It is the purpose of this chapter to:
A.
Establish rules regulating connections to the wastewater facilities.
B.
Establish rules regulating sewer construction.
C.
Establish rules regulating discharge of domestic wastewater to the
wastewater facilities.
D.
Establish rules regulating discharge of industrial wastewater to
the wastewater facilities.
E.
Establish rules regulating discharge of septage and holding tank
wastes to the wastewater facilities.
F.
Establish rules prohibiting or limiting discharge of deleterious
substances to the wastewater facilities.
G.
Establish rules for the management, regulation, protection, and use
of the wastewater facilities.
H.
Establish a sewer service charge system for providing equitable distribution
of the costs of construction, administration, operation, and maintenance
of the wastewater facilities among all wastewater facilities users.
I.
Establish the billing procedures to be used by the Village of East
Troy.
J.
Establish rules and regulations regarding provision of wastewater
treatment service to outside users.
K.
Establish penalties for violation of the rules and regulations of
this chapter.
L.
Enable the Village of East Troy to comply with administrative provisions,
water quality requirements, toxic and pretreatment standards, and
other federal and state rules and regulations applicable to the wastewater
facilities.
M.
Obtain and preserve the maximum public benefit of the wastewater
facilities by regulating the characteristics of wastewater discharged
into the wastewater facilities.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows. "May" is permissive;
"shall" is mandatory.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory conditions in five days
at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter. Acceptable test
method(s) shall be as indicated in Chapter NR 219 of the Wisconsin
Administrative Code.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping within or below
a building or structure which conveys wastewater to the building sewer.
The building drain ends and the building sewer begins at a distance
of five feet outward from the inner face of the building's exterior
wall.
The sanitary sewer lateral extending from the building drain
through the connection to the sanitary sewer or other place of disposal.
The section of the building sewer extending from the connection
at the sanitary sewer through the public right-of-way or easement
or to the user's property line.
Any user whose premises is used primarily for conduct of
profit-oriented enterprises and who discharges primarily domestic
wastewater to the wastewater facilities. This category shall include,
but not be limited to, wholesale or retail trade businesses, financial
institutions, insurance agencies, restaurants, bars, hotels, motels,
gas stations, convenience stores, grocery stores, car washes, laundromats,
real estate businesses, and multifamily dwellings having three or
more units.
A fee applied to all new building sewer connections to the
wastewater facilities and to users which increase their wastewater
discharge by more than one residential user flow equivalent. The connection
fee is separate from the sewer service charge.
A charge levied on all users of the wastewater facilities
to recover the debt service cost.
The annual payment of principal and interest for the retirement
of debt issued to finance the cost of capital improvements to the
wastewater facilities. The debt service cost shall include administrative
costs associated with the debt retirement.
A substance that, alone or in conjunction with other discharged
substances, has any of the following impacts:
Inhibits or disrupts any wastewater treatment processes.
Damages any of the wastewater facilities.
Causes violation of the WPDES permit.
Interferes with the operation or maintenance of the wastewater
facilities.
Creates or constitutes a hazard to humans or the environment.
Results in wastewater treatment sludge characteristics that
do not meet regulatory requirements for sludge disposal.
A person owning and/or developing lands and requesting a
sewer extension to the area being developed and/or a person taking
any action that will result in additional users being served by the
Village wastewater collection system.
The combination of liquid and water-carried wastes and wastewater
discharged from toilets and other sanitary plumbing facilities which
contain no deleterious substances, which contain no prohibited substances,
and for which five-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), total suspended solids (TSS), total kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN), and
total phosphorus concentrations, on average, do not exceed the following
levels:
Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) concentration
less than or equal to 220 mg/l.
Total suspended solids (TSS) concentration less than or equal
to 220 mg/l.
Total nitrogen concentration less than or equal to 40 mg/l as
N.
Total phosphorus concentration less than or equal to eight mg/l
as P.
The acquired right for the specified use of land owned by
others.
A person who is licensed as a professional engineer by the
State of Wisconsin and whose license is in good standing with the
State of Wisconsin.
