A.
Clarification of word usage: "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
B.
ADMINISTRATOR
APPROVING AUTHORITY
BASIC USER CHARGE
BOD (denoting "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND")
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT CHARGE
CITY
COMBINED SEWER
COMMERCIAL USER
CONTROL MANHOLE
DEBT SERVICE CHARGE
DIRECTOR
EASEMENT
EFFLUENT CRITERIA
FEDERAL ACT
FEDERAL GRANT
FLOATABLE OIL
GARBAGE
INDUSTRIAL USERS
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
INSTITUTIONAL/GOVERNMENTAL USE
LOCAL CAPITAL COST CHARGE
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
MILLIGRAMS PER LITER
NATURAL OUTLET
NPDES PERMIT
PERSON
pH
POPULATION EQUIVALENT
PPM
PRETREATMENT
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
REPLACEMENT
RESIDENTIAL USER
SANITARY SEWER
SEWAGE
SEWER
SEWERAGE
SEWERAGE FUND
SLUG
STATE ACT
STATE GRANT
STORM SEWER
STORMWATER RUNOFF
SURCHARGE
SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS)
UNPOLLUTED WATER
USEFUL LIFE
USER CHARGE
USER CLASS
WASTEWATER
WASTEWATER FACILITIES
WASTEWATER SERVICE CHARGE
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
WATERCOURSE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection
Agency.
The City of Waverly or its designee.
The basic assessment levied on all users of the public sewer
system.
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.
That part of the lowest 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
or other approved point of discharge, beginning five feet (1.5 meters)
outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
A charge levied on users to improve, extend or reconstruct
the sewage treatment works.
The City of Waverly.
A sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater,
storm, surface and groundwater drainage.
Includes transit lodging, retail and wholesale establishments
or places engaged in selling merchandise, or rendering services.
A structure located on a site from which industrial wastes
are discharged. Where feasible, the manhole shall have an interior
drop. The purpose of a control manhole is to provide access for the
City of Waverly's representative to sample and/or measure discharges.
The amount to be paid each billing period for payment of
interest, principal and coverage of loan, bond, etc. outstanding.
The Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
As defined in any applicable NPDES permit.
The Federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 466 et
seq), as amended (Pub. L. 95-217).
The United States government participation in the financing
of the construction of treatment works as provided for by Title II,
Grants for Construction of Treatment Works, of the Act and implementing
regulations.
Oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment
facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if
it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with
the collection system.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and
sale of food.
Includes establishments engaged in manufacturing activities
involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or
substance into products.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance discharged, permitted
to flow or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing, commercial
or business establishment or process or from the development, recovery
or processing of any natural resource, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Includes schools, churches, penal institutions, and users
associated with federal, state, and local governments.
Charges for costs other than the operation, maintenance and
replacement costs; i.e., debt service and capital improvement costs.
An industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works
that:
Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day; or
Has a flow greater than 10% of the flow carried by the municipal
system receiving the waste; or
Has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined
in standards issued under Section 307(a) of the Federal Act; or
Is found by the permit-issuing authority, in connection with
the issuance of the NPDES permit to the publicly owned treatment works
receiving the waste, to have significant impact, either singly or
in combination with other contributing industries, on that treatment
works or upon the quality of effluent from that treatment works.
A unit of the concentration of water or wastewater constituent.
It is 0.001 gram of the constituent in 1,000 milliliters of water.
It has replaced the unit formerly used commonly, parts per million,
to which it is approximately equivalent, in reporting the results
of water and wastewater analysis.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
Any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued
by the Administrator or, where appropriate, by the Director, after
enactment of the Federal Clean Water Act to regulate the discharge
of pollutants pursuant to Section 402 of the Federal Act.
Any and all persons, natural or artificial, including any
individual, firm, company, municipal or private corporation, association,
society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency or other entity.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion
concentration expressed by one of the procedures outlined in the IEPA
Division of Laboratories Manual of Laboratory Methods.
A term used to evaluate the impact of industrial or other
waste on a treatment works or stream. One population equivalent is
100 gallons of sewage per day, containing 0.17 pound of BOD and 0.22
pound of suspended solids.
Parts per million by weight.
The treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction
into the wastewater treatment works.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles
will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing
in public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch (1.27 centimeters)
in any dimension.
A sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the
City of Waverly. It shall also include sewers within or outside the
City's corporate limits that serve one or more persons and ultimately
discharge into the City's sanitary sewers, even though those sewers
may not have been constructed with City funds.
Expenditures 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. The term "operation and
maintenance" includes replacement.
All dwelling units such as houses, mobile homes, apartments,
and permanent multifamily dwellings.
A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes, or a combination
of both, and into which stormwater, surface water, and groundwaters
or polluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
Used interchangeably with "wastewater."
A pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other waste
liquids, including stormwater, surface water, and groundwater drainage.
The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection,
transportation and pumping of sewage.
The principal accounting designation for all revenues received
in the operation of the sewerage system.
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds
for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times
the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during normal
operation.
The Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act of 1970 (30 ILCS 405/1
et seq.).
The State of Illinois participation in the financing of the
construction of treatment works as provided for by the Illinois Anti-Pollution
Bond Act (30 ILCS 405/1 et seq.) and for making such grants as filed
with the Secretary of State of the State of Illinois.
A sewer that carries stormwater, surface water and groundwater
drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted
cooling water.
That portion of the precipitation that is drained into the
sewers.
The assessment in addition to the basic user charge and debt service charge which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration values established in § 247-10.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage, or industrial waste, and which are removable by
a laboratory filtration device. Quantitative determination of suspended
solids shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in the
IEPA Division of Laboratories Manual of Laboratory Methods.
Water quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria
in effect or water that would not cause a 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 the collection system and/or
treatment works will be operated.
A charge levied on users of treatment works for the cost
of operation, maintenance and replacement.
The type of user, "residential, institutional/governmental,
commercial" or "industrial," as defined herein.
The spent water or a community. From this standpoint, of
course, 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.
The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect,
carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and transport
effluent to a watercourse.
The charge per quarter or month levied on all users of the wastewater facilities. The service charge shall be computed as outlined in § 247-10 and shall consist of the total of the basic user charge, the local capital cost and a surcharge, if applicable.
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater,
industrial wastes, and sludge, sometimes used as synonymous with "waste
treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "pollution control
plant."
Defined in the Water Pollution Regulations of Illinois.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
