§ 38-5-1. Definitions.

Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:

CLARIFICATION OF WORD USAGE

"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissible.

GOVERNMENT, FEDERAL

(A) 

ADMINISTRATOR

Means the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

(B) 

FEDERAL ACT

Means the Federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 466 et seq.) as amended, (Pub. L. 95-217).

(C) 

FEDERAL GRANT

Shall mean the United States 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 and implementing regulations.

GOVERNMENT, LOCAL

(A) 

APPROVING AUTHORITY

Shall mean the Superintendent of the Village or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.

(B) 

NPDES PERMIT

Means 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 Section 402 of the Federal Act.

(C) 

PERSON

Shall mean any and all persons, natural or artificial including any individual, firm, company, municipal or private cooperation, association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency or other entity.

(D) 

INSPECTOR

Shall mean the Village Plumbing Inspector or other person or persons duly authorized by the Village to inspect and approve the installation of building sewers and their connection to the sanitary sewer system.

GOVERNMENT, STATE

(A) 

DIRECTOR

Means the Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

(B) 

STATE ACT

Means the Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act of 1970.

(C) 

STATE GRANT

Shall mean 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.

SEWER TYPES AND APPURTENANCES

(A) 

BUILDING DRAIN

Shall mean 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 (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.

(B) 

BUILDING SEWER

Shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.

(C) 

COMBINED SEWER

Shall mean a sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater, storm, surface and groundwater drainage.

(D) 

EASEMENT

Shall mean an acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by other.

(E) 

PUBLIC SEWER

Shall mean 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 or combined sewer system, even though those sewers may not have been constructed with Village funds.

(F) 

SANITARY SEWER

Shall mean 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

Shall mean a pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other waste liquids, including storms, surface and groundwater drainage.

(H) 

SEWERAGE

Shall mean the system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation and pumping of sewage.

(I) 

STORM SEWER

Shall mean a sewer that carries storm-, surface and groundwater drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.

(J) 

STORMWATER RUNOFF

Shall mean that portion of the precipitation that is drained into the sewers.

TREATMENT

(A) 

PRETREATMENT

Shall mean the treatment of wastewater from sources before introduction into the wastewater treatment works.

(B) 

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 "pollution control plant."

TYPES OF CHARGES

(A) 

BASIC USER CHARGE

Shall mean the basic assessment levied on all users of the public sewer system.

(B) 

CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT CHARGE

Shall mean the charge levied on users to improve, extend or reconstruct the sewage treatment works.

(C) 

DEBT SERVICE CHARGE

Shall be the amount to be paid each billing period for payment of interest, principal and coverage of (loan, bond, etc.) outstanding.

(D) 

LOCAL CAPITAL COST CHARGE

Shall mean charges for costs other than the operation, maintenance and replacements costs, i.e., debt service and capital improvement costs.

(E) 

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 works were designed and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance" includes replacement.

(F) 

SEWERAGE FUND

Is the principal accounting designation for all revenues received in the operation of the sewerage system.

(G) 

SURCHARGE

Shall mean 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 average concentration values as established by code.

(H) 

USEFUL LIFE

Shall mean the estimated period during which the collection system and/or treatment works will be operated.

(I) 

USER CHARGE

Shall mean a charge levied on users of treatment works for the cost operation, maintenance and replacement.

(J) 

WASTEWATER SERVICE CHARGE

Shall be the charge per quarter or month levied on all users of the wastewater facilities. The service charge shall be computed as outlined in Article IV of this Code and shall consist of the total or the basic user charge, the local capital cost and a surcharge, if applicable.

(K) 

RESERVE FUND CHARGE

Shall mean a revolving fund for expansion and construction of the sewer system.

USER TYPES

(A) 

CONTROL MANHOLE

Shall mean 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.

(B) 

INDUSTRIAL USER

Shall include establishments engaged in manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials of substance into products.

(C) 

RESIDENTIAL USER

Shall mean all dwelling units such as houses, buildings, mobile homes, apartments, permanent multifamily dwellings.

(D) 

USER CLASS

Shall mean the type of user, either residential or commercial (nonindustrial) or industrial, as defined herein.

(E) 

COMMERCIAL USER

Shall include transit lodging, retail and wholesale establishments or places engaged in selling merchandise, or rendering services.

(F) 

INSTITUTIONAL/GOVERNMENTAL USER

Shall include schools, churches, penal institutions, and users associated with federal, state and local governments.

WASTEWATER AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS

(A) 

BOD (Denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")

Shall mean 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

Is oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility. A 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

Shall mean 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

Shall mean 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.

(F) 

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; or

(2) 

Has a flow greater than 10% of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste; or

(3) 

Has in its waste, a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under Section 307(a) of the Federal Act; or

(4) 

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 (mg/l)

Shall mean a unit of the concentration of water or wastewater constituent. It is 0.001 gram of the constituent in 1,000 milliliter 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 — Shall mean 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.

(I) 

POPULATION EQUIVALENT

Is 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 pound of BOD and 0.20 pound of suspended solids.

(J) 

PPM

Shall mean parts per million by weight.

(K) 

PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE

Shall mean 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 1/2 inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.

(L) 

SEWAGE

Is used interchangeably with "wastewater."

(M) 

SLUG

Shall mean 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 twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during normal operation.

(N) 

SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS)

Shall mean 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 Methods.

(O) 

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 benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.

(P) 

WASTEWATER

Shall mean 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.

(Q) 

WATER QUALITY STANDARDS

Are defined in the Water Pollution Regulations of Illinois.

WASTEWATER FACILITIES

Shall mean the structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and transport effluent to a watercourse.

WATERCOURSE AND CONNECTIONS

(A) 

WATERCOURSE

Shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.

(B) 

NATURAL OUTLET

Shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or groundwater.

Amended 9-27-2010 by Ord. No. 10-5