§ 86-197. Definitions.

Approving authority. The board of trustees or its duly authorized committee, agent, or representative.

Building drain. 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 or structure and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning at five feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.

Building sewer. The pipe extension beginning at the outside of the inner face of the building wall, to a point of connection with the public sewer.

Carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand (CBOD). The quantity of oxygen used in the biochemical degradation of organic material in five days at 20 degrees Celsius when the oxidation of reduced forms of nitrogen is prevented by the addition of an inhibitor. This analytical procedure shall be performed in accordance with Standard Methods.

Commission. The Delafield-Hartland Water Pollution Control Commission.

Community-based residential facilities (CBRF). A place where three or more unrelated adults reside and in which care, treatment or services above the level of room and board are provided as a primary function of the premises. A community-based residential facility does not include any of the following:

(1)

A facility owned or operated by a religious order exclusively for care of members of that order.

(2)

A facility providing care, treatment and services only for victims of domestic abuse.

(3)

A shelter as defined in Wis. Stats. § 16.352(1)(d).

(4)

A lodging place not providing health care or personal care.

Connection. Anyone who has paid for a village lateral, and has a sewer lateral (even to a vacant lot) is considered to have connected for purposes of this article, and has reserve capacity for that use.

Connection charge, Del-Hart. A charge to the village for a new user connection or an existing user requiring additional capacity in the treatment facility. Connection charges are required as a contribution to aid-in-construction funding and are based upon a user's potential estimated average daily flow as calculated using Schedule A. Connection charges are established in this article pursuant to Wis. Stats. § 66.076(4) and (5). Additional connection charges will be assigned to nonresidential users when their flow increases by 1.00 DUE or more over an average 12-month period (January—December).

Connection charge, village. A one-time sewer connection or hookup charge, which is the property owner's contribution in aid of construction and for any other purpose set forth in Wis. Stats. § 66.076(4) as from time to time shall be determined by the village board.

Compatible pollutants. Carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, total kjeldahl nitrogen, plus additional pollutants identified in the WPDES permit for the publicly owned treatment works receiving the pollutant if such works were designed to treat such additional pollutants to a substantial degree.

Customer. Any municipality or political subdivision of the State of Wisconsin, or any person which now or hereafter agrees to purchase wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal services directly from the commission. For purposes of this Code of Ordinances, this shall primarily refer to the Village of Hartland.

Debt service. Costs to the village or commission for the retirement of debts incurred in the provision of wastewater facilities including both principal and interest.

Del-Hart ordinance. The sewer use and user charge ordinance of the Delafield-Hartland Water Pollution Control Commission (herein the "Del-Hart Commission") adopted on January 16, 2007, and any amendments thereto or restatements thereof.

Director or director of public works. The director of the department of public works.

Domestic user equivalent (DUE). The wastewater flow equivalent to that discharged by an average residential user. One DUE shall defined as 205 gallons per day and 75,000 gallons per year.

Equipment replacement. 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 for which such works were designed and constructed.

Floatable oil. Oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility. A wastewater or septage shall be considered free of floatable fat if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection of treatment system.

Garbage. The residue from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of food products and produce.

Ground garbage. The residue from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such degree that all particulates will be no greater than one-half inch in any dimension and will be carried freely in suspension under normal flow conditions in sewers.

Incompatible pollutants or wastewater. Wastewater or septage with pollutants of such strength that will adversely affect or disrupt the wastewater treatment processes or effluent quality or sludge quality if discharged to the sewerage system facility.

Industrial waste. The wastewater from an industrial process, trade, or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage, including cooling water and the discharge from sewage pretreatment facilities.

Institutional user. An establishment owned or operated by an incorporated or unincorporated organization organized and operated exclusively for educational, religious, charitable or other eleemosynary purposes or a governmental organization.

Manager or general manager. The general manager for the Delafield-Hartland Water Pollution Control Commission's wastewater facilities, or such person's agent or representative.

May. Permissible.

