[Adopted as § 4-7-4 of the 1985
Code]
Whenever sewer and water become available to
any building used for human habitation, the Health Officer or his
designee shall notify in writing the owner, agent or occupant thereof
to connect all facilities thereto required by the Health Officer.
The notice required by §
420-1 shall direct the owner or his agent to connect the building to such main or mains in the manner prescribed by the Health Officer and to install such facilities and fixtures as may be reasonably necessary to permit passage of sewage incidental to such human habitation into the sewerage system and to furnish an adequate supply of pure water for drinking and prevent creation of a health nuisance.
[Amended 5-8-2007 by Ord.
No. 10:07]
If the owner or his agent fails to comply with
the notice of the Health Officer within 90 days of service or mailing
thereof, the Health Officer may cause connection to be made, and the
expense thereof shall be assessed as a special tax against the property.
The owner or his agent, in order to pay the special assessment, shall be charged the same interest and the amount due shall be the same as the provisions for special assessments mentioned in Chapter
12 of this Code.
After connection to a water main and public
sewer a privy, privy vault or cesspool shall not be constructed or
maintained upon such lot or parcel and shall be abated upon 10 days'
written notice for such abatement by the Health Officer. If not so
abated, the Health Officer shall cause the same to be done and the
cost thereof assessed as a special tax against the property.
The Board of Health may extend the time for
connection hereunder or may grant other temporary relief where strict
enforcement would work an unnecessary hardship without corresponding
public or private benefit.
[Adopted as Title 5, Ch. 1 of the 1985 Code]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meaning indicated. The term "shall" is mandatory; "may"
is permissive.
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 68° F. (20° C.) expressed in milligrams per liter.
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."
CHLORINE REQUIREMENT
The amount of chlorine, in milligrams per liter, which must
be added to sewage to produce a specified residual chlorine content
in accordance with procedures set forth in Standards Methods.
DEBT CHARGE
That charge to customers in 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. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if
it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with
the collection system.
GARBAGE
The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and serving of foods.
GROUND GARBAGE
Garbage that has been shredded to such 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.
INDUSTRIAL USE
A.
Any customer of the Village which discharges
industrial wastes and is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented,
under the following divisions:
(1)
Division A, Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing.
(3)
Division D, Manufacturing.
(4)
Division E, Transportation, Communication, Electric,
Gas and Sanitary Services.
B.
For the purpose of this article, a user in the
divisions listed is excluded it is determined that it discharges primarily
segregated domestic water or wastes from sanitary conveniences, or
that it discharges the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day or less
of sanitary wastes, provided that such discharge does not contain
pollutants which interfere with the treatment process, are toxic or
incompatible, or contaminate or otherwise reduce the utility of the
sludge.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The wastewater from industrial processes, trade or business
as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface water
or groundwater.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS
All costs incurred in the operation and maintenance of the
Village wastewater treatment works. 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 individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
or group.
pH
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 value of seven
and a hydrogen-ion concentration of 10-7.
PHOSPHORUS
The element of that same name, the concentration of which
in wastewater is ascertained by the test for total phosphorus, as
defined in Standard Methods.
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 works at the end of the service
life of such equipment item. The yearly replacement cost is calculated
by calculating the depreciation of the Village's equipment accounts.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Any combination of liquid and water-carried wastes discharged
from sanitary plumbing facilities. Sanitary sewage shall be assumed
to have the following waste concentrations:
A.
BOD: 200 millgrams per liter.
B.
Suspended solids: 250 milligrams per liter.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions,
together with minor quantities of groundwater, stormwater and surface
waters that are not admitted intentionally.
SERVICE CHARGE
The total charge to customers of the Village and means the
sum of the user charge and debt charge.
SEWAGE
The spent water of a community. The preferred term is "wastewater."
SEWER
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
SLUG
Any discharge of water or wastewater which 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
shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of
the wastewater treatment works.
STANDARD METHODS
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the
most recent edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water,
Sewage and Industrial Wastes, published jointly by the American Public
Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Federation
of Sewage and Industrial Wastes Association.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS)
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 for Examination of Water and Wastewater and referred to as
"nonfilterable residue."
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water of quality equal to 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
sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
USER CHARGE
That charge to property owners of the Village which shall
adequately provide for proportionate recovery of the operation and
maintenance cots of the wastewater treatment works owned by the Village.
VILLAGE
The Village of Westfield, Marquette County, Wisconsin.
WASTEWATER
The spent water of a community. 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 structures, equipment, and processes required to collect,
carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of
the effluent.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
An arrangement on devices and structures for treating wastewater,
industrial wastes, and sludge; sometimes used as synonymous with "water
pollution control plant."
WPDES PERMITS
The Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit
which authorizes the Village to discharge wastes to a watercourse
provided that the treatment of those wastes meets the conditions of
the permit.
The connection fee shall be as set by the Village
Board.
[Amended 12-16-1990; 4-13-1993; 4-14-2009 by Ord. No. 05:09]
A. All property owners will be assessed a sewer service
charge. For the purpose of this article, the format of the sewer service
rates shall be as follows:
(1) User
charge per residential equivalent: $61 per billing period (effective
2010).
(2) User
charge per residential equivalent: $66 per billing period (effective
2011).
(3) User
charge per residential equivalent: $71 per billing period (effective
2012).
(4) User
charge per residential equivalent: $76 per billing period (effective
2013).
(5) User
charge per residential equivalent: $81 per billing period (effective
2014).
(6) Debt
charge per residential equivalent: $0 per billing period.
(7) Total
sewer service charge per residential equivalent: $81 (succeeding above
annual increases).
B. The annual sewer utility budgets are operation, maintenance and debt
service. Each shall be divided by the total number of residential
equivalent users, except that the debt service budget may be partially
offset by property tax levies. The total sewer service charges shall
be the sum of the user charge and debt charge.
[Amended 3-8-2016 by Ord.
No. 16:02]
C. Debt charges. The annual debt service budget (including reserve fund
deposits) shall be divided by total number of residential equivalents
(users). The resulting annual cost per residential equivalent shall
be divided by the number of billing periods used per year. For example:
[Added 3-8-2016 by Ord.
No. 16:02]
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Residential equivalents = 500 RE (Users)
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2.
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Annual debt service budget = 35,000 actual expenses + 5,000
reserve fund deposit = $40,000.
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3.
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Annual debt charge
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40,000
500 RE = $80.00 per RE
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4.
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Debt charge per billing period:
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a.
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Quarterly
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$80.00 RE
4 = $20.00 per quarter per RE
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5.
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Sewer service charges: The total sewer charge is the sum of
the user charge and debt charge. For example (using previous examples
for reference):
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Quarterly:
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User charge per RE
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$81.00
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Debt charge per RE
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$20.00
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Total sewer service charge
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$101.00
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No person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently
break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure,
appurtenances, or equipment which is a part of the sewage facility.
Any persons violating this provision shall be subject to immediate
arrest under a charge of disorderly conduct.