Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
ADMINISTRATOR: The administrator of the U.S. environmental protection agency.
AEROBIC TREATMENT PLANT: Equipment or devices for the treatment of sewage by the forced addition of air or oxygen.
APPROVING AUTHORITY: The president and board of trustees of the village of Winfield acting by and through their duly authorized agents.
AVERAGE STRENGTH SEWAGE: Characteristics not exceeding a five (5) day twenty degrees centigrade (20°C) biochemical oxygen demand of two hundred milligrams per liter (200 mg/l), a suspended solids content of two hundred twenty milligrams per liter (220 mg/l) and an ammonia nitrogen content of fifteen milligrams per liter (15 mg/l) based on one hundred (100) gpcpd.
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.
BUILDING: Any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy (includes a dwelling unit).
BUILDING DRAIN: That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building sewer or other approved point of discharge beginning five feet (5') (1.5 m) outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING INSPECTOR: The building inspector of the village of Winfield or his authorized deputy, agent or representative as designated by the village president and board of trustees.
BUILDING SEWER: The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
CONTROL MANHOLE: A structure located on a site from which industrial wastes are discharged. The purpose of a control manhole is to provide access for a village representative to sample and/or measure discharges.
DEBT SERVICE CHARGE: The amount to be paid each billing period for payment of interest, principal and coverage of revenue bonds outstanding and shall be allocated to the various waste characteristics such as volume, BOD, suspended solids and ammonia nitrogen.
DIRECTOR: The chief administrative officer of the state of Illinois environmental protection agency.
DOMESTIC WASTE: Wastewater derived principally from plumbing fixtures, drains in dwellings, business or office buildings, institutions, food service establishments and similar facilities. It shall not include industrial or commercial processing waste.
DWELLING UNIT: Any building designed or used for human occupancy.
EASEMENT: An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
EFFLUENT: The outflow from a tank or other treatment unit.
EFFLUENT CRITERIA: Defined in any applicable "NPDES permit".
EFFLUENT RECEIVING TRENCH: A seepage line of gravel or gravelless design used to receive the treated discharge from an aerobic treatment plant or sand filter prior to discharge to the ground surface or other location.
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.
GARBAGE: Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
HUMAN WASTE: The normal excretory waste of the human body.
INDUSTRIAL USER: Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of a publicly owned treatment works which discharges more than the equivalent of twenty five thousand (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 D | Manufacturing. |
Division E | Transportation, communications, electric, gas and sanitary services. |
Division I | Services. |
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.
INFILTRATION: The water entering a sewer system, including 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 sewer system, including building drains and sewers, from such sources as, but not limited to, roof leaders, cellars, yards and area drains, foundation drains, unpolluted cooling water discharges, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections from storm sewers and combined sewers, catch basins, stormwaters, surface runoff, street wash waters or drainage. (Inflow does not include and is distinguished from infiltration.)
MALFUNCTION: A condition whereby a private sewage disposal system: a) discharges untreated or partially treated sewage to the ground surface or effluent backs up into the building from the private sewage disposal system; and b) the private sewage disposal system cannot be repaired or cannot be repaired without renovation.
NPDES PERMIT: Any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued by the administrator, or where appropriated by the director, after enactment of the federal water pollution control amendments of 1972, to regulate the discharge of pollutants pursuant to section 402 of the federal act.
OPERATION OR MAINTENANCE COSTS: All costs, direct and indirect (other than debt service), necessary to ensure adequate wastewater treatment on a continuing basis, conforming with related federal, state and local requirements, and ensuring optimal long term facility management. These costs include an annual charge for replacement of equipment computed on the basis of the cost of equipment replacement divided by its useful life.
OWNER: Anyone having legal title to the lot, tract or parcel of land for which usage or service from the sanitary sewerage system of the village is provided and/or proposed.
ppm: Parts per million by weight.
PERCOLATION TEST: A test at a depth of a proposed seepage system or similar component of a private sewage disposal system to determine the water absorptive capacity of the soil and determine the seasonal high water table.
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.
pH: The logarithm (base-10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration expressed in grams per liter of solution. It shall be determined by one of the procedures outlined in standard 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 seventeen-hundredths (0.17) pounds of BOD and twenty-hundredths (0.20) pounds of suspended solids.
