The following definitions shall be applicable in this chapter:
APPROVING AUTHORITY
The Water and Sewer Commission of the Village of Bear Creek
or it's duly authorized deputy, agent or representative.
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
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.
BUILDING DRAIN
The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which received 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.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal also called house connection.
CHLORINE REQUIREMENT
The amount of chlorine, in milligrams per liter, which must
be added to sewage to produce a specified residual chlorine content
in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
DEBT CHARGE
That charge to customers of the Village which shall in whole
or in part defray the costs of retiring the debts incurred in the
construction of any wastewater facilities by the Village.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
FLOATABLE OIL
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.
GARBAGE
The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking, and serving of foods.
GROUND GARBAGE
Garbage that has been shredded to such 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 dimensions.
INDUSTRIAL USER
(1)
Any customer of the Village which discharges industrial wastes
and is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual,
1972, office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented
under the following divisions:
(a)
Division A. Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing.
(c)
Division D. Manufacturing.
(d)
Division E. Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, and
Sanitary Services.
(2)
For the purpose of this chapter, a user in the divisions listed
is excluded if it is determined that it discharges primarily segregated
domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences, or that it discharges
the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day, or less, of sanitary wastes
providing such discharge does not contain pollutants which 1) interfere
with the treatment process, 2) are toxic or incompatible, or 3) contaminate
or otherwise reduce utility of the sludge.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or business
as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface water
or groundwater.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS
All costs incurred in the operation and maintenance of the
Village wastewater treatment works. Notwithstanding other accounting
procedures as may be used by the Village for other purposes, in the
context of this chapter this class of costs shall be understood to
include equipment replacement costs and shall be understood to exclude
depreciation charges and debt retirement.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration.
The concentration is the weight of the hydrogen ions, in grams, per
liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of 7
and a hydrogen-ion concentration of 107.
PHOSPHORUS
The element of that same name, the concentration of which
in wastewater is ascertained by the test for total phosphorus, as
defined in Standard Methods.
PUBLIC SEWER
A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public
utility.
REPLACEMENT COST
The cost associated with maintaining a fund with sufficient
resources to provide for obtaining and installing the equipment associated
with the Village's wastewater treatment works at the end of the service
life of each equipment item. The yearly replacement cost is calculated
by calculating the depreciation on the Village's equipment accounts.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Shall be considered to be synonymous with "domestic sewage"
and "domestic wastewater" and shall mean any combination of liquid
and water-carried wastes discharged from sanitary plumbing facilities.
Sanitary sewage shall be assumed to have the following waste concentrations:
BOD: 200 mg/l.
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Suspended solids: 240 mg/l.
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Other: no substances as prohibited or limited in § 278-5D.
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SANITARY SEWER
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions
together with minor quantities of groundwaters, stormwaters, and surface
waters that are not admitted intentionally.
SERVICE CHARGE
The total charge to customers of the Village and shall mean
the sum of the user charge and debt charge.
SEWAGE
The spent water of a community. The preferred term is "wastewater."
SEWER
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
SLUG
Any discharge of water or wastewater which is 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 performance
of the wastewater treatment works.
STANDARD METHODS
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the
most recent edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water,
Sewage and Industrial Wastes" published jointly by the American Public
Health Association the American Water Works Association and the Federation
of Sewage and Industrial Wastes Associations.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS)
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 "Standard
Methods for Examination of Water and Wastewater" and referred to as
nonfilterable residue.
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria
in effect 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 provided.
USER CHARGE
That charge to customers of the Village which shall adequately
provide for proportionate recovery of the operation and maintenance
costs of the wastewater treatment works owned by the Village.
VILLAGE
The Village of Bear Creek, Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
WASTEWATER
The spent water of a community. 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.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES
The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect,
carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of
the effluent.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
An arrangement on devices and structures for treating wastewater,
industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "waste
treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "water pollution
control plant."
WPDES PERMIT
The Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit
which authorizes the Village to discharge wastes to a watercourse
provided the treatment of those wastes meets the conditions of the
permit.