Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(a) “Biochemical oxygen demand” (BOD) shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20 degrees C. expressed in milligrams per liter.
(b) “Building drain” shall mean that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from the soil, waste, and other drainage pipe inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, which begins four feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(c) “Building sewer” means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer of other place of disposal also called house connection.
(d) “Chemical oxygen demand” (COD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
(e) “Combined sewer” shall mean a sewer intended to receive both waste water and storm or surface water.
(f) “Compatible pollutant” shall mean (BOD), suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit if the publicly owned treatment works was designed to treat such pollutant, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree. Examples of such additional pollutants may include:
(1) COD;
(2) Total organic carbon;
(3) Phosphorous and phosphorous compounds;
(4) Nitrogen and nitrogen compounds;
(5) Fats, oils, and greases of animal or vegetable origin except as prohibited under Section 925.02.
(g) “Commercial unit” shall mean a building or part of a building used by a commercial, private or public enterprise for uses other than dwelling, but not classified as an institutional or industrial unit.
(h) “Debt service charge” shall mean the charge levied per discharge unit to make principal and interest payments and/or participation payments to OWDA required for the amortization of the cost of the waste water collection and treatment facilities.
(i) “Discharge unit” shall mean a residential unit, commercial unit, industrial unit or any private or public facility generating, accumulating and/or otherwise discharging liquid waste either directly or ultimately into any of the sewer systems of the Village of Wakeman.
(j) “Residential unit” shall mean a building or part of a building used for a residence or habitation that discharges directly or indirectly domestic sanitary waste water in the public waste water treatment system, works and facility.
(k) “Engineer” means the Village Engineer as designated by the Village of Wakeman Council.
(l) “Federal act” means the Federal Water Pollution Contract Act Amendments of 1972 and 1977. Public Law 92-500 and any amendments thereto, as well as any guidelines; limitations and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the ACT.
(m) “Floatable oil” is oil, fat, or grease in physical state such that it will separate by gravity from waste water by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
(n) “Garbage” shall mean the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of food.
(o) “Incompatible pollutant” shall mean any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined in Definition f.
(p) “Domestic sanitary waste water” shall mean a waste water discharge having the average characteristics equivalent to 200 mg/1 BOD and 240 mg/l suspended solids concentrations.
(q) “Industrial users or class” shall mean any nongovernmental, non residential users of a publicly owned treatment works which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day (GPD) of sanitary wastes and which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972 Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented under one of the following divisions.
Division A. Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
Division B. Mining
Division C. Manufacturing
Division D. Transportation, Communications, Electric,
Gas, and Sanitary Services
Division I. Services
Industrial shall include manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substance into other products.
These activities occur in establishments usually described as plants, factories, or mills and characteristically use power driven machines and material handling equipment.
(1) In determining the amount of a user’s discharge, the grantee (Village of Wakeman) may exclude domestic wastes of discharges from sanitary conveniences.
(2) After applying the sanitary waste exclusion in subsection (a) hereof if the Village chooses to do so, discharges in the above divisions that have a volume exceeding 25,000 gpd or the weight of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) or suspended solids (SS) equivalent to that weight found in 25,000 gpd of sanitary waste are considered industrial users. Sanitary wastes, for purposes of this calculation of equivalence, are equal to subsection (p) hereof. The strength of residential discharges is herein defined as BOD less than or equal to 250 mg per liters and suspended solids less than or equal to 250 mg per liter.
A. Any non-governmental user of a publicly owned treatment works which discharges waste water to said treatment works which contains toxic pollutants or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to contaminate the sludge of any municipal systems, or to which constitutes a hazard to humans or animals, creates a public nuisance, or creates any hazard in or has an adverse effect on the waters receiving any discharge from the treatment works.
B. All commercial users of an individual system constructed with grant assistance under Section 201(h) of the Act and this subpart. (See 35.918(a)(3)).
(r) “Industrial wastes” shall mean the waste water from industrial processes, trade, or business as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
(s) “Major contributing industry” shall mean 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 five percent of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste;
(3) Has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standard issued under Section 307A of the Federal Act;
(4) If found by the permit issuance authority in connection with the issuance of an NPDES permit to the publicly owned treatment works receiving 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.
(t) “May” is permissive; “shall” is mandatory.
(u) “Natural outlet” shall mean any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of water or ground water.
(v) “NPDES” permit shall mean the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.
(w) “Operation, maintenance and replacement costs” (OMR) shall mean all costs associated with the operation, maintenance and replacement of waste water collection and treatment facilities as well as costs associated with periodic equipment replacement necessary for maintaining capacity and performance of the waste water collection and treatment facilities.
(x) “Person” shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, partnership, society, corporation or group.
(y) “pH” shall mean the reciprocal of the logarithm 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 pH value of 7 and a hydrogen ion concentration of 10.
(z) “Pollutant” shall mean dredged spoil solid waste incinerator residue, waste water, garbage, waste water sludge, munitions, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial municipal and agricultural waste discharged into the water.
(aa) “Properly shredded garbage” means 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 ½ inch (.127 centimeters) in any dimension.
(bb) “Pretreatment” shall mean the treatment of waste waters from sources before introduction into publicly owned waste water treatment facilities.
(cc) “Public sewer” shall mean a common sewer controlled by a government agency or public utility.
(dd) “Replacement” shall mean 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 sorts were designed and constructed. The term “operation and maintenance” includes replacement.
(ee) “Sanitary sewer” shall mean a sewer that carries liquid and water carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with minor quantities of ground, storm and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
(ff) “Sewer service charges” shall mean the charge levied on users for capital cost amortization (debt service charges) and for operation, maintenance and replacement costs (user charges). Such sewer service charge includes debt service charges and user charges.
(gg) “Slug” shall mean any discharge of water or waste water 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 or flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the waste water treatment works.
(hh) “Storm drain” (sometimes termed “storm sewer”) shall mean a drain or sewer for conveying water, ground water, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source.
(ii) “Superintendent” shall mean the Village Administrator of the Village of Wakeman or the Board of Public Affairs or such other person as may be appointed by Council, or his authorized representative.
(jj) “Suspended solids” shall mean total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, waste water, or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering, as prescribed in “standard methods for examination of water and waste water” and referred to as non-filterable residue.
(kk) “Cooling water” means the water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, during which is charged to maintain equitable capital recovery amounts for use of the sewer system by new connections.
(ll) “Tap charge” means the charge levied by the Village on new users connecting the Village sanitary sewer system, which is charged to maintain equitable capital recovery amounts for use of the sewer system by new connections.
(mm) “Toxic pollutants” shall include but not necessarily be limited to aldrin-dieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, poly-chlorinated biphenyl (PCB’s) and tozphene. Pollutants included as “toxic” shall be those promulgated as such by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(nn) “User charge” is the charge levied on the users of the treatment works for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement of such works, pursuant to Section 204(b) of Title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-500) and amendments thereto.
(oo) “Unpolluted water” is 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 benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and waste water treatment facilities provided.
(pp) “Wastewater” (sanitary water) shall mean the spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions.
(qq) “Wastewater facilities” shall mean the structures, equipment and process required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
(rr) “Wastewater treatment works” shall mean 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 “water pollution control plant”.
(ss) “Storm water” means any flow occurring during or immediately following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom. Water originating from precipitation which is captured in drainage tiles and catch basins and which does not undergo any use or contamination prior to disposal.
(tt) “Institutional unit or class” shall mean hospitals, nursing homes, schools, village, county, state or federal buildings. Government users, or facilities not engaged in profit oriented business that discharge waste water into the public waste water treatment system, works and facility.
(Ord. 95-3. Passed 2-13-95.)