[Adopted 4-8-1976 by Ord. No. 112A]
No person shall connect roof drains, foundation drains or sump
pumps to the sanitary sewer collection system of the City of Arcadia.
All persons having roof drains, foundation drains or sump pumps
presently connected to the sanitary sewer collection system of the
City of Arcadia shall remove such connections within 150 days from
the date of the passage and publication of this article.
The Water and Wastewater Superintendent of the City of Arcadia
shall conduct a comprehensive survey of all buildings located within
the City of Arcadia to determine the existence of roof drains, foundation
drains or sump pumps which are connected to the sanitary sewer collection
system of the City of Arcadia. He shall certify the results of this
survey to the Utility Commission of the City of Arcadia within 30
days from the date of the passage and publication of this article.
Within five days after receiving such survey the Utility Commission
shall notify each property owner in writing who is in violation of
this article. Such notification shall be by certified mail and shall
describe the nature of the violation, the terms of this article and
the date by which such violation must be corrected.
The purpose of this article is to protect the health, safety
and welfare of the residents of the City of Arcadia and to comply
with the rules and regulations of the State of Wisconsin.
All property owners in the City of Arcadia shall permit the
City Water and Wastewater Superintendent and his agents access to
their property for the purpose of conducting that survey referred
to herein. A refusal to permit such access shall constitute a violation
of this article.
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article
shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a forfeiture of not
less than $25 nor more than $300. Each day of violation shall constitute
a separate offense. The term "person" means an individual, corporation,
cooperative association, firm or partnership. In addition, the term
"person" means any responsible corporate or cooperative officer.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with or contrary
hereto are hereby repealed, except that nothing in this article shall
be interpreted so as to conflict with state laws or orders regulating
pollution or municipal sewer systems or any of the requirements of
any ordinance of the City of Arcadia not mentioned or made inapplicable
by the express terms of this article.
[Adopted 8-13-2009 by Ord. No. 153]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
AMALGAM
Dental filing material made from a mixture of metallic mercury
with powdered silver-tin-copper alloy.
AMMONIA NITROGEN (NH3-N)
One of the oxidation states of nitrogen, in which nitrogen
is combined with hydrogen in molecular form as NH3 or in ionized form as NH4. Quantitative determination
of ammonia nitrogen shall be made in accordance with procedures set
forth in the most recent edition of Standard Methods.
APPROVING AUTHORITY
The Common Council of the City of Arcadia or its duly authorized
Utility Commission, committee, agent or representative.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD5)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter in five days at 20° C., expressed in milligrams
per liter. Quantitative determination of BOD5 shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in the most
recent edition of Standard Methods.
BTEX
Benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes, volatile organic
compounds (VOCs) commonly found in discharges from leaking underground
storage tank (LUST) sites.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
that receives the discharge from waste and other drainage pipes inside
the wall of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning
at the outside face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public main,
and is also referred to as the lateral. Except as specifically provided
in this article, the City shall not be responsible for the construction
or maintenance of building sewers or laterals.
CHEMICAL ELEMENTS AND COMPOUNDS
Chemical elements and compounds that are typically found
in wastewater and may be regulated by this article are identified
as follows:
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Ammonia Nitrogen
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NH3-N
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Arsenic
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As
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Cadmium
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Cd
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Chloride
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Cl
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Chromium
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Cr
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Copper
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Cu
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Cyanide
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Cn
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Lead
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Pb
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Mercury
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Hg
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Nickel
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Ni
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Nitrogen
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N
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Phosphorus
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P
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Zinc
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Zn
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CITY
The City of Arcadia, a Wisconsin municipal corporation, located
in the County of Trempealeau, State of Wisconsin.
COMMERCIAL USER
Any user whose premises is used primarily for the conduct
of a profit-oriented enterprise in the fields of construction, wholesale
or retail trade, finance, insurance, real estate or services and who
discharges primarily normal domestic sewage.
COMMON COUNCIL
The City's local legislative body, as that term is defined
in § 66.1331(3)(f), Wis. Stats.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANTS
Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, phosphorus,
nitrogen or pH plus additional pollutants identified in the WPDES
permit for the wastewater treatment works receiving the pollutant,
if such works were designed to treat such additional pollutants to
a substantial degree.
EASEMENT
The legal right for the use of land owned by others.
FOG
Fats, oils and grease.
FOOD SERVICE FACILITY
Any facility engaged in the preparation of food for human
consumption and/or serving of meals, lunches, short orders, sandwiches,
frozen desserts, or other edible products. The term includes restaurants,
coffee shops, cafeterias, short order cafes, luncheonettes, taverns,
lunchrooms, places which manufacture retail sandwiches, soda fountains,
institutional cafeterias, catering establishments, and similar facilities.
The term includes such facilities even if such use is incidental or
accessory to the facility's primary use.
FRYER OIL
Oil that is used and/or reused in fryers for the preparation
of foods such as fried chicken and french fries. Discharge of fryer
oil into the sewer system is prohibited.
GARBAGE
The residue from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of food products and
produce.
GREASE
Fats, oils, and grease used for the purpose of preparing
food or resulting from food preparation and includes all elements
of FOG. The terms "grease" and "FOG" may be used interchangeably.