The basic unit of service for the purposes of determining
debt service charges for users in the Village of East Troy. The five-eighths-inch
and three-fourths-inch size water meters represent one unit of service.
A multiplication factor, assigned to each size water meter,
which is used to calculate the debt service charge for each size meter,
relative to a five-eighths-inch or three-fourths-inch water meter.
A group of substances including fats, waxes, free fatty acids,
calcium and magnesium soaps, mineral oils, and certain other nonfatty
materials. Acceptable test method(s) shall be as indicated in Chapter
NR 219 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
Fat, oil, 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 to be free of floatable
oil if it is properly pretreated to the extent that it does not result
in increased maintenance requirements for the wastewater facilities.
Animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation,
cooking, and serving of food or from the handling, storage, and sale
of food products or produce.
Any user whose premises is used for the conduct of legislative,
judicial, administrative, or regulatory activities of any federal,
state, local, or international units of government. This does not
include government-owned or -operated businesses or any users which
meet the requirements of this chapter for classification as a significant
industrial user.
Septage, holding tank wastes, landfill leachate, or any other
wastewater or wastes hauled by truck and requiring treatment.
Wastewater with concentrations of five-day biochemical oxygen
demand (BOD5), total suspended solids (TSS),
total kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN), or total phosphorus which exceed the
concentrations defined in this chapter for domestic wastewater.
The liquid and solids from residential holding tanks. This
term does not include wastes from grease traps. See also "septage."
Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of the wastewater
facilities which discharges industrial wastewater to the wastewater
facilities. Industrial users shall include, but not be limited to,
those types of industries identified in Divisions A, B, D, E, and
I of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual and those industries
subject to categorical pretreatment standards set forth in Chapters
NR 221 to NR 297 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code. See also "significant
industrial user."
Any trade or process wastewater generated by an industrial
process, including but not limited to those categories identified
in Divisions A, B, D, E, and I of the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual, and as distinct from domestic wastewater.
The water entering sanitary sewers and building sewers from
the soil through defective pipe joints, broken or cracked pipes, improper
connections, manhole walls, or other defects.
The water discharged into sanitary sewers and building sewers
from such sources as, but not limited to, downspouts, roof leaders,
cellar and yard area drains, foundation drains, commercial and industrial
non-contact cooling water discharges, drains from springs and swampy
areas, manhole covers, and cross-connections between storm sewers
and sanitary sewers.
Not-for-profit facilities, which are not engaged in retail
trade or in manufacturing, which discharge primarily domestic wastewater,
including but not limited to schools, hospitals, churches, religious
facilities, clubs, and fraternities.
The mass of a contaminant discharged to the sanitary sewer,
calculated as the wastewater flow in millions of gallons per day times
the concentration of the contaminant in the wastewater in milligrams
per liter times 8.34 pounds per gallon.
Any city, town, village, county, county utility district,
town sanitary district, metropolitan sewerage district, or lake district.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pool, ditch, lake, or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
All costs associated with the administration, operation and
maintenance of the wastewater facilities.
A statute or regulation enacted by a governing body.
Any municipality, nonprofit organization, industry, business,
or private enterprise which receives, or is requesting to receive,
wastewater treatment services from the Village of East Troy, which
is not located within the Village of East Troy corporate limits, and
for which the Village requires that a contract be established between
the Village and said outside user for the purpose of providing wastewater
treatment service to said outside user. Outside users shall include,
but not be limited to, the Town of East Troy Sanitary District No.
2, the Alpine Valley Resort, the Alpine Valley Music Theatre, and
the Salvation Army.
Any individual, firm, limited liability company, corporation,
association, joint venture, trust, estate, governmental entity, or
any other legal entity.
The negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration
in moles per liter of solution. Acceptable test method(s) shall be
as indicated in Chapter NR 219 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater,
garbage, refuse, oil, solvent, flammables, toxic substances, wastewater
sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive
substance, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, dirt,
and industrial, commercial, municipal, and agricultural waste.
Reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of
pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to, or in lieu of, discharging
such pollutants into the wastewater facilities.
