§ 28-85. Definitions.

Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this article shall be as follows:

Administrator means the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Basic user charge means the basic assessment levied on all users of the public sewer system.

Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standards laboratory procedure in five days at 20 degrees Celsius, expressed in milligrams per liter.

Building drain means 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.

Building sewer means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.

Capital improvement charge means a charge levied on users to improve, extend or reconstruct the sewage treatment works.

Combined sewer means a sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater, stormwater, surface water and groundwater drainage.

Commercial includes transit lodging, retail and wholesale establishments or places engaged in selling merchandise, or rendering services.

Control manhole means 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 village representative to sample and/or measure discharges.

Debt service charge means the amount to be paid each billing period for payment of interest, principal and coverage of (loan, bond, etc.) outstanding.

Director means the director of the state environmental protection agency.

Easement means an acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.

Federal Act means the Federal Clean Water Act (33 USC 466 et seq.), as amended (P.L. 95-217).

Garbage means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of food.

Industrial includes establishments engaged in manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials of substance into products.

Industrial waste means any solid, liquid or gaseous substance discharged, permitted to flow or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing, commercial or business establishment or process or from the development, recovery or processing of any natural resource as distinct from sanitary sewage.

Institutional/governmental includes schools, churches, penal institutions and users associated with federal, state and local governments.

Local capital cost charge means charges for costs other than the operation, maintenance and replacement costs, i.e., debt service and capital improvement costs.

Milligrams per liter means a unit of the concentration of water or wastewater constituent. It is 0.001 grams of the constituent in 1,000 ml 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.

Natural outlet means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface water or groundwater.

NPDES permit means any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued by the administrator, or, where appropriated by the director, after enactment of the Federal Clean Water Act to regulate the discharge of pollutants pursuant to section 402 of the Federal Act.

Person means any and all persons, natural or artificial including any individual, firm, company, municipal or private corporation, association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency or other entity.

pH means the logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration expressed by one of the procedures, outlined in the IEPA Division of Laboratories, Manual of Laboratory Methods.

Pretreatment means the treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into the wastewater treatment works.

Public sewer means a sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the village. The term "public sewer" also include, sewers within or outside the boundaries the village that serve one or more persons and ultimately discharge into the village sanitary (or combined sewer system), even though those sewers may not have been constructed with village funds.

Replacement means expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances, which are necessary during the useful 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 the term "replacement."

Residential means all dwelling units such as houses, mobile homes, apartments and permanent multifamily dwellings.

Sanitary sewer means a sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes or a combination of both, and into which stormwater, surface water and groundwater or polluted industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.

Sewage includes and is used interchangeably with the term "wastewater."

Sewer means a pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other waste liquids, including stormwater, surface water and groundwater drainage.

Sewerage means the system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation and pumping of sewage.

Sewerage fund means the principal accounting designation for all revenues received in the operation of the sewerage system.

Slug means any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of low exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration or flows during normal operation.

State means the State of Illinois.

State grant means the state participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works as provided for by the Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act (30 ILCS 405/1 et seq.) and for making such grants as filed with the state's secretary of state.

Storm sewer means a sewer that carries stormwater, surface water and groundwater drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.

Surcharge means the assessment in addition to the basic user charge and debt service charge, which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration values established in section 28-113.

Suspended solids (SS) means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, sewage or industrial waste, and which are removable by a laboratory filtration device. Quantitative determination of suspended solids shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in the IEPA Division of Laboratories, Manual of Laboratory Methods.

Useful life means the estimated period during which the collection system and/or treatment works will be operated.

User charge means a charge levied on users of treatment works for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement.

User class means type of user as "residential," "institutional/governmental," "commercial" or "industrial," as those terms are defined in this section.

Wastewater means 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.

Wastewater facilities means the structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and transport effluent to a watercourse.

Wastewater service charge means the charge per quarter or month levied on all users of the wastewater facilities. The service charge shall be computed as outlined in division 2 of this article and shall consist of the total or the basic user charge, the local capital cost and a surcharge, if applicable.

Wastewater treatment works means an arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge. The term "wastewater treatment works" sometimes is used as synonymous with the term "waste treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "pollution control plant."

Watercourse means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.