As used in this chapter:
(1) "Administrator" means the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(2) "Approving authority" means the Village Board or its designee.
(3) "Basic user charge" means the basic assessment levied on all users of the public sewer system.
(4) "Biochemical oxygen demand" (BOD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic mater under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees Celsius expressed in milligrams per liter.
(5) "Building drain" means 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.
(6) "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(7) "Capital improvement charge" means a charge levied on users to improve, extend or reconstruct the sewage treatment works.
(8) "Combined sewer" means a sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater and storm, surface and ground water drainage.
(9) "Commercial user" includes transit lodging, retail and wholesale establishments or places engaged in selling merchandise or rendering services.
(10) "Control manhole" means a structure located on a site from which industrial wastes are discharged. Where feasible, the manhole shall have an interior drop. The purpose of a control manhole is to provide access for the Village representative to sample and/or measure discharges.
(11) "Debt service charge" means the amount to be paid each billing period for payment of interest, principal and coverage of outstanding bonds.
(12) "Director" means the Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
(13) "Easement" means an acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
(14) "Effluent criteria" is defined in any applicable NYPES permit.
(15) "Federal Act" means the Federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 466 et seq.), as amended (Pub. L. 95-217).
(16) "Federal grant" means U.S. Government participation in financing the construction of treatment works, as provided for by Title II (Grants for Construction of Treatment Works) of the Act and implementing regulations.
(17) "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. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system.
(18) "Garbage" means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of food.
(19) "Industrial users" includes establishments engaged in manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials of substance into products.
(20) "Industrial waste" means 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.
(21) "Institutional/governmental user" includes schools, churches, penal institutions and users associated with the Federal, State and local governments.
(22) "Local capital cost charge" means charges for costs other than the operation, maintenance and replacement costs, i.e. debt service and capital improvement costs.
(23) "Major contributing industry" means an industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that:
A. Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day;
B. Has a flow greater than ten percent of the flow carried by the Municipal system receiving the waste; or
C. Is found by the permit issuance 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 the treatment works or upon the quality of effluent from the treatment works.
(24) "Milligrams per liter" means a unit of the concentration of water or wastewater constituent. It is 0.001 gram of the constituent of 1,000 milliliters of water. It has replaced the unit formerly used commonly, i.e. parts per million, to which it is approximately equivalent, in reporting the results of water and wastewater analysis.
(25) "Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(26) "NPDES permit" means any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued by the Administrator, 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.
(27) "Person" means any person, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm, company, municipal or private corporation, association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency or other entity.
(28) "pH" means the logarithm (base ten) 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.
(29) "Population equivalent" means a term used to evaluate the impact of industrial or other waste on a treatment works or stream. One population equivalent is 150 gallons of sewage per capita per day, containing 119 pounds of BOD and 168 pounds of suspended solids.
(30) "ppm" means parts per million by weight.
(31) "Pretreatment" means the treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into the wastewater treatment works.
(32) "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 (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
(33) "Public sewer" means 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 or combined sewer system, even though those sewers may not have been constructed with Village funds.
(34) "Replacement" means 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.
(35) "Residential user" means all dwelling units such as houses, mobile homes, apartments and permanent multifamily dwellings.
(36) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes or a combination of both, and into which storm, surface and ground waters or polluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
(37) "Sewage" may be used interchangeably with "wastewater".
(38) "Sewer" means a pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other waste liquids, including storm, surface and ground water drainage.
(39) "Sewage" means the system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation and pumping of sewage.
(40) "Sewerage Fund" means the principal accounting designation for all revenues received in the operation of the sewerage system.
(41) "Slug" means 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 fifteen minutes more than five times the average twenty-four hour concentration of flows during normal operation.
(42) "State Act" means the Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act of 1970.
(43) "State grant" means State participation in financing 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.
(44) "Storm sewer" means a sewer that carries storm, surface and ground water drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
(45) "Storm water run-off" means that portion of precipitation that is drained into sewers.
(46) "Surcharge" means the assessment, in addition to the basic user charge and debt service charge, which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength that the concentration values established by this chapter.
(47) "Suspended solids" (SS) means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage or industrial waste, 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.
(48) "Unpolluted water" means water quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect, or water that would not cause a violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
(49) "Useful life" means the estimated period during which the collection system and/or treatment works will be operated.
(50) "User charge" means a charge levied on users of treatment works for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement.
(51) "User class" means the type of user, either residential, institutional/ governmental, commercial or industrial.
(52) "Wastewater" means the spent water of a community. 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.
(53) "Wastewater facilities" means the structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and transport effluent to a watercourse.
(54) "Wastewater service charge" means the charge per quarter or month levied on all users of the wastewater facilities. The service charge shall be computed as set forth in Section 1044.42 and shall consist of the total of the basic user charge, the local capital cost and the surcharge, if applicable.
(55) "Wastewater treatment works" means arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes and sludges. "Wastewater treatment works" is sometimes used synonymously with "waste treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "pollution control plant."
(56) "Water quality standards" is defined in the water pollution regulations of the State.
(57) "Watercourse" means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 795. Passed 9-27-93.)