories of industrial users.
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT. A legally binding document issued by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to the owner or operator of a wastewater treatment facility. The document contains a schedule of compliance, which requires the permit holder to achieve specific effluent limitations by a specified date. Also, it specifies monitoring and reporting requirements.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
NON-SEWERED METER. A meter installation for measuring water for billing purpose and providing water for non-sewered purposes such as cooling water, lawn sprinkling, and the like. A meter or deduct meter designated as a non-sewered meter by the Utility will be charged according to the applicable water rate schedule but will not be charged for wastewater service.
OILS AND GREASES. Any of a wide variety of organic substances which are poorly soluble in water and tend to separate from the aqueous phase.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE. Those activities and expenditures required to assure that a wastewater treatment facility operates safely, effectively and efficiently in meeting the effluent limitations and other conditions of its NPDES permit.
ORDER or COMPLIANCE ORDER. A written document issued by the Director to any discharger who fails to comply with numerical values or administrative orders issued by the village or other regulatory agencies.
ORGANIC. Any compound containing carbon.
OUTSIDE USER. Any user of the village's wastewater treatment facilities, including but not limited to the public sewers and wastewater treatment works, whose place of residence, business, industry, institution, government facility, or similar facility lies outside of the corporation limits of the village.
PASS-THROUGH. The discharge of pollutants through the POTW to the receiving waters in quantities or concentrations that, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, cause the POTW to violate any requirement of its NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
PENALTY or ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY. A charge which may be assessed by the village on dischargers who fail to comply with numerical values or administrative orders issued by the village or other regulatory agencies.
PERSON. Any individual, firm company, association, society, corporation or group.
pH. The logarithm (base 100 of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration). The concentration is the weight of hydrogen-ion in grams per liter of solution. Neutral water for example, has a pH value of 7.
POLLUTANT. Sewage, industrial waste or other waste as defined by R.C. § 6111.01(B) through (D).
POTW. A Publicly-Owned Treatment Works; is synonymous with wastewater treatment facilities, wastewater treatment plant or pollution control plant.
PRETREATMENT. The reduction of the amount of pollutants, elimination of pollutants, or alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in the wastewater to a less harmful state prior to discharging such pollutants into a POTW.
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS. The standards for incompatible pollutants introduced into the POTW as set forth in regulations issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency or the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, and the village pursuant to the Clean Water Act and all amendments thereto.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. 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 sanitary sewers, with no particles greater than three-eighths of an inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A common sewer including storm, sanitary or a combined sewer that is owned and maintained by the village.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer that is designed to carry wastewater and to which storm, surface and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SEVERE PROPERTY DAMAGE. Substantial physical damage to property, damage to the pretreatment facilities which causes them to be inoperable, or substantial and permanent loss of natural resources which can reasonably be expected to occur in the absence of a bypass. SEVERE PROPERTY DAMAGE does not mean economic loss caused by delays in production.
SEWAGE. Also known as wastewater. It is a combination of any and all water-carried waste from residence, business, industrial plants and institutions.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM. All of the facilities which carry sanitary sewage and/or industrial waste or other polluted wastewaters to the wastewater treatment facility. A sewerage system includes the collection systems, mains, trunk lines, force mains and pumping facilities as well as the treatment facility
SHALL. Is mandatory. See also “may” as defined in this section.
SLUG. Is characterized as any pollutant released, including oxygen-demanding pollutants, (BOD, and the like) or suspended solids, as a single extraordinary discharge episode of such volume or concentration as to cause interference to, or pass-through, and/or reduce the treatment efficiency of the POTW.
STANDARD METHODS. The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the most recent edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage and Industrial Wastes, published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Federation of Sewage and Industrial Wastes Association.
STORM SEWER. A sewer for conveying water or groundwater, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source, and is not intended to carry sanitary sewage, or polluted industrial or other wastewaters.
SURCHARGE. An additional charge or fee which may be imposed upon the dischargers which is intended to recover the additional costs to the POTW associated with treating “extra strength” discharges, and are not penalties.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. The total suspended matter that either (a) floats on the surface of; or (b) is in suspension in water, wastewater, or other liquid and that is removable by laboratory filtering using approved laboratory procedures.
TREATMENT PARAMETER. A fundamental characteristic of sewage around which treatment is designed, such as, but not limited to, flow, BOD and suspended solids.
TOXIC. Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the United State Environmental Protection Agency or under the provisions of the Clean Water Act or other federal statutes as revised, amended, or updated.
UNPOLLUTED WATERS. Any water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria specified in the village's NPDES permit or water that would not cause a violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities.
UPSET. An exceptional incident in which a discharger unintentionally and temporarily is in a state of noncompliance with the standards set forth in this chapter due to factors beyond the reasonable control of the discharger, and excludes noncompliance to the extent caused by operational error, improperly designed treatment facilities, inadequate treatment facilities, lack of preventative maintenance or careless or improper operation thereof.
USER. Any person, business, industry or contracting entity discharging liquid-carrying wastes, waste, or liquid into any sanitary sewer, combined sewer, or ditch that is a tributary to the village's wastewater treatment facilities.
USER CHARGE. Includes that total amount of each customer's invoice for wastewater collection and treatment services. Included in such USER CHARGES are debt service, operation and maintenance, and replacement costs.
UTILITY. The Wastewater Treatment Department of the Village of Minster, Ohio.
VILLAGE. The Village of Minster.
WASTEWATER. Industrial waste or sewage or any other liquid waste, including that which may be unintentionally combined with any groundwater, surface water or stormwater that may be discharged to the POTW.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES. The structures, equipment and process required to collect, transport, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
WATERCOURSE. A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water either continuously or intermittently.
WEEKLY AVERAGE. The arithmetic mean of the value for effluent samples collected during a seven-day period.
(Ord. 04-11-3, § 100, passed 6-7-05)