For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACT or FEDERAL ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, Pub. Law No. 92-500, 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq.
ADMINISTRATOR. The administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
AUDIT. An audit as a separate report from other funds in accordance with general services administration policy circular, FMC73-2, and shall cover the following:
(1) Financial operations are properly conducted;
(2) Financial reports are presented fairly;
(3) Applicable laws and regulations have been complied with;
(4) Resources are managed and used in an economical and efficient manner; and
(5) Desired results and objectives are being achieved in a financially effective manner.
AUTHORITY. The Village of St. Anne.
BILLABLE FLOW. A user’s recorded quarterly water usage as metered by the appropriate water utility, plus metered water from wells and other sources, and less any sewer exempt metered data, times the village approved percentage factor for wastewater entering the sewer system out of the metered water. Residential users on unmetered wells and users with no history of billable flow shall have their billable flow estimated by averaging the BILLABLE FLOW of other residential users of the same class.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD). The quantity of oxygen, expressed in milligrams per liter, utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five days at 20°C.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES or BOARD. The Board of Trustees of the Village of St. Anne.
BUILDING DRAIN, SANITARY. The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives sanitary or industrial sewage only, inside the walls of a building and conveys it to the building sewer beginning three feet outside the building wall.
BUILDING DRAIN, SEWER. The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives storm water or other clear water discharge, but no wastewater, from soil and other drainage pipes inside the walls of a building and conveys it to the building sewer beginning three feet outside the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER, SANITARY. The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal which conveys sanitary or industrial sewage only (also called HOUSE OR SERVICE CONNECTION).
BUILDING SEWER, STORM. The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal which conveys storm water or other clear water drainage, but no sanitary or industrial sewage (also called HOUSE CONNECTION).
CLERK or VILLAGE CLERK. The Clerk of the Village of St. Anne.
COLLECTION SEWER. A sewer whose primary purpose is to collect wastewaters from individual point source discharges.
COMBINED SEWAGE. A combination of both wastewater and storm or surface water.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
COMMERCIAL USER. For the purpose of the user charge system, a user engaged in the purchase or sale of goods, transaction of business, or otherwise renders a service.
CONTROL MANHOLE. 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.
DEPRECIATION. An annual operating cost reflecting capital consumption and obsolescence (reduction of future service potential) of real and personal properties.
DIRECTOR. The Director of the State Environmental Protection Agency.
DISSOLVED SOLIDS. The concentration of matter in the sewage consisting of colloidal particulate matter one micron in diameter or less, and both organic and inorganic molecules and ions present in solution.
EASEMENT. An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
FECAL COLIFORM. Any number of organisms common to the intestinal tract of humans and animals whose presence in sanitary sewage is an indicator of pollution.
FLOATABLE OIL. Oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in a pretreatment facility approved by the authority.
FORCE MAIN. A pipe in which wastewater is carried under pressure.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the commercial handling, storage, and sale of produce.
IEPA. Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. Any nontreatable waste product including nonbiodegradable dissolved solids.
INDUSTRIAL USER. For the purpose of the user charge system, a manufacturing or process facility which is engaged in a productive or profit-making venture.
INFILTRATION. The water unintentionally entering the public sewer system, including sanitary 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 sanitary 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/or combined sewers, catch basins, storm waters, surface runoff, street wash waters, or drainage. INFLOW does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.
INTERCEPTOR SEWER. A sewer whose primary purpose is to transport wastewater from collection sewers to a treatment facility.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY. An industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that:
(1) Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day;
(2) Has a flow greater than 10% of the flow carried by the village 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 Federal Act; or
(4) 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.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, 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 Administrator, or, where appropriated by the Director, after enactment of the Federal Clean Water Act to regulate the discharge of pollutants pursuant to § 402 of the Federal Act.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS. All costs, direct and indirect, not including debt service, but inclusive of expenditures attributable to administration, replacement, treatment, and collection of wastewaters necessary to ensure adequate wastewater collection and treatment on a continuing basis, conform to applicable regulations, and assure optimal long-term facility management.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group discharging any wastewater to the wastewater treatment facility.
pH. The term used to express the intensity of the acid or base condition of a solution, calculated by taking the logarithm of the reciprocal 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 hydrogen ion concentration of 10-7 and a pH value of seven.
PRETREATMENT. The treatment of industrial sewage from privately-owned industrial sources prior to introduction of the waste effluent into a public treatment works, in accordance with 40 C.F.R. 128.
PRIVATE SEWER. A sewer which is not owned by the village.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. Garbage that has 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 (one and one-fourth centimeters) in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer which is owned and controlled by the village.
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 such works were designed and constructed.
REPLACEMENT RESERVE. An account for the segregation of resources to meet replacement expenditures.
RESIDENTIAL USER. For the purpose of the user charge system, a user whose premises or building is used primarily as a domicile for one or more persons and whose wastes originate from the normal living activities or its inhabitants.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sanitary and industrial wastes and to which storm, surface, and groundwater, are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE. The combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, including polluted cooling water and unintentionally admitted infiltration/inflow.
COMBINED SEWAGE. Wastes including sanitary sewage, industrial sewage, storm water, infiltration, and inflow carried to the wastewater treatment facilities by a combined sewer.
INDUSTRIAL SEWAGE. A combination of liquid and water-carried wastes, discharged from any industrial establishment and resulting from any trade or process carried on in that establishment. This shall include the wastes from pretreatment facilities and polluted cooling water.
SANITARY SEWAGE. The combination of liquid and water-carried wastes discharged from toilet and other sanitary plumbing facilities.
SHALL/MAY. Shall is mandatory; may is permissive.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRY. Any industry that will contribute greater than 10% of the design flow and/or design pollutant loading of the treatment works.
SLUG. Any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentration of any given constituent or in any quantity of flow which exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration of flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
STANDARD METHODS. The laboratory procedures set forth in the latest edition, at the time of analysis, of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, prepared and published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation, and 40 C.F.R. Part 136, 3, 4, and 5, and/or other recognized procedures by USEPA and IEPA.
STORM SEWER. A sewer for conveying water, groundwater, or unpolluted water from any source and to which sanitary and/or industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in water, wastewater, or other liquids and is removable by laboratory filtration as prescribed in Standard Methods.
TOTAL SOLIDS. The sum of suspended and dissolved solids.
TOXIC AMOUNT. Concentration of any pollutant or combination of pollutants which upon exposure to or assimilation into any organism will cause adverse effects, such as cancer, genetic mutations and physiological manifestations, as defined in standards issued pursuant to § 307(a) of Pub. Law No. 92-500.
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 benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
USEFUL LIFE. The anticipated term in years of physical and/or functional productivity of elements of and/or the whole wastewater treatment process, which can be re-evaluated as a result of preventive maintenance, renewal which offsets physical and/or functional obsolescence, renewal of capital elements due to consumption, and physical and/or functional betterments, either direct or indirect.
USEPA. United States Environmental Protection Agency.
USER CHARGE SYSTEM. The system of charges levied on users for the cost of operation and maintenance, and replacement reserve requirements on now and old wastewater collection/treatment facilities, pursuant to § 204(b) of Pub. Law No. 92-500.
VOLATILE ORGANIC MATTER. The material in the sewage solids transformed to gases or vapors when heated at 500° centigrade for 15 minutes.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES. The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, transport, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent and accumulated residual solids.
WATERCOURSE. A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water either continuously or intermittently.
WATERWORKS. All facilities for water supply, treatment, storage reservoirs, water lines, and services, and booster stations for obtaining, treating, and distributing potable water.
(Prior Code, § 7-4-1)