This chapter regulates the use of public and private sewers
and drains, connections to the public sewerage system, discharge of
septage into the public sewerage system, and the discharge of waters
and wastes into the public sewerage system within the Village of Bellevue.
It also provides for and explains the method used for levying and
collecting wastewater treatment service charges, sets uniform requirements
for discharges into the wastewater collection and treatment systems,
and enables the Village to comply with administrative provisions,
and other discharge criteria which are required or authorized by the
State of Wisconsin or federal law. Its intent is to derive the maximum
public benefit by regulating the characteristics of wastewater discharged
into the sewerage system.
This chapter provides a means for regulating the use of the
public sewers, effectuating connections thereto, determining wastewater
volumes, constituents and characteristics, the setting of charges
and fees, and the issuing of permits to certain users. Revenues derived
from the application of this chapter shall be used to defray the costs
of operating and maintaining the wastewater collection and treatment
systems and to provide sufficient funds for capital outlay, debt service
costs and capital improvements. The charges and fees herein have been
established pursuant to requirements of the Wisconsin Statutes. This
chapter shall supersede any previous Village ordinances, rules or
regulations of the Village relating to the subject matter hereof;
and shall repeal all parts thereof that may be inconsistent with this
chapter. If there is any conflict between this chapter and any applicable
Wisconsin Statutes, the Wisconsin Statutes shall control in such instance.
This chapter is enacted pursuant to the power and authority
conferred by § 66.0821, Wis. Stats., as amended from time
to time.
The Village of Bellevue operating a sanitary sewer utility shall
have all of the power and authority authorized by applicable statutes;
and nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit or otherwise
limit the exercise of all such statutory power and authority.
All acts or actions performed or done by or on behalf of the
Village of Bellevue or the Village Sanitary Sewer Utility prior to
the effective date of this chapter are hereby ratified, confirmed
and declared to be valid.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The Village Board or its duly authorized committee, agent
or representative.
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 the most recent edition of "Standard
Methods."
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 or structure and conveys it
to the building sewer.
The pipe extension beginning at the outside of the inner
face of the building wall, up to and including the service connection
Y or similar fitting designed for connection with the public sewer
system.
The quantity of oxygen used in the biochemical degradation
of organic material in five days at 20° C. when the oxidation
of reduced forms of nitrogen is prevented by the addition of an inhibitor.
This analytical procedure shall be performed in accordance with Standard
Methods. Also, see definition of "BOD" above.
Carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids,
total Kjeldahl nitrogen, plus additional pollutants identified in
the WPDES permit for the publicly owned treatment works receiving
the pollutant if such works were designed to treat such additional
pollutants to a substantial degree.
Calendar days.
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 or septage shall be considered free of floatable
fat if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere
with the collection or treatment system.
The residue from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of food products
and produce; and "ground garbage" shall mean the residue from the
preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that has been shredded
to such degree that all particulates will be no greater than 1/2 inch
in any dimension and will be carried freely in suspension under normal
flow conditions in sewers.
The Sewer Use Ordinance of the Green Bay Metropolitan Sewerage
District (herein "GBMSD") adopted effective January 1, 2004, and any
amendments thereto or restatements thereof, including the most recent
amendment under motion 12-080, effective December 1, 2012.
Wastewater or septage with pollutants of such a strength
that will adversely affect or disrupt the wastewater treatment processes
or effluent quality or sludge quality if discharged to the sewerage
system facility.
The wastewater from an industrial process, trade, or business,
as distinct from sanitary sewage, including cooling water and the
discharge from sewage treatment facilities.
The wastewater of a municipality, including that of the Village.
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 have inadvertently entered the sewerage system
of the municipality.[1]
Any outlet, including storm sewers, into a watercourse, pond,
ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
A weight-to-weight ratio; the parts per million value multiplied
by the factor 8.34 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons
of water.
Any and all persons, including any individual, firm, company,
municipal or private corporations, association, society, institution,
enterprise, government agency or other entity.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of hydrogen ion concentration.
The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grains per liter
of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of 7 and a
hydrogen ion concentration of 10-7.[2]
The quantity of phosphorus as determined in accordance with
"Standard Methods."
An arrangement of devices and structures, specifically including interceptors described and provided herein at § 368-42C, for the preliminary treatment or processing of wastewater required to render such wastes acceptable for admission to the public sewers.
Any sewer owned or provided by or subject to the jurisdiction
of the Village of Bellevue.
Only users that are licensed as a complex restaurant as defined under the provisions of Ch. CHS 196, Wis. Adm. Code, as amended from time to time. The wastewater sewer service charges for complex restaurants shall be imposed herein under § 368-39D, Category D. All other restaurants (other than complex restaurants) licensed under the provisions of said Ch. CHS 196, Wis. Adm. Code, shall be considered to have normal domestic strength wastewater. The wastewater sewer service charges for said noncomplex restaurants shall be imposed herein under § 368-39A, Category A.
A combination of liquid- and water-carried wastes discharged
from toilets and/or sanitary plumbing facilities, together with such
groundwater, surface water, and stormwater as may have inadvertently
entered the sewerage system.
A sewer that carries liquid- and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions,
together with small quantities of groundwater, stormwater and surface
water that are not admitted intentionally.
The wastewater or contents of septic or holding tanks, dosing
chambers, seepage beds, seepage pits, seepage trenches, privies or
portable rest rooms. This does not include waste from a grease trap.
Is spent water of a community. The preferred term is municipal
wastewater.
The areas presently served and anticipated to be served by
a sewage collection system.
A service charge levied on users of the wastewater collection
and treatment facilities for payment of use-related capital expenses
as well as the operation and maintenance costs, including replacement
costs, of said facilities.
The common sanitary sewers within a sewerage system which
are primarily installed to receive wastewaters directly from facilities
which convey wastewater from individual structures or from private
property. The term "sewerage collection system" specifically excludes
the facilities which convey wastewater from individual structures,
from private property to the public sanitary sewer, or its equivalent;
except that pumping units and pressurized lines for individual structures
of groups of structures may be included as part of a "sewer system"
when such units are cost-effective and are owned and maintained by
the Village. For example, a building sewer (lateral) is not part of
the sewer system.
All structures, conduits and pipes, by which sewage is collected,
treated, and disposed of, except plumbing inside and in connection
with buildings served, and service pipes, from building to street
main, i.e., a building sewer.
Is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
Any substance release at a discharge rate and/or concentration
which cause interference to wastewater treatment processes or plugging
or surcharging of the sewer system.
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the
most recent edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water,
Sewage, and Industrial Wastes" published jointly by the American Public
Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water
Pollution Control Federation and is in compliance with federal regulations
40 CFR 136, "Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for Analysis
of Pollutants," all as amended from time to time.
The Wisconsin Statutes in effect from time to time.
Drain or sewer for conveying surface water, groundwater,
subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source.
That portion of the rainfall that is collected and drained
into the storm sewers.
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension
in, water, wastewater, septage, or other liquids, and that are removable
by laboratory filtering as prescribed in "Standard Methods" and is
referred to as nonfilterable residue.
The quantity of organic nitrogen and ammonia as determined
in accordance with "Standard Methods."
Water of quality equal 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 structures, equipment, and processes required to collect,
carry away, store, and treat domestic and industrial waste and septage
and dispose of the effluent and sludge.
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater,
septage, industrial waste, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous
with waste treatment.
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water,
either continuously or intermittently.
A document issued by the Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources which establishes effluent limitations and monitoring requirements
for a wastewater treatment facility.
