As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
AMMONIA NITROGEN (NH3-N)
A measure commonly used for testing the quantity of ammonium
ions derived naturally from ammonia and returned to ammonia via organic
processes in water or waste liquids. It is a measure used mainly for
quantifying values in waste treatment and water purification systems,
as well as a measure of the health of natural and man-made water reserves.
It is measured in units of mg/l (milligrams per liter).
[Added by Ord. No. 12-14]
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
May be any of the following:
(1)
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice
president, if the industrial user is a corporation.
(2)
A general partner or proprietor, if the industrial user is a
partnership or proprietorship, respectively.
(3)
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated
above if such representative is responsible for the overall operation
of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
(4)
The manager of one or more manufacturing facilities, provided
the manager is authorized to make decisions that govern the operation
of the facility, make major capital investment recommendations, initiate
and direct comprehensive measures to assure long-term compliance with
environmental laws, ensure the necessary systems are established to
gather complete and accurate information for the report, and where
authority to sign documents has been delegated to the manager according
to the corporation's procedures.
[Added 1-5-2016 by Ord.
No. 16-1]
BILLABLE FLOW
The total number of gallons utilized to determine the unit
cost of billing for wastewater facilities services.
BOD (denoting biochemical oxygen demand)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter in five days at 20° C., expressed in milligrams
per liter, as determined in accordance with standard laboratory procedures
as set out in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater.
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 (1.5 meters) 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.
CAPITAL COSTS
All reasonable and necessary costs and expenses incurred
by the City in planning, designing, financing and constructing wastewater
facilities, including but not limited to costs and expenses for obtaining
necessary permits, licenses, approvals and grants for design and construction,
fees for legal and consulting services and acquisition.
CITY
The Common Council of the City of Watertown, Wisconsin, or
its duly authorized representative. Common Council shall mean the
duly elected Mayor and Alderpersons of the City of Watertown, Wisconsin.
COD (denoting chemical oxygen demand)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation
of inorganic and organic matter present in water or wastewater, expressed
in milligrams per liter, as determined in accordance with standard
laboratory procedure as set out in the latest edition of Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
COMMERCIAL USER
For the purpose of the user charge system, a user engaged
in the purchase or sale of goods or transaction of business or which
otherwise renders a service.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH, fecal coliform
bacteria and any additional pollutants identified in the City of Watertown's
WPDES permit, where the Watertown Wastewater Treatment Plant is designed
to treat such pollutants and, in fact, does treat such pollutants
to the degree required by the City of Watertown's WPDES permit.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
A sample consisting of several effluent portions collected
during a specific time period and combined to make a representative
sample.
CONNECTION
Any point where wastewater is discharged to a private interceptor main or the wastewater facilities. Each sewer service charge recipient, as defined in §
508-11A, shall be considered (as a minimum) to be one connection.
DEBT SERVICE
The principal and interest necessary to pay bond indebtedness.
DISCHARGE
The releasing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting,
emptying or dumping of a pollutant into the waters of the state or
onto the land or into wells from which the pollutant might flow or
drain into said waters, and shall include the release of any pollutant
into the City's wastewater facilities.
DOMESTIC USER
Those establishments of which its related occupants, if any,
are usually considered as domestic service and whose discharge consists
of liquid waste or liquid-borne waste resulting from the noncommercial
preparation, cooking and handling of food and/or consisting of human
excrement and similar sanitary wastes from each separate house, apartment,
flat or other living quarters occupied by a person or persons constituting
a distinct household.
DWELLING UNIT
Shall consist of one or more rooms connected together in
the same structure and constituting a separate independent unit for
the permanent residential occupancy by humans, with facilities for
such humans to sleep and eat.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency, or where
appropriate the term may also be used as a designation for the Administrator
or other duly authorized official of said agency.
FEDERAL GRANT
The total amount of funding paid by the United States Environmental
Protection Agency to the City of Watertown for the construction of
the 1978 wastewater facilities improvements.
FLOW
The quantity of billable flow expressed in gallons or cubic
feet.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes resulting from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage or sale
of meat, fish, fowl, fruit, vegetables and condemned foods.
