Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows. "May" is permissive; "shall" is mandatory.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD5)The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory conditions in five days at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter. Acceptable test method(s) shall be as indicated in Chapter
NR 219 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping within or below a building or structure which conveys wastewater to the building sewer. The building drain ends and the building sewer begins at a distance of five feet outward from the inner face of the building's exterior wall.
BUILDING SEWERThe sanitary sewer lateral extending from the building drain through the connection to the sanitary sewer or other place of disposal.
BUILDING SEWER STUBThe section of the building sewer extending from the connection at the sanitary sewer through the public right-of-way or easement or to the user's property line.
COMMERCIAL USERAny user whose premises is used primarily for conduct of profit-oriented enterprises and who discharges primarily domestic wastewater to the wastewater facilities. This category shall include, but not be limited to, wholesale or retail trade businesses, financial institutions, insurance agencies, restaurants, bars, hotels, motels, gas stations, convenience stores, grocery stores, car washes, laundromats, real estate businesses, and multifamily dwellings having three or more units.
CONNECTION FEEA fee applied to all new building sewer connections to the wastewater facilities and to users which increase their wastewater discharge by more than one residential user flow equivalent. The connection fee is separate from the sewer service charge.
DEBT SERVICE CHARGEA charge levied on all users of the wastewater facilities to recover the debt service cost.
DEBT SERVICE COSTThe annual payment of principal and interest for the retirement of debt issued to finance the cost of capital improvements to the wastewater facilities. The debt service cost shall include administrative costs associated with the debt retirement.
DELETERIOUS SUBSTANCEA substance that, alone or in conjunction with other discharged substances, has any of the following impacts:
A. Inhibits or disrupts any wastewater treatment processes.
Damages any of the wastewater facilities.
Causes violation of the WPDES permit.
Interferes with the operation or maintenance of the wastewater facilities.
Creates or constitutes a hazard to humans or the environment.
Results in wastewater treatment sludge characteristics that do not meet regulatory requirements for sludge disposal.
DEVELOPERA person owning and/or developing lands and requesting a sewer extension to the area being developed and/or a person taking any action that will result in additional users being served by the Village wastewater collection system.
DOMESTIC WASTEWATERThe combination of liquid and water-carried wastes and wastewater discharged from toilets and other sanitary plumbing facilities which contain no deleterious substances, which contain no prohibited substances, and for which five-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), total suspended solids (TSS), total kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN), and total phosphorus concentrations, on average, do not exceed the following levels:
A. Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) concentration less than or equal to 220 mg/l.
Total suspended solids (TSS) concentration less than or equal to 220 mg/l.
Total nitrogen concentration less than or equal to 40 mg/l as N.
Total phosphorus concentration less than or equal to eight mg/l as P.
EASEMENTThe acquired right for the specified use of land owned by others.
ENGINEERA person who is licensed as a professional engineer by the State of Wisconsin and whose license is in good standing with the State of Wisconsin.
EQUIVALENT METERThe basic unit of service for the purposes of determining debt service charges for users in the Village of East Troy. The five-eighths-inch and three-fourths-inch size water meters represent one unit of service.
EQUIVALENT METER FACTORA multiplication factor, assigned to each size water meter, which is used to calculate the debt service charge for each size meter, relative to a five-eighths-inch or three-fourths-inch water meter.
FATS, OILS AND GREASEA group of substances including fats, waxes, free fatty acids, calcium and magnesium soaps, mineral oils, and certain other nonfatty materials. Acceptable test method(s) shall be as indicated in Chapter
NR 219 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
Fat, oil, 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 to be free of floatable oil if it is properly pretreated to the extent that it does not result in increased maintenance requirements for the wastewater facilities.
GARBAGEAnimal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and serving of food or from the handling, storage, and sale of food products or produce.
GOVERNMENTAL USERAny user whose premises is used for the conduct of legislative, judicial, administrative, or regulatory activities of any federal, state, local, or international units of government. This does not include government-owned or -operated businesses or any users which meet the requirements of this chapter for classification as a significant industrial user.
HAULED WASTESSeptage, holding tank wastes, landfill leachate, or any other wastewater or wastes hauled by truck and requiring treatment.
HIGH-STRENGTH WASTEWATERWastewater with concentrations of five-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), total suspended solids (TSS), total kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN), or total phosphorus which exceed the concentrations defined in this chapter for domestic wastewater.
HOLDING TANK WASTESThe liquid and solids from residential holding tanks. This term does not include wastes from grease traps. See also "septage."
INDUSTRIAL USERAny nongovernmental, nonresidential user of the wastewater facilities which discharges industrial wastewater to the wastewater facilities. Industrial users shall include, but not be limited to, those types of industries identified in Divisions A, B, D, E, and I of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual and those industries subject to categorical pretreatment standards set forth in Chapters
NR 221 to
NR 297 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code. See also "significant industrial user."
