Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Part 4 shall be as follows:
The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection
Agency.
The basic assessment levied on all users of the public sewer
system.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
That part of the lowest 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 or
other approved point of discharge, beginning five feet (1.5 meters)
outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
The City of Maroa, Illinois.
A structure located on a site from which industrial wastes
are discharged. Where feasible, the manhole shall have an interior
drop. The purpose of a control manhole is to provide access for the
City representatives to sample and/or measure discharges.
The amount to be paid each billing period for payment of
interest, principal and coverage of any outstanding loan, bond, etc.
and shall be computed by dividing the annual debt service by the number
of users connected to the wastewater facilities.
The Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
Are defined in any applicable NPDES permit.
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251
et seq.), as amended by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of
Amendments of 1972 (Pub. L. 92-500 and Pub. L. 93-243).
The United States Government's participation in the financing
of the construction of treatment works as provided for by Title II,
Grants for Construction of Treatment Works, of the Act and implementing
regulations.
Oil, fat, 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 from floatable fat
if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere
with the collection system.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance discharged, permitted
to flow or escaping from an industrial, manufacturing, commercial
or business establishment or process or from the development, recovery
or processing of any natural resources, as distinct from sanitary
sewage.
An industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works
that:
Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day; or
Has a flow greater than 10% of the flow carried by the municipal
system receiving the waste; or
Has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined
in standards issued under Section 307(a) of the Federal Act; or
Is found by the permit issuance authority, in connection with
the issuance of the NPDES permit to the publicly owned treatment works
receiving the waste, to have significant impact, either singly or
in combination with other contributing industries, on that treatment
works or upon the quality of effluent from that treatment works.
A unit of the concentration of water or wastewater constituent.
It is 0.001 gram of the constituent in 1,000 milliliters of water.
It has replaced the unit formerly used commonly ("parts per million")
to which it is approximately equivalent in reporting the results of
water and wastewater analysis.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
Any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued
by the Administrator, or, where appropriate, by the Director after
enactment of the Federal Water Pollution Control Amendments of 1972,
to regulate the discharge of pollutants pursuant to Section 402 of
the Federal Act.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion
concentration expressed by one of the procedures outlined in Standard
Methods.
A term used to evaluate the impact of industrial or other
waste on a treatment works or stream. One population equivalent is
100 gallons of sewage per day, containing 0.17 pound of BOD and 0.20
pound of suspended solids.
Parts per million by weight.
The treatment of wastewater from sources before introduction
into the wastewater treatment works.
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 sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch (1.27 centimeters)
in any dimension.
A sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the
City. It shall also include sewers within or outside the City boundaries
that serve one or more persons and ultimately discharge into the City
sanitary systems even though those sewers may not have been constructed
with City funds. It shall also mean a privately owned sewer main or
lateral located within a mobile home park.
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories
or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the
treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which
such works were designed and constructed. The term "operation and
maintenance" includes replacement.
A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial waste or a combination
of both and into which stormwater, surface water and groundwaters
or unpolluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
Used interchangeably with "wastewater".
A pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other waste
liquids, including stormwater, surface water and groundwater drainage.
The system of sewers and appurtenances thereto for the collection,
transportation and pumping of sewage.
The principal accounting designation for all revenues received
in the operation of the sewerage system.
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste in which,
in concentration of any given constituent or in quality 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.
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 Waterworks Association and the Water Pollution Control
Federation.
A sewer that carries stormwater, surface water and groundwater
drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted
cooling water.
That portion of the precipitation that is drained into the
sewers.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or industrial waste and which are removable by laboratory
filtration devices. Quantitative determination of suspended solids
may be in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria
in effect or water that would not cause a violation of receiving water
quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary
sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
A charge levied on users of treatment works for the cost
of operation and maintenance.
The type of user, either "residential" or "commercial (nonindustrial)"
or "industrial," as defined herein.
RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL OR NONINDUSTRIAL USERAny user of the treatment works not classified as an "industrial user" or excluded as an industrial user as provided for in this section.
Any nongovernmental user of publicly owned treatment works identified
in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of
Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under the following
divisions:
A user in the divisions listed may be excluded if it is determined
by the Superintendent that it will introduce primarily segregated
domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
The spent water of a community. From this standpoint, of
course, 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.
The structures, equipment and processes required to collect,
carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and transport
effluent to a watercourse.
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater,
industrial wastes and sludge. (Sometimes used as synonymous with "water
treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "pollution control
plant".)
As defined in the Water Pollution Regulations of Illinois.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
