[Adopted as Secs. 13.01 and 13.02 of the former Municipal
Codebook]
In this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings:
The quantity of elemental nitrogen present, in which nitrogen
is combined with hydrogen in the molecular form as NH3, or in the ionized form as NH4+, expressed
in milligrams of N per liter. Quantitative determination of ammonia-nitrogen
shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard
Methods, and as approved in Ch. NR 219, Wis. Adm. Code.
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 of O2 per liter. Quantitative determination of BOD shall be made in accordance
with procedures set forth in Standard Methods, and as approved in
Ch. NR 219, Wis. Adm. Code.
Horizontal piping within and/or under a building, installed
below the lowest fixture of the lowest floor level from which fixtures
can drain by gravity to the building sewer.
The Building Inspector of the City of Reedsburg, or said
person's appointed assistant, agent, or representative.
The part of a drain system beginning at the immediate outside
of the foundation wall of any building being served which conveys
its discharge to a public sewer, private interceptor main sewer, private
sewage system, or other point of disposal.
Any standard specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants
or pollutant properties that may be discharged to the wastewater facilities
by industrial users in specific industrial categories. The "applicable
categorical pretreatment standard" shall mean the most restrictive
pretreatment limitations or prohibitive standards for industrial wastewater
that are enacted by a federal, state or local governmental entity.
The City of Reedsburg, Wisconsin.
Water having no impurities, or where impurities are below
a minimum concentration considered harmful by the Wisconsin Department
of Natural Resources, and would not be benefited by discharge to the
wastewater treatment facilities provided. Sources of clear water include
inflow and infiltration.
BOD, suspended solids, ammonia, and phosphorus, plus additional
pollutants identified in the Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (WPDES) permit issued to the City's wastewater treatment plant,
provided that such wastewater treatment plant was designed to treat
such pollutants and does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree.
A liability for a project incurred in the provision of the
City's wastewater facilities, including general obligation bonds,
revenue bonds, promissory notes and special assessment bonds with
both principal and interest.
Oil, fat, grease or similar substance 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 oil if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater
does not interfere with the sewerage system.
A combination of individual samples taken during operating
or discharge hours, whichever is longer, where the individual samples
are taken at frequent intervals not exceeding 15 minutes, and are
either:
A single sample taken at one moment or a combination of several
smaller samples of equal volume taken in less than a two-minute time
period. Where the term is used in connection with monitoring temperature
or pH, it means a single measurement.
A watertight receptacle designed to intercept and retain
grease or fatty substances contained in kitchen and other food wastes.
"Grease interceptor" and "grease trap" mean the same thing.
An approved watertight receptacle for the collection and
holding of sewage.
The scum, liquid, sludge or other waste from holding tanks,
such as chemical toilets, campers, trailers, vacuum pump trucks and
other temporary holding facilities that collect wastewater from a
user. Holding tank waste does not include sludge or waste from a soil
absorption field, septic tank, privy or grease trap.
Any pollutant that is not a compatible pollutant. Incompatible
pollutants include any wastewater or discharges to the sewerage system
that are likely to adversely affect or disrupt the wastewater treatment
processes, effluent quality, or sludge quality if discharged to the
sewerage system.
All wastewater discharged by an industrial user.
Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of the sewerage system
that discharges more than the equivalent of 1,000 gallons per day
(gpd) of sanitary waste, 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, the City will
exclude domestic waste or discharges from sanitary conveniences. After
applying the sanitary waste exclusion, discharges in the above divisions
that have a volume exceeding 1,000 gpd, or the weight of biochemical
oxygen demand (BOD), suspended solids (SS), ammonia (NH3), or phosphorus (P) exceeding the weight found in 1,000
gpd of normal concentration wastewater are considered industrial users.
Any nongovernmental user of the sewerage system which discharges wastewater
that contains toxic or incompatible pollutants or poisonous solids,
liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity either singly or by interaction
with other waste, to contaminate the sludge of the municipal sewer
systems, or to injure or to interfere with any sewage treatment process,
or which constitutes a hazard to 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.
