The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
The Village Manager or his or her designee or authorized
representatives.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in terms of weight and concentration as milligrams
per liter.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainpipes
inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer,
beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation
of organic matter, expressed in terms of milligrams per liter.
Those pollutants which the wastewater system is or may be
designed to reduce or remove from wastewater in accordance with its
NPDES permit.
The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning,
refrigeration, or other cooling to which the only pollutant added
is heat.
Any person, company, corporation, or governmental authority
or agency authorized to use water or to connect to the public sewer
under a permit issued by the Village.
The use of water as a refrigerant or as a primary heat transfer
medium.
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251
et seq., as amended.
Solid waste from the domestic or commercial preparation,
cooking, dispensing, storage, handling or sale of food.
The use of water to extract heat from a refrigerant or as
a secondary heat transfer medium.
That amount assessed each industrial user as defined in this
chapter to repay that portion of all federal grant amounts allocable
to the treatment of wastes from the industrial users of the wastewater
facilities and capacity committed to their use.
The wastewater from the place of the user's business,
trade or profession.
Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of the treatment works
which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day
(gpd) of sanitary wastes and which is identified in the Standard Industrial
Classification Manual 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended
and supplemented under one of the following divisions:
In determining the amount of a user's discharge for purpose
of industrial cost recovery, the Village may exclude domestic wastes
or discharges from sanitary conveniences.
Any user of the treatment works that discharges wastewater to
the treatment works 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 systems,
or to injure or to interfere with any sewage treatment process, or
which 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.
Any user of the treatment works, which:
Is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual
1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented
under the following divisions:
Discharges wastewater containing pollutants which may interfere
with the treatment process, may be toxic or incompatible, may interfere
with the processing or disposal of the sludge, or may have an adverse
effect on the receiving stream.
By definition, any industrial user for the purpose of industrial
cost recovery shall also be an industrial user for the purpose of
the user charge system.
Water other than wastewater that enters a sewer system, including
building drains and building sewers, from the ground through such
means as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections or manholes. Infiltration
does not include and is distinguished from inflow.
The total quantity of water from both infiltration and inflow
without distinguishing the source.
Water other than wastewater that enters a sewer system, including
building drains and building sewers, from sources such as roof leaders,
cellar drains, yard drains, area drains, foundation drains, drains
from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross-connections between
storm sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, stormwaters,
surface runoff, street wash waters, or drainage. Inflow does not include,
and is distinguished from, infiltration.
An industrial user of the wastewater system that:
Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average workday;
Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow carried by the municipal
system receiving the waste;
Has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined
in standards issued under Section 307 of the FWPCA, or by the Administrator;
or
Is found by the Administrator or state, in connection with the
NPDES permit currently in effect issued to the City of Kalamazoo and/or
the Village, to have significant impact, either singly or in combination
with other contributing industries, on the wastewater system or upon
the quality of effluent from the wastewater system.
Milligrams per liter.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or body
of surface water or groundwater.
All users of the wastewater facilities not classified as
an industrial user for purposes of the user charge system.
The program for issuing, conditioning and denying permits
for the discharge of pollutants from point sources into the navigable
waters, territorial seas, and contiguous zone of the United States
pursuant to Section 402 of the FWPCA.
Written permission of the Village to connect to a public
sewer.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
Dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, residential and agricultural waste
discharged into water.
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological, or radiological integrity of water.
Application of physical, chemical and/or biological processes
to reduce the amount of pollutants in or alteration of the nature
of the pollutant properties in wastewater prior to discharging such
wastewater into the wastewater system.
All applicable rules and regulations implementing Section
307 of the FWPCA, as well as any nonconflicting state or local standards
which may require more restrictive treatment of wastewater under the
circumstances described in Section 307 of the FWPCA.
Garbage that has been shredded to such a degree that no particle
shall be larger than one-half inch or 1.27 centimeters in any dimension,
and all particles can be carried freely in the wastewater under the
flow conditions normally prevailing in the wastewater system.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting property have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
That revenue generated as a result of the industrial cost
recovery system.
Thirty years or the useful life of the treatment works, whichever
is less.
Fifty percent of the recovered amounts.
A pipe or system of pipes that conveys wastewaters from residences,
commercial buildings, industrial plants, institutions, or other structures
as a part of the wastewater collection system.
Any combination of water-carried animal or vegetable wastes
from residences, business and commercial buildings, institutions,
and industrial establishments.
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
The accumulated solids separated from liquids during the
treatment of wastewaters.
Any drain or sewer intended expressly for the conveyance
of stormwater and surface water, street wash, or drainage or other
unpolluted water.
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of,
or is suspended in, wastewater and that is removable by laboratory
filtering.
The connecting of the building sewer to the public sewer.
Any person who discharges or causes or permits the discharge
of wastewater into the wastewater system and/or the owner or occupant
of any property from which the discharge is made.
Water or any liquid containing pollutants which is discharged
or permitted to be discharged into the wastewater system.
The complete wastewater collection, treatment and disposal
system of the Village, including all works, instrumentalities, or
properties used or useful therein.
Any natural channel or body of water in which a flow of water
occurs either continuously or intermittently.
A.
With approval of the Village Council and for the purpose of preventing,
discounting or correcting any violations of this chapter, the Administrator
may adopt and establish rules and regulations for the enforcement
of this chapter.
B.
Rules and regulations adopted under this chapter may include, but
are not limited to, imposing requirements upon industrial or commercial
users to submit plans for the pretreatment of wastewater, to install
equipment to monitor the nature and quantity of the wastewater being
discharged into the system, and/or to keep records.
Construction of all sewer services shall be done by licensed
master plumbers or pipelayers. Nothing in this Code shall be construed
to prevent a person who owns and occupies a single-family residence
from securing a permit to personally install, alter or repair the
sanitary sewer within his or her property, provided he or she has
reasonable knowledge of such work and is capable of such installation.
Such owner shall obtain a permit for any such work and shall call
for inspection as provided in this chapter. The Village may require
the applicant to submit evidence of fitness to do such work.
