(a) "Q (n)" means, in theory, a flow that should occur once in (n) years.
(b) "1 Ft3" means 7.48 gallons.
(c) “1(n)” means, in theory, an intensity of rain that should occur in (n) years (inches/hour) .
(d) "Appeal" means the process for which an applicant may apply for rate reconsideration if the total impervious area is disputed with the Village.
(e) "Acre" means 43,560 square feet
(f) "Appeals Board" The Appeals Board shall be Village's Service/Utilities Committee, and shall rule on any appeals filed for Storm Water issues.
(g) "Base Rate" means the standard single-family or two-family rate. This rate is equal to the amount charged for one (1) "ERU".
(h) "Construction" means the erection, building, acquisition, alteration, reconstruction, improvement, or extension of storm water facilities; preliminary planning to determine the economic and engineering feasibility of storm water facilities; the engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal, and economic investigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures, and other action necessary in the construction of storm water facilities; and the inspection and supervision of the construction of storm water facilities.
(i) "Credit". means an on-going (as long as the various circumstances which produced the credit have not changed) reduction in the Storm Water Utility charge given for certain qualifying activities which reduced either the impact of increased Storm water runoff or reduces the Village’s costs of providing Storm water facilities.
(j) "Detention" means storage of drainage for a short period of time and then release of the same at a controlled rate. The storage area may remain dry during non-drainage periods.
(k) "Detention Facility" means a facility which, by means of a single control point, provides temporary storage of storm water runoff in ponds, parking lots, depressed areas, buried underground vaults or tanks, etc., for future release, and is used to delay and attenuate flow.
(l) "Director" The Village Administrator shall serve as the director of the Village of Monroeville Storm Water Utility.
(m) "Equivalent Residential Unit" (ERU) is a value equal to 4,200 square feet of measured impervious area and is equal to the average amount of impervious area of typical single family residential properties within the Village.
(n) "Fee" means a charge established under this chapter and levied on owners or users of parcels to fund the costs of storm water management and of operating, maintaining, and improving the storm water system within the Village. The storm water fees are in addition to any other fee that the Village has the right to charge under any other rule or regulation of the Village.
(o) "Flow (Q)" means the volume of liquids traveling through a vessel, such as pipe, open ditch or orifice, per unit time, such as seconds.
(p) “Impervious area” means any area that has been paved, stoned, and/or covered with buildings and materials which include, but are not limited to, concrete, asphalt, rooftop, blacktop, gravel, and other materials or artificially composted materials so as to produce in the judgment of the Director a non- pervious surface.
(q) "Multi-Family" means any residential building and/or property holding more than two dwelling units.
(r) "Orifice" means a device that controls the inlet and outlet of flow.
(s) "Public Storm Water Open Channel" means all open channels which convey, in part or in whole, Storm water, and are owned, operated, or maintained by the Village or other public agency; or a Storm water open channel which has a permanent drainage/storm water easement owned by the Village or other public agency and drains an area which includes Village owned property or right-of-way. A public storm water open channel does not include roadside ditches which convey only immediate right-of-way drainage.
(t) “Residential property” means all single family and two-family properties within the Village. Such properties may incorporate a home business or day-care consistent with all other Village ordinances and regulations and other applicable laws.
(u) "Retention" means storage areas that maintain a planned permanent level of water for a considerable length of time for aesthetic, agriculture, consumptive, public safety or other uses, released at a controlled rate.
(v) "Storm Sewer" means a sewer which carries Storm water, surface runoff, street wash waters, and drainage, but which excludes sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, other than industrial cooling waters.
(w) "Square Footage of Impervious Area" means, for the purpose of assigning an appropriate number of ERU's to a parcel of real property, the square footage of all of the impervious area using the outside boundary dimensions of the impervious area to include the total enclosed square footage, without regard to topographic features of the enclosed area.
(x) "Storm water" means storm water runoff, snow melt runoff, and surface runoff and drainage.
(y) "Storm Sewer Fund" means the established enterprise fund created to operate, maintain, and improve the Village's Storm water system
(z) “Storm" Water Facilities” means various Storm water drainage and works that may include but are not necessarily limited to inlets, pipes, pumping stations, conduits, manholes, energy dissipation structures, channels, outlets, retention/detention basins, and other structural components.
(aa) "Storm Water System" means all man-made facilities, structures, and natural watercourses owned by the Village, or over which the Village has jurisdiction by law to operate or maintain, used for collection and conducting storm water to, through, and from drainage areas to the points of final outlet including, but not limited to, any and all of the following: conduits, appurtenant features, canals, creeks, catch basins, ditches, streams, gulches, gullies, flumes, culverts, siphons, streets, curbs, gutters, dams, flood-walls, levees, retention or detention facilities, rivers, public storm-water open channels and pumping stations.
(Ord. 2008-37. Passed 1-13-09.)