As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissible.
APPROVING AUTHORITY
The Village Board of Trustees or its duly authorized agent
or representative.
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter in five days at 20° C., expressed as milligrams
per liter (mg/l). Quantitative determination of BOD shall be made
in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drain system
that receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes
inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer.
BUILDING SEWER
A sanitary sewer that begins immediately outside of the foundation
wall of any building or structure being served and ends at its connection
to the public sewer.
CATEGORY A
Those sanitary sewer users who discharge normal domestic
strength wastewater with concentrations of BOD, suspended solids and
phosphorus no greater than the concentrations identified in the current
user charge system.
CATEGORY B
Those sanitary sewer users who discharge wastewater with
concentrations in excess of domestic strength wastewater as identified
in the current user charge system. Users whose wastewater exceeds
the concentration for any one of these parameters shall be in Category
B.
CHLORINE REQUIREMENT
The amount of chlorine, in milligrams per liter, which must
be added to sewage to produce a chlorine residual as specified in
the Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (WPDES) permit.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and stormwater
or surface water.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANTS
BOD, suspended solids, phosphorous, ammonia, nitrogen, TKN,
pH or fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified
in the municipality's WPDES permit for its wastewater treatment facility,
provided that such facility is designed to treat such additional pollutants
and, in fact, does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specified use of land owned
by others.
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 shall be considered free of floatable oil if
it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with
the collection system.
GARBAGE
The residue from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of food products
and produce.
GROUND GARBAGE
The residue from the preparation, cooking, dispensing, handling,
storage and sale of food products and produce that has been shredded
to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely in suspension
under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with
no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANTS
Wastewater with pollutants that will adversely affect the
wastewater treatment facilities or disrupt the quality of wastewater
treatment if discharged to the wastewater treatment facilities.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance discharged or escaping
from any industrial, manufacturing or commercial establishment or
process or from the development, recovery or processing of natural
resources. Such term includes any wastewater that is not sanitary
sewage.
INFILTRATION
The water unintentionally entering the public sewer system,
including sanitary building drains and sewers, from the ground through
such means as, but not limited to, defective pipes, pipe joints, connections
or manhole walls. Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished
from, inflow.
INFLOW
The water discharged into a sanitary sewer system, including
building drains and sewers, from such sources as, but not limited
to, the following: roof leaders, cellar, yard and area drains, foundation
drains, unpolluted cooling water discharges, drains from springs and
swampy areas, manhole covers, cross-connections from storm sewers
and/or combined sewer, catch basins, stormwaters, surface runoff,
street wash waters or drainage. Inflow does not include, and is distinguishable
from, infiltration.
LICENSED DISPOSER
A person or business holding a valid license to do septage
servicing under Ch. NR 113, Wis. Adm. Code.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water
or groundwater.
NITROGEN
Ammonia nitrogen, expressed in milligrams per liter of NH3N. Quantitative determination of ammonia nitrogen shall
be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
NORMAL DOMESTIC STRENGTH WASTEWATER
Wastewater with concentrations of BOD, suspended solids and
phosphorus no greater than the concentrations identified in the current
user charge system.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS
Includes all costs associated with the operation and maintenance
of the wastewater treatment facilities, including administration and
replacement costs, all as determined from time to time by the municipality.
PERSON
Any and all persons, including any individual, firm, company,
municipality or private corporation, association, society, institution,
enterprise, governmental agency or other entity.
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 7 and a
hydrogen-ion concentration of 10-7.
PHOSPHORUS
Total phosphorus and is expressed in milligrams per liter
of P (phosphorus).
PRETREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing
such pollutants into a wastewater system.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works including any devices and systems used
in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal
sewage and industrial waste. The systems include sewers, pipes and
equipment used to convey wastewater to the treatment facility. The
term also includes the municipality that owns and operates the facilities.
PUBLIC SEWER
Any publicly owned sewer, storm drain, sanitary sewer or
combined sewer.
REPLACEMENT COSTS
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories
or appurtenances that are necessary during the useful life of the
wastewater treatment facility to maintain the capacity and performance
for which such facilities were designed and constructed.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Combination of liquid and water-carried wastes discharged
from toilets and/or sanitary plumbing facilities.
SEPTAGE
The wastewater or contents of septic or holding tanks, dosing
chambers, grease interceptors, seepage beds, seepage pits, seepage
trenches, privies or portable restrooms.
SEWAGE
The spent water of a person or community. The preferred term
is "wastewater."
SEWER
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
SEWER SERVICE CHARGE
A charge levied on users of the wastewater collection and
treatment facilities for payment of operation and maintenance expenses,
debt service costs, and other expenses or obligations of said facilities.
SLUG
Any discharge of water or wastewater that, in concentration
of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any period
of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average
twenty-four-hour concentration of flows during normal operation and/or
adversely affects the collection system and/or performance of the
wastewater treatment facility.
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.
STORM SEWER OR DRAIN
A drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface
water or unpolluted water from any source.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS)
Expressed in milligrams per liter and shall mean 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."
UNIT OF SERVICE
Consists of any residential or small commercial aggregation
of space or area occupied for a distinct purpose, such as a residence,
apartment, flat, store or office, which is equipped with one or more
fixtures for rendering water service, separate and distinct from other
users. Each unit of service shall be regarded as one customer.
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water quality equal to or better than the effluent of the
wastewater treatment facilities 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.
USER CHARGE SYSTEM
The system of charges levied on users for the cost of operation
and maintenance, including replacement reserve requirements on new
and old wastewater collection and treatment facilities.
UTILITY
The Village of Sherwood Water and Sewer Utility.
WASTEWATER
The spent water of a community or person. 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 TREATMENT FACILITY
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater
and sludge. Also referred to as "wastewater treatment plant."
Any user, permit applicant or permit holder affected by a decision,
action or determination, including cease and desist orders, made by
the approving authority interpreting or implementing the provisions
of this article or in any permit issued herein may file with the approving
authority a written request for reconsideration within 10 days of
the date of such decision, action or determination, setting forth
in detail the facts supporting the user's request for reconsideration.
The approving authority shall render a decision on the request for
reconsideration to the user, permit applicant or permit holder in
writing within 15 days of receipt of request. If the ruling on the
request for reconsideration made by the approving authority is unsatisfactory,
the person requesting reconsideration may, within 10 days after notification
of the action, file a written appeal with the Village Board. The written
appeal shall be heard by the Village Board within 30 days from the
date of filing. The Village Board shall make a final ruling on the
appeal within 10 days from the date of hearing.