As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter in five days at 20° C., expressed as milligrams
per liter. Quantitative determination of BOD shall be made in accordance
with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
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 and conveys it to the building
sewer.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal beginning outside the inner face of the
building.
GARBAGE
The residue from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage, and sale of food products
and produce.
INDUSTRIAL USER
A.
Any governmental user of publicly owned treatment works which
discharges more than 25,000 gallons per day of sanitary waste or a
volume of process waste, or combined process and sanitary waste, equivalent
to 25,000 gallons per day of sanitary waste. Sanitary wastes are the
wastes discharged from the average residential user in the Village's
service area. The strength of the average residential waste discharge
in the Village's service area shall be defined in terms of a
concentration of 200 milligrams per liter biochemical oxygen demand
(BOD) and 200 milligrams per liter suspended solids (SS). These concentrations
will be applied in determining equivalent volumes of process waste
or combined discharges of sanitary and process wastes.
B.
Any nongovernmental user of a publicly owned treatment works
which discharges wastewater to the treatment works which contains
toxic pollutants or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient
quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to injure
or interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard
to humans or animals, create a public nuisance, or create any hazard
in or have an adverse effect on the waters receiving any discharge
from the treatment works.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
The wastewater from an industrial process, trade, or business,
as distinct from sanitary sewage, including cooling water and the
discharge from sewage pretreatment facilities.
PERSON
Any and all persons, including any individual, firm, company,
municipal or private corporation, association, society, institution,
enterprise, governmental agency, or other entity.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration.
The concentration is the weight of the hydrogen ions in grams per
liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of 7
and a hydrogen-ion concentration of 10-7.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions,
together with minor quantities of groundwater, stormwater and surface
water that are not admitted intentionally.
SHOCK
Any discharge of water or wastewater 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 of flows during normal operation and
shall adversely affect the system and/or performance of the wastewater
treatment works.
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 Environment Federation.
STORM DRAIN
Sometimes termed "storm sewer," a drain or sewer for conveying
water, groundwater, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any
source.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, wastewater, or other liquids and that are removable by laboratory
filtering as prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of
Water and Wastewater and referred to as "nonfilterable residue."
WASTEWATER
The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source,
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 but not intentionally admitted.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater,
industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "waste
treatment."
WATERCOURSE
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water,
either continuously or intermittently.
Whenever any real estate or any easement therein, or use thereof,
shall in the judgment of the Village Board be necessary to the sewer
system and whenever, for any cause, an agreement for the purchase
thereof cannot be made with the owner thereof, the Village Board shall
proceed with all necessary steps to take such real estate easement
or use by condemnation in accordance with Wisconsin Statutes and the
Uniform Relocation and Real Property Acquisition Policy Act of 1970,
if federal funds are used.
All property, real, personal, and mixed, acquired for the construction
of the sewer system, and all plans, specifications, diagrams, papers,
books and records connected with said sewer system, and all buildings,
machinery, and fixtures pertaining thereto, shall be the property
of said Village of Luck.
The rules and regulations and sewer rates of the Village hereinafter
set forth shall be considered a part of the contract with every person,
company or corporation who or which is connected with the sewer system
of the Village of Luck, and every such person, company or corporation
by connecting with the sewer system shall be considered as expressing
his or their assent to be bound thereby. Whenever any of said rules
and regulations or such others as the Village Board may hereafter
adopt are violated, the service shall be shut off from the building
or place of such violation (even though two or more parties are receiving
service through the same connection) and shall not be reestablished
except by order of the Village Board and on payment of all arrears,
the expenses and established charges of shutting off and putting on,
and such other terms as the Village Board may determine and a satisfactory
understanding with the party that no further cause for complaint shall
arise. In case of such violation the Village Board may declare any
payment made for the service by the party or parties committing such
violation to be forfeited, and the same shall thereupon be forfeited.
The right is reserved to the Village Board to change said rules, regulations,
and sewer rates from time to time as it may deem advisable and to
make special rates and contracts in all proper cases.