A.
This chapter regulates the use of private sewers and drains, the
discharge of waters and wastes into the public sewerage systems within
the Village of Denmark's sewer service area, and disposal of hauled-in
wastes at the wastewater treatment facility. It provides for and explains
the method used for the collection of wastewater, and enables the
Village to comply with administrative provisions, water quality requirements,
toxic and pretreatment effluent standards, and other discharge criteria
which are required or authorized by the State of Wisconsin or federal
law. Its intent is to derive the maximum public benefit by regulation
of the characteristics of wastewater discharges into the sanitary
sewer system or discharge of hauled-in wastes at the wastewater treatment
facility.
B.
This chapter provides a means for determining wastewater and hauled-in
waste volumes, constituents and characteristics, the setting of sewer
service charges and fees, and the issuing of permits to certain users.
Revenues derived from the application of this chapter shall be used
to defray the Village's costs of operating and maintaining adequate
wastewater collection and treatment systems and to provide sufficient
funds for capital outlay, debt service costs, and capital improvements.
The charges and fees herein have been established pursuant to requirements
of the Wisconsin Statutes. This chapter shall supersede any previous
Village ordinance, rules or regulations and shall repeal all parts
thereof that may be inconsistent with this chapter. If there is any
conflict between this chapter and any applicable state statute, the
state statute shall be controlling.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows. "Shall" is mandatory;
"may" is permissible.
The Village Board of the Village of Denmark, or its duly
authorized committee, agent or representative.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter in five days at 20° C., expressed as milligrams
per liter. Quantitative determination of BOD shall be made in accordance
with procedures set forth in the most recent edition of Standard Methods.
That 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.
The extension from the public sewer or other place of disposal
beginning outside the inner face of the building wall.
Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, phosphorus,
or pH, plus additional pollutants identified in the WPDES permit for
the publicly owned treatment works receiving the pollutants if such
works were designed to treat such additional pollutants to a substantial
degree.
Includes all costs associated with repayment of debts incurred
for the construction and/or rehabilitation of the wastewater collection
system and treatment facility.
Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by physical treatment in an approved
pretreatment facility. A wastewater or hauled waste shall be considered
free of floatable oil if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater
does not interfere with the collection system.[1]
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 a degree that all particles
will be no greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension and will be carried
freely in suspension under normal flow conditions in public sewers.
Wastewater or septage with pollutants that will adversely
affect or disrupt the wastewater treatment processes or effluent quality
or sludge quality if discharged to a wastewater treatment facility.
The wastewater from industrial process, trade, or business,
as distinct from sanitary sewage, including cooling water and the
discharge from sewage pretreatment facilities.
A person holding a license under § 281.48(3)(a),
Wis. Stats.
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 in the collection system.
Any outlet, including storm sewers, into a watercourse, pond,
ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
Wastewater with concentrations less than 225 mg/l BOD, 260
mg/l suspended solids and 13 mg/l phosphorus.
Wastewater with concentrations greater than normal domestic
strength wastewater concentrations but less than 800 mg/l BOD, 1,800
mg/l suspended solids, and 24 mg/l phosphorus.
Wastewater with concentrations greater than normal domestic
strength wastewater concentrations but less than 6,000 mg/l BOD, 10,000
mg/l suspended solids, and 180 mg/l phosphorus.
A user whose contributions to the wastewater treatment facility
consist only of normal domestic strength wastewater originating from
a house, apartment, condominium, or other living quarters occupied
by a person or persons constituting a distinct household, business
or commercial enterprise.
Includes all costs associated with the operation and maintenance
of the wastewater collection and treatment facilities. These costs,
including costs associated with extraneous (clear water) flows, shall
be divided equitably among the various sewer users.
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 water.
Any and all persons, including any individual, firm, company,
municipal or private corporation, association, society, institution,
enterprise, government agency, or other entity.
The logarithm 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.
Any sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the
Village of Denmark. It shall also include sewers within or outside
the corporate boundaries that serve one or more persons and ultimately
discharge into the Village's sanitary sewer system, even though those
sewers may not have been constructed with Village funds.
Includes all costs associated with establishing a fund to
accumulate the necessary resources to replace equipment as required
to maintain capacity and performance during the design life of the
facility.
A combination of liquid and water-carried wastes discharged
from toilets and/or sanitary plumbing facilities, together with such
groundwater, surface water, and stormwater as may be present.
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions,
together with small quantities of groundwater, stormwater, and surface
water that are not admitted intentionally.
Scum, liquid, sludge or other waste from a septic tank, soil
absorption field, holding tank, or privy.
The spent water of a community. The preferred term is "municipal
wastewater."
All structures, conduits and pipes by which sewage is collected,
treated, and disposed of, except plumbing inside and in connection
with buildings served, and service pipes, from building to street
main.
The building pipe extending from the interior drain of the
building to the sanitary sewer main.
The areas presently served and anticipated to be served by
a sewage collection system. State regulations (§ NR 121.05,
Wis. Adm. Code) require that water quality management plans delineate
sewer service areas for urban areas with a population of over 10,000.
Approved facility plans contain less detailed sewer service areas
for communities under 10,000 population.
A service charge levied on users of the wastewater collection
and treatment facilities for payment of capital expenses as well as
operation and maintenance costs and replacement costs, including replacement
of said facilities.[2]
The common sanitary sewers within a sewerage system which
are primarily installed to receive wastewaters directly from facilities
which convey wastewater from individual structures or from private
property, and which include service connection "Y" fittings designed
for connection with those facilities. The facilities which convey
wastewater from individual structures, from private property to the
public sanitary sewer, or its equivalent, are specifically excluded
from the definition of "sewer system," except that pumping units and
pressurized lines for individual structures or groups of structures
may be included as part of a sewer system when such units are cost-effective
and are owned and maintained by the sewerage system owner.
Any substance released at a discharge rate and/or concentration
which causes interferences to wastewater treatment processes.
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 Environment Federation.[3]
Drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface
water or unpolluted water from any source.
That portion of the rainfall that is drained into the storm
sewers.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, wastewater, septage, or other liquids and that are removable
by laboratory filtering as prescribed in Standard Methods and referred
to as "nonfilterable residue."
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.
Persons connected to the sewer system of the Village are
referred to herein as "users."
The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect,
carry away, store, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and septage
and dispose of the effluent and residual solids.
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater,
industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "wastewater
treatment facilities."
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 which establishes effluent limitations and monitoring requirements
for the municipal wastewater treatment facility.