Any trade or process wastewater generated by an industrial process, including but not limited to those categories identified in Divisions A, B, D, E, and I of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, and as distinct from domestic wastewater.
INFILTRATIONThe water entering sanitary sewers and building sewers from the soil through defective pipe joints, broken or cracked pipes, improper connections, manhole walls, or other defects.
INFLOWThe water discharged into sanitary sewers and building sewers from such sources as, but not limited to, downspouts, roof leaders, cellar and yard area drains, foundation drains, commercial and industrial non-contact cooling water discharges, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, and cross-connections between storm sewers and sanitary sewers.
INSTITUTIONAL USERNot-for-profit facilities, which are not engaged in retail trade or in manufacturing, which discharge primarily domestic wastewater, including but not limited to schools, hospitals, churches, religious facilities, clubs, and fraternities.
LOADThe mass of a contaminant discharged to the sanitary sewer, calculated as the wastewater flow in millions of gallons per day times the concentration of the contaminant in the wastewater in milligrams per liter times 8.34 pounds per gallon.
MUNICIPALITYAny city, town, village, county, county utility district, town sanitary district, metropolitan sewerage district, or lake district.
NATURAL OUTLETAny outlet into a watercourse, pool, ditch, lake, or other body of surface water or groundwater.
ORDINANCEA statute or regulation enacted by a governing body.
OUTSIDE USERAny municipality, nonprofit organization, industry, business, or private enterprise which receives, or is requesting to receive, wastewater treatment services from the Village of East Troy, which is not located within the Village of East Troy corporate limits, and for which the Village requires that a contract be established between the Village and said outside user for the purpose of providing wastewater treatment service to said outside user. Outside users shall include, but not be limited to, the Town of East Troy Sanitary District No. 2, the Alpine Valley Resort, the Alpine Valley Music Theatre, and the Salvation Army.
PERSONAny individual, firm, limited liability company, corporation, association, joint venture, trust, estate, governmental entity, or any other legal entity.
pHThe negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration in moles per liter of solution. Acceptable test method(s) shall be as indicated in Chapter
NR 219 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater, garbage, refuse, oil, solvent, flammables, toxic substances, wastewater sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive substance, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, dirt, and industrial, commercial, municipal, and agricultural waste.
PRETREATMENTReduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to, or in lieu of, discharging such pollutants into the wastewater facilities.
PRETREATMENT PROGRAMA program administered by the Village that meets the criteria established in Chapter
NR 211 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code and which has been approved by the WDNR in accordance with the provisions of Chapter
NR 211 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
Any regulation which applies to industrial users and which contains pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the WDNR in accordance with Chapter
283 of the Wisconsin Statutes. This term shall include both prohibited discharge standards set forth in or established under Chapter NR 211 and categorical pretreatment standards set forth in Chapter NR 211 and in Chapters
NR 221 through
NR 297 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
Privately owned and operated facilities designed for the purpose of on-site conveyance, treatment, and disposal of wastewater. This term shall include, but not be limited to, septic tank/effluent absorption area systems.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGEThe 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 sanitary sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
REPLACEMENT COSTSExpenditures for purchasing and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are required to be replaced during the service life of the wastewater facilities in order to maintain the capacity and performance for which the wastewater facilities were designed and constructed.
REPLACEMENT FUNDAn account established to provide funds for the replacement costs in accordance with Chapter
NR 162 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
An individual household unit and shall include single-family and duplex units.
RESIDENTIAL USER FLOW EQUIVALENTThe metered water usage, in gallons per day, representative of the average residential user. The residential user flow equivalent shall be defined at a standard rate of 155 gallons per day. The Village Board may redefine this value, from time to time, at its discretion, based on evaluation of historical metered water usage and the number of residential meters. For the purposes of assessing debt service charges, in special cases, as applicable, one residential user flow equivalent shall be assigned an equivalent meter factor of 1.0.
SANITARY SEWERThe sewers owned, maintained, and operated by the Village which convey liquid and waterborne wastes from residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, governmental, and outside user facilities, together with inflow and infiltration that are not intentionally admitted.
SANITARY SEWER EXTENSIONAny addition of sanitary sewer or related facilities to the Village of East Troy wastewater collection system for the purpose of providing sanitary sewer service to a housing development, business park, industrial park, etc. An extension is intended to include any action that will result in additional users being served by the Village wastewater collection system.
SANITARY SEWER SERVICE AREAAll areas, as delineated by the Village, and as approved by the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, which are presently served, or are anticipated to be served in the future, by sanitary sewer.
SEPTAGEThe liquid or solids from septic tanks, chemical toilets, campers, privies, dosing chambers, seepage beds, seepage pits, or seepage trenches. "Septage" does not include waste from a grease trap or grease interceptor. See also "holding tank wastes."
