(A) For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning. Note that
SHALL is mandatory, while MAY is permissible.
(1) APPLICANT. An owner (or owners) of premises who has made written application to the President and Board of Trustees for permission to have a sewer connection, a water service connection, or a water or sewer extension installed.
(2) PERSON. Any and all persons, whether natural or artificial, including any individual, firm, company, municipal or private corporation, association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency, or other entity.
(3) NPDES PERMIT. Any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued by the Administrator or, where appropriate 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.
(4) SEWER TYPES AND APPURTENANCES. Applicable definitions in this category are as follows:
(a) BUILDING DRAIN. That part of the lowest piping of a drainage system which receives the waste from 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 (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
(b) BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal. This reference shall be understood to include the "whole" of stubs, taps, connections, valves, pipes, joints, and sleeves connecting or joining the sewer main to the premises served.
(c) COMBINED SEWER. A sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater, storm, surface, and groundwater drainage.
(d) EASEMENT. An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
(e) PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the village. 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 through those sewers may not have been constructed with village funds.
(f) SANITARY SEWER. A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes or a combination of both, and into which storm, surface, and groundwaters or unpolluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
(g) SEWER. A pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other waste liquids, including storm, surface, and groundwater drainage.
(h) SEWERAGE. The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation, and pumping of sewage.
(i) SEWER EXTENSION. A sanitary sewer main installed by a private person (or persons), firm, association, corporation, or partnership for the purpose of extending the original sanitary sewer mains of the village which have been extended from time to time.
(j) SEWER STUB. A sanitary sewer line or pipe extending from the sanitary sewer main or lateral to approximately the property line of the premises to be served (ordinarily within seven feet of the property line).
(k) SEWER TAP. The operation of putting a hole into a "main" pipe to provide for the flow of sewage from the premises being served.
(1) STORM SEWER. A sewer that carries storm, surface, and groundwater drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
(m) STORMWATER RUNOFF. That portion of the precipitation that is drained into the sewers.
(5) TREATMENT. Applicable definitions in this category are as follows:
(a) PRETREATMENT. The treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into the wastewater treatment works.
(b) 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.
(6) TYPES OF CHARGES. Applicable definitions in this category are as follows:
(a) BASIC USER CHARGE. The basic assessment levied on all users of the combined sewerage and waterworks system.
(b) DEBT SERVICE CHARGE. The amount to be paid each billing period for payment of interest, principal, and coverage of the loan, bond, or the like which is outstanding and shall be computed by dividing the annual debt service by the number of users connected to the combined sewerage and waterworks system.
(c) REPLACEMENT. Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the combined sewerage and waterworks system to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. The term OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE includes replacement.
(d) SERVICE CHARGE. The charge per quarter or month levied on all users of the combined sewerage and waterworks system. The service charge shall be computed as hereinafter outlined in this chapter and shall consist of the total or the basic user charge, the debt service charge, and a surcharge if applicable.
(e) SURCHARGE. The assessment in addition to the basic user charge and debt service charge which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration values established in this chapter.
(f) USEFUL LIFE. The estimated period during which the collection system and/or treatment works will be operated and shall be 20 years from the date of start-up of any wastewater facilities constructed with a state grant.
(g) USER CHARGE. A charge levied on users of the combined sewerage and waterworks system for the cost of operation and maintenance.
(h) VILLAGE OF WINTHROP HARBOR SEWERAGE AND WATERWORKS FUND. The principal accounting designation for all revenues received in the operation of the combined sewerage and waterworks system.
(7) USER TYPES. Applicable definitions in this category are as follows:
(a) COMMERCIAL USER. Shall include transit lodging, retail and wholesale establishments, or places engaged in selling merchandise or rendering services.
(b) 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.
(c) INDUSTRIAL USER. Any non-governmental user of publicly-owned treatment works identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under the following divisions:
1. Division A: Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing.
2. Division B: Mining.
3. Division D: Manufacturing.
4. Division E: Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, and Sanitary Services.
5. Division I: Services.
This term shall also include establishments engaged in manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials of substance into products. A user in the Divisions listed above may be excluded if it is determined by the approving authority that it will introduce primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(d) INSTITUTIONAL/GOVERNMENTAL USER. Shall include schools, hospitals, churches, penal institutions, and users associated with federal, state, and local governments.
(e) RESIDENTIAL USER. All dwelling units such as houses, mobile homes, apartments, and permanent multi-family dwellings.
