The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the use of the publicly
owned sewerage facilities located within the area served by the Village of
Sauk City, Sauk County, Wisconsin, in such a way as to prevent damage to the
physical facilities and to avoid impairment of the normal function of collecting
and transporting wastewater. This chapter also provides for the proper development
and use of the user charge system for the Village and treatment facilities.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of
terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The Village Board or its authorize deputy, agent, representative
or consulting engineer. "Approving authority" and "Village" are used interchangeably.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic
matter, under standard laboratory procedure, in five days at 20° C. and
expressed in milligrams per liter.
A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and stormwater or surface
water.
Those users of the publicly owned treatment works which are not residential
and are not classified as an industrial user.
Those pollutants generally characterized as BOD, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform, together with any additional pollutants defined in the WPDES permit issued for the joint treatment facilities, unless the concentrations of any of these pollutants are such that they interfere with the operation of the treatment works or exceed the limits established under Articles III and IV of this chapter.
That charge to the users in the Village service area which shall
defray the costs of retiring the debts incurred by the Village in construction
of the joint sewage treatment facilities plus any existing debts on the Village
sewerage facilities.
Waterborne wastes normally being discharged from the sanitary conveniences
of dwellings, apartment houses, hotels, office buildings, factories and institutions,
free of industrial wastes and in which the average concentration of suspended
solids is established at or below 290 milligrams per liter and the BOD is
established at or below 250 milligrams per liter.
All pollutants which are not compatible, as defined in this section.
Any user of the publicly owned treatment works that engages in the
processing, blending, assembling or in some way transforming of materials
or substances into new products. This type of user would normally occupy an
establishment described as a plant, factory or mill.
The wastewater from an industrial user as distinct from domestic
wastewater.
The amount charged to each user in the Village, regardless of use.
This charge does not provide the user a minimum amount of use.
The Village share of the joint treatment plant operation and maintenance
costs plus the operation and maintenance cost of the Village sewerage system.
These costs shall include labor, energy, chemicals and equipment replacement
costs but shall not include debt retirement.
An individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or
group.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration
in gram moles per liter of solution as determined by acceptable laboratory
procedures.
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories
or appurtenances which are necessary to maintain the capacity and performance
during the service life of the treatment works and Village sewerage system.
The term "operation and maintenance" includes replacement.[1]
A user of the Village-owned sewerage system that would occupy an
establishment considered a house or apartment and other facilities in which
people live.
A sewer that conveys domestic wastewater or industrial waste or a
combination of both and to which stormwater, surface water and groundwater
or unpolluted industrial wastewater is not intentionally passed.
The Commission appointed by the Village Boards of Sauk City and Prairie
du Sac to supervise the operation of the joint treatment facility. The five-member
Commission shall be comprised of two members each from Sauk City and Prairie
du Sac, with a fifth at-large member to be chosen from either of the two communities
by the other four Commissioners. Commission duties shall include supervision
and control of plant operation and maintenance, determination of plant expenses
and revenue requirements, and assessment of the proportionate share of expenses
to the communities.
The sum of the minimum charge, user charge, debt service charge and
any applicable surcharge.
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 of flows during normal operation and which adversely affects
the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment plant.
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
Waterworks Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.[2]
A sewer which carries storm and surface drainage but excludes domestic
wastewater and industrial wastes.
An additional charge related to industrial wastes being discharge
by any user having unusual characteristics, such as excessive BOD, excessive
suspended solids or other pollutants.
Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of or is
in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids and which is removable by
a laboratory filtration device. Quantitative determination of suspended solids
shall be made 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 violation of receiving water quality
standards.
That charge to users of the wastewater treatment plant which adequately
provides for proportionate recovery of the operation and maintenance, replacement,
administrative and billing costs associated with the activities of the Sauk
Prairie Sewerage Commission.
Any person discharging domestic wastewater or industrial wastes into
the collection system.
A group of users having similar wastewater flows and characteristics,
levels of BOD, suspended solids, etc.
The wastewater collection system of the Village of Sauk City, including
lift stations and force mains.
A combination of the water-carried waste discharged into the collection
system from residences, commercial buildings, institutions and industrial
establishments together with such groundwater, surface water and stormwater
as may be present.
The complete facilities for treating and disposing of the domestic
wastewater and industrial wastes from the communities of Sauk City and Prairie
du Sac.
The Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit issued
for the Sauk Prairie wastewater treatment facilities. The permit allows for
land disposal of the treatment plant effluent, provided that it meets the
conditions stipulated in the permit.