SEWAGEShall be synonymous with "wastewater."
SEWERA pipe or conduit designed to convey wastewater or drainage water.
SEWER SERVICE CHARGEA service charge levied on users of the wastewater facilities and shall include the user charge and the debt service charge.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USERAn industrial user which meets one or more of the following conditions:
A. Any industrial user of the wastewater facilities which discharges more than 25,000 gallons per day (gpd) of wastewater, excluding domestic wastewater and non-contact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater.
Any industrial user that discharges a process waste stream which makes up 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic capacity, or more than 5% of the BOD5, TSS, TKN, or total phosphorus treating capacity, of the wastewater treatment plant.
Any centralized waste treater.
Any industrial user subject to categorical pretreatment standards in Chapters
NR 221 to
NR 297 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
Any user of the wastewater facilities which discharges wastewater to the wastewater facilities which contains toxic substances or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to contaminate the sludge of the wastewater treatment plant or injure or interfere with any wastewater treatment plant 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 wastewater facilities.
Any industrial user that is required to file effluent reports for discharge to the wastewater facilities as required by Chapter
NR 101 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code and Chapter
283 of the Wisconsin Statutes.
SLUGAny discharge of any wastewater, for any duration, during which the rate of flow or the concentration of any constituent increases to such magnitude so as to adversely affect the operation of the wastewater facilities or the ability of the wastewater treatment plant to meet the requirements of the WPDES permit.
STANDARD METHODSStandard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater as published by American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association, and the Water Environment Federation, latest edition.
STORM SEWERA sewer designed to convey stormwater, surface water, and drainage. Excludes all wastewater but may include non-contact cooling water.
TOTAL KJELDAHL NITROGEN (TKN)The total of organic and ammonia nitrogen present in a wastewater sample. Acceptable test method(s) shall be as indicated in Chapter
NR 219 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
The total of organic, ammonia, nitrate, and nitrite nitrogen present in a wastewater sample. Acceptable test method(s) shall be as indicated in Chapter
NR 219 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
Total phosphorus in wastewater which may be present in any of three principal forms: orthophosphate, polyphosphate, and organic phosphate. Acceptable test method(s) shall be as indicated in Chapter
NR 219 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
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. Acceptable test method(s) shall be as indicated in Chapter
NR 219 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
Those pollutants or combination of pollutants, including disease-causing agents, which after discharge and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation or assimilation into any organism, either directly from the environment or indirectly by ingestion through food chains, will, on the basis of the best available scientific information, cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutations, or physiological malfunctions in such organisms or their offspring. "Toxic substances" shall include, but not be limited to, those toxic pollutants listed in Chapter
NR 215 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
Waters which are not changed chemically or physically as a result of use.
UNPOLLUTED WATERAny water substantially free of pollutants and of such quality that it would not cause violation of the water quality standards for the receiving body of water and would not be benefited by discharge to the wastewater facilities.
USERAny residential, commercial, institutional, governmental, industrial, and outside user which discharges wastewater to the wastewater facilities.
USER CHARGEA charge levied on users of the wastewater facilities for the cost of administration, management, operation, and maintenance of the wastewater facilities. The user charge shall be contained within the sewer service charge as created by this chapter. The user charge shall also include the annual contribution to the replacement fund.
USER CHARGE COSTAll costs associated with the administration, management, operation, and maintenance of the wastewater facilities. The user charge cost shall also include the annual contribution to the replacement fund.
VILLAGEThe Village of East Troy and the governing bodies thereof, including the Village Board or designated staff.
VILLAGE BOARDThe governing body of the Village of East Troy. The Board shall have the powers of a governing body as set forth in Chapters
61 and
66 of the Wisconsin Statutes, as amended from time to time.
The liquid and water-carried wastes discharged from any residential, commercial, governmental, institutional, industrial, or outside user into the wastewater facilities, together with any infiltration or inflow that may enter the wastewater collection system but which is not intentionally admitted. See also "domestic wastewater" and "industrial wastewater."
WASTEWATER COLLECTION SYSTEMA system of sanitary sewers, pump stations, force mains, and other related facilities owned, maintained, and operated by the Village and designed to convey wastewater. Grinder pump stations and associated force mains located on private property and designed to convey wastewater from an individual structure, or group of structures, to the wastewater collection system shall be considered to be part of the wastewater collection system only when such facilities are owned, operated and maintained by the Village.
WASTEWATER FACILITIESAll facilities for collecting, conveying, pumping, treating, and disposing of wastewater. Includes the wastewater collection system and the wastewater treatment plant.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTThe equipment, devices, structures, and other facilities which are used for treating wastewater and which are owned, operated, and maintained by the Village. Synonymous with "publicly owned treatment works (POTW)."
WATERCOURSEA channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
WDNRThe State of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
WPDESWisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit as issued by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.