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 Hobart.
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 said 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 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 chapters, 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
Statute, the Wisconsin Statute shall control in such instance.
This chapter is enacted pursuant to the power and authority
conferred by Ch. 61, Wis. Stats., §§ 66.0827 and 66.0821,
Wis. Stats., as amended from time to time.
The Village of Hobart/Hobart Utility District 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 Hobart/Village Utility District, or Hobart Sanitary Districts
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.
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, to a point of connection with the public
sewer.
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.
Carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids,
and 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.[1]
Oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment
facility. 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.
The Sewer Use Ordinance of the Green Bay Metropolitan Sewerage
District (herein "GBMSD") adopted on December 18, 1989, and any amendments
thereto or restatements thereof.
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.
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.
Have laterals and provide local public water or public sewer
service to individual residences and other buildings servicing water
and sewer customers.
Is permissible.
The wastewater of a municipality, including that of the Village
of Hobart/Hobart Utility District. From the standpoint of source,
it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from
residential, 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.
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 corporation, 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 101.
The quantity of phosphorous as determined in accordance with
Standard Methods.
Any sewer owned or provided by or subject to the jurisdiction
of the Village of Hobart or any other municipality.
A combination of liquid and water-carried wastes discharged
from toilets and/or sanitary plumbing facilities, together with such
ground, surface and stormwaters 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 ground, storm and surface waters
that are not admitted intentionally.
The wastewater or contents of septic or holding tanks, closing
chambers, grease interceptors, seepage beds, seepage pits, seepage
trenches, privies or portable rest rooms.
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, building replacement
costs, of said facilities.
The public sanitary sewers within a sewerage system. The
facilities which convey wastewater from individual structures, from
private property to the public sanitary sewer, or its equivalent,
are specifically excluded from the definition of "sewer system"; except
that pumping units and pressurized lines for individual structures
or 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 of Hobart. For example, a building sewer is not part of
the sewer system.
A sewer whose primary purpose is to transport wastewaters
from collector sewers to a treatment facility.
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.
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
and Wastewater" published jointly by the American Public Health Association,
the American Water Works Association and the Water Environment Federation
and is in compliance with Federal Regulations 40 CFR 136, "Guidelines
Establishing Test Procedures for the 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 referred
to as "nonfilterable residue."
The quantity of organic nitrogen and ammonia as determined
in accordance with Standard Methods.
The Village of Hobart, a municipal corporation located in
Brown County, Wisconsin.
The Village Board of the Village.
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 water pipe which is 12 inches or more in diameter and whose
primary purpose is to transport potable water from water supply sources
to local distribution pipes. Water transmission mains do not have
laterals and local distribution pipes are not allowed.
