For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AVAILABLE PUBLIC SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM. Any portion of the village wastewater collection system located in a right-of-way, easement, street, road, highway, or other public or private way, which crosses, adjoins, abuts, or is contiguous to the realty involved, and passes not more than 300 feet at the nearest point upon which the building is located from which sanitary sewage originates.
BOD. The biochemical oxygen demand which is the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure five days at 20ºC, expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN. The part of the lowest horizontal piping of 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 outside the inner face of the building walls.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the public sewer of other places of disposal.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage
COMMERCIAL USER. Any establishment being involved in a commercial enterprise, business or service which based on a determination by the local unit discharges primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. A substance amenable to treatment in a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant such as biochemical oxygen demand, 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 pollutant to a substantial degree. (Examples of such additional pollutants may include chemical oxygen demand, total organic carbon, phosphorous and phosphorus compounds, nitrogen compounds, fats, oils and greases of animal or vegetable origin.)
CONNECTION CHARGE (TAP-IN FEE). The charge assessed the user of the system for connection to the system.
DIRECT CONNECTION. Any direct or immediate connection to the system.
EQUIVALENT UNIT FACTOR or EQUIVALENT UNIT. The factor representing a ratio of the estimated sewage used by such user class to the normal single-family residential user.
FEDERAL GRANT. A grant in aid of the construction of the wastewater collection, transportation and the treatment works provided under Pub. Law No. 92-500.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparations, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY. A county, city, village, township, authority or other units of government.
IMPROVED PROPERTY OR IMPROVED LAND. Any real estate or land on which is located a structure in which sanitary sewage originates.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant.
INDIRECT CONNECTION. Any direct or immediate connection to any part of the system which is constructed by persons other than the local units and/or by other than public monies (e.g., subdivision and mobile home park sanitary sewers).
INDUSTRIAL COST RECOVERY SYSTEM. The system whereby the local unit recovers from industrial users of the system that portion of the rent amount allocable to the construction of the facilities from such users pursuant to 40 C.F.R. § 35.928.
INDUSTRIAL USER. Any manufacturing or processing facility that discharger’s industrial waste to the system. More specifically, it means any nongovernmental user of the system identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented under the following divisions:
(1) Division A, Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing;
(2) Division B, Mining;
(3) Division D, Manufacturing;
(4) Division E, Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services; and
(5) Division I, Services.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE. The wastewater discharges from industrial, trade or business process, as distinct from their employees’ domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
LATERAL. The portion of the public sewer which projects from the main line of the public sewer to the adjoining or abutting property lines and to which the building sewer is connected.
LOCAL UNIT. The Village of Pewamo.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY. An industrial water of the publicly owned sewage works that:
(1) Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day;
(2) Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste;
(3) Has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under § 307(a) of the Water Pollution Control Act, being 33 U.S.C. § 1317(a); or
(4) Is found by the permit issuance authority in connection with the issuance of an NPDES permit to the publicly owned sewage works receiving the waste, to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the sewage works or upon the quality of effluent from the sewage works.
MAY or SHOULD. The actions referred to are permissive.
MULTI-FAMILY DWELLING. A residence in which more than one family resides.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body or surface of ground water.
NPDES PERMIT. A permit issued pursuant to the National Pollution Elimination System prescribed in the Water Pollution Control Act.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE (O&M). An effort required to operate and maintain, including the cost of replacement, the wastewater collection, transportation and treatment system consistent with insuring adequate treatment of wastewater to produce an effluent in compliance with the NPDES permit and other applicable county, state and federal regulations.
O&M CHARGE. The charge assessed user of the system for the cost of operation and maintenance (including the cost of replacement) of the system pursuant to § 204b of Pub. Law No. 92-500, being 33 U.S.C. §§ 121284.
ORDINARY STRENGTH DOMESTIC WASTE. Sewage that is collected from dwelling units, commercial buildings and institutions of the community. It is primarily spent water from building water supply, to which have been added the waste material of bathroom, kitchen and laundry. The strength of ordinary domestic waste as measured in commonly used parameters is typically 250 to 300 mg/l of biochemical oxygen demand and 300 to 350 mg/l of suspended solids.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, group or corporation.
pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such 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 in any dimension.
PROPERTY OWNER. The person or persons having legal title to the premises according to the local unit’s tax records and shall include, in the case of a land contract sale, the land contract purchaser or purchasers, provided the local unit has been provided a copy of said land contract.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer main located in a public street right-of-way in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and which sewer is owned and/or controlled by the local units.
REPLACEMENT. The obtaining and installing of any equipment, accessories and appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the system to maintain the capacity and performance for which such system was designed and constructed.
RESIDENTIAL USER. A user of the system whose premises or building is used primarily as a residence for one or more persons, including dwelling units such as detached, semi-detached, row houses, mobile homes, apartments or permanent multi-family dwellings. Transient lodging is not included, as it is considered commercial.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE. A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground waters as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SHALL. The action referred to is mandatory.
SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING. A residence in which only one family resides.
SLUG. Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial wastes 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.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN. A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial waste other than unpolluted cooling water.
STRUCTURE IN WHICH SANITARY SEWAGE ORIGINATES. A building or structure in which toilet, kitchen, laundry, bathing or other facilities, which generate water-carried sanitary sewage, are used or are available for use for household, commercial, industrial or other purposes.
SUPERINTENDENT. The Sewer Board of the district or its authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
USER CLASS. The kind of water connected to sanitary sewers, including but not limited to residential, commercial and industrial.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ACT (PUB. LAW NO. 92-500). The Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, being Pub. Law No. 92-500 (33 U.S.C. § 1235 et seq.) of the United States of America, which was adopted by the 92nd Congress on October 18, 1972.
(Ord. 2009-03, passed 6-8-2009)