PRETREATMENT: The treatment of wastewater from sources before introduction into the wastewater treatment works.
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM: Any sewage handling or treatment facility receiving domestic waste from less than fifteen (15) persons or population equivalent and having a ground surface discharge or any sewage handling or treatment facility receiving domestic waste and having no ground surface discharge.
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 cm) in any dimension.
PROPERTY: A tract of land for which legal title has been recorded.
PUBLIC SEWER: A sewer dedicated to or provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the village consisting of collector sewer, interceptor sewer, force main and pumping station. It 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.
REASONABLY AVAILABLE: An Illinois environmental protection agency approved sewerage system shall be reasonably available for connection if: a) the requirements of subsection 8-5-4A3 of this chapter and all other requirements of this code are met, b) the sewerage system is located contiguous to the property in a public right of way or easement, and c) the sewer or service stub can be reached without tunneling or boring for a distance of more than forty feet (40') under a roadway, building, or flowing stream or combination of them.
RENOVATION: Adding or replacing a septic tank(s) or adding to or replacing septic fields or seepage beds. Replacement of limited sections of damaged pipe does not constitute renovation.
REPAIR: Any change or alteration of a private sewage disposal system that does not constitute renovation.
REPLACEMENT: Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful 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.
RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL USER OR NONINDUSTRIAL USER: Any user of the treatment works not classified as an industrial user.
SANITARY SEWAGE: The combination of liquid and water carried wastes discharged from sanitary plumbing conveniences by reason of normal human and domestic activities.
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.
SCUM: The mass of sewage solids floating at the surface of sewage.
SEEPAGE BED: A shallow pit with level bottom containing gravel and distribution piping designed to allow septic tank effluent to seep into the ground.
SEEPAGE FIELD: A system of open jointed or perforated pipes placed in trenches to which the effluent from a treatment unit is discharged for seepage into the soil. The field is covered with earth.
SEPTAGE: The accumulated sludge and scum removed in the maintenance of a private sewage disposal system.
SEWAGE: A combination of the water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT: Any arrangement of devices, structures and equipment for treating sewage.
SEWERAGE: The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation and pumping of sewage.
SEWERS: A pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other waste liquids, including storm, surface and ground water drainage.
SHALL, MAY: "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissible.
SLUDGE: The accumulated solids settled from waste.
SLUG: Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which concentration of any given constituent or 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.
STANDARD METHODS: The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the most recent edition of "Standard Methods For The Examination Of Water, Sewage And Industrial Wastes", published jointly by the American Public Water Works Association and the Federation Of Sewage And Industrial Wastes Association.
STORM SEWER: A sewer that carries storm, surface and ground water drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
SURCHARGE: That part of the user charge system in addition to the user charge and debt service charge which is levied on those persons whose wastes discharges are greater than normal domestic sanitary sewage wastes and is imposed to recover the cost of treating excess strength industrial wastes.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS: 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 standard methods.
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.
USER CHARGE: A charge established for users of the treatment facilities in the proportionate share to each user of the cost of operation and maintenance including replacement of such facilities pursuant to section 204(b) or PL 92-500 and shall include surcharges for the treatment of any excess strength wastes.
USER CLASS: The type of user either "residential or commercial" or "industrial" as defined.
VILLAGE: The village of Winfield.
WASTEWATER: The spent water of a community. It may be a combination of the liquid and water carried domestic wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may be present.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES: The structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
WASTEWATER SERVICE CHARGE: The charge per bimonthly period established for all users of the wastewater facilities. It shall consist of the total of the basic user charge, the basic user rate, surcharge, if applicable, and the debt service charge.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS: An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "wastewater treatment plant" or "sewage treatment plant" or "pollution control plant".
WATER AND SEWER FUND: The principal accounting designation for all revenues received and expenses incurred in the operation of the waterworks and/or sewerage system. These revenues and expenses shall be segregated so that water system revenues and expenses shall be recorded in the waterworks account of the water and sewer fund and revenues and expenses of the sewerage system shall be recorded in the sewerage account of the water and sewer fund.
WATERCOURSE: A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (Ord. 684, 3-14-1984; amd. 1994 Code; Ord. 2007-6-31, 6-7-2007)