A.
No statement contained in this chapter shall be construed to interfere
with any additional requirements that may be imposed by the Wisconsin
Administrative Code.
A.
No statement contained in this chapter shall be construed as preventing
any special agreement or arrangement between the City and any industrial
concern whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength or character
may be accepted by the City for treatment, subject to payment therefor
by the industrial concern, provided the agreement is not in conflict
with the intent or rates established by this chapter or with Wisconsin
Administrative Code requirements.
A.
The City Engineer and other duly authorized employees of the City
bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to
enter all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation,
measurement, sampling and testing in accordance with the provisions
of this section. The City Engineer or their representatives shall
have no authority to inquire into any processes, including metallurgical,
chemical, oil, refining, ceramic, paper or other processes, beyond
that point having a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge
to the sanitary sewers or wastewater treatment facilities.
B.
The City Engineer and other duly authorized employees of the City
bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to
enter all private properties for the purposes of, but not limited
to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair and maintenance
of any portion of the sewage collection system or treatment works.
All entry and subsequent work, if any, shall be done in full accordance
with the terms of this division.
C.
While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in Subsection B above, the City Engineer or duly authorized employees of the City shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the owner, the owner shall be held harmless for injury or death to the City employees, and the City shall indemnify the owner against loss or damage to its property by City employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the owner and growing out of the inspection, gauging or sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the owner to maintain safe conditions as required in this division.
A.
No person, corporation, partnership or other legal entity owning
property outside the corporate limits of the City of Onalaska may
connect said property to and/or obtain City water and/or sanitary
sewer services for said property from any City water or sanitary sewer
main(s).
B.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection A above, any person, corporation, partnership or other legal entity owning property outside the corporate limits of the City of Onalaska may install, at their own expense, a lateral for water and/or sanitary sewer services from the City's main(s) to said property, which lateral may, upon annexation of the property to the City and upon payment of all fees or charges, be utilized for the purpose of obtaining water and/or sanitary sewer services for said property.
A.
AGENCY
AGREEMENT
AMMONIA NITROGEN PLUS ORGANIC NITROGEN
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD5)
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
COMMERCIAL USER
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS/CITY ENGINEER
DNR
DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
GARBAGE
GRANT
GRANTEE
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
INDUSTRIAL USER
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER
MAY
NATURAL OUTLET
NONCONTACT COOLING WATER
PERSON
pH
PRIVATE SEWAGE SYSTEM
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SANITARY SEWER COLLECTION SYSTEM
RESIDENTIAL USER
SANITARY INTERCEPTOR SEWER
SANITARY SEWER
SANITARY WASTE
SEWAGE
SHALL
SLUG
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION MANUAL
STORM SEWER (STORM DRAIN)
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TREATMENT FACILITIES
UNALTERED WATER
USER CHARGE SYSTEM
USERS
WASTEWATER
WATERCOURSE
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply.
Words used in the singular shall include the plural, and the plural,
the singular; words used in the present tense shall include the future
tense; the word "shall" is mandatory and not discretionary; the word
"may" is permissive.
The City of Onalaska Common Council, the Board of Public
Works, City Engineer or designee which is designated by it to administer
and enforce the terms of this chapter.
The current agreement between the City of La Crosse and the
City of Onalaska for the transportation and treatment of wastewater
emanating in the City of Onalaska.
The quantity of soluble nitrogen in the oxidation trinegative
state combined with hydrogen and hydroxyl ions as NH4OH expressed in mg/l of nitrogen, plus the organically bound nitrogen
in the oxidation trinegative state; also referred to as "Kjeldahl
nitrogen"; the quantity being determined by Standard Methods for the
Examination of Water and Wastewater, latest edition.
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.
The lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives
the discharge from waste drainage pipes inside the building and conveys
the same to the building sewer, beginning five feet (1.52 meters)
outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain beginning at five feet
(1.52 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall to its connection
with the sanitary sewer or other place of disposal.
Any user engaged in a business enterprise; churches, schools,
mobile home courts, governmental and public facilities, multifamily
units consisting of more than two families, elderly housing units,
care centers and nonprofit organizations shall be considered commercial
users.
Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH, fecal coliform
bacteria, chemical oxygen demand, total organic carbon, nitrogen and
nitrogen compounds.
The Director of Public Works/City Engineer of the Water and
Sewer Commission of the City of Onalaska or their authorized deputy,
agent or representative.
The State of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
Water-carried wastes containing approximately 250 mg/l BOD5 and approximately 250 mg/l suspended solids, consistent
with that emanating from a typical household.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooling and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
Federal and/or state financial assistance for the construction
of improvements to the public sanitary sewer collection system and/or
sewage treatment plant.
The local agency which receives a grant.
Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant.
Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of a sewage treatment
plant which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons
per day 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:
Division A, Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing; Division B, Mining;
Division D, Manufacturing; Division E, Transportation, Communications,
Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services; or Division I, Industrial Services.
The liquid processing wastes from an industrial manufacturing
process, trade or business, including, but not limited to, all Standard
Industrial Classification Manual D manufacturers, as distinct from
domestic wastewater.
Is permissive.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
Wastewaters from a commercial or industrial user which have
not become exposed to contamination or pollution, the sole alteration
of which is in temperature increase and which do not contain any toxic
or deleterious substances.
Any individual, corporation, company, association, cooperative,
trust, institution, partnership, state, municipality or federal agency.
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 of seven and
hydrogen ion concentration of 10.
A system comprised of a septic tank and effluent absorption
area designed for the purpose of processing and disposing of sewage.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and 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
public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
A system of sanitary sewers owned, maintained, operated and
controlled by the City.
Single- and two-family homes which discharge domestic waste
to the public wastewater collection system, as distinct from commercial
or industrial users.
A sewer whose primary purpose is to transport wastewaters
from collection systems to a treatment facility.
A pipe or conduit owned and maintained by the City which
carries sewage.
The wastes discharged from the average residential user in
the City; also termed domestic wastewater.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
Is mandatory.
Any discharge of sewage or industrial wastewater, the concentration
of any constituent of which or the quantity of flow of which exceeds
instantaneously more than five times the average twenty-four-hour
concentration of flows of the user during normal operation.
The document so entitled, published by the Office of Management
and Budget, 1972.
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage, garbage and domestic wastewater and wastewaters
other than noncontact cooling water from commercial and industrial
users.
Solids that are visible and in suspension in the liquid,
the quantity being determined by Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater, latest edition.
Any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling
and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage or industrial
wastes.
Waters which are not changed chemically or physically as
a result of use.
A system based on estimated use of wastewater collection,
transportation and treatment services where each user pays its proportionate
share or construction and operation and maintenance cost of the collection,
transportation and treatment facilities.
Those residential, multifamily, commercial, governmental,
institutional and industrial establishments which are connected to
the public sanitary sewer collection system.
See "sewage."
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
