Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
CLARIFICATION OF WORD USAGE: "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissible.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT:
Administrator: The administrator of the U.S. environmental protection agency.
Federal Act: The federal clean water act (33 USC 466 et seq.), as amended (Pub.L. 95-217).
Federal Grant: The U.S. government participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works as provided by title II, "Grants For Construction Of Treatment Works", of the act and implementing regulations.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT:
Approving Authority: The superintendent of public works.
Village: The village of Shannon.
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.
SEWER TYPES AND APPURTENANCES:
Building Drain: 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 (5') (1.5 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.
Combined Sewer: A sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater, stormwater, surface water and groundwater drainage.
Easement: An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
Public Sewer: A sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the village of Shannon. The term shall also includes sewers within or outside the village boundaries that serve one or more persons and ultimately discharge into the village sanitary sewer system even though those sewers may not have been constructed with village funds.
Sanitary Sewer: A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes, or a combination of both, and into which stormwater, surface water, and groundwater or polluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
Sewer: A pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other waste liquids, including stormwater, surface water and groundwater drainage.
Sewerage: The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation and pumping of sewage.
Storm Sewer: A sewer that carries stormwater, surface water and groundwater drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
Stormwater Runoff: That portion of the precipitation that is drained into the sewers.
STATE GOVERNMENT:
Director: The director of the Illinois environmental protection agency.
State Act: The Illinois anti-pollution bond act of 1970.
State Grant: The state of Illinois participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works as provided by the Illinois anti-pollution bond act and for making such grants as filed with the secretary of state of the state of Illinois.
TREATMENT:
Pretreatment: The treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into the wastewater treatment works.
Wastewater Treatment Works: An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge; sometimes used as synonymous with "waste treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "pollution control plant".
USER TYPES:
Commercial User: Shall include transit lodging, retail and wholesale establishments or places engaged in selling merchandise or rendering services.
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.
Industrial Users: Shall include establishments engaged in manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substance into products.
Institutional/Governmental User: Shall include schools, churches, penal institutions, and users associated with federal, state, and local governments.
Residential User: All dwelling units such as houses, mobile homes, apartments, and permanent multi-family dwellings.
User Class: The type of user, "residential", "institutional/governmental", "commercial", or "industrial" as defined herein.
WASTEWATER AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS:
BOD (Denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand): The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees Celsius (20°C), expressed in milligrams per liter.
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 collection system.
Garbage: Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of food.
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.
pH: The logarithm (base-10) 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".
Properly Shredded Garbage: The 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 (1/2") (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
Sewage: Is used interchangeably with "wastewater".
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 fifteen (15) minutes, more than five (5) times the average twenty four (24) hour concentration of flows during normal operation.
Suspended Solids (SS): 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".
Unpolluted Water: Water 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.
Wastewater: The spent water of a community. From this standpoint of course, 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 stormwater that may be present.
Water Quality Standards: As defined in the water pollution regulations of Illinois.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES: The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and transport effluent to a watercourse.
WATERCOURSE AND CONNECTIONS:
Natural Outlet: Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface water or groundwater.
Watercourse: A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (Ord. 189, 4-4-1985; amd. 2011 Code)