The water (other than wastewater) from the ground or other
sources that enters the sewage system through means such as, but not
limited to, defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manhole
walls. Infiltration does not include, and is distinguishable from,
inflow.
The water (other than wastewater) that enters the sewage
system from, but not limited to, 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 distinguishable from, infiltration.
See "building sewer."
Any person servicing septic and holding tanks, dosing chambers,
grease interceptors, seepage beds, seepage pits, seepage trenches,
privies, or portable restrooms who holds a valid Wisconsin sanitary
license.
A term intended to mean permissive.
A measure of the concentration of a pollutant, expressed
in the mass of pollutant (milligrams) per volume (liter) of wastewater.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
Wastewater in which the average concentration has been established
as follows:
A combination of liquid and waterborne wastes normally discharged
from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, apartments, hotels, office
buildings, factories, and institutions, free from industrial wastes,
which does not contain incompatible pollutants and in which BOD, phosphorus,
ammonia, or suspended solids concentrations do not exceed normal-concentration
wastewater.
Costs to operate and maintain the sewerage system, including
both the collection system and treatment facilities. Operation and
maintenance costs include, but are not limited to, labor, utilities,
supplies, equipment maintenance and other normal costs necessary for
the provision of sewerage service.
Any and all individuals, 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 in moles per liter.
The total phosphorus in wastewater that may be present in
any of three principal forms: orthophosphates, polyphosphates, and
organic phosphates, expressed in milligrams of P per liter. Quantitative
determination of total phosphorus shall be made in accordance with
procedures set forth in Standard Methods, and as approved in Ch. NR
219, Wis. Adm. Code.
Fixtures incorporating holding tank facilities, designed
to directly receive human excrement. Portable restrooms are self-contained
units, may be designed for one or more person's use at a given time
and are readily transportable. Portable restroom wastewater shall
be disposed of as holding tank waste.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature or characteristics
of the pollutant properties of the wastewater of a user prior to or
in lieu of discharge to the sewerage system.
A system for treatment of wastewater that is not owned or
operated by the City.
A cavity in the ground or a portable aboveground device constructed
for toilet uses, which receives human excrement either to be partially
absorbed directly by the surrounding soil or stored for decomposition
and periodic removal.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and/or 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 the collection system, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch (1.27
centimeters) in any dimension.
Any sanitary sewer owned and controlled by a municipality
or public authority and in which all owners of abutting properties
have equal rights. For this chapter, public sewer refers to all sanitary
sewers owned and operated by the City.
Expenditures for purchasing and installing equipment, accessories
or appurtenances necessary to maintain the capacity and performance
of the sewerage system during the service life for which such works
were designed and constructed.
A twenty-four-hour flow proportional composite sample of
the appropriate wastewater stream, where feasible. Samples to be analyzed
for pH, cyanide, total phenols, oil and grease, sulfide, and volatile
organics shall be grab samples. A user may use another sampling method
if it demonstrates and certifies to the City's satisfaction that it
is more representative than flow-proportional sampling.
See "sewage collection system."
The wastewater or contents of septic tanks, dosing chambers,
grease interceptors, seepage beds, seepage pits, seepage trenches
and privies.
A tank which receives and partially treats sewage through
processes of sedimentation, oxidation, flotation and bacterial action,
so as to separate solids from the liquid in the sewage, and discharges
the liquid to a soil absorption system.
The spent water of a community. The preferred term is "wastewater."
The common sanitary sewers within the 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 fittings designed for
connection with those facilities. The sewage collection system collects
and carries the wastewater through a system that eventually connects
to a wastewater treatment plant. The facilities that convey wastewater
from individual structures, or from private property to the public
sewer, are specifically excluded from the definition of sewage collection
system, except that pumping units and pressurized lines for individual
structures or groups of structures may be included as part of the
sewage collection system when such units are owned and maintained
by the sewerage system owner.
A pipe or conduit for carrying wastewater.