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.
HOLDING TANK SERVICE AREA
The area outside the City's current sewer service area but
inside or equal to the City's future sewer service area where a contract
has been developed by the City for holding tank wastewater to be treated
at the wastewater treatment works.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANTS OR WASTEWATER
Wastewater or septage with pollutants that will adversely
affect or disrupt the wastewater treatment processes, effluent quality
or sludge quality if discharged to the wastewater facilities.
INDUSTRIAL USER
Any user whose premises is used primarily for the conduct
of a profit-oriented enterprise in the fields of manufacturing, dairy
products processing, meat processing, other food and drink products,
painting or finishing operations, transportation, communications or
utilities, mining, agriculture, forestry, or fishing.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
The wastewater from an industrial process, trade, or business,
as distinct from sanitary sewage. The term shall include cooling water
and the discharge from pretreatment facilities.
LICENSED DISPOSER
A person or business holding a valid license to do septage
servicing under Ch. NR 113, Wis. Adm. Code.
MERCURY (Hg)
A hazardous chemical element that is a persistent, bioaccumulative
pollutant. Its use is unnecessary since there are many mercury-free
alternatives. No laboratory shall be used for testing for mercury
unless it shall be qualified for low-level mercury analysis under
§ NR 149.12(2), Wis. Adm. Code.
MILLIGRAMS PER LITER (mg/L)
A weight-to-weight ratio; the milligrams per liter value
(mg/L) multiplied by the factor 8.34 shall be equivalent to pounds
per million gallons of water.
MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER
The wastewater of a community. 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
have inadvertently entered the sewer system.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet, including storm sewers, into a watercourse, pond,
ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
NORMAL DOMESTIC SEWAGE
Sanitary sewage resulting from the range of normal domestic
activities, in which BOD5, TSS, total Kjeldahl
nitrogen, and phosphorus concentrations meet the following:
A.
A five-day, 20° C. BOD of not more than 290 mg/L.
B.
A total suspended solids content of not more than 300 mg/L.
C.
A total Kjeldahl nitrogen content of not more than 25 mg/L.
D.
A total phosphorus content of not more than six mg/L.
PARTS PER MILLION (PPM)
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. Equivalent to milligrams per liter (mg/L).
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 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 seven and
a hydrogen ion concentration of 10-7.
PRETREATMENT
An arrangement of devices and structures for the preliminary
treatment or processing of wastewater required to render such wastes
acceptable for admission to the public sewers.
PRIVATE SEWER
Any sewer outside of a public right-of-way or public easement.
Except as provided in this article, a private sewer shall not be subject
to the jurisdiction of the City and the City shall not be responsible
for the construction and/or maintenance of such sewer.
PUBLIC SEWER
Any sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the
City. It shall also include sewers within or outside the corporate
boundaries that serve more than one person and ultimately discharge
into the City sanitary sewer system, even though those sewers may
not have been constructed with City funds. Public sewers shall not
include private sewers or building sewers.
PUBLIC USER
Any user discharging normal domestic sewage whose premises
is used primarily by a governmental entity, private school or public
school.
RESIDENTIAL USER
Any dwelling discharging normal domestic sewage. This includes
single-family homes, mobile homes, duplex units and apartment units.
Each single-family residential unit shall be invoiced as a separate
user.
SANITARY SEWAGE
A combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions and industrial plants (other than industrial
wastes from such plants), together with such groundwater, surface
water and stormwater as may be present.
SANITARY SEWER 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.
SEPTAGE
The wastewater or contents of septic or holding tanks, dosing
chambers, seepage beds, seepage pits, seepage trenches, privies or
portable restrooms.
SEWAGE
The spent water of a community. The preferred term is "municipal
wastewater."
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.
SEWER SERVICE AREAS
The areas presently served and anticipated to be served by
a municipal wastewater collection system. The sewer service area is
delineated in the most recently approved facility plan for the City's
wastewater treatment facility filed with the DNR.
SEWER SERVICE CHARGE
A service charge levied on users of the wastewater collection
and treatment facilities for payment of capital expenses as well as
the operation, maintenance costs, and replacement of said facilities.
SEWER SYSTEM
The common sanitary sewers within a sewerage system that
are primarily installed to receive wastewaters directly from facilities
which convey wastewater from individual structures or from private
property, and which include service connection wye fittings designed
for connection with those facilities. The facilities which convey
wastewater from individual structures or 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 City.
SLUG LOAD
Any substance released at a discharge rate to and/or concentration
that causes interference with 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.
STORMWATER RUNOFF
That portion of the rainfall that is collected and drained
into the storm sewers.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS (TSS)
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 are
referred to as "nonfilterable residue."
TOXIC DISCHARGE
A discharge containing a substance or mixture of substances
which, through sufficient exposure, or ingestion, inhalation, or assimilation
by an organism, either directly from the environment or indirectly
by ingestion through the food chain, will, on the basis of information
available to the City, cause death, disease, behavioral or immunological
abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutations, or developmental or physiological
malfunctions, including malfunctions in reproduction or physical deformations,
in such organisms or their offspring.
