As used in this chapter and Chapter 1046:
(1) "Biochemical oxygen demand" or "BOD" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five days at twenty degrees Celsius, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(2) "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from the soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, which begins five feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
(3) “Building sewer (sanitary)” means that part of the drainage system which extends from the end of the building drain and conveys its discharge, including the grinder pump and pressure sewer piping as applicable, to the public service connection or other place of disposal. For a user having more than one building on a recorded parcel of land, multiple building sewers may, upon approval of the Village Administrator or the Administrator's authorized agent convey discharges to a common on-site sewer which then discharges to a single service connection for the parcel of land.
(4) "Chemical oxygen demand" or "COD" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
(5) "Cooling water" means the water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, during which the only pollutant added to the water is heat.
(6) "Combined sewer" means a sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
(7) "Commercial unit or class" means a building or part of a building used by one commercial, private or public enterprise for uses other than as a dwelling, but not classified as an institutional or industrial unit.
(8) “Common sewer (collection system)” means the facilities used to convey wastewater from several individual structures located on the same parcel (lot).
(9) “Compatible pollutant” means BOD, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit if the publicly owned treatment works were designed to treat such pollutants, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree. Examples of such additional pollutants may include:
A. COD;
B. Total organic carbon;
C. Phosphorous and phosphorous compounds;
D. Nitrogen and nitrogen compounds; and
(10) “Contractor” means any person, group, or organization undertaking a contract under the Rules, Regulations, Standards, and Specifications of the Village of Put-in-Bay, acting directly or through a duly qualified and authorized representative.
(11) “Debt service charge” means the charge levied on users to make principal and interest payments required for the amortization of the cost of the wastewater collection and treatment facilities.
(12) “Discharge unit” means any residence, commercial establishment, industry or private or public facility generating, accumulating and/or otherwise discharging liquid waste either directly or ultimately into any of the sewer systems of the Village of Put-in-Bay.
(13) “Engineer” means the Village Engineer as designated by the Village of Put-in-Bay Council.
(14) “Easement” means an acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
(15) “Federal Act” means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Amendments of 1972 and 1977, Public Law 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.
(16) “Floatable oil” means oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
(17) “Garbage” means animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of food.
(18) “Incompatible pollutant” means any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined in subsection (8) hereof.
(19) “Industrial class” means any governmental or publicly funded user of the publicly owned treatment works not engaged in profit oriented business.
(20) “Industrial cost recovery” means recovery by the Village from industrial users of a treatment works.
(21) “Industrial users or class” means the following:
A. Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of a publicly owned treatment works which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day (gpd) of sanitary wastes and which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under one of the following divisions:
1. Division A. Agriculture, forestry, and fishing;
2. Division B. Mining;
3. Division C. Manufacturing;
4. Division D. Transportation, communications, electric, gas, and sanitary services; and
5. Division E. Services.
In determining the amount of a user's discharge, the grantee may exclude domestic wastes of discharges from sanitary conveniences.
After applying the above sanitary waste exclusion (if the grantee chooses to do so), users whose discharge in the above divisions has a volume exceeding 25,000 gpd, or the weight of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) or suspended solids (SS) equivalent to that weight found in 25,000 gpd of sanitary waste, are considered industrial users. Sanitary wastes, for purposes of this calculation of equivalency, are the wastes discharged from residential users. The strength of residential discharges is herein defined as BOD less than or equal to 300 mg/l and suspended solids less than or equal to 300 mg/l.
B. Any nongovernmental user of a publicly owned treatment works which discharges wastewater to the treatment works which contains toxic pollutants or poisonous solids, liquids or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to contaminate the sludge of any Municipal system, or to injure or to interfere with any sewage treatment process, or which constitutes a hazard to humans or animals, creates a public nuisance, or creates any hazard in or has an adverse effect on the waters receiving any discharge from the treatment works.
(22) “Industrial wastes” means the wastewater from industrial processes, trades or businesses, as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
(23) “Infiltration” means water other than wastewater that enters a sewer system (including building drains and building sewers) from the ground through such means as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manholes. Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.
(24) “Inflow” means water other than wastewater that enters a sewer system (including building drains and building sewers) from sources such as roof leaders, cellar drains, yard drains, area drains, foundation drains, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections between storm and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, storm waters, surface run-off, street wash waters, or drainage. Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.