A program administered by the Village that meets the criteria
established in Chapter NR 211 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code
and which has been approved by the WDNR in accordance with the provisions
of Chapter NR 211 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
Any regulation which applies to industrial users and which
contains pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the WDNR in accordance
with Chapter 283 of the Wisconsin Statutes. This term shall include
both prohibited discharge standards set forth in or established under
Chapter NR 211 and categorical pretreatment standards set forth in
Chapter NR 211 and in Chapters NR 221 through NR 297 of the Wisconsin
Administrative Code.
Privately owned and operated facilities designed for the
purpose of on-site conveyance, treatment, and disposal of wastewater.
This term shall include, but not be limited to, septic tank/effluent
absorption area systems.
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 public sanitary sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch
in any dimension.
Expenditures for purchasing and installing equipment, accessories,
or appurtenances which are required to be replaced during the service
life of the wastewater facilities in order to maintain the capacity
and performance for which the wastewater facilities were designed
and constructed.
An account established to provide funds for the replacement
costs in accordance with Chapter NR 162 of the Wisconsin Administrative
Code.
An individual household unit and shall include single-family
and duplex units.
The metered water usage, in gallons per day, representative
of the average residential user. The residential user flow equivalent
shall be defined at a standard rate of 155 gallons per day. The Village
Board may redefine this value, from time to time, at its discretion,
based on evaluation of historical metered water usage and the number
of residential meters. For the purposes of assessing debt service
charges, in special cases, as applicable, one residential user flow
equivalent shall be assigned an equivalent meter factor of 1.0.
The sewers owned, maintained, and operated by the Village
which convey liquid and waterborne wastes from residential, commercial,
industrial, institutional, governmental, and outside user facilities,
together with inflow and infiltration that are not intentionally admitted.
Any addition of sanitary sewer or related facilities to the
Village of East Troy wastewater collection system for the purpose
of providing sanitary sewer service to a housing development, business
park, industrial park, etc. An extension is intended to include any
action that will result in additional users being served by the Village
wastewater collection system.
All areas, as delineated by the Village, and as approved
by the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, which
are presently served, or are anticipated to be served in the future,
by sanitary sewer.
The liquid or solids from septic tanks, chemical toilets,
campers, privies, dosing chambers, seepage beds, seepage pits, or
seepage trenches. "Septage" does not include waste from a grease trap
or grease interceptor. See also "holding tank wastes."
Shall be synonymous with "wastewater."
A pipe or conduit designed to convey wastewater or drainage
water.
A service charge levied on users of the wastewater facilities
and shall include the user charge and the debt service charge.
An industrial user which meets one or more of the following
conditions:
Any industrial user of the wastewater facilities which discharges
more than 25,000 gallons per day (gpd) of wastewater, excluding domestic
wastewater and non-contact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater.
Any industrial user that discharges a process waste stream which
makes up 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic capacity,
or more than 5% of the BOD5, TSS, TKN, or total
phosphorus treating capacity, of the wastewater treatment plant.
Any centralized waste treater.
Any industrial user subject to categorical pretreatment standards
in Chapters NR 221 to NR 297 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
Any user of the wastewater facilities which discharges wastewater
to the wastewater facilities which contains toxic substances or poisonous
solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or
by interaction with other wastes, to contaminate the sludge of the
wastewater treatment plant or injure or interfere with any wastewater
treatment plant process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals,
create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in or have an adverse
effect on the waters receiving any discharge from the wastewater facilities.
Any industrial user that is required to file effluent reports
for discharge to the wastewater facilities as required by Chapter
NR 101 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code and Chapter 283 of the
Wisconsin Statutes.
Any discharge of any wastewater, for any duration, during
which the rate of flow or the concentration of any constituent increases
to such magnitude so as to adversely affect the operation of the wastewater
facilities or the ability of the wastewater treatment plant to meet
the requirements of the WPDES permit.
The reference document published by the United States Office
of Management and Budget, latest edition.
Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater
as published by American Public Health Association, American Water
Works Association, and the Water Environment Federation, latest edition.
A sewer designed to convey stormwater, surface water, and
drainage. Excludes all wastewater but may include non-contact cooling
water.