GENERAL MUNICIPAL FLOW
The total wastewater flow discharged to the wastewater facilities,
minus the flows from industrial users, other municipalities, and contract
users. "General municipal flow" includes flow from domestic users,
commercial users, institutional users and governmental users. General
municipal flow, based on the design of the wastewater treatment plant,
is further defined as flows containing five-day BOD concentrations
no greater than 175 mg/l, suspended solids concentrations no greater
than 170 mg/l, total phosphorus concentration no greater than six
mg/l and ammonia nitrogen concentrations no greater than 25 mg/l.
[Amended by Ord. No. 12-14]
GENERAL MUNICIPAL USER
Any user discharging wastewater to the general municipal
flow other than industrial users, municipalities, and other contract
users. This category of user includes as subcategories:
GOVERNMENTAL USER
Includes those establishments whose function is the administration
and/or execution of governmental programs as well as the offices of
executives, legislative bodies and agencies which provide general
support services for government.
GRAB SAMPLE
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration
of time.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
Any waste from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum pump tank trucks.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
Any pollutant that is not defined as a compatible pollutant,
including nonbiodegradable dissolved solids.
INDUSTRIAL USER
In general, a person who discharges, causes or permits the
discharge of non-general municipal flow into the wastewater facilities.
[Amended by Ord. No. 12-14]
(1)
For the purpose of the industrial cost recovery system, "industrial
user" means any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of the wastewater
facilities which discharges a process flow greater than 25,000 gallons
per day, discharges a process BOD, suspended solids, total phosphorus
and ammonia nitrogen concentration greater than in general municipal
flow (BOD: 175 mg/l; SS: 170 mg/l; TP: six mg/l; and ammonia nitrogen:
25 mg/l), or has wastewater constituent concentrations significantly
different from those in general municipal flow.
(a)
Process flow is the actual flow discharged minus the measured
sanitary facilities flow or 25 gallons per on-site employee shift
per day, whichever result achieves the lesser sanitary flow.
(b)
Process BOD, suspended solids, total phosphorus and ammonia
nitrogen are the actual pounds of BOD, suspended solids, total phosphorus
and ammonia nitrogen discharged minus the pounds of BOD, suspended
solids, total phosphorus and ammonia nitrogen measured from the sanitary
flow or the estimated pounds of BOD, suspended solids, total phosphorus
and ammonia nitrogen determined by multiplying the sanitary flow (used
in process flow calculation) by 8.34 and by the average domestic concentration
of BOD, suspended solids, total phosphorus and ammonia nitrogen (BOD:
175 mg/l; SS: 170 mg/l; TP: six mg/l; and ammonia nitrogen: 25 mg/l),
whichever result achieves the greater process BOD, suspended solids,
total phosphorus and ammonia nitrogen.
(2)
For the purpose of the user charge system, "industrial user"
shall mean a manufacturing or process facility engaged in a productive
or profit-making venture (generally Division D of the Standard Industrial
Classification Manual).
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The solid, liquid or gaseous wastes resulting from any industrial
or manufacturing processes, trade or business, or from the development,
recovery or processing of natural resources, including cooling water
and the discharge from wastewater pretreatment facilities.
INFILTRATION and INFLOW
That portion of the wastewater facilities flow which cannot
be identified as billable flow.
INSTITUTIONAL USER
Those establishments engaged in activities of a noneconomic
nature, frequently being the performance of service for the general
public (health, education, social), and not classified as a governmental
or commercial user in this chapter.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges from other sources, both:
(1)
Inhibits or disrupts the wastewater facilities, their treatment
processes or operations, or their sludge processes, use or disposal;
and therefore,
(2)
Is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the wastewater
facilities' WPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or
duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sludge use or disposal
in compliance with Chs. 281 and 283, Wis. Stats.
LOAD
The quantities of wastewater constituents such as BOD, suspended
solids, total phosphorus and ammonia nitrogen or other constituents
as expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l) or pounds per twenty-four-hour
day (lbs/day).
[Amended by Ord. No. 12-14]
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
NEW SOURCE
Any building, structure, facility or installation from which
there is or may be a discharge of pollutants, the construction of
which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards
under Section 307(c) of the Act which will be applicable to such source,
if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that
section, provided that:
(1)
The building, structure, facility or installation is constructed
at a site at which no other source is located;
(2)
The building, structure, facility or installation totally replaces
the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants
at an existing source; or
(3)
The production or wastewater-generating processes of the building,
structure, facility or installation are substantially independent
of an existing source at the same site.
NONINDUSTRIAL USER
For the purpose of the industrial cost recovery system, a
user of the wastewater facilities considered to be governmental or
determined to be discharging primarily segregated domestic waste or
wastes from sanitary conveniences.
