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.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).
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:
APPROVING AUTHORITY OF THE VILLAGE/UTILITY DISTRICT
The Village Board or its duly authorized committee, agent or representative.
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 or structure and conveys it to the building sewer.
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.
CARBONACEOUS BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (CBOD)
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.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANTS
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]
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. 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.
GARBAGE
The residue from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of food products and produce.
GBMSD ORDINANCE
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.
GROUND GARBAGE
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.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANTS OR WASTEWATER
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.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
The wastewater from an industrial process, trade, or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage, including cooling water and the discharge from sewage treatment facilities.
LOCAL DISTRIBUTION PIPES
Have laterals and provide local public water or public sewer service to individual residences and other buildings servicing water and sewer customers.
MAY
Is permissible.
MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER
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.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet, including storm sewers, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
PARTS PER MILLION
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.
PERSON
Any and all persons, including any individual, firm, company, municipal or private corporation, association, society, institution, enterprise, government agency or other entity.
pH
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.
PHOSPHORUS
The quantity of phosphorous as determined in accordance with Standard Methods.
PUBLIC SEWER
Any sewer owned or provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the Village of Hobart or any other municipality.
SANITARY SEWAGE
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.
SANITARY SEWER
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.
SEPTAGE
The wastewater or contents of septic or holding tanks, closing chambers, grease interceptors, seepage beds, seepage pits, seepage trenches, privies or portable rest rooms.
SEWER SERVICE CHARGE
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.
SEWER SYSTEM
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.
SEWER TRANSMISSION MAIN (also called "SEWER INTERCEPTOR")
A sewer whose primary purpose is to transport wastewaters from collector sewers to a treatment facility.
SEWERAGE 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.
SHALL
Is mandatory.
SLUG LOAD
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.
STANDARD METHODS
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.
STATS.
The Wisconsin Statutes in effect from time to time.
STORM DRAIN (sometimes termed "STORM SEWER")
Drain or sewer for conveying surface water, groundwater, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source.
STORMWATER RUNOFF
That portion of the rainfall that is collected and drained into the storm sewers.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
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."
TOTAL KJELDAHL NITROGEN (TKN)
The quantity of organic nitrogen and ammonia as determined in accordance with Standard Methods.
VILLAGE
The Village of Hobart, a municipal corporation located in Brown County, Wisconsin.
VILLAGE BOARD
The Village Board of the Village.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES
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.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, septage, industrial waste, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with waste treatment.
WATERCOURSE
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water, either continuously or intermittently.
WATER TRANSMISSION MAIN
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.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).