As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
One of the oxidation states of nitrogen, in which nitrogen
is combined with hydrogen in molecular form as NH3 or in ionized form as NH4. Quantitative determination
of ammonia nitrogen shall be made in accordance with procedures set
forth in Standard Methods or Chapter NR 149 of the Wisconsin Administrative
Code.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter in five days at 20° C., expressed as milligrams
per liter (mg/l). Quantitative determination of BOD shall be made
in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building's
drainage system that receives the discharge from soil, waste, and
other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys
it to the building sewer.
The lateral extension from the building drain to the interceptor
sewer. Once constructed, the portion of the building sewer located
within the public right-or-way or easement shall not be considered
a part of the interceptor sewer. Maintenance of the building sewer
or lateral shall be the responsibility of the property owner regardless
of whether the building sewer is located in the public right-of-way,
an easement, or private property.
The amount of chlorine, in milligrams per liter, that must
be added to wastewater to produce a specified residual chlorine content
in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences and institutions together with groundwater, stormwater,
and surface water.
Any user whose premises are used primarily for the conduct
of a particular enterprise, including but not limited to businesses
such as wholesale or retail trade finance, insurance, real estate
or services, schools, and churches and who discharges primarily normal
domestic-strength wastewater.
Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, phosphorus,
nitrogen, pH, or fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants
identified in the WPDES permit for the publicly owned wastewater treatment
facility receiving the pollutants if such facility was designed to
treat and/or remove such additional pollutants to a substantial degree
and in part does remove such pollutants.
The combination of individual samples taken at intervals
of not more than one hour.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
The charges for the cost of debt retirement associated with
construction, erection, modification, or rehabilitation of the wastewater
treatment facility. This charge shall be above the treatment charges
and operation, maintenance, and replacement charges.
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 oil if
it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with
the wastewater treatment facility.
A sample taken that is proportional to the volume of flow
during the sampling period.
The residue from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage, and sale of food products
and produce.
The residue from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food 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.
Wastewater with other than compatible pollutants, including
those that will adversely affect or disrupt the quality of wastewater
treatment if discharged to a wastewater treatment facility.
Any user whose premises are used primarily for the conduct
of a profit-oriented enterprise in the fields of manufacturing, transportation,
communications, utilities, mining, agriculture, forestry, or fishing.
The wastewater from individual process trade or business,
as distinct from sanitary sewer, including cooling water and the discharge
from sewage pretreatment facilities.
That portion of groundwater, surface water, and rainfall
that drains into the sewer.
A sewer whose primary purpose is to convey wastewater from
a collection system or systems to a wastewater treatment facility.
Size of the sewer is not a factor in defining an interceptor.
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface water
or groundwater.
Sanitary wastewater resulting from the range of normal domestic
activities that has concentrations of:[1]
Includes all costs associated with the operation and maintenance
of the wastewater treatment facility, as well as the costs associated
with periodic equipment replacement necessary for maintaining the
capacity and performance of the treatment facility.
Any person or persons who holds title to a parcel or parcels
of property to which this chapter pertains.
A weight-to-weight ratio; the parts per million value multiplied
by the factor 8.34 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons
of wastewater.
Any and all persons, including any individual, firm, partnership,
company, municipal, or private corporation, association, society,
institution, enterprise, governmental agency, or other entity.
The logarithm (base 10) 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.
Total phosphorus in wastewater, which may be present in any
of three principal forms: orthophosphates, polyphosphates, and organic
phosphates. Quantitative determination of total phosphorus should
be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
The Village's policies regarding obtaining revenue to
operate, maintain, and replace its wastewater treatment facility.
It shall be the policy of the Village of Blue Mounds to obtain sufficient
revenues to pay the costs of the operation and maintenance of the
sewage facilities, including a replacement fund (i.e., a cash account
to be used for future expenditures for obtaining or installing equipment,
accessories, or appurtenances that are necessary to maintain the capacity
and performance of the sewage system during the service life for which
such facilities were designed and constructed), through a system of
sewer service charges as defined in this section. The system shall
assure that each user of the sewage system pays its proportional share
of the cost of the facilities.