All wastewater facilities of the City, which includes the
wastewater treatment plant and collection system, but excludes building
drains and building sewers. The preferred term is "wastewater facilities."
A term intended to mean mandatory.
Any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentration
of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period
longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average twenty-four-hour
concentration or flow rate during normal operation.
The examination and methods set forth in the most recent
edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater"
as prepared, approved, and published jointly by the American Public
Health Association, American Waterworks Association, and the Water
Environment Federation, and is in compliance with 40 CFR 136, "Guidelines
Establishing Test Procedures for Analysis of Pollutants," all as amended
from time to time.
A sewer which carries stormwaters and surface drainage, and/or
unpolluted (clear) water, but excludes domestic and industrial wastewater.
Insoluble solids that either float on the surface of, or
are in suspension in, water, wastewater or other liquids and are removable
by laboratory filtering and referred to as "nonfilterable residue,"
expressed in milligrams per liter. Quantitative determination of total
suspended solids shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth
in Standard Methods, and as approved in Ch. NR 219, Wis. Adm. Code.
Any person who discharges, or causes to be discharged, normal
wastewater or industrial discharges or any other wastewater into the
sewerage system.
A charge levied on the users of the wastewater facilities
for the cost of provision of facilities and service, including operation
and maintenance, replacement cost, debt service, and other related
costs.
The Utility Commission of the City of Reedsburg.
The water-carried wastes created in and conducted away from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial establishments, and public
buildings or institutions as defined in § 101.01(12), Wis.
Stats., with such surface water or groundwater as may be present.
The City of Reedsburg Public Works Department.
All structures, conduits and pipes by which wastewater is
collected, treated and disposed of, except plumbing inside and in
connection with buildings served and building sewers, from the building
to the sewage collection system.
An arrangement of equipment and structures for treating wastewater,
owned and operated by the City. Sometimes used as synonymous with
"waste treatment plant," "wastewater treatment facility," "wastewater
treatment works," or "water pollution control plant."
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water,
either continuously or intermittently.
The City's permit to discharge pollutants, obtained under
the Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (WPDES) pursuant
to Chapter 283, Wis. Stats.
A.
Disposing of wastewater and pollutants on land. It shall be unlawful
for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in any
manner wastewater or other polluted waters, any human or animal excrement,
or other incompatible pollutant on public or private property within
the City or in any area under the jurisdiction of said City.
B.
Discharge into waterways. It shall be unlawful to discharge to any
natural outlet within the City, or any area under the jurisdiction
of said City, any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where
suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent
provisions of this chapter and with all applicable federal, state,
or local statutes, ordinances, and regulations.
C.
Privies, septic tanks, etc. Except as hereinafter provided, it shall
be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic
tank, holding tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for
the disposal of sewage within the City limits.
D.
Connection to utility. The owner of all houses, buildings or properties
used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes
situated within the City and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way
in which there is now located, or may in the future be located, a
public sanitary sewer of the City is hereby required at his expense
to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such
facilities directly with the proper public sewer, in accordance with
the provisions of this chapter, within 10 days after date of official
notice to do so. A separate and independent building sewer shall be
provided for every building intended for human habitation or occupancy.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
E.
Maintenance of services. The property owner shall maintain building
sewer (service laterals) free from defective conditions, by and at
the expense of the owner or occupant of the property, except if they
are damaged as a result of negligence or carelessness on the part
of the City.
F.
Contract basis for sewer service. Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit
the City from providing wastewater services to persons outside the
corporate limits of the City under mutually agreeable conditions.
Any customers outside of the service area who request service by the
City shall agree to be subject to this chapter and charges as applied
to customers inside the City limits, plus any surcharges.
G.
Protection from damage. No unauthorized person shall maliciously,
willfully, or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface
or tamper with any structure, appurtenance, or equipment which is
a part of the wastewater facilities. Any person(s) violating this
provision shall be subject to immediate arrest under charge of criminal
damage to property or disorderly conduct.
