The management, operation, and control of the sewerage system
for the Village is vested in the Village Board. The Village Board
may assign responsibility to Village officers, boards, committees,
staff or to consultants, contractors or agents. All records, minutes
and all written proceedings thereof shall be kept by the Village Administrator-Clerk/Treasurer.
The Village Administrator-Clerk/Treasurer shall keep financial records
pertaining to the sewerage system unless this responsibility is otherwise
assigned by the Village Board.
The Village Board shall have the power to construct, repair,
reconstruct or reinforce the public sewer system, and shall have the
power to lay sewer pipes in and through the alleys, streets, and public
grounds or easements of the Village; and generally, to do all such
work found necessary or convenient in the establishment, supervision
and management of the sewerage system. The Village shall have power
to enter upon any land for the purpose of making examinations or supervising
in the performance of duties under this chapter, and the Village shall
have power to purchase and acquire real and personal property or interests
in such property relating to the construction, operation or maintenance
of the sewerage system. The Village Board shall also have the authority
to issue any and all permits or enter into agreements concerning the
sewerage system.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter. Quantitative determination
of BOD shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard
Methods.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes
inside the walls of the building or proposed building and conveys
it to the building sewer, beginning five feet (1.5 meters) outside
the interface of the building wall.
The common sanitary sewers within the sewerage system that
receive wastewaters and convey same to the treatment works. Private
sewers are specifically excluded from the definition of collection
sewer; except that tanks and/or pumping units and pressurized lines
for individual structures or groups of structures may be included
as part of the collection sewer system when such units are owned and
maintained by the Village or are designated by the Village as part
of the collection sewer system.
All retail stores, restaurants, office buildings, laundries,
and other private business and service establishments.
Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, phosphorus,
or pH, plus additional pollutants identified in the WPDES permit for
the publicly owned treatment works receiving the pollutants if such
works were designed to treat such additional pollutants to a substantial
degree.
Includes all costs associated with repayment of debt incurred
for the construction and/or rehabilitation of the wastewater facilities.
The residue from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of food products
and produce.
Includes legislative, judicial, administrative, and regulatory
activities of federal, state, or local governments.
The residue from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food that has been shredded to such degree that all particles will
be no greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension and will be carried freely
in suspension under normal flow conditions in public sewers.
An approved watertight receptacle used to hold wastewater.
Wastewater from a holding tank.
Wastewater or holding tank wastewater with pollutants that
will adversely affect or disrupt the wastewater treatment processes
or effluent quality or sludge quality if discharged to a wastewater
treatment facility.
User, as follows:
Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of a municipally owned
sewerage system which discharges more than the equivalent of 10,000
gallons per day (gpd) of sanitary wastes and which is identified in
the Standard Industrial Classification Manual 1972, United States
Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented as of
October 1, 1978, under one of the following divisions:
In determining the amount of a user's discharge, domestic
wastes or discharges from sanitary conveniences may be excluded.
After applying the sanitary waste exclusion in Subsection A(2) above in this definition, discharges in the above divisions that have a volume exceeding 10,000 gpd or the weight of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) or total suspended solids (TSS) or total phosphorus (TP) equivalent to that weight found in 10,000 gpd of sanitary waste are considered industrial users. Sanitary wastes, for purposes of this calculation of equivalency, are the wastes discharged from residential users. The municipality shall, with the approval of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, define the strength of the residential waste discharges in terms of parameters including biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), total suspended solids (TS), and total phosphorus (TP), per volume of flow as a minimum. Dischargers with a volume exceeding 10,000 gpd or the weight of BOD or TSS or TP equivalent to that weight found in 10,000 gpd of sanitary waste are considered as industrial users.[1]
Any nongovernmental user of a municipally owned sewerage system
which discharges wastewater to the sewerage system which contains
toxic pollutants or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient
quantity either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to contaminate
the sludge of any municipal system, or injure or interfere with any
sewage treatment process, constitutes a hazard to humans or animals,
creates a public nuisance, or creates any hazard in or has an adverse
effect on the waters receiving any discharge from the treatment works.
All commercial users of an individual system constructed with
grant assistance under § NR 128.07, Wis. Adm. Code.[2]
Includes social, charitable, religious, and educational activities
such as schools, churches, hospitals, nursing homes, penal institutions
and similar institutional users.
Land O'Lakes, Inc., a Minneapolis, Minnesota, based
corporation with a plant located at 306 Park Street, Spencer, Wisconsin.
A person holding a license under § 281.48(3), Wis.
Stats.
The spent water 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 be present.
Any outlet, including storm sewers, into a watercourse, pond,
ditch, lake, or other body of surface water or groundwater.
