[Code 1993, § 13.03]
(a)
APPROVING AUTHORITY
BOD (denoting BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
CATEGORY A
CATEGORY B
CHLORINE REQUIREMENT
CITY
COSTS, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
COSTS, REPLACEMENT
DRAIN, BUILDING
EASEMENT
GARBAGE
GARBAGE, GROUND
GRANTEE
INDUSTRIAL USER
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
INDUSTRY, MAJOR CONTRIBUTING
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
MUNICIPALITY
NATURAL OUTLET
OIL, FLOATABLE
PARTS PER MILLION
PERSON
pH
PHOSPHORUS
POLLUTANTS, COMPATIBLE
POLLUTANTS, INCOMPATIBLE
SEWAGE
SEWAGE, SANITARY
SEWER
SEWER SERVICE CHARGE
SEWER, BUILDING
SEWER, COMBINED
SEWER, PUBLIC
SEWER, SANITARY
SEWER, STORM OR DRAIN
SEWERAGE
SHALL and MAY
SLUG
STANDARD METHODS
STORMWATER RUNOFF
STURTEVANT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
USER CHARGE
WASTEWATER
WASTEWATER COLLECTION FACILITIES and WASTEWATER COLLECTION SYSTEM
WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY
WASTEWATER, NORMAL DOMESTIC STRENGTH
WATER, UNPOLLUTED
WATERCOURSE
WISCONSIN POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (WPDES) PERMIT
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
The sewer and water commission or other designated official
of the Village or an authorized deputy, agent or representative.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter in five days at 20° C., expressed as milligrams
per liter (mg/l). Quantitative determination of BOD shall be made
in accordance with procedures set forth in the Standard Methods.
The sanitary sewer users who discharge normal domestic strength
wastewater with concentrations of BOD no greater than 200 mg/l, suspended
solids no greater than 250 mg/l and phosphorus no greater than six
mg/l.
The sanitary sewer users who discharge wastewater with concentrations
in excess of 200 mg/l of BOD, 250 mg/l of suspended solids and six
mg/l of phosphorus. Users whose wastewater exceeds the concentration
for any one of such parameters shall be in category B.
The amount of chlorine, in mg/l, which must be added to sewage
to produce a residual chlorine as specified in the Wisconsin Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System (WPDES) permit.
The City of Racine, Racine County, Wisconsin.
Includes all costs associated with the operation and maintenance
of the wastewater collection and treatment facilities, as well as
the costs associated with periodic equipment replacement which is
necessary for maintaining the capacity and performance of the wastewater
and collection and treatment facilities.
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories
or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the
wastewater treatment facility to maintain the capacity and performance
for which such facilities were designed and constructed.
The part of the lowest horizontal 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,
beginning five feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building
wall.
An acquired legal right for the specified use of land owned
by others for wastewater conveyance or treatment.
The residue from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of food products and
produce.
The residue from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles
will be carried freely in suspension under the flow conditions normally
prevailing in public sewers with no particle greater than 1/2 inch
in any dimension.
The Village for the projects in which the Village receives
federal funding.
Per the Federal Register, Vol. 43, No. 188, September 27,
1978, quoted as follows:
Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of publicly owned 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:
After applying the sanitary waste exclusion (if the grantee
chooses to do so), dischargers in the above divisions having a volume
exceeding 25,000 gpd or the weight of BOD, suspended solids or phosphorus
equivalent to that weight found in 25,000 gpd of sanitary wastes are
considered industrial users. Sanitary wastes are the wastes discharged
from residential users.
Any nongovernmental user which discharges any wastewater containing
toxic pollutants or which has any other adverse effect on the treatment
works or receiving waters.
A commercial user of an EPA funded individual system.
The wastewater from an industrial process, trade or business
as distinct from sanitary sewage.
