The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in terms of weight and concentration [milligrams
per liter (mg/l)].
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 building walls and conveys it to the building sewer beginning
outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the municipal sewer
or other place of disposal.
COMMERCIAL USER
(1)
A commercial business discharging wastewater.
(2)
Users not categorized as residential or industrial.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration or during which use the only constituent
added to the water is heat.
DEPARTMENT
The Department of Public Works of the Village.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL USER
A person who discharges into the Village's wastewater treatment
works liquid wastes resulting from the processes employed in industry
or manufacturing or from the development of any natural resource.
LOT
A plot of land in any part of the Village containing no more
than one connection to the wastewater treatment works.
MUNICIPAL SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
PARCEL OF LAND
Any piece of real estate not being a part of any regular
subdivision or addition.
PERSON
The state or any agency or institution of the state, any
municipality, governmental subdivision, public or private corporation,
individual, partnership, or other entity, including but not limited
to association, commission or any interstate body, and including any
officer or governmental subdivision or public or private corporation
or other entity.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
PREMISES
Any piece of real estate having one or more sewers which
may be connected either individually or through a common sewer and
directly or indirectly to the wastewater treatment works.
PRETREATMENT
The process of reducing the amount of pollutants, eliminating pollutants, or altering 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 the Village's wastewater treatment works. The reduction, elimination or alteration may be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, process changes or other means, except as prohibited by §
510-41.
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
municipal sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries wastewater and to which stormwater,
surface water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying wastewater.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Any user of the Village's wastewater treatment works which
has:
(1)
A wastewater flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average workday.
(2)
A flow greater than 5% of the flow in the Village's wastewater
treatment works.
(3)
In its wastes, toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to Section
307 of the Act or state law.
(4)
A significant impact, either singly or in combination with other
contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment works, the quality
of sludge, the treatment works' effluent quality or air emissions
generated by the treatment works.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, wastewater or industrial waste which
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds
for longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average twenty-four-hour
concentration or flows during a normal operation.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface water and drainage
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling
water.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting from such precipitation.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of
or is suspended in water or other liquids and which is removable by
a standard glass fiber filter.
USER
Any person who discharges or causes or permits the discharge
of wastewater into the Village's wastewater treatment works.
VILLAGE
The Village of Woodville or the Board of Trustees or the
President of the Village.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may
be present, whether treated or untreated, which is discharged into
or permitted to enter the Village's wastewater treatment works.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
Any devices, facilities, structures, equipment or works owned
or used by the Village for the purpose of the transmission, storage,
treatment, recycling and reclamation of industrial and domestic wastewater
or necessary to recycle or reuse water, including intercepting sewers,
outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, pumping, power and other
equipment, and their appurtenances; extensions, improvements, remodeling,
additions and alterations; elements essential to provide a reliable
recycled water supply, such as standby treatment units and clear well
facilities; and any works, including land, that will be an integral
part of the treatment process or are used for ultimate disposal of
residues resulting from such treatment.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, whether continuously
or intermittently.
WATERS OF THE STATE
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 of the
state.
WISCONSIN POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (WPDES) PERMIT
Any permit or requirements issued by the Department of Natural
Resources pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as
amended, for the purpose of regulating the discharge of sewage, industrial
wastes, or other wastes under the authority of Section 402 of the
Act.