[Ord. No. 87-9, 6-15-1987]
(A) 
The County adopts and avails the County of the provisions of an act authorizing the County to regulate garbage disposal areas and vehicles used in the hauling of garbage, approved September 26, 1980, and all supplement amendments thereto, enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly of the State of Illinois. (See 55 ILCS 5/5-8001)
(B) 
The County adopts and avails the County of the provisions of an act to prohibit open garbage dumps, approved June 29, 1970, and all supplemental amendments thereto, enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly of the State of Illinois. Except as hereinafter stated, and unless a different meaning of a word or term is clear from its context, the definitions of words or terms as are used in this Code shall be the same as those used in the Environmental Protection Act.
[Ord. No. 87-9, 6-15-1987]
The following terms or words shall have the meanings ascribed to them as follows:
(A) 
ALL WEATHER ROAD
Means a road built of suitable material which allows for unrestricted and unaided vehicular movement in all forms of wet or dry weather.
(B) 
BEDROCK
Means the solid rock exposed at the surface of the earth or overlain by unconsolidated material.
(C) 
CELL
Means compacted refuse completely enclosed by cover material.
(D) 
COMBUSTIBLE WASTE
Shall mean all waste substances capable of incineration or burning but excluding explosive or highly inflammable material.
(E) 
COMMERCIAL HAULER
Means any person collecting garbage for hire from more than two (2) residences or from any commercial or industrial establishment or public building.
(F) 
COMPACTION
Means the reduction of volume of material under load.
(G) 
CONTAINERS
Means five-gallon pails, forty/forty-five gallon fiberboard, steel and plastic drums, and fifty/fifty-five gallon steel drums.
(H) 
COVER MATERIAL
Means soil or other material that is used to cover compacted solid waste in a sanitary landfill and that is free of objects that would hinder compaction and free of content that would be conducive to vector harborage, feeding, or breeding.
(I) 
DEVELOPMENT
Means construction or installation of a facility.
(J) 
DISPOSAL AREA
Shall mean any area within the County to which refuse is to be hauled for disposal. The term does not include the area on any person's land used for the disposal of refuse from such person's household, provided that the items of waste are covered hereinafter in Article IV of this Code.
(K) 
FACILITY
Means any device, mechanism, equipment or area used for storage, transfer, processing, incineration or deposit of solid waste.
(L) 
GARBAGE DISPOSAL AREA
Shall mean any site, including a sanitary landfill or land reclamation area used for the disposal of solid or semi-solid refuse from more than one premise, or from a commercial or industrial operation, not suitable for discharge into water carriage waste disposal systems. It means any area within a county but outside any city, village or incorporated town in such county to which garbage is hauled for disposal. The term does not include the area on any person's land used for disposal of garbage from such person's own household.
(M) 
GROUNDWATER
Means water occurring in the zone of saturation in any aquifer or soil.
(N) 
HAZARDOUS WASTE
Means solid waste with inherent properties which make such waste difficult or dangerous to manage by normal means including but not limited to chemicals, explosives, pathological wastes, radioactive materials and wastes likely to cause fire.
(O) 
LAND RECLAMATION AREA
Shall mean all land or parcels of land on which refuse, or non-putrescible refuse or solid waste is accepted for deposit or permitted to be deposited regardless of whether a charge is made therefor.
(P) 
LEACHATE
Means liquid containing materials removed from solid waste.
(Q) 
LIFT
Means an accumulation of refuse which is compacted into a cell and over which compacted cover is placed.
(R) 
LIQUID
Means a waste, or part of a waste, which yields any fluid when subjected to the paint filter test described in Section 729.320 of the Environmental Protection Act. (Source: added at 9 Ill. Reg. 718, effective January 3, 1985)
(S) 
MODIFICATION
Means any physical change, or change in the method of operation, of a solid waste management facility.
(T) 
NON-COMBUSTIBLE WASTE
Shall mean all other waste substance not capable of incineration or burning such as earth fill, glass, metal, earthenware and the like.
(U) 
OPERATOR
Means a person who owns, leases, or manages a solid waste management facility.
(V) 
PERMEABILITY
Means the capability of a material to pass a fluid.
(W) 
PERSON
Shall mean any person, firm, club, corporation, association, partnership, company, organization or political subdivision.
(X) 
PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER
Means an engineer registered to practice engineering in the State of Illinois.
(Y) 
REFUSE
Shall mean all waste substances, including animal and vegetable, as well as combustible and non-combustible waste and all putrescible matter.
(Z) 
SALVAGING
Means the return of solid waste materials to beneficial use.
(AA) 
SANITARY LANDFILL
Shall mean a method of disposing of refuse on land without creating nuisances or hazards to the public health or safety by confining refuse to the smallest practical volume by employing power equipment and covering with a layer of compacted earth or suitable cover material at the conclusion of each day's operation, or at such intervals on a more frequent basis as may be necessary.
(BB) 
SCAVENGING
Means the removal of materials from a solid waste management facility in a manner not in conformity with the regulations governing salvaging.
(CC) 
SITE
Means any location, place, or tract of land and facilities, used for solid waste management.
(DD) 
SLUDGE
Means any material containing less than forty percent (40%) solids with no free-flowing liquids present.
(EE) 
SOLID WASTE
Means refuse having forty percent (40%) or more solid contents.
(FF) 
SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL
Means disposition of solid waste by means acceptable under regulations adopted by the County Board.
(GG) 
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
Means the processes of storage, processing or disposal of solid wastes, not including hauling or transport.
(HH) 
SURFACE WATER
Means all water the surface of which is exposed to the atmosphere.
(II) 
VECTOR
Means any living agent, other than human, capable of transmitting, directly or indirectly, an infectious disease.
(JJ) 
WATER TABLE
Means that surface in unconfined water at which the pressure is atmospheric and is defined by the levels at which water stands in wells that penetrate the water just far enough to hold standing water.
(KK) 
WORKING FACE
Means any part of a sanitary landfill where refuse is being disposed.