Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the following terms, as used herein, shall have the following meanings:
ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also know as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams
per liter).
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes
inside building walls and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning
outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the municipal sewer
or other place of disposal.
CITY
The City of Hudson or the Common Council of the City of Hudson.
COMMERCIAL USER
(1)
A commercial business discharging wastewater.
(2)
A user not categorized as residential or industrial.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, or during which the only constituent added
to the water is heat.
DEPARTMENT
The Public Utility Department of the City of Hudson.
[Amended 8-1-2016 by Ord.
No. 19-16]
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL USER
A person who discharges into the City's wastewater treatment
works liquid wastes resulting from the processes employed in industry
or manufacturing or from the development of any natural resource.
LOT
A plot of land in any part of the City containing no more
than one connection to the wastewater treatment works.
MUNICIPAL SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
PARCEL OF LAND
Any piece of real estate not being a part of any regular
subdivision or addition.
PERSON
The state or any agency or institution thereof and any municipality,
governmental subdivision, public or private corporation, individual,
partnership or other entity, including but not limited to an association,
commission or any interstate body, and including any officer of a
governmental subdivision or public or private corporation or other
entity.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
PREMISES
Any piece of real estate having one or more sewers which
may be connected, either individually or through a common sewer and
directly or indirectly, to the wastewater treatment works.
PRETREATMENT
The process of reducing the amount of pollutants, eliminating pollutants or altering the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the City's wastewater treatment works. The reduction, elimination or alteration may be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, process changes or other means, except as prohibited by §
198-6 of this chapter.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
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
municipal sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries wastewater and to which stormwater,
surface water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying wastewater.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Any user of the City's wastewater treatment works which:
(1)
Has a wastewater flow of 50,000 gallons or more
per average workday.
(2)
Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the
City's wastewater treatment works.
(3)
Has in its wastes toxic pollutants as defined
pursuant to Section 307 of the Act or Wisconsin statutes of law.
(4)
Has a significant impact, either singly or in
combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater
treatment works, the quality of sludge, the treatment works' effluent
quality or air emissions generated by the treatment works.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, wastewater or industrial waste which,
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow,
exceeds for longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average
twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during a normal operation.
STATE
The State of Wisconsin.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of
or is suspended in water or other liquids and which is removable by
a standard glass fiber filter.
USER
Any person who discharges or causes or permits the discharge
of wastewater into the City's wastewater treatment works.
UTILITY
The City's Wastewater Treatment Utility.
[Added 7-17-2023 by Ord. No. 9-23B]
UTILITY DIRECTOR
The supervisor of the Wastewater Treatment Utility and the
Water Utility, or his/her duly authorized deputy, agent or representative.
[Added 8-1-2016 by Ord.
No. 19-16]
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may
be present, whether treated or untreated, which is discharged into
or permitted to enter the City's wastewater treatment works.
WASTEWATER DIRECTOR
The supervisor of the wastewater treatment plant or his duly
authorized deputy, agent or representative.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
Any devices, facilities, structures, equipment or works owned
or used by the City for the purpose of the transmission, storage,
treatment, recycling and reclamation of industrial and domestic wastewater
or necessary to recycle or reuse water, including intercepting sewers,
outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, pumping, power and other
equipment and their appurtenances; extensions, improvements, remodeling,
additions and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a
reliable recycled water supply, such as standby treatment units and
clear well facilities; and any works, including land, that will be
an integral part of the treatment process or used for ultimate disposal
of residues resulting from such treatment.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, whether continuously
or intermittently.
WATERS OF THE STATE
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways,
wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage
systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or
underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through or border upon the state or any portion thereof.
WISCONSIN POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (WPDES) PERMIT
Any permit or requirements issued by the Department of Natural
Resources pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as
amended, for the purpose of regulating the discharge of sewage, industrial
wastes or other wastes under the authority of Section 402 of the Act.