For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall
apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different
meaning:
A.Â
ADMINISTRATOR
FEDERAL ACT
FEDERAL GRANT
Federal government.
The Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The Federal Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et
seq., as amended.
[Amended 7-27-2016 by Ord. No. 16-16]
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.
B.Â
DIRECTOR
STATE ACT
STATE GRANT
State government.
The Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
The Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act of 1970, ILCS Ch. 30, Act 405, § 1 et seq.
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 Illinois.
C.Â
APPROVING AUTHORITY
VILLAGE
Local government.
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Coal City.[1]
The Village of Coal City.
[1]
Editor's Note: The definition of "ordinance," which immediately
followed this definition, was repealed 7-27-2016 by Ord. No. 16-16.
D.Â
PERSON — Any and all persons, natural or artificial,
including any individual, firm, company, municipal, or private corporation,
association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency
or other entity.
E.Â
NPDES PERMIT — Any permit or equivalent document
or requirements issued by the Administrator or, where appropriate,
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.
F.Â
Clarification of word usage. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
G.Â
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
EFFLUENT CRITERIA
FLOATABLE OIL
GARBAGE
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY
MILLIGRAMS PER LITER
pH
POPULATION EQUIVALENT
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
SEWAGE
SLUG
SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS)
UNPOLLUTED WATER
WASTEWATER
WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
Wastewater and its characteristics.
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.
Defined in any applicable NPDES permit.
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.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and
sale of food.
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.
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 Village 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-issuing 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.
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.
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.
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 217 pounds of BOD and 0.25
pound of suspended solids.[2]
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.
Used interchangeably with "wastewater."
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.
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.
Water 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.
The spent water of the community. 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.
Defined in the state water pollution regulations.
[2]
Editor's Note: The definition of "ppm," which immediately
followed this definition, was repealed 7-27-2016 by Ord. No. 16-16.
H.Â
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
COMBINED SEWER
EASEMENT
PUBLIC SEWER
SANITARY SEWER
SEWER
SEWERAGE
STORM SEWER
STORMWATER RUNOFF
Sewer types and appurtenances.
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 (1Â 1/2
meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
A sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater,
stormwater, surface water and groundwater drainage.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
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 (or combined) sewer system, even though
those sewers may not have been constructed with Village funds.
A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes or a combination
of both, and into which stormwater, surface water, and groundwaters
or polluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
A pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other waste
liquids, including stormwater, surface water and groundwater drainage.
The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection,
transportation and pumping of sewage.
A sewer that carries stormwater, surface water and groundwater
drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted
cooling water.
That portion of the precipitation that is drained into the
sewers.
I.Â
PRETREATMENT
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
Treatment.
The treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction
into the 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."
J.Â
WASTEWATER FACILITIES — The structures, equipment,
and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic
and industrial wastes and transport effluent to a watercourse.
K.Â
NATURAL OUTLET
WATERCOURSE
Watercourse and connections.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other
body of surface or groundwater.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
L.Â
COMMERCIAL USER
CONTROL MANHOLE
INDUSTRIAL USERS
INSTITUTIONAL/GOVERNMENTAL USER
RESIDENTIAL USER
USER CLASS
User types.
Includes transit lodging, retail and wholesale establishments
or places engaged in selling merchandise or rendering services.
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.
Includes establishments engaged in manufacturing activities
involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials of
substance into products.
Includes schools, churches, penal institutions, and users
associated with federal, state, and local governments.
All dwelling units such as houses, mobile homes, apartments,
permanent multifamily dwellings.
The type of user: residential, institutional/governmental,
commercial, or industrial, as defined herein.
M.Â
BASIC USER CHARGE
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT CHARGE
DEBT SERVICE CHARGE
LOCAL CAPITAL COST CHARGE
REPLACEMENT
SEWAGE FUND
SURCHARGE
USEFUL LIFE
USER CHARGE
WASTEWATER SERVICE CHARGE
Types of charges.
The basic assessment levied on all users of the public sewer
system.
A charge levied on users to improve, extend or reconstruct
the sewage treatment works.
The amount to be paid each billing period for payment of
interest, principal and coverage of (loan, bond, and the like) outstanding.
Charges for costs other than the operation, maintenance and
replacement costs, such as debt service and capital improvement charges.
[Amended 7-27-2016 by Ord. No. 16-16]
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.
The principal accounting designation for all revenues received
in the operation of the sewerage system.
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 § 51-160.
The estimated period during which the collection system and/or
treatment works will be operated.
A charge levied on users of treatment works for the cost
of operation, maintenance and replacement.
The charge per quarter, bimonthly or per month levied on all users of the wastewater facilities. The service charge shall be computed as outlined in § 51-160 and shall consist of the total or the basic user charge, the local capital improvement cost and a surcharge, if applicable.
No statement contained in this chapter shall be construed to
interfere with any additional requirements that may be imposed by
the state Environmental Protection Agency, the state Department of
Public Health, or the Grundy County Health Department.
It shall be unlawful for any person not authorized by the Village
to tamper with, alter, or injure any part of the Village waterworks
or supply system, or any meter.