(25) “Major contributing industry” means an industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that:
A. Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more on an average work day;
B. Has a flow greater than five percent 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 Federal 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.
(26) “May” is permissive; “shall” is mandatory.
(27) “Natural outlet” means any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(28) “NPDES permit” means the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.
(29) “Operation and maintenance” means those functions that result in expenditures during the useful life of the public treatment works, public collection system, or public service equipment/lines for materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary for managing and maintaining the public wastewater treatment system and public services to achieve the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
(30) “Operation and maintenance costs” means all costs associated with the operation and maintenance of wastewater collection and treatment facilities, as well as costs associated with periodic equipment replacement necessary for maintaining capacity and performance of the wastewater collection and treatment facilities.
(31) “Owner” means any person, individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, group, or political subdivision who is the legal owner of the real estate involved.
(32) “Person” means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(33) “pH” means the reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of 7 and a hydrogen ion concentration of 107.
(34) “Pollutant” means dredged soil, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge, munitions, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, Municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water.
(35) “Pressure control vent” means a device which is installed on a private grinder pump, private building sewer which is connected to a private grinder pump, or public force main to reduce pressure build-up within the wet well of the private grinder pumps in a low pressure sewer collection system.
(36) “Pretreatment” means the treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into publicly owned wastewater treatment facilities.
(37) “Private sewer” means a common sewer (gravity or pressure) that is not within the jurisdiction of the Village of Put-in-Bay.
(38) “Properly shredded garbage” means 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 (.127 centimeters) in any dimension.
(39) “Public sewer” means a common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public utility.
(40) “Replacement” means 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.
(41) “Residential grinder pump” means a private self-contained basin and grinder type pump which is located on a user's property and accepts domestic waste via the private gravity building sewer, grinds, and pressurizes said waste to be injected into the public sanitary sewer, being a gravity or low pressure sewer main.
(42) “Residential unit or class” means a building or part of a building used by one family, exclusively, as a place of abode.
(43) “Sanitary sewer (gravity)” means a conduit that carries liquid and water-carried wastes via conventional gravity methods from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions together with minor quantities of ground, storm, and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
(44) “Sanitary sewer (pressure)” means a conduit that carries liquid and finely shredded wastes received via small diameter low pressure methods from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, via a private pump station or private residential grinder pump, together with minor quantities of ground, storm, and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
(45) “Service connection” means a pipe or conduit located within the public right-of-way or easement boundaries which conveys wastewater from a private gravity or private pressure building sewer to the public gravity or public pressure sanitary sewer main.
(46) “Sewer” means a pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water by gravity or under pressure. Unless otherwise stated, this term shall mean a publicly owned sanitary sewer.
(47) “Sewer service charge” means the charge levied on users for capital cost amortization (debt service charges) and for operation and maintenance costs (user charges). Such sewer service charge includes debt service charges and user charges.
(48) “Slug” means 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 fifteen minutes, more than five times the average twenty-four hour concentration of flows during normal operation and adversely affects the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
(49) “Storm drain” or “storm sewer” means a drain or sewer for conveying water, ground water, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source.
(50) “Storm water” means any flow occurring during or immediately following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom. “Storm water” includes water originating from precipitation which is captured in roof drains and down spouts, footer and foundation tiles, ground drainage tiles and catch basins which does not undergo any use or contamination prior to disposal.
(51) “Superintendent” or “Utilities Superintendent.” (EDITOR'S NOTE: The position of Utilities Superintendent was repealed by implication by Ordinance 690-97, passed May 8, 1997, which established the position of Village Administrator. See Chapter 231 of these Codified Ordinances.)
(52) “Suspended solids” means the 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 is referred to as non-filterable residue.
(53) “Toxic pollutants” means, but is not necessarily be limited to, aldrindieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) and toxaphene. Pollutants included as “toxic” shall be those promulgated as such by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(54) “Unpolluted water” is 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.
(55) “User charge” is the charge levied on the users of the treatment works for the cost of operation and maintenance of such works.
(56) “Wastewater” or “sanitary water” means 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 groundwater, surface water, and storm water that may be present.
(57) “Wastewater facilities” means the structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry-away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
(58) “Wastewater treatment works” means an arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes and sludge. “Wastewater treatment works” is sometimes used synonymously with “waste treatment plant,” “wastewater treatment plant” or “water pollution control plant.”
(Ord. 1224-19. Passed 10-9-19.)