An industry that has a:
Flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average workday;
Flow greater than 5% of the flow carried by the wastewater collection
treatment facilities receiving the waste;
Material in its discharge included on a list of toxic pollutants
issued under Wis. Stats. § 283.21(1); or
Significant impact, either singularly or in combination with
other contributory industries, on the wastewater treatment facility
or the quality of its effluent.
The Village.
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water
or groundwater.
Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment
facility. Wastewater shall be considered free of floatable oil if
it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with
the collection system.
A weight-to-weight ratio. The parts per million value multiplied
by the factor 8.34 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons
of water.
Any natural person, firm, company, municipal or private corporation,
association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency
or other entity.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration.
The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter
of solution. Neutral concentration of 10-7.
The total phosphorus and is expressed in mg/l of P (phosphorus).
BOD, suspended solids, phosphorus, nitrogen, pH or fecal
coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the city's
WPDES permit for its wastewater treatment facility receiving the pollutants,
if such works were designed to treat such additional pollutants and,
in fact, does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree.
Wastewater with pollutants that will adversely affect or
disrupt the quality of wastewater treatment if discharged to a wastewater
treatment facility.
The spent water of a person or community. The preferred term
is "wastewater."
A combination of liquid and water-carried wastes discharged
from toilets and/or sanitary plumbing facilities.
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
A charge levied on users of the wastewater collection and
treatment facilities to recover annual revenues for debt services,
replacement costs, and operation and maintenance expenses of such
facilities. The user charge which covers operation and maintenance,
and replacement expenses is a part of the sewer service charge.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal, also known as a house connection or house
lateral.
A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and stormwater
or surface water.
Any publicly owned sewer, storm drain, sanitary sewer or
combined sewer.
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions,
together with minor quantities of groundwater, stormwater, and surface
water that are not admitted intentionally.
A drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface
water or unpolluted water from any source.
The facilities used for the collection, treatment and disposal
of wastewater.
"Shall" is mandatory; and the term "may" is permissive.
Any discharge of water or wastewater 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 of flows during normal operation and/or
adversely affects the wastewater collection system and/or performance
of the wastewater treatment facility.
The examination and analytical procedures in the most recent
edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater,
published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American
Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
The portion of rainfall that is drained into the sewers.
The Village of Sturtevant, Racine County, Wisconsin.
The total suspended matter that either floats on the surface
of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater or other liquids, and
that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in the Standard
Methods and referred to as nonfilterable residue.
A charge levied on users of the wastewater collection and
treatment facilities for payment of operation and maintenance costs
of such facilities.
The spent water of a community or person. From the standpoint
of source, 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 and equipment required to collect and carry
away domestic and industrial wastewater.
The city's arrangement of devices and structures for treating
wastewater, industrial wastes and sludge. Also referred to as wastewater
treatment plant.
Wastewater with concentrations of BOD no greater than 200
mg/l, suspended solids no greater than 250 mg/l and phosphorus no
greater than six mg/l.
Water of a quality equal to or better than the effluent of
the wastewater treatment facilities or water that would not cause
violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefited
by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities.
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water,
either continuously or intermittently.
A document issued by the state department of natural resources
which establishes effluent limitations and monitoring requirements
for the municipal wastewater treatment facility. WPDES permit no.
WI-0021130 and modifications thereof pertain to the City of Racine
wastewater treatment facility.
[Code 1993, § 13.04(1), (2)]
(a)
Sanitary sewers. No person shall discharge, or cause to be discharged,
any unpolluted water, such as stormwater, groundwater, roof runoff,
subsurface drainage or cooling water, to any sanitary sewer. Stormwater
runoff from limited areas, which may be polluted at times, may be
discharged to the sanitary sewers by permission of the approving authority.
(b)
Storm sewers. Stormwater, other than that exempted under this section
and all other unpolluted drainage, shall be discharged to such sewers
as are specifically designated as storm sewers or to a natural outlet
approved by the utilities director and other regulatory agencies.
Unpolluted industrial cooling water or process water may be discharged
to a storm sewer, combined sewer or natural outlet upon approval of
the approving authority.
