(A) Abbreviations. The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings.
BOD | Biochemical Oxygen Demand |
CFR | Code of Federal Regulations |
COD | Chemical Oxygen Demand |
EPA | United States Environmental Protection Agency |
gpd | gallons per day |
mg/1 | milligrams per liter |
NPDES | National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System |
POTW | Publicly Owned Treatment Works |
RCRA | Resource Conservation and Recovery Act |
SIC | Standard Industrial Classification |
SWDA | Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 et seq. |
TSS | Total Suspended Solids |
U.S.C. | United States Code |
(B) Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACT or THE ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq.
ADMINISTRATOR. The administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY. The Director in a NPDES State with an approved pretreatment program and the appropriate regional administrator in a non-NPDES state or NPDES state without an approved state pretreatment program.
APPROVED POTW PRETREATMENTT PROGRAM. A pretreatment program as defined in the act which has received the approval of the State Environmental Protection Agency or the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
APPROVING AUTHORITY. The Director of Utilities and Engineering.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE USER.
(a) If the user is a corporation:
1. The president, secretary, treasurer or a vice president of the corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any other person who performs similar policy or decision making functions for the corporation; or
2. The manager of one or more manufacturing, production or operation facilities employing more than 250 persons or having gross annual sales or expenditures exceeding $25,000,000, if authority to sign documents has been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures.
(b) If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship: a general partner or proprietor, respectively.
(c) If the user is a federal, state or local governmental facility, a director or highest official appointed or designated to oversee the operation and performance of the activities of the government facility or their designee.
(d) The individuals described in divisions (a) through ( c), above, may designate another authorized representative if the authorization is in writing, the authorization specifies the individual or position responsible for the overall operation of the facility from which the discharge originates or having overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company, and the written authorization is submitted to the Director of Utilities and Engineering.
BASIC USER CHARGE. The basic assessment levied on all users of the public sewer system.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND or BOD. The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures for five days at 20°C, usually expressed as a concentration (e.g., mg/l).
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 (one and one-half 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.
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or CATEGORICAL STANDARD. Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by EPA in accordance with §§ 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1317) which apply to a specific category of users and which appear in 40 C.F.R. Chapter 1, Subchapter N, parts 405 through 471.
CITY. The City of Quincy or the City Council of the city.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater, storm, surface and groundwater drainage.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria; plus any additional pollutants identified in the POTW’s NPDES permit, where the POTW is designed to treat the pollutants to the degree required by the POTW’s NPDES permit.
CONTROL AUTHORITY. The Director of Utilities and Engineering if the POTW’s submission for its pretreatment program has been approved or the approval authority if the submission has not been approved.
DEBT SERVICE CHARGE. Amount to be paid each billing period for payment of interest, principal and coverage of bonds outstanding.
DIRECT DISCHARGE. The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the state.
DIRECTOR. The Director of the State Environmental Protection Agency.
DIRECTOR OF UTILITIES AND ENGINEERING. The person designated by the city to supervise the operation of the POTW, and who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities by this chapter, or his or her duly authorized representative.
EASEMENT. An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
EFFLUENT CRITERIA. Defined in any applicable NPDES permit.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA. The United States Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate, the Regional Water Management Division Director or other duly authorized official of the agency.
EXISTING SOURCE. Any source of discharge, the construction or operation of which commenced prior to the publication by EPA of proposed categorical pretreatment standards, which will be applicable to the source if the standard is thereafter promulgated in accordance with § 307 of the Act.
FIXTURE. Any device having either a water supply or drain connected to the plumbing system.
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 OIL if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the treatment plant or collection system.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
GRAB SAMPLE. A sample which is taken from a wastestream without regard to the flow in the wastestream and over a period of time not to exceed 15 minutes.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. All pollutants other than compatible pollutants.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE. The discharge or the introduction of non-domestic pollutants from any source regulated under § 307(b), (c) and (d) of the Act, (33 U.S.C. § 1317), into the POTW, including septic or holding tank waste discharged into the system.
INDUSTRIAL USER or USER. A source of indirect discharge, as defined in this section.
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.
INSTANTANEOUS MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE DISCHARGE LIMIT. The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete or composited sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the duration of the sampling event.
INTERFERENCE. A discharge, which alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and therefore, is a cause of a violation of the city’s NPDES permit or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with any of the following statutory/regulatory provisions or permits issued thereunder, or any more stringent state or local regulations. Section 405 of the Act; the Solid Waste Disposal Act, including Title II commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); any state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; the Clean Air Act; the Toxic Substances Control Act; and the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY.
(a) A user subject to categorical pretreatment standards; or
(b) A user that:
1. Discharges an average of 25,000 gpd or more of process wastewater to the POTW (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater);
2. Contributes a process wastestream which makes up 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW treatment plant; or
3. Is designated as such by the city on the basis that it has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW’s operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
(c) Upon a finding that a user meeting the criteria in division (b) above has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW’s operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the city may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from a user, and in accordance with procedures in 40 C.F.R. § 403.8(f)(6), determine that the user should not be considered a significant industrial user.
MEDICAL WASTE. Isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood products, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding, surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory wastes and dialysis wastes.
MILLIGRAM PER LITER. A unit of the concentration of water or wastewater constituent. It is 0.01 grams of the constituent in 1,000 milliliters 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.
NATIONAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS. Prohibited discharge standards, categorical pretreatment standards or local limits.
NATIONAL PROHIBITED DISCHARGE STANDARDS OR PROHIBITED DISCHARGES. Absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
NEW SOURCE.
