Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
ACT: The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, 33 USC 1251 et seq.
ADMINISTRATOR: The Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
APPROVING AUTHORITY: The Committee on Water and Sanitary Sewers acting by and through the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Mt. Morris, or the person designated by it as their duly authorized agent or representative.
BOD (Denoting BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND): The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees centigrade (20°C), expressed in milligrams per liter.
BASIC USER CHARGE: The basic assessment levied on all users of the public sewer system.
BUILDING DRAIN: That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer or other approved point of discharge, beginning ten feet (10') (3.0 m) outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER: The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
COMBINED SEWER: A sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater, stormwater, surface water and groundwater drainage.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT: Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit.
CONTROL MANHOLE: A structure located on a site from which industrial 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.
DEBT SERVICE CHARGE: The amount to be paid each billing period for payment of interest, principal and coverage of revenue bonds outstanding and shall be computed by dividing the annual debt service by the number of users connected to the wastewater facilities.
DIRECTOR: The Chief Administrative Officer of the State of Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
EASEMENT: An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
EFFLUENT CRITERIA: Defined in any applicable "NPDES" permit.
FEDERAL GRANT: The U.S. government participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works as provided for by Title II-Grants for Construction of Treatment Works of the Act.
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 fat 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 produce.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT: Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined in this section.
INDUSTRIAL USER: For the purpose of industrial cost recovery, any nongovernmental user of publicly owned treatment works identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under the following divisions:
A. Division A - Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing.
B. Division B - Mining.
C. Division D - Manufacturing.
D. Division E - Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services.
E. Division I - Services.
A user in the divisions listed may be excluded if it is determined by the Committee on Water and Sanitary Sewers that it will introduce primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
Industrial user, for the purpose of developing the user charge system, may be a manufacturing or process facility which is engaged in a productive and profit making enterprise.
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 sanitary sewage.
INFILTRATION: The water entering a sewer system, including building drains and sewers, from the ground, through such means as, but not limited to, defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manhole walls. (Infiltration does not include and is distinguished from, inflow.)
INFILTRATION/INFLOW: The total quantity of water from both infiltration and inflow without distinguishing the source.
INFLOW: The water discharged into a sewer system, including building drains and sewers, from such sources as, but not limited to, roof leaders; cellar, yard, and area drains; foundation drains; unpolluted cooling water discharges; drains from springs and swampy areas; manhole covers, cross-connections from storm sewers, and combined sewers, catch basins, stormwater, surface runoff, street wash waters or drainage. (Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.)
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY: An industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that: a) has a flow of fifty thousand (50,000) gallons or more per average work day; b) has a flow greater than five percent (5%) of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste; c) has in its waste, a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under section 307(a) of the Act; or d) is found by the permit issuance authority, in connection with the issuance of an 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 that treatment works.
MILLIGRAMS PER LITER: A unit of the concentration of water or wastewater constituent. It is 0.001 g of the constituent in one thousand milliliters (1000 ml) 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.
NPDES PERMIT: A permit issued under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System for discharge of wastewaters to the navigable waters of the United States pursuant to section 402 of Pub.L. 92-500.
NATURAL OUTLET: Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS: All costs, direct and indirect, (other than debt service) necessary to ensure adequate wastewater treatment on a continuing basis, conforming with related Federal, State and local requirements, and assuring optimal long term facility management. (These costs include depreciation and replacement.)
ppm: Parts per million by weight.
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 in grams per liter of solution. It shall be determined by one (1) of the procedures outlined in "Standard Methods".
POPULATION EQUIVALENT: A term used to evaluate the impact of industrial or other waste on a treatment works or stream. One (1) population equivalent is one hundred (100) gallons of sewage per day, containing 0.17 pounds of BOD and 0.20 pounds of suspended solids. The impact on a treatment works is evaluated as the equivalent of the highest of three (3) parameters. Impact on a stream is the higher of the BOD/suspended solids parameters.
PRETREATMENT: The treatment of wastewater from sources before introduction into the wastewater treatment works.
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 public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch (1/2") (1.27 cm) in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER: A sewer dedicated to or provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the Village consisting of collector sewer, interceptor sewer, forcemain and pumping station. It shall also include sewers within or outside the Village boundaries that serve one (1) or more persons and ultimately discharge into the Village sanitary sewer system, even though those sewers may not have been constructed with Village funds.
REPLACEMENT: 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.
RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL USER: Non-industrial user, shall mean any user of the treatment works not classified as an industrial user or excluded as an industrial user as provided for as defined herein.
SANITARY SEWER: A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes or a combination of both, and into which stormwater, surface water and groundwaters or unpolluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE: A combination of the water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT: Any arrangement of devices, structures and equipment for treating sewage.
SEWERAGE: The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation and pumping of sewage.
SEWERAGE FUND: The principal accounting designation for all revenues received and expenses incurred in the operation of the sewerage system.
SEWERS: A pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other waste liquids, including stormwater, surface water and groundwater drainage.
SHALL/MAY: "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissible.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRY: Any industry that will contribute greater than ten percent (10%) of the design flow and/or design pollutant loading of the treatment works.
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 fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty four (24) hour concentration of flows during normal operation.
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.
STATE ACT: The Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act.
STATE GRANT: The State of Illinois participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works and provided for by the Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act and for making such grants as filed with the Secretary of the State of Illinois.
STORM SEWER: A sewer that carries stormwater, surface water and groundwater drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
STORMWATER RUNOFF: That portion of the rainfall that is drained into the sewers.
SUPERINTENDENT: The Chairperson of the Committee on Water and Sanitary Sewers of the Village or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SURCHARGE: The assessment in addition to the basic user charge (subsection 8-2-8D of this chapter) and debt service charge (subsection 8-2-8C of this chapter) which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration values established as representative of normal sewage in subsection 8-2-8A of this chapter.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS: 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 "Standard Methods".
UNPOLLUTED WATER: 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 benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
USEFUL LIFE: The estimated period during which the treatment works will be operated and shall be thirty (30) years from the date of start up of any wastewater facilities constructed with a Federal or State grant.
USER CHARGE: A charge levied on users of treatment works for the cost of operation and maintenance including replacement of such works pursuant to section 204(b) of Pub.L. 92-500 and the cost of any bond debt of such works and shall consist of both basic user charges (subsection 8-2-8D of this chapter), surcharges (subsection 8-2-8E of this chapter) and industrial charges (reserved).
USER CLASS: The type of user either "residential or commercial" or "industrial" as defined in this section.
VILLAGE: The Village of Mt. Morris and any reference to "within the Village" shall mean all territory within the perimeter of the Village of Mt. Morris boundaries.
WASTEWATER: The spent water of the Village. 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 stormwater that may be present.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES: The structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
WASTEWATER SERVICE CHARGE: The charge per month levied on all users of the wastewater facilities. The service charge shall be computed as outlined in subsection 8-2-8G of this chapter and shall consist of the total of the basic user charge, and the debt service charge and surcharge, if applicable.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS: An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "wastewater treatment plant" or "sewage treatment plant" or "pollution control plant".
WATER QUALITY STANDARDS: Defined in the Water Pollution Regulations of Illinois.
WATERCOURSE: A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (1979 Code § 7-5-1; amd. 2017 Code)