(A) Abbreviations. The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
BOD | Biochemical oxygen demand |
C.F.R. | Code of Federal Regulations |
COD | Chemical oxygen demand |
FOG | Fats, oils, and grease |
IEPA | Illinois Environmental Protection Agency |
mg/l | Milligrams per liter |
NCPS | National categorical pretreatment standards |
NPDES | National pollutant discharge elimination system |
POTW | Publicly owned treatment works |
PSES | Pretreatment standards for existing sources |
PSNS | Pretreatment standards for new sources |
RCRA | Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 et seq.) |
SIC | Standard industrial classification |
SWDA | Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 et seq.) |
TSS | Total suspended solids |
TTO | Total toxic organics |
U.S.C. | United States Code |
USEPA | United States Environmental Protection Agency |
(B) For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
A. As in CYANIDE-A, means amendable to alkaline chlorination.
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 Director of Public Services.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER. A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice president, if the industrial user is a corporation; a general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively; or a duly authorized representative of the individual designated above. A person is a duly authorized representative only if the authorization is made in writing to the city by a person described above.
BASELINE REPORT. That report required by 40 C.F.R. § 403.12(b)(1) through (b)(7).
BASIC USER CHARGE. The basic assessment levied on all users of the public sewer system.
BOD (denoting 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.
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 (one and one-half meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT CHARGE. A charge levied on users to improve, extend, or reconstruct the sewage treatment works.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD). The quantity of oxygen consumed from a chemical oxidant (standard potassium dichromate solution) under standard laboratory procedures as described in Standard Methods.
CITY. The City of Wood River or the designated representative thereof.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater, storm, surface, and groundwater drainage.
COMBINED WASTE STREAM FORMULA. That formula as found in 40 C.F.R. § 403.6(e).
COMPOSITE SAMPLE. A sample of wastewater based on a flow proportional or time proportional method.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. Biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, FOG, suspended solids, pH, and fecal coliform bacteria.
CONSISTENT POTW TREATMENT WORKS REMOVAL, POLLUTANT REMOVAL, OR REMOVAL. Reduction in the amount of a pollutant or alteration of the nature or concentration of a pollutant in the influent of the POTW to a less incompatible or concentrated state in the effluent. Consistent POTW removal efficiency shall be the difference between the average concentration of the pollutant in the influent of the treatment plant and the average concentration of the pollutant in the effluent of the treatment plant divided by the average concentration of the pollutant in the influent.
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 city representative to sample and/or measure discharges.
COOLING WATER. The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling, or refrigeration, to which the only pollutant added is heat.
DEBT SERVICE CHARGE. The amount to be paid each billing period for payment of interest, principal and coverage of an outstanding loan, bond, or the like.
DIRECTOR. The Director of the IEPA.
EASEMENT. An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned.
EFFLUENT CRITERIA. Derived in any applicable NPDES PERMIT.
EXISTING CRITERIA. Any building, structure, facility, or installation from which there is or may be a discharge, which is not a NEW SOURCE.
FATS, OIL, OR GREASE (FOG). Any hydrocarbons, fatty acids, soaps, fats, waxes, oils, and any other material that is extracted by trichlorotrifluorethane solvent.
FECAL COLIFORM. Any number of organisms common to the intestinal tract of man and animals whose presence in the sanitary sewage is an indicator of pollution.
FEDERAL ACT. The Federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq.) as amended (Pub.L.92-500).
FEDERAL GRANT. The U.S. government 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, being 33 U.S.C. §§ 1281 et seq., and implementing regulations.
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.
FLOW. Volume of wastewater per unit of time.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of food.
GRAB SAMPLE. A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis without regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of time.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT. All pollutants other than compatible pollutants as defined in this section.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE OR DISCHARGE. The introduction of pollutants into a POTW from any non-domestic source regulated under § 307(b), (c) or (d) of the Act, being 33 U.S.C. § 1317(b), (c), and (d).
