[Code 1993, § 13.20(1)]
(a) 
This article sets forth uniform requirements for direct and indirect contributors into the wastewater collection and treatment system for the City of Racine Wastewater Utility and enables the utility to comply with applicable state and federal laws required by the Clean Water Act of 1977 (PL 95-217) and the general pretreatment regulations (40 CFR 403). The objectives of this article are to:
(1) 
Prevent the introduction of pollutants into the municipal wastewater system which will interfere with the operation of the system or contaminate the resulting sludge.
(2) 
Prevent the introduction of pollutants into the municipal wastewater system which will pass through the system, inadequately treated, into receiving waters or the atmosphere, or otherwise be incompatible with the system.
(3) 
Improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewaters and sludges from the system.
(4) 
Provide for equitable distribution of the operation and maintenance cost of the utility's implementation of the industrial pretreatment program.
(b) 
This article provides for the regulation of direct and indirect contributors to the wastewater system through the issuance of permits to certain nondomestic users and enforcement of general requirements for the other users; authorizes monitoring and enforcement activities; requires user reporting; assumes that existing customers' capacity will not be preempted; and provides for the setting of fees for the equitable distribution of costs resulting from the program established in this article.
(c) 
This article shall apply to the City of Racine and persons outside such city who are, by contract or agreement with the City of Racine, users of such city's POTW. Except as otherwise provided in this article, the general manager of the City of Racine's POTW shall administer, implement and enforce the provisions of this article.
[Code 1993, § 13.20(2)]
(a) 
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:
ACT and THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
ADMINISTRATOR
The administrator or other duly authorized official of the Environmental Protection Agency.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
The state department of natural resources.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures for five days at a temperature of 20° C., expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams per liter (mg/l)).
BUILDING SEWER
A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user to the publicly owned treatment works (POTW).
CATEGORICAL STANDARDS and CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
The national categorical pretreatment standards or pretreatment standards.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter, expressed in mg/l, as determined in accordance with standard laboratory procedure as set out in the latest edition of the Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
CITY
The City of Racine or its representatives.
CONSISTENT REMOVAL
The reduction in the amount of a pollutant or alteration of the nature of a pollutant in the influent to a POTW in accordance with the procedures set forth in 40 CFR 403.7 promulgated pursuant to the act.
DISCHARGE, ACCIDENTAL
A slug flow of material which is sufficient to cause an upset to the utility.
DISCHARGE, DIRECT
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the state.
DISCHARGE, INDIRECT
The discharge or introduction of nondomestic pollutants from any source regulated under 307(b) or (c) of the act (33 U.S.C. § 1317), into the POTW, including holding tank waste discharged into the system.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate, such term may also be used as a designation for the administrator or other duly authorized official of such agency.
GENERAL MANAGER
The person designated by the utility to supervise the operation of the publicly owned treatment works and who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities by this article, or his duly authorized representative.
GRAB SAMPLE
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis, with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of time.
INDUSTRIAL USER
A source of an indirect discharge.
INDUSTRIAL USER, AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF
A:
(1) 
Principal executive officer of at least the level of vice-president, if the industrial user is a corporation.
(2) 
General partner or proprietor, if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively.
(3) 
Duly authorized representative of the individual designated in Subsections (1) and (2) of this definition, if such representative is responsible for the overall operation of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
INTERFERENCE
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement of the utility's WPDES permit. Such term includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance with Section 405 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1345), or any criteria, guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), Clean Air Act, Toxic Substances Control Act or more stringent state criteria, including the criteria contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV of the SWDA, applicable to the method of disposal of use employed by the POTW.
MUNICIPALITY
The communities and/or sanitary districts that are served by the utility interceptor sewers and/or utility wastewater treatment plant.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS and PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with 307(b) and (c) of the act (33 U.S.C. § 1347), which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
NATIONAL PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD and PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD
Any regulation developed under the authority of 307(b) of the act and 40 CFR 403.5.
NEW SOURCE
Any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is, or may be, a discharge, the construction of which commenced after the:
(1) 
Promulgation of categorical pretreatment standards which are applicable to such source; or
(2) 
Proposal of categorical pretreatment standards which are applicable to such source, but only if the standards are promulgated within 120 days of the proposal thereof.