The total of organic and ammonia nitrogen present in a wastewater
sample. Acceptable test method(s) shall be as indicated in Chapter
NR 219 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
The total of organic, ammonia, nitrate, and nitrite nitrogen
present in a wastewater sample. Acceptable test method(s) shall be
as indicated in Chapter NR 219 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
Total phosphorus in wastewater which may be present in any
of three principal forms: orthophosphate, polyphosphate, and organic
phosphate. Acceptable test method(s) shall be as indicated in Chapter
NR 219 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, wastewater, or other liquids and that are removable by laboratory
filtering. Acceptable test method(s) shall be as indicated in Chapter
NR 219 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
Those pollutants or combination of pollutants, including
disease-causing agents, which after discharge and upon exposure, ingestion,
inhalation or assimilation into any organism, either directly from
the environment or indirectly by ingestion through food chains, will,
on the basis of the best available scientific information, cause death,
disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutations, or physiological
malfunctions in such organisms or their offspring. "Toxic substances"
shall include, but not be limited to, those toxic pollutants listed
in Chapter NR 215 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
Waters which are not changed chemically or physically as
a result of use.
Any water substantially free of pollutants and of such quality
that it would not cause violation of the water quality standards for
the receiving body of water and would not be benefited by discharge
to the wastewater facilities.
Any residential, commercial, institutional, governmental,
industrial, and outside user which discharges wastewater to the wastewater
facilities.
A charge levied on users of the wastewater facilities for
the cost of administration, management, operation, and maintenance
of the wastewater facilities. The user charge shall be contained within
the sewer service charge as created by this chapter. The user charge
shall also include the annual contribution to the replacement fund.
All costs associated with the administration, management,
operation, and maintenance of the wastewater facilities. The user
charge cost shall also include the annual contribution to the replacement
fund.
The Village of East Troy and the governing bodies thereof,
including the Village Board or designated staff.[1]
The governing body of the Village of East Troy. The Board
shall have the powers of a governing body as set forth in Chapters
61 and 66 of the Wisconsin Statutes, as amended from time to time.
The liquid and water-carried wastes discharged from any residential,
commercial, governmental, institutional, industrial, or outside user
into the wastewater facilities, together with any infiltration or
inflow that may enter the wastewater collection system but which is
not intentionally admitted. See also "domestic wastewater" and "industrial
wastewater."
A system of sanitary sewers, pump stations, force mains,
and other related facilities owned, maintained, and operated by the
Village and designed to convey wastewater. Grinder pump stations and
associated force mains located on private property and designed to
convey wastewater from an individual structure, or group of structures,
to the wastewater collection system shall be considered to be part
of the wastewater collection system only when such facilities are
owned, operated and maintained by the Village.
All facilities for collecting, conveying, pumping, treating,
and disposing of wastewater. Includes the wastewater collection system
and the wastewater treatment plant.
The equipment, devices, structures, and other facilities
which are used for treating wastewater and which are owned, operated,
and maintained by the Village. Synonymous with "publicly owned treatment
works (POTW)."
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
The Village of East Troy Water Utility.
The State of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
The published rules of executive agencies having rule-making
authority for the State of Wisconsin, latest edition.
Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit as
issued by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
A.
Previous ordinances superseded. This chapter shall supersede any
previous Village of East Troy ordinance, rules or regulations and
shall repeal all parts thereof that may be inconsistent with this
chapter.
B.
Conflicts with state and federal rules. If there is any conflict
between this chapter and any applicable state or federal statutes
or regulations, then the statutes or regulations of the state or federal
government shall take precedence.
C.
Conflicts with outside user rules. If there is any conflict between
this chapter and any ordinance, rule, or regulation for any outside
user, then this chapter shall take precedence.
D.
Amendment. The Village reserves the right to amend this chapter,
in part or in whole, wherever it may deem such an amendment necessary.
Public notice of amendments to or revisions of this chapter shall
be provided as required by Wisconsin Statutes.
E.
Emergency rule. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed
as prohibiting the Village from adopting an emergency rule in order
to preserve the public health, safety, and welfare.
