Unless a provision explicitly states otherwise, the following terms and phrases, as used in this chapter, shall have the meanings hereinafter designated.
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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. |
APPROVING AUTHORITY: | The president and board of trustees of the Village of Stockton acting by and through the waterworks superintendent, being their duly authorized agent or representative. |
AUTHORIZED or DULY AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE USER: | (1) If the user is a corporation: a. The president or any other person who performs similar policy or decision-making functions for the corporation; or b. The manager of one or more manufacturing, production, or operating facilities, provided the manager is authorized to make management decisions that govern the operation of the regulated facility including having the explicit or implicit duty of making major capital investment recommendations, and initiate and direct other comprehensive measures to assure long term environmental compliance with environmental laws and regulations; can ensure that the necessary systems are established or actions taken to gather complete and accurate information for individual wastewater discharge permit requirements; and where authority to sign documents has been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures. |
(2) If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship: a general partner or proprietor, respectively. (3) 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. (4) A duly authorized representative of the individual designated above if such representative is responsible for the overall operation or environmental matters of the facility from which the discharge originates, and written authorization is submitted to the Village. | |
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE(S) (BMPs): | Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in this chapter. BMPs include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage. |
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD): | The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures as described in Standard Methods. |
CATEGORICAL INDUSTRIAL USER: | An industrial user subject to one of the USEPA's National Categorical Pretreatment Standards. |
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or CATEGORICAL STANDARD: | Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by USEPA in accordance with sections 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1317) that apply to a specific category of industrial users and that appear in 40 CFR chapter I, subchapter N, parts 405 through 471. |
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD): | The quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of all compounds, both organic and inorganic, in water. |
COMMERCIAL USER: | Transit lodging, retail and wholesale establishments or places engage in selling merchandise or rendering services. |
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT: | Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, total Kjeldahl nitrogen, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit. |
CONTROL AUTHORITY: | The Village of Stockton. |
DAILY MAXIMUM: | The arithmetic average of all effluent samples for a pollutant collected during a calendar day, shown in mg/L. |
DAILY MAXIMUM LIMIT: | The maximum allowable discharge limit of a pollutant during a calendar day. Where daily maximum limits are expressed in units of mass, the daily discharge is the total mass discharged over the course of the day. Where daily maximum limits are expressed in terms of a concentration, the daily discharge is the arithmetic average measurement of the pollutant concentration derived from all measurements taken that day. |
DIRECT DISCHARGE: | The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to waters of the State of Illinois. |
DIRECTOR: | Unless indicated otherwise, the Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. |
DOMESTIC USER or RESIDENTIAL USER: | All dwelling units such as houses, mobile homes, apartments, and permanent multi-family dwellings that discharge wastewater, which is similar in volume and/or chemical make-up to the discharge of a residential dwelling unit, into the Village sewer system. |
EFFLUENT CRITERIA: | Are defined in any applicable NPDES permit or individual wastewater discharge permit. |
EXISTING SOURCE: | A categorical industrial user, the construction or operation of whose facility commenced prior to publication by the USEPA of proposed categorical pretreatment standards, which would be applicable to such source if and when the standard is thereafter promulgated in accordance with section 307 of the Act. |
FIVE DAY BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD5): | The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures described in Standard Methods for five (5) days at twenty degrees Celsius (20°C), expressed as a concentration (e.g., mg/l). |
GRAB SAMPLE: | A sample taken from a wastestream on a one-time basis without regard to the flow in the wastestream and without consideration of time. |
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (IEPA): | The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, or where appropriate, the terms may also be used as a designation for the Director or other duly authorized official of said agency. Further defined as that agency or agencies of the State, any divisions thereof or successors thereto, authorized by present and subsequent acts of the legislature thereof to regulate and control matters in respect to the environment, and particularly in respect to wastewater discharge, management, maintenance, and operations of the POTW. |
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT: | Any pollutant which is not a "compatible pollutant" as defined herein. |
INDIRECT DISCHARGE OR DISCHARGE: | The introduction of pollutants into the POTW from any nondomestic source. |
INSTANTANEOUS 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. |
INSTITUTIONAL/ GOVERNMENTAL USER: | Schools, churches, penal institutions and users associated with Federal, State, and local governments. |
INDUSTRIAL USER or USER: | Establishments engaged in manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials of substance into products. A source of a direct or indirect discharge to the POTW other than a domestic user. |
INDUSTRIAL WASTE: | Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance discharged, permitted to flow or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing, commercial or business establishment or process of from the development, recovery or processing of any natural resource as distinct from sanitary sewage.