PERSON
The state, or any agency or institution thereof, any municipality, governmental subdivision, public or private corporation, individual, partnership or other entity, including, but not limited to, an association, commission or any interstate body and, including, any officer, or governing or managing body of any municipality, governmental subdivision, or public or private corporation, or other entity.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water.
POLLUTANT, TOXIC
Any pollutant, or combination of pollutants, listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under the provisions of 307(a) of the act or other acts.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological and radiological integrity of water.
POTW TREATMENT PLANT
The portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment of wastewater.
PRETREATMENT AND TREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to, or in lieu of, discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological process; process changes; or other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any local or state requirements related to pretreatment, other than a categorical pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial user.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
Includes the City of Racine Wastewater Treatment Plant. Such term also includes sewers, pipes and other conveyances only if they convey wastewater to a POTW treatment plant, and includes any sewer that conveys wastewaters to the POTW from persons outside the City of Racine who are, by contract or agreement with such city, users of the City of Racine POTW.
SHALL; MAY
The term "shall" is mandatory; and the term "may" is permissive.
SLUG
Any discharge that has a flow rate or contains a concentration or quantities of pollutants that exceed, for any time period of time longer than 15 minutes, more than five times the user's average twenty-four-hour concentration, quantities or flow during normal operation or which may injure the system.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, 1972.
STANDARDS, BOARD OF
A seven-member board appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the city council of the City of Racine to provide information and advise the Racine Wastewater Utility.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater or other liquids and which is removable by laboratory filtering.
UPSET
An exceptional incident in which a discharger is unintentionally and temporarily in a state of noncompliance with the standards set forth in this article due to factors beyond the reasonable control of the discharger, excluding noncompliance to the extent caused by operational error, improperly designated treatment facilities, inadequate treatment facilities, lack of preventive maintenance, or careless or improper operation thereof.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater into the utility's POTW.
USER, SIGNIFICANT
Any user of the utility's wastewater disposal system, who has:
(1) 
Discharge flow of 10,000 gallons or more on any day of the year;
(2) 
In his wastes, toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to Wis. Stats. § 283.21, and rules; or
(3) 
A significant impact, as determined by the general manager, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality or air emissions generated by the system.
UTILITY
The City of Racine Wastewater Utility or its delegated representatives.
WASTE, HOLDING TANK
Any waste from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum pump tank trucks.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into, or permitted to enter, the POTW.
WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT
The document issued by the utility to the significant users to set forth the requirements and limitations for the industrial user.
WATER, COOLING
The water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
WATERS OF THE STATE
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the state, or any portion thereof.
WISCONSIN POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (WPDES) PERMIT
Any permit or requirement issued by the department of natural resources (DNR) pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.), as amended, for the purpose of controlling sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes under the authority of 402 of the act.
[Code 1993, § 13.20]
(a) 
The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
(1) 
BOD — Biochemical oxygen demand.
(2) 
CFR — Code of Federal Regulations (example: 40 CFR 403 is Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 403).
(3) 
COD — Chemical oxygen demand.
(4) 
EPA — Environmental Protection Agency.
(5) 
l — Liter.
(6) 
mg — Milligrams.
(7) 
mg/l — Milligrams per liter.
(8) 
POTW — Publicly owned treatment works.
(9) 
SIC — Standard Industrial Classification.
(10) 
SWDA — Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.
(11) 
TSS — Total suspended solids.
(12) 
U.S.C. — United States Code.
(13) 
WPDES — Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
[Code 1993, § 13.31]
(a) 
Civil penalties. Any industrial user who is found to have violated an order of the board of standards, or who willfully or negligently failed to comply with any provision of this article and orders, rules, regulations and permits issued under this article, shall be subject to a penalty as provided in § 1-15.
(b) 
Liability for costs of damage. Any industrial user violating any of the provisions of this article or which has a discharge which causes a deposit, obstruction, damage or other impairment to the Racine POTW shall become liable to the utility for any expense, loss or damage caused by the violation or discharge. The utility may add to the industrial user's charges and fees the costs assessed for any cleaning, repair or replacement work caused by the violation or discharge. Any refusal to pay the assessed costs shall constitute a violation of this article.
(c) 
Falsifying information. Any person who knowingly makes any false statement, representation or certification on any application, record, report, plan or other document filed or required to be maintained pursuant to this article or wastewater discharge permit, or who falsifies, tampers with or knowingly renders inaccurate any monitoring device or method required under this article shall, upon conviction, be subject to a penalty as provided in § 1-15.