(a) Any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is (or may be) a discharge of pollutants, the construction of which commenced after the publication or proposed pretreatment standards under § 307(c) of the Act which will be applicable to the source if the standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section, provided that:
1. The building, structure, facility or installation is constructed at a site at which no other source is located;
2. The building, structure, facility or installation totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at an existing source; or
3. The production or wastewater generating processes of the building, structure, facility or installation are substantially independent of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these are substantially independent, factors such as the extent to which the new facility is integrated with the existing plant, and the extent to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity as the existing source, should be considered.
(b) Construction on a site at which an existing source is located results in a modification rather than a new source if the construction does not create a new building, structure, facility or installation meeting the criteria of division (a)(2) or (a)(3) above but otherwise alters, replaces or adds to existing process or production equipment.
(c) Construction of a new source as defined under this section has commenced if the owner or operator has:
1. Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous on site construction program:
a. Any placement, assembly or installation of facilities or equipment; or
b. Significant site preparation work including clearing, excavation or removal of existing building, structures or facilities which is necessary for the placement, assembly or installation of new source facilities or equipment.
2. Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase of facilities or equipment which are intended to be used in its operation within a reasonable time. Options to purchase or contracts which can be terminated or modifies without substantial loss, and contracts for feasibility, engineering, and design studies do not constitute a contractual obligation under this division.
NON-CONTACT COOLING WATER or COOLING WATER. Water used for cooling which does not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste produce or finished product.
NPDES PERMIT. Any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued by the administrator, or, where appropriate by the director, after enactment of the Federal Water Pollution Control Amendment of 1972, to regulate the discharge of pollutants pursuant to § 402 of the Federal Act.
NPDES STATE. A state of the United States which has been granted authority by the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency to administer the NPDES Permit Program.
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 city’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 expressed by one of the procedures outlined in Standard Methods.
POLLUTION. The manmade or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological and radiological integrits of water.
POLLUTANT. Dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, medical wastes, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, municipal, agricultural and industrial wastes and certain characteristics of wastewater (e.g., ph, temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD, toxicity or odor).
POPULATION EQUIVALENT. The 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 BOD and 0.22 pounds of suspended solids.
POTW TREATMENT PLANT. The portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to wastewater.
ppm. Parts per million by weight.
PRETREATMENT. The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to, or in lieu of introducing pollutants into the POTW. This reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes; by process changes; or by other means, except by diluting the concentration of the pollutants unless allowed by an applicable pretreatment standard.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS. Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment imposed on a user, other than a pretreatment standard.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer provided by, or subject to the jurisdiction of the city.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW). As defined by § 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292) which is owned in this instance by the city. This definition included any devices or systems used in the collection, storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature and any conveyances which convey wastewater to a treatment plant.
REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR. The person appointed by the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency for the area of the state and other states.
REPLACEMENT. 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 the works were designed and constructed. The term “operation and maintenance” includes replacement.
RESERVE FUND CHARGE. A revolving fund for expansion and construction of interceptor sewer system.
RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL OR NON-INDUSTRIAL USE. Any user of the treatment works not classified as an industrial user or excluded as an industrial user.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes or a combination of both, and into which storm, surface and groundwaters or unpolluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
SEPTIC TANK WASTE or HOLDING TANK WASTE. Any sewage from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers and septic tanks.
SEWAGE. Human excrement and gray water (household showers, dishwashing operations and the like) and 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.
SEWERAGE FUND. Principal accounting designation for all revenues received in the operation of the sewerage system.
SHALL. Is mandatory; MAY is permissible.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER. The same as major contributing industry and may be used interchangeable.
SIGNIFICANT VIOLATION. A violation of the this chapter which remains uncorrected 45 days after notification of noncompliance; which is part of a pattern of noncompliance over a 12-month period; which involves failure to accurately report noncompliance or which results in the city exercising its emergency authority.
SLUG LOAD or 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 operations.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC). A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget.
STANDARD METHODS. The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the most recent edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
STATE. The State of Illinois.
STATE ACT. The Illinois Anti Pollution Band Act of 1970.
STATE GRANT. The state participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works as provided for by the State Anti-Pollution Band Act and or making grants and filed with the Secretary of State of the state.
STORM SEWER. A sewer that carries storm, surface and groundwater drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
STORMWATER. Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from the precipitation, including snowmelt.
STORMWATER RUNOFF. The portion of the precipitation that is drained into the sewers.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater or other liquid, and which is removable by laboratory filtering.
TOXIC POLLUTANTS. Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the administrator of the EPA under provisions of § 307(a) of the act.
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 sewer and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
USEFUL LIFE. The estimated period during which the collection system and/or treatment works will be operated and shall be 30 years from the date of start-up of any wastewater facilities constructed with a state grant.
USER CHARGE. The same as wastewater service charge.
USER CLASS. The type of user either residential or commercial (non-industrial) or industrial.
UTILITIES COMMITTEE. The Utilities Committee of the City Council.
WASTEWATER. Liquid and water-carried industrial wastes and sewage from residential dwellings commercial buildings, industrial and manufacturing facilities, and institutions, whether treated or untreated, which are contributed to the POTW.
WASTEWATER SERVICE CHARGE. The charge per quarter or month levied on all users of the wastewater facilities. The service charge shall be as outlined in §§ 51.315 through 51.322
and shall consist of the total or the basic user charge, a surcharge, reserve fund charge and a debt service charge, if applicable.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT OR TREATMENT PLANT. The same as publicly owned treatment plant.
WATER QUALITY STANDARDS. Defined in the Water Pollution Regulations of Illinois.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
WATERS OF THE STATE. All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifiers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the state or any portion thereof.
(1980 Code, §§ 24.401—24.409) (Ord. 9331, passed 3-19-2018)