The following definitions shall be applicable to this
article:
APPROVING AUTHORITY
The Public Utilities Committee of the Village of Belgium
or its duly authorized deputy, agent or representative.
[Amended 10-11-2010 by Ord. No. 22-10]
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 20º C., expressed in milligrams per liter. Quantitative determination
of BOD shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard
Methods.
BUILDING DRAIN
The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives 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."
CATEGORY A
Those sanitary sewer users who discharge normal domestic
strength wastewater with concentrations of biochemical oxygen demand
(BOD), suspended solids (SS) and phosphorus (P) no greater than the
concentrations identified in the current user charge system.
CATEGORY B
Those sewer users who discharge wastewater with concentrations
in excess of domestic strength wastewater as identified in the current
user charge system. Users whose wastewater exceeds the concentrations
for any one of these parameters shall be in Category B.
CHLORINE REQUIREMENT
The amount of chlorine, in milligrams per liter (ml), which
must be added to sewage to produce a specified residual chlorine content
in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm- or
surface water.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANTS
Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), suspended solids (SS), phosphorus
(P), ammonia, nitrogen, total kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN), pH or fecal
coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the Village's
Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (WPDES) permit for
its wastewater treatment facility, provided that such facility is
designed to treat such additional pollutants and, in fact, does remove
such pollutants to a substantial degree.
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. Wastewater shall be considered free from floatable oil if
it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with
the collection system.
GARBAGE
The residue from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storing and sale of food products and
produce.
GROUND GARBAGE
Garbage that has been shredded to such a 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 dimension.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANTS
Wastewater with pollutants that will adversely affect the
wastewater treatment facilities or disrupt the quality of wastewater
treatment if discharged to the wastewater treatment facilities.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance discharged or escaping
from any industrial, manufacturing or commercial establishment or
process or from the development, recovery or processing of natural
resources. Such term includes any wastewater that is not sanitary
sewage.
INFILTRATION
The water unintentionally entering the public sewer system,
including sanitary building drains and sewers, from the ground through
such means as, but not limited to, defective pipes, pipe joints, connections
or manhole walls. Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished
from, inflow.
INFLOW
The water discharged into a sanitary sewer system, including
building drains and sewers, from such sources as, but not limited
to, roof leaders; cellar, yard and area drains; foundation drains;
unpolluted cooling water discharges; drains from springs and swampy
areas; manhole covers; cross-connections from storm sewers; and/or
combined sewers, catch basins, stormwaters, surface runoff, street
wash waters or drainage. Inflow does not include, and is distinguished
from, infiltration.
LICENSED DISPOSER
A person or business holding a valid license to do septage
servicing under Ch. NR 113, Wis. Adm. Code.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or
ground water.
NITROGEN
Ammonia nitrogen, expressed in milligrams per liter of NH2N. Quantitative determination of ammonia nitrogen
shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard
Methods.
NORMAL DOMESTIC STRENGTH WASTEWATER
Wastewater with concentrations of biochemical oxygen demand
(BOD), suspended solids (SS) and phosphorus (P) no greater than the
concentrations identified in the current user charge system.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS
All costs incurred in the operation and maintenance of the
Village wastewater treatment facilities. Notwithstanding other accounting
procedures as may be used by the Village for other purposes, in the
context of this article, 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 and all persons, including any individual, firm, company,
municipality or private corporation, association, society, institution,
enterprise, governmental agency or other entity.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration.
The concentration is the weight of the hydrogen ion, in grams, per
liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of seven
and a hydrogen-ion concentration of 10-7.
PHOSPHORUS (P)
The element of that same name, the concentration of which,
in wastewater, is ascertained by the test for total phosphorus and
is expressed in milligrams per liter of P, as defined in the Standard
Methods.
PRETREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater prior to or in lieu of discharge in or otherwise introducing
such pollutants into a wastewater system.
PRIVATE SEWER
A sewer which is not owned by the Village or Utility.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works, including any devices and systems used
in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal
and industrial waste. The systems include sewers, pipes and equipment
used to convey wastewater to the treatment facility. The term also
includes the municipality that owns and operates the facilities.
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 facilities at the end of the
service life of each equipment item.
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 SEWER
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions
together with minor quantities of ground-, storm- and surface waters
that are not admitted intentionally.
SEPTAGE
The wastewater or contents of septic or holding tanks, dosing
chambers, grease interceptors, seepage beds, seepage pits, seepage
trenches, privies or portable rest rooms.
SEWAGE
The spent water of a community. The preferred term is "wastewater."
SEWER
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
SEWER SERVICE CHARGE
A charge levied on users of the wastewater collection and
treatment facilities for payment of operation and maintenance expenses,
debt service costs and other expenses or obligations of said facilities.
SLUG
Any discharge of water or wastewater that, in 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 operation and/or
adversely affects the collection system and/or the performance of
the wastewater treatment facilities.
STANDARD METHODS
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the
most recent edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water
and Wastewater, published jointly by the American Public Health Association,
the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control
Federation.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS)
Expressed in milligrams per liter, the 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, and referred to as "nonfilterable
residue."
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent of
the wastewater treatment facilities 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.
USER CHARGE SYSTEM
The system of charges levied on users of the wastewater collection
and treatment facilities for payment of operations and maintenance
expenses, debt service costs and other expenses or obligations of
said facilities. The preferred term is "sewer service charge."
UTILITY
The Village of Belgium Sewer Utility.
VILLAGE
The Village of Belgium, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin.
WASTEWATER
The spent water of a community or person. 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 wastewater collection facility or wastewater treatment
facility, either combined or individually.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater
and sludge. Also referred to as "wastewater treatment plant."