Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as set out in this section. The term "shall" is mandatory; the term "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).
LOCAL GOVERNMENT:
Approving Authority: The village board of the village of Sherman.
SMSD: The Springfield metro sanitary district.
Village: The village of Sherman.
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 section 402 of the federal act.
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, including the connections therewith, 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.
Grinder Pump System: The system of grinder pumps and pressure piping required to move wastewater from building sewers to a gravity system manhole. The system includes all electrical service, control panels, grinder pumps, basins, pressure piping, valves, air release valves, and cleanouts required to operate the system.
Public Sewer: A sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the village. The term shall also include 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 Grant: The state of Illinois participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works as provided for by the "Build Illinois Program" 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 Facilities: The structures, equipment, and process required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and transport effluent to a watercourse.
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".
TYPES OF CHARGES:
Basic User Charge: The basic assessment levied on all users of the wastewater facilities.
Debt Service Charge: The amount to be paid each billing period for payment of interest, principal and coverage of (loan, bond, etc.) outstanding.
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. The term "operation and maintenance" includes "replacement".
SMSD Charges: The charges established by the Springfield metro sanitary district for providing wastewater treatment and permitting services to the village. These charges include:
Tap fee
Service charge
Treatment fee
Tax levy
Sewerage Fund: The principal accounting designation for all revenues received in the operation of the sewerage system.
Useful Life: The estimated period during which the collection system and/or treatment works will be operated.
User Charge: A charge levied on users of treatment works for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement.
Wastewater Service Charge: The charge per month levied on all users of the wastewater facilities. The service charge shall be computed as outlined in section 8-3A-1 of this chapter and shall consist of the total of the basic user charge and the debt service charge.
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 User: Shall include establishments engaged in manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances 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 in this section.
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 centigrade (20°C), expressed in milligrams per liter.
Effluent Criteria: Are as defined in any applicable NPDES permit.
Fats, Oil Or Grease (FOG): Any hydrocarbons, fatty acids, soaps, fats, waxes, oils, and any other material that is extracted by trichlorotrifluoroethane solvent.
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.
Milligrams Per Liter: A unit of the concentration of water or wastewater constituent. It is 0.001 gram of the constituent in one thousand milliliters (1,000 ml) 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.
ppm: Parts per million by weight.
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.
Population Equivalent: A term used to evaluate the impact of industrial or other waste on a treatment works or stream. One "population equivalent" is one hundred (100) gallons of sewage per day, containing 0.17 pound of BOD and 0.20 pound of suspended solids.
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 carried 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: Are as defined in the water pollution regulations of Illinois.
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. (1984 Code § 7-4-9)
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