OTHER WASTES
Other substances except sanitary wastes and industrial wastes.
PASS-THROUGH
A discharge which exits the wastewater facilities into waters
of the state in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction
with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a
violation of any requirement of the wastewater facilities' WPDES permit
(including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
PERSON
Any individual, firm, partnership, company, association,
society, corporation, municipal corporation, governmental unit or
group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions in moles per liter of solution and indicates the degree of alkalinity
or acidity, with a pH value of 7.0 being the neutral point.
PLUMBING CODE
The Wisconsin Administrative Code Chapter SPS 382 and City of Watertown Code Chapter
419, Plumbing.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged soil, solid waste, incinerator residue, domestic
wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge, munitions, chemical wastes,
biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged
equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural
waste discharged into water. This definition shall include holding
tank wastes.
[Amended by Ord. No. 12-14]
PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT
The reduction 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
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the wastewater facilities.
The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical
or biological processes, or process changes or other means, except
as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Substantive or procedural requirements related to pretreatment,
other than a categorical pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial
user.
PRIVATE INTERCEPTOR MAIN SEWER
A privately owned building sewer not directly controlled
by public authority. "Privately owned" means single ownership by an
individual, firm or corporation.
PROCESS WATER
Any water used in the manufacturing, preparation or production
of goods, materials or foods.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries wastewater and to which stormwater,
surface water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying wastewater.
SEWER SERVICE CHARGE
The total of the user charge system and debt service charges
to be assessed to each user.
SEWER SYSTEM
Pipeline or conduits, pumping stations, force mains, and
all devices and appliances appurtenant thereto, used for collecting
or conducting wastewater to the point of ultimate disposal.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
(1)
All industrial users subject to categorical pretreatment standards
under 40 CFR 403.6 and 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N; and
(2)
Any other industrial user that discharges an average of 25,000
gallons per day or more of process wastewater to the wastewater facilities
(excluding sanitary, non-contact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater);
contributes a process waste stream which makes up 5% or more of the
average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the wastewater
facilities; or is designated as such by the City, on the basis that
the industrial user has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting
the wastewater facilities operation or for violating any pretreatment
standard or requirement.
[Amended 1-5-2016 by Ord.
No. 16-1]
(3)
Upon a finding that an industrial user meeting the criteria in Subsection
(2) of this definition has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the wastewater facilities operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the wastewater facilities may at any time, on their own initiative or in response to a petition received from an industrial user in accordance with 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine that such industrial user is not a significant industrial user.
SLUG
Any discharge of wastewater which exceeds for any period
of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average
twenty-four-hour flows during normal operation or more than five times
the average twenty-four-hour concentration of any wastewater constituent,
or which causes interference to the wastewater facilities.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972.
STATE
The State of Wisconsin.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Water Systems Manager of the City of Watertown, Wisconsin,
or his duly authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, wastewater or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering, in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
TOTAL PHOSPHORUS
A measure of both inorganic and organic forms of phosphorus.
Phosphorus can be present as dissolved or particulate matter measured
in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods for the
Examination of Water and Wastewater.
[Added by Ord. No. 12-14]
TOXIC POLLUTANT
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the EPA under the
provisions of Section 307(a) of the Act or other acts.
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Clean water uncontaminated by industrial wastes, other wastes,
or any substances which render such water unclean or noxious or impure
so as to be actually or potentially harmful or detrimental or injurious
to public health, safety or welfare, to domestic, commercial, industrial
or recreational use, or to livestock, wild animals, birds, fish or
other aquatic life.
UPSET
An exceptional incident in which a user unintentionally and
temporarily is in a state of noncompliance with the standards set
forth herein due to factors beyond the reasonable control of the user,
and excluding noncompliance to the extent caused by operational error,
improperly designed treatment facilities, inadequate treatment facilities,
lack of preventive maintenance, or careless or improper operation
thereof.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the discharge
of wastewater into the Watertown wastewater facilities.
USER CHARGE SYSTEM
The method by which the annual debt service, operations,
maintenance and replacement costs for the wastewater facilities will
be recovered.
WASTEWATER
The liquid-carried waste products from whatever source derived,
together with such groundwater infiltration and surface water as may
be unintentionally present.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES
Individually or collectively, all parts and facilities of
the sewer system and wastewater treatment plant.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.