For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APPROVING AUTHORITY. The President and Board of Trustees of the village.
BASIC USER CHARGE. The basic assessment levied on all users of the public sewer system.
BASIC USER RATE. The assessment levied on all users of the sewer system based upon metered water consumption.
BOD5 (DENOTING BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five days at 20° C, expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN. That 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 (1.5 meters) 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, and including the service tap and any other appurtenances necessary for connection tot he public sewer or other place of disposal.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater, storm, surface and groundwater drainage.
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 in interior drop. The purpose of a "control manhole" is to provide access for the village representative to sample and/or measure discharges.
DEBT SERVICE CHARGE. The flat debt service rate per user to be paid each billing period for payment of interest, principal and other requirements of outstanding bonds of the village.
DEBT SERVICE RATE. The variable debt service rate per user to be paid each billing period for payment of interest, principal and other requirements of outstanding bonds of the village based upon metered water consumption.
DIRECTOR. The Director of the 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.
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 USERS. Establishments engaged in manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials of substance into products.
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 discharge 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, storm waters, surface runoff, street waters or drainage. (Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration).
INSTITUTIONAL/GOVERNMENTAL USER. Schools, churches, penal institutions, and user associated with federal, state, and local governments.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY. Any industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that: has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day; or has a flow greater than 10% of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste; or has in its waste, a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts is defined in standards issued under section 307(a) of the Federal Act; or is found by the permit issuant authority, in connection with the issuance of the 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.
MAY. Is permissible.
MILLIGRAMS PER LITER (mg/l). 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, part 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 groundwater.
NPDES PERMIT. Any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued by the Administrators or, where appropriate by the Director, after enactment of the Federal Clean Water Act to regulate the discharge of pollutants pursuant to Section 402 of the Federal Act.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS. All costs, direct and indirect (other than debt service) necessary to insure 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).
PERSON. Any and all persons, natural or artificial including any individual, firm, company, municipal, or private corporation, association, society, institution, enterprises a governmental agency or other entity.
PH. The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration expressed by one of the procedures outlined in the IEPA Division of Laboratories Manual of Laboratory Methods.
POPULATION EQUIVALENT. A term used to evaluate the impact of industrial or other waste on a treatment works or stream. One population equivalent is 100 gallons of sewage per day, containing 0.17 pounds of BOD5 and 0.20 pounds of suspended solids. The impact on a treatment works is evaluated as the equivalent of the highest of the three parameters. Impact on a stream is the higher of the BOD5 suspended solids parameters.
PPM. Parts per million by weight.
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 (½) 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 sewers, 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, 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 groundwater 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 groundwater drainage.
SEWERAGE. The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation and pumping of sewage.
SHALL. Is mandatory.
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 or flows during normal operation.
STATE ACT. The Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act of 1970.
STATE GRANT. The State of Illinois participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works as provided for by the Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act and for making such grants as filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Illinois.
STORM SEWER. A sewer that carries storm, surface and groundwater drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
STORMWATER RUNOFF. That portion of the precipitation that is drained into the sewers.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. The Superintendent of Public Works of the Village or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SURCHARGE. The assessment in addition to the basic user charge, the basic user rate and debt service charge which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration values established in § 51.146.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS). Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage, or industrial wastes and which are removable by a laboratory filtration device. Quantitative determination of suspended solids shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in the IEPA Division of Laboratories Manual of Laboratory Methods.
UNPOLLUTED WATER. Water 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 collection system and/or treatment works will be operated.
USER CHARGE. A charge levied on users of treatment works for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement.
VILLAGE. The Village of Peotone, Will County, Illinois.
WASTEWATER. The spent water of a community. 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 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 transport effluent to a watercourse.
WASTEWATER SERVICE CHARGE. The charge per quarter levied on all users of the wastewater facilities. The service charge shall be computed as outlined in § 51.146 and shall consist of the total of the Basic User Charge, the Basic User Rate, the Debt Service Charge, Debt Service Rate and a Surcharge, if applicable.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS. An arrangement of device and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge. 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 Illinois.
WATER SERVICE. That plumbing which extends from the exterior of the building served tot he public water main, including all appurtenances necessary for connection to the public water main. Components of the water service include, but are not limited to, corporation stops, goosenecks, curb stops, buffalo boxes, meter boxes and service piping.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
WATERWORKS AND SEWERAGE FUND. The principal accounting designation for all revenues received and expenses incurred in the operation of the waterworks and/or sewerage system. These revenues and expenses shall be accounted for so that water system revenues and expenses shall be recorded in the waterworks account of the waterworks and sewerage fund and revenues and expenses of the sewerage system shall be recorded in the sewerage account of the waterworks and sewerage fund.
(Ord. 89-12B, passed 12-26-89; Am. Ord. 02-24, passed 1-20-03)