INDUSTRIAL USER. A source of indirect discharge including, but not limited to, a manufacturing or process facility, or other facility engaged in the purchase or sale of goods, transaction of business or who otherwise renders services to the public.
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.
INSTITUTIONAL/GOVERNMENTAL USER. Includes schools, churches, penal institutions, and users associated with federal, state, and local governments.
INTERFERENCE. A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, both:
(a) Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use, or disposal; and
(b) Therefore is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW’s NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with the following statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent state or local regulations): § 405 of the Clean Water Act, being 33 U.S.C. § 1345, the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), being 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 et seq. (including Title II, more commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and including state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the SWDA), the Clean Air Act, being 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401 et seq., the Toxic Substances Control Act, being 15 U.S.C. §§ 2601 et seq., and the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, being 16 U.S.C. §§ 1431 et seq. and 33 U.S.C.§§ 1401 et seq.
LOCAL CAPITAL COST CHARGE. Charges for costs other than the operation, maintenance and replacement costs, i.e. debt service and capital improvement costs.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRIAL USER. Any industrial user of the city’s wastewater disposal system who has a discharge flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day, or has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the city’s wastewater treatment system, or has in his or her wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to § 307 of the Act, being 33 U.S.C. § 1317, of state statutes and rules, or is found by the city, state control agency or the USEPA to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system’s effluent quality, or air emissions generated by the system.
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.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD. Any pretreatment standard specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants which may be discharged to a POTW by industrial users in specific industrial subcategories as established in regulations promulgated by the USEPA in 40 C.F.R. Chapter I, Subchapter N, being 40 C.F.R. pts. 400—471.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
NEW SOURCE. 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 § 307(c) of the Act, being 33 U.S.C. § 1317, which will be applicable to such sources if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section.
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 § 402 of the Federal Act, being U.S.C. § 1342.
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 violation of any requirement of the POTW’s NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
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.
POLLUTANT. Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt or industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water.
POPULATION EQUIVALENT. A term used to evaluate the impact of industrial or other waste on a treatment works or stream. One population equivalent is 100 gallons of sewage per day, containing 0.17 pounds of BOD and 0.20 pounds of suspended solids.
POTW TREATMENT PLANT. That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to wastewater and sludges produced.
PPM. Parts per million by weight.
PRETREATMENT. The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW.
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS. Any specified pollutant, city prohibitive discharge standards as set forth in § 51.028, city specific limitations on discharge as set forth in § 51.029, the state’s pretreatment standards or the national categorical pretreatment standards (when effective), whichever standard is most stringent.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS. Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment, other than a pretreatment standard, imposed on an industrial user.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of foods 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.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW). A treatment works as defined by § 212 of the Act, being 33 U.S.C. § 1292, owned by the city. This definition includes any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature that convey wastewater to the POTW treatment plant regardless of ownership, but does not include sewers, pipes, and other conveyances not connected to the city POTW treatment plant.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the city. This shall not include any portion of any lateral sewer line which shall be the BUILDING SEWER. It shall also include sewers within or outside the city boundaries that serve one or more persons and ultimately discharge into the city sanitary (or combined) sewer system, even though those sewers may not have been constructed with city funds.
REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR. The Regional Administrator for the USEPA for Region V.
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 USER. All dwelling units such as houses, mobile homes, apartments, and permanent multi-family dwellings.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes or a combination of both, and into which storm, surface, and groundwaters or polluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE. Is used interchangeably with WASTEWATER.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other waste liquids, including storm, surface, and groundwater drainage.
SEWERAGE. The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation, and pumping of sewage.
SEWERAGE FUND. The principal accounting designation for all revenue received in the operation of the sewerage system.
SHALL. Is mandatory. MAY is permissive.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER. Any industrial user of the POTW’s wastewater disposal system who has a discharge flow of 10,000 gallons or more per average work day; or has a discharge flow greater than 1% of the flow in the POTW’s wastewater treatment system; or has in its wastewater incompatible pollutants as defined pursuant to § 307 of the Act, being 33 U.S.C. § 1317, or by state statutes, or by applicable federal or state rules and regulations; or is found by the POTW, IEPA, or USEPA to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system’s effluent quality, or air emissions generated by the system; or is subject to any national categorical pretreatment standard.
