As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen used in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
BUILDING DRAIN
The lowest horizontal part of a drainage system which receives
the discharge from soil, waste or other drainage pipes inside a 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 line from the building drain to the public sewer or other
discharge.
CONTRACTOR
Anyone, except the property owner, constructing sewers outside
the building.
DEVELOPER
Anyone who develops open land not presently subdivided.
GARBAGE
Solid waste from food processing or storage.
HEARING BOARD
The Village Board, unless another board is appointed to hear
appeals.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing or businesses,
as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet to any body of surface water or groundwater.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in solution in grams per liter (g/l).
PRETREATMENT
The reduction of harmful pollutants in wastewater prior to,
or in lieu of introduction into, a public sewer, regardless of the
means of reduction, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6 of the General
Pretreatment Regulations for Existing and New Sources of Pollution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
Food waste shredded sufficiently to be carried freely in
public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch (1.27 centimeters)
in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
One controlled by a public authority and in which all abutting
property owners have equal rights.
SANITARY SEWERS
One which carries sewage and to which surface water and groundwater
are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
The water-carried wastes from residences and businesses,
together with such groundwater and surface water as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit carrying sewage.
SLUG
Any water, sewage or industrial waste discharge which, for
more than 15 minutes, has more than five times the normal twenty-four-hour
concentration or quantity of any constituent.
STORM DRAIN or STORM SEWER
One which carries surface waters and drainage, but excludes
sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which water flows continuously or intermittently.
No one shall intentionally or negligently damage or tamper with
any part of the Village sewage system. Anyone convicted of violating
this section shall be arrested immediately for disorderly conduct.
Following are the limits for substances discharged into the
Village sewage system, for samples taken over the listed time periods
in milligrams per liter (mg/l):
Substance
|
30 days
|
24 hours
|
---|
Arsenic
|
0.2
|
0.4
|
Barium
|
0.4
|
0.8
|
Cadmium
|
0.4
|
0.8
|
Available chlorine
|
50.0
|
50.0
|
Hex. chromium
|
0.2
|
0.4
|
Total chromium
|
4.0
|
8.0
|
Copper
|
0.8
|
1.6
|
Cyanide, free
|
0.4
|
0.8
|
Cyanide, complex
|
1.6
|
3.2
|
Fluorides in fluoridated fresh water
|
4.0
|
8.0
|
Fluorides in other fresh water
|
6.0
|
12.0
|
Fluorides in saline water
|
36.0
|
72.0
|
Gold
|
0.2
|
0.4
|
Lead
|
0.2
|
0.4
|
Manganese
|
4.0
|
8.0
|
Mercury
|
0.2
|
0.4
|
Nickel
|
4.0
|
8.0
|
Phenol
|
4.0
|
8.0
|
Selenium
|
0.2
|
0.4
|
Silver
|
0.2
|
0.4
|
Sulfide
|
6.0
|
12.0
|
Zinc
|
1.2
|
2.4
|