(f) USER CLASS. The type of user, RESIDENTIAL, INSTITUTIONAL/GOVERNMENTAL, COMMERCIAL, or INDUSTRIAL as defined herein.
(8) WASTEWATER AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS. Applicable definitions in this category are as follows:
(a) BOD or BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND. The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20°C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
(b) EFFLUENT CRITERIA. Are defined in any applicable NPDES permit.
(c) 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. Wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system.
(d) GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
(e) INDUSTRIAL WASTE. Any solid, liquid, or gaseous substance discharge, 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.
(f) MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY. An industrial user of the publicly-owned treatment works that has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day; or has a flow greater than 10% of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste; or has in its waste, a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in Standards issued under section 307 (a) of the Federal Act; or is found by the permit issuance authority, in connection with the issuance of 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.
(g) MILLIGRAMS PER LITER. A unit of the concentration of water or wastewater constituent. It is 0.001 g of the constituent in 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.
(h) pH. The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration expressed by one of the procedures outlined in "Standard Methods".
(i) ppm. Parts per million by weight.
(j) POPULATION EQUIVALENT. A term use to evaluate the impact of industrial or other waste on a treatment works or stream, in units as determined by the North Shore Sanitary District.
(k) 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 (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
(l) SEWAGE. Used interchangeably with WASTEWATER.
(m) 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 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
(n) STANDARD METHODS. The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the most recent edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
(o) 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".
(p) UNPOLLUTED WATER. Water of a 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.
(q) 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.
(r) WATER QUALITY STANDARDS. Defined in the Water Pollution Regulations of Illinois.
(9) WASTEWATER FACILITIES. The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and transport effluent to a watercourse.
(10) WATERCOURSE AND CONNECTIONS. Applicable definitions in this category are as follows:
(a) NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or groundwater.
(b) WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(11) WATER TYPES AND APPURTENANCES. Applicable definitions in this category are as follows:
(a) CURB STOP or BUFFALO BOX. The valve and box located approximately seven feet off the property line installed in the water service pipe, that provides the means of shutting off the water supply to the premises served.
(b) WATER EXTENSION. A water main installed by a private person (or persons), firm, association, corporation, or partnership for the purpose of extending the original water mains of the village.
(c) WATER SERVICE. The water pipe from the main to the premises being served. This reference is made to the "whole" of stubs, taps, connections, valves, pipes, joints, and sleeves connecting or joining the water main to the premises served.
(d) WATER STUB. That part of the service extending from the water main or lateral to a point approximately seven feet from the property line, at which point the curb stop shall be located.
(e) WATER TAP. The operation of installing a sleeve and/or valve stop on the water main and "tapping" or drilling a hole into the main to provide for the flow of water from the water main to the premises being served.
(B) Definitions regarding local, state, and federal government references shall be as follows:
(1) FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REFERENCES AND DEFINITIONS:
(a) ADMINISTRATOR. The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(b) FEDERAL ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) as amended by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of Amendments of 1972 (Pub. 1. 92-500 and Pub. 1. 93-243).
(c) FEDERAL GRANT. The United States government's participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works as provided for by Title II Grants for Construction of Treatment Works of the Act and implementing regulations.
(2) LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFERENCES AND DEFINITIONS:
(a) APPROVING AUTHORITY. That person designated by the village as having jurisdiction over various matters.
(b) ORDINANCE or CHAPTER. This chapter.
(c) SUPERINTENDENT. The Superintendent of Public Works, who is appointed by the President and Board of Trustees to verify compliance with the provisions of this chapter where stated and supervise the management of said combined sewerage and waterworks system.
(d) VILLAGE. That area within the corporate limits of the Village of Winthrop Harbor, Lake County, Illinois.
(e) VILLAGE BOARD. The President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Winthrop Harbor.
(3) STATE GOVERNMENT REFERENCES AND DEFINITIONS:
(a) DIRECTOR. The Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection agency.
(b) REVISED CITIES AND VILLAGES ACT. Effective January 1, 1942, shall mean that all monies received from the combined sewerage and waterworks system be deposited into a fund designated as the "Village of Winthrop Harbor Sewerage and Waterworks Fund".
(c) STATE ACT. The Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act of 1970.
(d) STATE GRANT. The State of Illinois' participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works as provided for by the Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act and for making such grants as filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Illinois.
('79 Code, § 1101) (Ord. 1983-O-5, passed 4-19-83; Am. Ord. 1986-O-14, passed 7-1-86)