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
279 mg/l and a TSS concentration of not more than 325 mg/l and a TP
concentration of not more than eight mg/l.
Those functions that result in expenditures during the useful
life of the treatment works for materials, labor, utilities and other
items which are necessary for managing and which such works were designed
and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance" does not include
"replacement" as defined in this section.
Includes all costs associated with the operation and maintenance
of the wastewater collection and treatment facilities. These costs,
including costs associated with extraneous (clear water) flows, shall
be divided proportionately among the various sewer users according
to their equivalent user factors.
Legal owners of record and all tenants of rental occupants
who shall be jointly and separately liable for responsibilities defined
herein for owners.
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.
Any and all persons, including any individual, firm, company,
municipal or private corporation, association, society, institution,
enterprise, government agency, or other entity.
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 hydrogen
ion concentration of 10-7.
The property owner's privately owned and maintained
sewer beginning at the end of the building drain and extending to
connection with the Village collection sewer.
The expenditure for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories
or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the
treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which
such works were designed and constructed.
Includes all costs associated with establishing a fund to
accumulate the necessary resources to replace equipment as required
to maintain capacity and performance during the design life of the
facility.
Any contributor to the Village's treatment works whose
lot, parcel or real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling
purposes only.
A combination of liquid and water-carried wastes discharged
from toilet and/or sanitary plumbing facilities, together with any
groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be present.
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions,
together with small quantities of groundwater, stormwater and surface
waters that are not admitted intentionally. Unless specifically called
a "storm sewer," all references to "sewer" shall refer to sanitary
sewer.
Scum, liquid, sludge or other waste from a septic tank, soil
absorption field, vault toilet or privy. "Septage" does not include
the waste from a grease trap or from a holding tank.
A tank which receives and partially treats sewage through
processes of sedimentation, flotation and bacterial action so as to
separate solids from the liquid in the sewage and discharges the liquid
to a soil absorption system.
Any pipe or similar conveyance that carries wastewater or
waterborne wastes.
A service charge levied on users of the wastewater collection
and treatment facilities for payment of such costs as are allocated
by the Village Board to the sewer service charge.
All public structures, conduits, pipes and facilities by
which sewerage and holding tank wastewater is collected, treated and
disposed of.
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissible.
Any substance released at a discharge rate and/or concentration
which causes interference to wastewater treatment processes.
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.
Unless otherwise specified, all procedures directed or authorized
herein shall be performed by standard methods.[3]
Drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface
water or unpolluted water from any source.
All the combined sources of phosphorus found in water, wastewater,
holding tank wastewater, or other liquids, discharged to the sewer
system, including soluble reactive phosphorus, soluble uncreative
or soluble organic phosphorus, and particulate phosphorus. Quantitative
determination of TP shall be made in accordance with procedures set
forth in Standard Methods.
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension
in, water, wastewater, holding tank wastewater, or other liquids,
and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in "Standard
Methods" and is referred to as "nonfilterable residue."
Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling
and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage or liquid industrial
wastes. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage
collection systems, pumping, power, and other equipment and their
appurtenances; extensions improvement, remodeling, additions and alterations
thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply
such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities; and any
works, including site acquisition of the land that will be an integral
part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of
residues resulting from such treatment (including land for composting
sludge, temporary storage of such compost and land used for the storage
of treated wastewater in land treatment systems before land application);
or any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing,
treating, separating or disposing of municipal waste or industrial
waste, including waste in combined stormwater and sanitary sewer systems.
Of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria
in effect 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 provided.
The estimated period during which a treatment works will
be operated.
That portion of the total wastewater service charge which
is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation,
maintenance and replacement of the wastewater treatment works.
Vehicular and related equipment and operations on public
roads and waste to collect sewage from storage facilities and the
transport of same to treatment facilities for storage and/or treatment
or to land spreading sites or to storage sites or facilities.
The Village of Spencer, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
The Village Board of the Village of Spencer.
That part of the system located within public rights-of-way
and easements and maintained by the Village.
The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect,
carry away, store, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and holding
tank wastewater and dispose of the effluent.
Areas presently served and anticipated to be served by the
Village sewer collection and treatment system.
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater,
holding tank wastewater, industrial wastes and sludge, including outfall
pipes and associated facilities.
A water volume measuring and recording device, furnishing
and/or installed by a user or the Village, and approved by the Village
Water Utility.
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water,
either continuously or intermittently.
A document issued by the Wisconsin State Department of Natural
Resources which establishes effluent limitations and monitoring requirements
for the municipal wastewater facility.
