For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APPROVING AUTHORITY. The Board of Trustees of the Village of Oreana.
BOD or BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND. The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standards laboratory procedure in five days at 20°C, expressed in milligrams per liter in accordance with 40 C.F.R. part 136, as amended.
BUILDING DRAIN. The part of the lowest 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 five feet 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.
COMMERCIAL USER. 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 wastes are discharged. Where feasible, the MANHOLE shall have an interior drop. The purpose of a CONTROL MANHOLE is to provide access for the village and the Sanitary District of Decatur representative to sample and/or measure discharges.
DISTRICT. The Sanitary District of Decatur.
EASEMENT. An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
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 food.
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.
INSTITUTIONAL/GOVERNMENTAL USER. Schools, churches, penal institutions and users associated with federal, state and local governments.
INTERFERENCE. A Discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, both:
(1) Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and
(2) 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 provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent state or local regulations): § 405 of the Clean Water Act being 33 U.S.C. § 1345; the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) (including Title II, more commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) being 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 et seq.; and including state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the SWDA) being 42 U.S.C. §§ 6941 et seq., the Clean Air Act being 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401 et seq., the Toxic Substances Control Act being 15 U.S.C. §§ 2601 et seq. and the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act being 16 U.S.C. §§ 1431 et seq. and 33 U.S.C. §§ 1401 et seq.
MILLIGRAMS PER LITER. A unit of the concentration of water or wastewater constituent. It is 0.001 g of the constituent in 1,000 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.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
NPDES PERMIT. Any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued by the state’s Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the discharge of pollutants pursuant to 35 Ill. Adm. Code 309.
ORDINANCE. This chapter.
PASS THROUGH. A discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, 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).
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 in accordance with 40 C.F.R. part 136 as amended.
POTW or PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS. A treatment works, as defined by § 212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq.), owned by the SDD. This definition includes any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature that convey wastewater to the POTW treatment plant regardless of ownership, but does not include sewer, pipes and other conveyances not connected to the POTW treatment plant. The term also means SDD, which has jurisdiction over the indirect discharges to and the discharges from such a treatment works.
PRETREATMENT. The treatment of wastewaters 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 (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the village. It shall also include, sewers within or outside the village boundaries that serve one or more persons and ultimately discharge into the village sanitary, 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 useful 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 USER. All dwelling units such as houses, mobile 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 and ground waters 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 ground water drainage.
SEWERAGE. The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation and pumping of sewage.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER or SIU. Any discharger that:
(1) Is subject to a categorical pretreatment standard under 40 C.F.R. part 403;
(2) Discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day of process wastewater (excluding sanitary, non-contact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewaters);
(3) Discharges an amount constituting 5% or more of the average dry-weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the treatment plant; or
(4) Is designated as such by the POTW on the basis that the industrial user has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW’s operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement (in accordance with 40 C.F.R. § 403.8(f)(6)).
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 normal operation and shall adversely affect the performance of the village or District POTW.
STORM SEWER. A sewer that carries storm, surface and ground water drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
STORM WATER RUNOFF. The portion of the precipitation that is drained into the sewers.
SURCHARGE. The assessment in addition to the basic user charge and debt service charge, which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration values established herein.
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS or TSS. 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 40 C.F.R. part 136 as amended.
USEFUL LIFE. The estimated period during which the collection system and/or treatment works will be operated.
VILLAGE. The Village of Oreana.
WASTEWATER.
(1) The spent water of a community.
(2) From this standpoint of course, 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.
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.
(1) An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes and sludge.
(2) Sometimes used as synonymous with WASTE TREATMENT PLANT or WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT or POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT.
WATER QUALITY STANDARDS. Defined in the Water Pollution Regulations of the state, 35 Ill. Adm. Code 302.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 2011-04-19-01, passed 4-19-2011)