SIGNIFICANT VIOLATION. A violation of this chapter which remains uncorrected 45 days after notification of such noncompliance; which is part of a pattern of noncompliance over a 12-month period; which involves failure to accurately report noncompliance; or which resulted in the POTW exercising its emergency authority under §§ 51.140 through 51.147, Enforcement Procedures.
SLUDGE. The settleable solids separated from the liquids during the wastewater treatment processes.
SLUG. Any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentration of any given pollutant, as measured by a grab sample, exceeds more than five times the allowable concentration as set forth in § 51.029 or any pollutant, including oxygen demanding pollutants (BOD and the like) released in a discharge at a flow rate and/or concentration which will cause interference with the POTW.
STANDARD METHODS. The laboratory procedures set forth in the latest edition, at the time of analysis, of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater prepared and published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation, and any other procedures recognized by the SEPA and IEPA.
STATE ACT. The Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act of 1978, being 30 ILCS 405.
STATE GRANT. The State of Illinois participation in the financing and 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.
STORM SEWER. A sewer that carries storm, surface, and groundwater drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
STORM WATER RUNOFF. That portion of the precipitation that is drained into the sewers.
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 with the concentration values established in § 51.029.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS or 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.
T. As in CYANIDE-T, means total.
TOTAL METALS. The sum of the concentration of all metals.
TOTAL SOLIDS. The sums of suspended and dissolved solids.
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS or TSS. Total suspended matter, expressed in milligrams per liter, that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in water, wastewater or other liquids and is removable by laboratory filtration using a Reeve Angel type 934A or 984H glass fiber filter disc as prescribed in Standard Methods.
TOTAL TOXIC ORGANICS. The summation of all quantified values greater than 0.01 milligrams per liter for the toxic organics as specified in the applicable regulation.
UNPOLLUTED WATER. Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria set forth in 35 Ill. Adm. Code Part 304 or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards set forth in 35 Ill. Adm. Code Parts 302 and 303 and would not be benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
UPSET. An exceptional incident in which there is unintentional and temporary noncompliance with applicable pretreatment standards because of factors beyond the reasonable control of the industrial user. An UPSET does not include noncompliance to the extent caused by operational error, improperly designed treatment facilities, inadequate treatment facilities, lack of preventive maintenance, or careless or improper operation.
USEFUL LIFE. The estimated period during which the collection system and/or treatment works will be operated.
USER. Any person who contributes, causes, or permits the contribution of wastewater into the city POTW.
USER CHARGE. A charge levied on users of treatment works for the cost of operation, maintenance, and replacement.
USER CLASS. The type of user residential, institutional/governmental, commercial, or industrial as defined herein.
WASTEWATER. The combination of the liquid and water carrying wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions including polluted cooling water.
(a) INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER. A combination of liquid and water carried waste, discharged from any industrial user including the wastewater from pretreatment facilities and polluted cooling water.
(b) SANITARY WASTEWATER. The combination of liquid and water carried wastes discharged from toilet and other sanitary plumbing facilities.
WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT. The document or documents issued to a user by the city in accordance with the terms of this chapter.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES. The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and transport effluent to a watercourse.
WASTEWATER HAULER. Any person, partnership or corporation engaged in transporting sanitary wastewater as a commercial venture.
WASTEWATER SERVICE CHARGE. The charge per quarter, bi-monthly, or monthly levied on all users of the wastewater facilities. The service charge shall be computed as outlined in § 51.068, and shall consist of the total or the basic user charge, the local capital cost, and a surcharge, if applicable.
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.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
WATERS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through, or border upon the state or any portion thereof.
(Prior Code, § 51.014) (Ord. 88-9, passed 9-20-1988)