USER
Any entity connected to the sewer system of the City of Arcadia,
including public users, commercial users, residential users, and industrial
users.
USER CLASSES
Categories of users having similar flows and water characteristics;
that is, levels of biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, nitrogen,
phosphorous and pH. For the purposes of this article, there shall
be four user classes: residential, commercial, industrial and public
authority.
UTILITY COMMISSION
The City's Utility Commission created pursuant to § 66.0805,
Wis. Stats.
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 "sewage treatment facility."
WATERCOURSE
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water,
either continuously or intermittently.
WPDES
The Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, a system
for regulating wastewater treatment and discharging by the Wisconsin
Department of Natural Resources and which is governed in part under
Ch. NR 210, Wis. Adm. Code.
The City shall extend sewer mains in accordance with the following
charges and the following conditions:
A. Application. When an extension of a sewer main is requested by the
prospective user, said person should make an application for such
an extension in writing to the Utility Commission of the City by filing
of a written application. After the filing of such an application,
the Utility Commission shall determine the logical location of the
next manhole and determine the length and location of the extension,
taking into consideration the prospective demands for service, the
capacity of downstream facilities, and the orderly development of
the particular area. No extension shall be made for a distance less
than the next manhole per § NR 110.13(3), Wis. Adm. Code.
All sewer extensions shall be constructed in compliance with local
and state laws, ordinances and regulations. All sewer extensions shall
be subject to approval by both the Utility Commission and Common Council.
B. Payment by users. The cost of all sewer extensions in the City shall
be paid through one or more of the following methods:
(1) Payment of costs. The Common Council may recoup the costs of sewer
main extensions through entering a developer's agreement under § 66.0821(2),
Wis. Stats., or through special assessment under § 66.0703,
Wis. Stats.
(2) Future users. If a sewer main extension is financed by a developer(s)
and a future sewer main extension is connected to the developer-financed
extension within three years of its completion, then Ch. PSC 187,
Wis. Adm. Code, shall apply.
C. Construction. If the City constructs the extension, full payment
shall be made before construction begins unless otherwise agreed between
the person requesting the extension and the Common Council. If the
developer constructs the extension, no construction shall begin until
the Common Council, the Utility Commission, the City Engineer, and
any necessary county and state departments approve the plans. When
construction is complete and all tests have been satisfactorily completed
and all necessary rights-of-way or easements have been recorded, the
City shall assume responsibility for the extension.
D. Pressure sewer. The Utility Commission will consider the use of low-pressure
sewer systems where the developer demonstrates that pressure sewer
is cost-effective compared to a conventional gravity system or offers
overriding environmental benefit. For both types of systems, the City
will operate and maintain only that portion of the system within the
public street or easement.
(1) Cost-effectiveness analysis. The developer's engineer shall prepare
a cost-effectiveness analysis comparing gravity sewer to pressure
sewer. The analysis shall include both the cost of the sewer in the
public street and the private sewer, including the grinder pump. Estimated
power and maintenance costs shall be included. Environmental benefits
such as reduced disturbance of steep hillsides may also be considered.
The Utility Commission must concur with the selection of pressure
sewer before detailed design proceeds.
(2) Design requirements. Complete hydraulic calculations demonstrating
flow and head conditions at both initial (first year) and fully developed
conditions shall be prepared. Pressure sewer mains shall be SDR 11
HDPE. Pressure sewer building sewers to single-family users shall
be 1 1/4 inches. The developer shall provide a one-and-one-fourth-inch
curb stop and box at the property line. The developer shall connect
to the main in the street with a fused HDPE tee, install all pipes
with a seven-foot minimum cover, and provide approved flushing connections
at dead ends, changes in pipe size, changes in direction and at intervals
no greater than 1,000 feet. Depending on the length of the system
and number of connections, special odor-control methods or equipment
may be required by the Utility Commission at the discharge.
(3) Construction. All construction shall meet DNR and SPS requirements.
Grinder pumps shall be furnished, installed and maintained by the
user. Individual grinders for each single-family unit shall be provided
except where multiple living units are under common ownership. The
user shall also install the building sewer and make connection to
the curb stop at the public street. Where a building sewer stub and
curb stop were not provided during initial construction, the user
shall install the building sewer to the main within the street. Only
grinder pump units approved by the Utility Commission are permitted
to be connected to the sewer system. The user's sewer system and grinder
pump shall be protected from clear water entry, including floodwaters.
No open sewer fixtures or grinder pump unit cover shall be located
lower than two feet above the one-hundred-year flood elevation.
(4) Notice to purchaser. It is the seller's responsibility to provide
notice to the lot purchaser about the Utility Commission policies
related to connection to pressure sewers. The Utility Commission's
pressure sewer user information sheet and typical installation plan
shall be provided to each lot purchaser served by pressure sewer.
The City shall have conducted an independent annual audit, the
purpose of which shall be to maintain the proportionality between
users and user classes of the sewer use charge system and to ensure
that adequate revenues are available relative to increasing operation,
maintenance and replacement costs and debt service charges. The findings
and recommendations of this audit shall be available for public inspection.