Any user whose premises are used for the conduct of the legislative,
judicial, administrative, or regulatory activities of federal, state,
local, or international units of government; government-owned educational
facilities; government-owned health facilities; or government-owned
recreational facilities. This does not include government-owned or
-operated business establishments.
Any sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the
Village. It shall also include sewers within or outside those boundaries
that serve one or more persons and ultimately discharge into the Village's
sewage system, even though no portion of the sewers was constructed
with Village funds.
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories,
and appurtenances necessary during the service life of the wastewater
treatment facility to maintain its designed capacity and performance.
Funds designated for replacement costs shall be placed in a separate
designated account established for such purposes.
Any user whose premises are used primarily as a domicile
for one or more persons and discharges only normal domestic-strength
wastewater.
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
commercial, industrial, and public authority buildings, together with
minor quantities of groundwater, stormwater, and surface water that
are unintentionally admitted to the system.
A combination of liquid and water-carried wastes from residential,
commercial, industrial, and public authority users, together with
such groundwater, stormwater, and surface water as may be unintentionally
admitted to the system.
Wastes from nonresidential sources resulting from normal
domestic activities. These activities are distinguished from industrial
trade and/or process discharge wastes.
The wastewater content of septic or holding tanks, dosing
chambers, grease interceptors, seepage beds, seepage pits, seepage
trenches, drives, or portable rest rooms.
The expected life of individual pieces of equipment. In many
instances, the service life of a piece of equipment will be shorter
than the useful life of the overall treatment plant.
The spent water of a community. The preferred term is "wastewater."
The composite network of underground conduits carrying wastewater
and appurtenances incidental thereto.
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
The area presently served and anticipated to be served by
the municipal wastewater collection system.
A charge levied on users of the wastewater treatment facility
for capital-related expenses as well as operation, maintenance, and
replacement (O,M&R) costs of said facilities.
A part of the sewer service charge that is levied on users
of the wastewater treatment facility for the user's proportional
share of operation, maintenance and replacement (O,M&R) costs
of said facilities.
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
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 of flows during normal operation and
shall adversely affect the system and/or performance of the wastewater
treatment facility.
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.
A drain or sewer for conveying stormwater, groundwater, subsurface
water, or unpolluted water from any source.
Any user of the wastewater treatment facility whose discharge
exceeds in one or more parameters (BOD, SS) of the concentration of
normal domestic-strength wastewater for that parameter shall be subject
to a surcharge. The amount of such surcharges shall reflect the costs
incurred in removing the high-strength BOD and/or suspended solids
from the wastewater.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, wastewater, or other liquid and that are removable by laboratory
filtering as prescribed in Standard Methods and are referred to as
"nonfilterable residue."
A user who is not connected to the municipal water system
and thereby does not have its private water supply metered.
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 benefitted by discharge to the
sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facility provided.
The expected life of the treatment plant if individual pieces
of equipment are replaced as necessary.
A system that generates operation, maintenance, and replacement
(O,M&R) revenues equitably for providing each user class with
services.
Categories of users having similar flows and water characteristics:
levels of biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, phosphorus,
ammonia nitrogen, etc. For the purposes of this chapter, there shall
be four user classes: residential, commercial, industrial, and public
authority.
A sewer use charge based upon the volume of normal domestic-strength
wastewater to be transported.
The Village of Blue Mounds (the "Village") or its designated
representative.
The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source,
wastewater may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes
from residential, commercial, industrial, or public authority buildings,
together with any groundwater, surface water, and stormwater that
may be unintentionally admitted to the system.
The structures and equipment required to collect and carry
away domestic wastewater.
An arrangement of devices and structures for the storage,
treatment, recycling, and reclamation of wastewater, liquid industrial
wastes and sludge. These facilities include interceptor sewers, outfall
sewers, wastewater collection systems, individual systems, pumping,
power and other equipment and their appurtenances; any works that
are an integral part of the treatment process or are used for ultimate
disposal of residues from such treatment; or any other method or system
for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating,
or disposing of municipal wastes.
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water
either continuously or intermittently.
A document issued by the Wisconsin State Department of Natural
Resources, Chapter NR 200-299 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code,
that establishes effluent limitations and monitoring requirements
for the wastewater treatment facility.
