[Ord. No. 59, 7-6-1999]
It is determined and declared to be necessary and conducive
to the protection of the public health, safety, welfare, and convenience
of the Village to collect charges from all users who contribute wastewater
to the Village's treatment works. The proceeds of such charges
so derived will be used for the purpose of operating, maintaining,
and retiring the debt for such public wastewater treatment works.
[Ord. No. 59, 7-6-1999]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
BOD (DENOTING BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at twenty degrees Celsius (20° C.), expressed in milligrams
per liter (mg/l).
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
two hundred fifty (250) mg/l and a suspended solids concentration
of not more than three hundred (300) mg/l.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
All expenditures during the useful life of the treatment
works for materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary
for managing and maintaining the sewage works to achieve the capacity
and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
REPLACEMENT
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.
RESIDENTIAL CONTRIBUTOR
Any contributor to the Village's treatment works whose
lot, parcel of real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling
purposes only.
SHALL
Is mandatory; "May" is permissive.
SS (DENOTING SUSPENDED SOLIDS)
The 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.
TREATMENT WORKS
Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling,
and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage, or liquid industrial
wastes. These include interceptor sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection
systems, individual systems, pumping, power, and other equipment and
their appurtenances, extensions, improvements, 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 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.
USEFUL LIFE
The estimated period during which the treatment works will
be operated.
USER CHARGE
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.
WATER METER
A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished
and/or installed by the Village of Kingdom City or furnished and/or
installed by a user and approved by the Village of Kingdom City.