Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
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 milligrams per liter or pounds.
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
beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal. Also called "house connection."
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or
surface water.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH or fecal
coliform bacteria plus additional pollutants identified in the WPDES
permit for the City's wastewater treatment works if such works were
designed to treat such additional pollutants and, in fact, does remove
such pollutants to a substantial degree.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
A sampling consisting of portions of a waste taken in proportion
to the volume of the flow of said waste.
DNR
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
DOMESTIC WASTES
Wastewater discharged from sanitary conveniences which contains none of the prohibited discharges set forth in §
345-12 of this article.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for a specific use of land owned
by others.
EPA
United States Environmental Protection Agency.
FLOATABLE OIL
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.
GARBAGE
The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and serving of foods.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
Any waste from holding tanks such as chemical toilets, campers,
trailers, septic tanks and vacuum pump tank trucks.
INDUSTRIAL USER
Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of the public sewer
system which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons
per day and which is further defined in Wis. Adm. Code NR 110.03.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY
An industrial or commercial facility that is a discharger
to the public wastewater facilities and:
A.
Has a waste discharge flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average
workday;
B.
Has a waste discharge flow greater than 5% of the flow carried
by the public system receiving the waste;
C.
Has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts, as defined in Wis. Adm. Code NR 215 or in §
345-12 of this article; or
D.
Has a waste which the City or the DNR determines has or, in
the case of a new source, will have a significant impact, either singly
or in combination with other wastes, on the City wastewater treatment
works or on the quality of effluent from such works.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or groundwater.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration.
The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter
of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of seven and
a hydrogen-ion concentration of 10-7.
PRETREATMENT
The treatment of wastewaters to remove or reduce the quantity
of one or more pollutants prior to discharge to the City wastewater
treatment works.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that has 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 one inch (1.27 centimeters)
in any dimension.
REPLACEMENT
The 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.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer that carries liquid- and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions,
together with minor quantities of ground, storm and surface waters
that are not admitted intentionally.
SEWAGE
The spent water of a community. The preferred term is "wastewater."
SEWER
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which,
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow,
causes the capacity of a public sewer to be exceeded or which adversely
affects the operation of the sewage treatment plant.
STANDARD METHODS
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the
latest addition of Standard Methods For the Examination of Water and
Wastewater, as prepared, approved and published jointly by the American
Public Health Association, 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."
STORM SEWER
A sewer for conveying water, subsurface water or unpolluted
water from any source.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface
of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater or other liquids and
that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in "Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" and referred
to as nonfilterable residue.
UNPOLLUTED WATER
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.
USER CHARGES
The amount charged to a user for sewer services and includes
operation and maintenance costs and replacement costs.
USER CLASS
A particular group of users with similar discharges.
WASTEWATER
The spent water of the 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.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES
The structures, equipment and processes required to collect,
carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of
the effluent.
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 "water pollution
control plant" or "publicly owned treatment works."
WATERCOURSE
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water,
either continuously or intermittently.
WPDES PERMIT
The permit to discharge pollutants obtained under the Wisconsin
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, pursuant to Ch. 283, Wis.
Stats.
No person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently break,
damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure, appurtenance
or equipment which is a part of the wastewater facilities. Any person
violating this provision shall be subject to immediate arrest under
charge of criminal damage to property or other appropriate charge.
User charges for sewer service shall be billed quarterly. The
bills shall be mailed following the billing period and shall be paid
at such place as designated by the City. All bills are due and payable
by the 20th day following the billing date. Any bills not paid by
this date shall be considered delinquent and a 3% charge shall be
added to the bill. A second notice shall be sent if the bill is not
paid by the due date and, if payment is not received within 10 days
thereof, service will be discontinued. Sewer service charges shall
be a lien upon the property served, pursuant to § 66.0821(4)(c),
Wis. Stats., and shall be collected in the manner therein provided.
Each user shall be notified annually, in conjunction with a regular
bill, of the user charge rate and that portion of the user charges
attributable to wastewater treatment services.