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INTERFERENCE: | A discharge that, 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 Village'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 (SWDA) (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 SWDA); the Clean Air Act; the Toxic Substances Control Act; and the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act. |
LOCAL LIMIT: | Specific discharge limits developed and enforced by the Village upon industrial or commercial facilities to implement the general and specific discharge prohibitions listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b). |
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. |
MILLIGRAMS PER LITER: | A unit of concentration of water or wastewater constituent. It is one-thousandths gram (0.001 g) 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. |
MONTHLY AVERAGE: | The sum of all "daily discharges" measured during a calendar month divided by the number of "daily discharges" measured during that month. |
MONTHLY AVERAGE LIMIT: | The highest allowable average of "daily discharges" over a calendar month, calculated as the sum of all "daily discharges" measured during a calendar month divided by the number of "daily discharges" measured during that month. |
NATURAL OUTLET: | Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water. |
NEW SOURCE: | (1) 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 of proposed pretreatment standards under section 307(c) of the Act that will be applicable to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section, provided that: a. The building, structure, facility, or installation is constructed at a site at which no other source is located; or b. The building, structure, facility, or installation totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at an existing source; or c. 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. (2) Construction of 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 subsection (1)b or c above but otherwise alters, replaces, or adds to existing process or production equipment. |
(3) Construction of a new source as defined under this paragraph has commenced if the owner or operator has: a. Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous onsite construction program: i. Any placement, assembly, or installation of facilities or equipment; or ii. Significant site preparation work including clearing, excavation, or removal of existing buildings, structures, or facilities which is necessary for the placement, assembly, or installation of new source facilities or equipment; or b. 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 modified without substantial loss, and contracts for feasibility, engineering, and design studies do not constitute a contractual obligation under this paragraph. | |
NONCONTACT COOLING WATER: | Water used for cooling that does not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product, 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 Clean Water Act to regulate the discharge of pollutants pursuant to section 402 of the Act. |
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 Village's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation). |
PERSON: | Any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity, or any other legal entity; or their legal representatives, agents, or assigns. This definition includes all Federal, State, and local governmental entities. |
pH: | A measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, expressed in standard units. More technically, the logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of hydrogen-ion concentration expressed by one of the procedures outlined in the IEPA Division of Laboratories Manual of Laboratory Methods. |
POLLUTANT: | Any 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). |
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 such 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. |
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS or STANDARDS: | Prohibited discharge standards, categorical pretreatment standards, and local limits established by the Village. |
PROHIBITED DISCHARGE STANDARDS or PROHIBITED DISCHARGES: | Absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances; these prohibitions appear in section 8-13-2-1 of this chapter. |
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW): | A treatment works, as defined by section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned by the Village. This definition includes 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. |
PUBLIC WORKS COORDINATOR: | The public works coordinator is the Village of Stockton public works coordinator. The public works coordinator is designated by the Village to supervise the operation of the POTW, and is charged with certain duties and responsibilities by this chapter. The term also means a duly authorized representative of the public works coordinator. |
SANITARY SEWER: | A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes or a combination of both, and into which storm, surface and ground waters or unpolluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted. |
SEPTIC TANK WASTE: | Any sewage from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks, trucked waste, and waste tanks. |
SEWAGE: | Used interchangeably with "wastewater", a combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business building, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface, and stormwaters as may be present. |
SEWER: | A pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or other waste liquids, including storm, surface and ground water drainage. |
SHALL; MAY: | Shall is mandatory; may is permissible. |
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER (SIU): | (1) An industrial user subject to categorical pretreatment standards; or (2) An industrial user that: a. Discharges an average of twenty five thousand (25,000) gpd or more of process wastewater to the POTW (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater); b. Contributes a process wastestream which makes up five percent (5%) or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW treatment plant; or c. Is designated as such by the Village on the basis that it has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement. |
SLUG LOAD OR SLUG DISCHARGE: | Any discharge at a flowrate or concentration, which could cause a violation of this chapter. A slug discharge is any discharge of a non-routine, episodic nature, including but not limited to an accidental spill or a non customary batch discharge, which has a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass through, or in any other way violate the POTW's regulations, local limits or permit conditions. |
STATE ACT: | The Illinois Antipollution Bond Act of 1970. |
STANDARD METHODS: | The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the most recent edition of "Standard Methods for Examination of Water and Wastewater", published jointly by the American Water Works Association and Water Environment Federation. |
STORMWATER: | Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation, including snowmelt. |
TOTAL KJELDAHL NITROGEN: | The total concentration of organic and ammonia nitrogen as measured by the Kjeldahl method. Quantitative determination of total Kjeldahl nitrogen shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in the most recent edition of Standard Methods. |
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS or SUSPENDED SOLIDS: | The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and that are removable by 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. |
VILLAGE: | The Village of Stockton, Illinois and any reference to "within the Village" shall mean all territory within the perimeter of the Village of Stockton boundaries. |
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 ground water, surface water and stormwater that may be present. |
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT or TREATMENT PLANT: | That portion of the POTW which is designed to provide treatment of municipal sewage and industrial waste. |
WATERCOURSE: | A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (Ord. 701, 12-8-2020) |