For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTHORITY. The Village of Pemberville acting through its designated representative for all areas included in the respective sewer district tributary to the Authority’s WWTP.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD). 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 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, beginning five feet (one and one-half meters) outside the inner face of the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, also called HOUSE CONNECTION.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
COMMERCIAL USER. Any aggregation of space, office, laundry, restaurant, stores, tavern, shops, and other like units, which is equipped with one or more water fixtures draining into the wastewater disposal system, separate and distinct from other users of service. In office buildings or other premises containing more than one tenant, only those tenants shall be classified as users of service who occupy space equipped with a distinct opening or fixture or set of fixtures for the use of water separately from other tenants and with waste draining into the water disposal.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. Include BOD, suspended solids, pH, and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit if the publicly owned treatment works was designed to treat such pollutants, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree. Examples of such additional pollutants may include: COD; total organic carbon; phosphorus and phosphorus compounds; nitrogen and nitrogen compounds; fats, oils, and greases of animal or vegetable origin except as prohibited under § 51.38.
DEBT SERVICE CHARGES. Charges resulting from the capital investment in wastewater system consisting of the annual principal and interest payments and other amounts required in connection with the issuance and sale of bonds to provide the funds for construction.
ENGINEER. The consulting engineer designated by the Village Council.
FEDERAL ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, Pub. Law No. 92-500, and any amendments thereto; as well as any guidelines, limitations, and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to 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.
GARBAGE. The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and serving of food.
GOVERNMENT USER. Any user discharging wastewater from premises utilized by public political units, including federal, state, county, and Authority units.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined above.
INDUSTRIAL USER. A person who discharges to the Authority’s wastewater disposal system liquid, solid, or gaseous wastes resulting from the processes employed in industrial or manufacturing activities, or from the development, recovering, or processing of any natural resource. INDUSTRIAL USERS are identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, under Divisions A, B, D, E, and I.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or business as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
INSTITUTIONAL USER. Any person discharging wastewater from premises serving educational, social, or eleemosynary purposes, including, but not limited to, private schools, hospitals, nursing homes, churches, and charitable organizations.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY. Industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that: has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day; has a flow greater than 5% of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste; has in its waste, a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under § 307(a) of the Federal Act; or 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 the treatment works.
MAY. Is permissive.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water.
NORMAL DOMESTIC SEWAGE. Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than 300 mg/l and a suspended solid concentration of not more than 300 mg/l and discharged principally from dwellings such as residences, apartments, trailers, and the like.
NPDES PERMIT. The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Service Permit.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE. The current, reasonable, and necessary costs of operation and maintenance of the wastewater disposal system, paid or incurred, determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, including replacement costs, but excluding payments of principal and of interest on obligations issued to finance the costs of acquisition and construction of the treatment works.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
pH. The reciprocal of the logarithm 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 and a hydrogen ion concentration of 10.
POLLUTANT. Dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge, munition, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water.
PRETREATMENT. The treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into publicly owned wastewater treatment facilities.
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 common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or general utility.
REPLACEMENT. Any 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. Also known as EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT COSTS.
RESIDENTIAL USER. Any aggregation of space or area occupied as a residence and generating domestic wastewater. In multi-use premises, only those divisions of the building utilized as domicile will be considered RESIDENTIAL USERS.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions together with minor quantities of ground, storm, and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
SEWER SERVICE CHARGE. An imposed charge upon all users receiving services from the Authority’s sewage disposal system in a total amount sufficient to pay the costs of the system. SEWER SERVICE CHARGES consist of a debt service charge, an operation and maintenance charge, and a surcharge (if applicable).
SHALL. Is mandatory.
SLUG. Any discharge of water or wastewater 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 and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
STORM DRAIN (STORM SEWER). A drain or sewer for conveying water, ground water, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source.
SUPERINTENDENT. The Water Pollution Control Operator of the Village of Pemberville or his or her authorized representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and referred to as NONFILTERABLE RESIDUE.
TOXIC POLLUTANTS. Include, but not necessarily be limited to, aldrin-dieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and toxaphene. Pollutants included as TOXIC shall be those promulgated as such by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
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 benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
USER. Any property upon which an on-lot system has been constructed and is available for use, whether or not it is actually connected to the building drain.
USER CHARGE. The portion of the total wastewater service charge which is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation, maintenance, and replacement of the wastewater treatment works.
WASTEWATER. The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, 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 dispose of the effluent.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS. An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with WASTE TREATMENT PLANT, WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, or WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT.
(Ord. 1121, passed 11-18-1997)