As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
ACT or THE ACTThe Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. §
1251 et seq.
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]
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.
A general partner or proprietor, if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively.
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.
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.
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BILLABLE FLOWThe 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 DRAINThat 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 SEWERThe extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
CAPITAL COSTSAll 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.
CITYThe 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 USERFor 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 POLLUTANTBiochemical 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 SAMPLEA sample consisting of several effluent portions collected during a specific time period and combined to make a representative sample.
CONNECTIONAny 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.
The principal and interest necessary to pay bond indebtedness.
DISCHARGEThe 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 USERThose 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 UNITShall 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 EPAThe 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 GRANTThe 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.
FLOWThe quantity of billable flow expressed in gallons or cubic feet.
GARBAGESolid 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 FLOWThe 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]
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 USERIncludes 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 SAMPLEA 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 WASTEAny waste from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum pump tank trucks.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANTAny pollutant that is not defined as a compatible pollutant, including nonbiodegradable dissolved solids.
INDUSTRIAL USERIn general, a person who discharges, causes or permits the discharge of non-general municipal flow into the wastewater facilities.
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(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.
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.
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 WASTESThe 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.
INSTITUTIONAL USERThose 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.
INTERFERENCEA 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,
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.
LOADThe 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).
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Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
NEW SOURCEAny 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;
The building, structure, facility or installation totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at an existing source; or
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 USERFor 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 WASTESOther substances except sanitary wastes and industrial wastes.
PASS-THROUGHA 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).
PERSONAny individual, firm, partnership, company, association, society, corporation, municipal corporation, governmental unit or group.
pHThe 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.
POLLUTANTAny 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.
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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).
Substantive or procedural requirements related to pretreatment, other than a categorical pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial user.
PRIVATE INTERCEPTOR MAIN SEWERA privately owned building sewer not directly controlled by public authority. "Privately owned" means single ownership by an individual, firm or corporation.
PROCESS WATERAny water used in the manufacturing, preparation or production of goods, materials or foods.
SANITARY SEWERA sewer which carries wastewater and to which stormwater, surface water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SEWERA pipe or conduit for carrying wastewater.
SEWER SERVICE CHARGEThe total of the user charge system and debt service charges to be assessed to each user.
SEWER SYSTEMPipeline 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
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]
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.
SLUGAny 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.
STATEThe State of Wisconsin.
SUPERINTENDENTThe Water Systems Manager of the City of Watertown, Wisconsin, or his duly authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDSSolids 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 PHOSPHORUSA 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.
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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 WATERClean 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.
UPSETAn 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.
USERAny person who contributes, causes or permits the discharge of wastewater into the Watertown wastewater facilities.
USER CHARGE SYSTEMThe method by which the annual debt service, operations, maintenance and replacement costs for the wastewater facilities will be recovered.
WASTEWATERThe liquid-carried waste products from whatever source derived, together with such groundwater infiltration and surface water as may be unintentionally present.
WASTEWATER FACILITIESIndividually or collectively, all parts and facilities of the sewer system and wastewater treatment plant.
WATERCOURSEA channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.