As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
APPROVING AUTHORITYThe person, Village Board, or other body in whom decisionmaking responsibility is vested under the provisions of this Code. Whenever action is directed to be taken by a specific person, authority is also granted for that specific person to delegate that action to another.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)The quantity of oxygen used in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter in five days at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l). Quantitative determination of BOD shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in the most recent edition of standard methods.
BUILDING DRAINThe horizontal piping within or under a building, installed below the lowest fixture or the lowest flow level from which fixtures can drain by gravity to the private sanitary sewer lateral.
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDA regulation promulgated under 33 U.S.C. §
1311 or
1317 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and set forth in 40 CFR Parts
405 to
471 or promulgated under §
281.13, Wis. Stats., by the Department of Natural Resources and set forth in the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
Any chemical discovered in water or in the environment that had not previously been detected or were only present in insignificant levels. CECs can range from pharmaceuticals, personal care or household cleaning products, lawn care, agricultural products, and organic pollutants used in industrial processes.
DIRECTOR OF BUILDING SERVICESThe person authorized by the Village Board to perform inspections, issue permits, and is authorized to ensure that the State Plumbing Code is enforced.
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKSThe person authorized by the Village to manage and operate the Village publicly owned sanitary sewer system and to ensure compliance with the State Plumbing Code for the private sanitary sewer system.
FATS, OIL, AND GREASE (FOG)Organic compounds derived from animal and/or plant sources that contain multiple carbon chain triglyceride molecules. These substances are detectable and measurable using analytical test procedures established in the United States Code of Federal Regulations 40 CFR
136, as may be amended from time to time. All are sometimes referred to herein as grease or greases.
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 or treatment system.
INFILTRATIONDefined in Wisconsin DNR Rule NR 110.03(16), water other than wastewater that enters a sanitary sewer system (including private sanitary sewer laterals) from the ground through such sources as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manholes. Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.
INFLOWDefined in Wisconsin DNR Rule NR 110.03(17), water other than wastewater that enters a sanitary sewer system (including private sanitary sewer laterals) from sources such as roof leaders (downspouts), cellar drains, yard drains, area drains, foundation drains, prohibited sump pump drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross-connections between storm sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, stormwaters, surface runoff, street wash waters, or drainage. Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.
pHThe logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams per liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of 7 and a hydrogen ion concentration of 10-7.
SANITARY SEWER MAINThe Village publicly owned sanitary sewer piping system that receives and carries flows of wastewater, sewage and liquid waste from the private sanitary sewer laterals to the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) water reclamation facilities.
SANITARY SEWER SYSTEMAll the Village structures, conduits, and sanitary sewer mains by which wastewater is collected, treated and disposed of, except plumbing inside and in connection with building service and private sanitary sewer laterals.
SLUGAny nonroutine batch discharge, including but not limited to discharges resulting from a spill.
STATE PLUMBING CODEThe Wisconsin Administrative Code chapters that are applicable to plumbing, Ch. SPS 381 to 387.
STORM SEWERA Village drain or storm sewer for conveying surface water, groundwater, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source.
UNPOLLUTED WATERSWater of quality equal 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 sewer mains and the water reclamation facilities.
VILLAGEThe Village of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin.
WATER RECLAMATION FACILITYThe water reclamation facilities owned by Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) to treat wastewater. A water reclamation facility is an arrangement of structures to treat wastewater, septage, industrial wastes, and solids. In the case of the Village of Whitefish Bay, the Village wastewater generated is discharged to and treated by the water reclamation facilities owned by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.
WISCONSIN ADMINISTRATIVE CODEThe Wisconsin administrative rules and have the force of the law via the authority that comes from statues and the Wisconsin Constitution.