Municipal wastewater. The wastewater of a village, including that of the village. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residential, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and storm water that may have inadvertently entered the sewerage system of the village.

Natural outlet. Any outlet, including storm sewers, into a water course, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.

Normal concentration.

(1)

Five-day 20 degrees Celsius, BOD or not more than 200 mg/l.

(2)

A suspended solids content of not more than 250 mg/l.

Normal wastewater. Wastewater in which BOD or suspended solids concentrations do not exceed normal concentrations.

Operation and maintenance (O & M). Costs to the sewer department for the provision of labor, utilities, supplies, equipment maintenance and other normal costs necessary for the provision of sewage service. Operation and maintenance includes replacement.

Parts per million. 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.

Person. Any and all persons, including any individual, firm, company, municipal or private corporations, association, society, institution, enterprise, government agency, or other entity.

pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of 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 .

Public sewer. Any sewer owned or provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the village, the Del-Hart Commission or any other village.

Residential user. Any user whose facilities are capable of providing persons with at least one bedroom for overnight stay. In determining whether a user is residential, the customer shall make a visual inspection and determine whether the facilities are capable of providing sleeping facilities. In determining number of residential units in each facility, the customer shall place emphasis on access provided between rooms and especially bedrooms. In the case of rooming houses or boardinghouses, they shall be treated as commercial users on Schedule A and assigned DUEs as a hotel on Schedule A (0.25 per bedroom), but no less than one DUE per house.

Sanitary sewage. A combination of liquid and water-carried wastes discharged from toilets and/or sanitary plumbing facilities, together with such ground, surface, and storm waters as may have inadvertently entered the sewerage system.

Sanitary sewer. A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with small quantities of ground, storm, and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.

Septage. The wastewater or contents of septic or holding tanks, dosing chambers, grease interceptors, seepage beds, seepage pits, seepage trenches, privies or portable restrooms.

Sewer service area. That area identified by Southeastern Regional Planning Commission (SEWRPC) and adopted by the village as outlined in SEWRPC Report No. 93, as from time to time modified by the village and approved by SEWRPC.

Sewer service charge. A service charge, or combination of charges, levied on users of the wastewater collection and treatment facilities for payment of use-related capital expenses as well as the operation and maintenance costs, including replacement costs, of said facilities.

Sewer system. The public sanitary sewers within a sewerage system. 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 village. For example, a building sewer is not part of the sewer system.

Sewerage system. 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, i.e., a building sewer.

Shall. Mandatory.

Significant industrial user. An industrial user which meets one or more of the following conditions:

(1)

Any industrial user of the wastewater facilities which discharges more than 18,750 gallons per day (gpd) of wastewater, excluding domestic wastewater, non-contact cooling, and boiler blowdown wastewater.

(2)

Any industrial user that discharges a process waste stream which makes up five percent or more of the average dry weather hydraulic capacity, or more than five percent of the BOD5, TSS, TKN, or total phosphorus treating capacity, of the wastewater treatment plant;

(3)

Any centralized waste treater;

(4)

Any industrial user subject to categorical Pretreatment Standards in Chapters NR 221 to 297 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.

(5)

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, constitutes a hazard to humans or animals, creates a public nuisance, or creates any hazard in or has an adverse effect on the waters receiving any discharge from the wastewater facilities.

(6)

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 § 283 of the Wisconsin Statutes.

Slug load. Any substance release at a discharge rate and/or concentration which cause interference to wastewater treatment processes or plugging or surcharging of the sewer system.

Stats. The Wisconsin Statutes in effect from time to time.

Standard methods. 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 Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation and is in compliance with Federal Regulations 40 CFR 136, "Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for Analysis of Pollutants," all as amended from time to time.

Storm drain (sometimes termed "storm sewer"). Drain or sewer for conveying surface water, groundwater, subsurface water of unpolluted water from any source.

Storm sewer. A sewer which carries storm water and surface water and drainage, but excludes wastewater and industrial wastes, other than polluted cooling water.

Storm water runoff. That portion of the rainfall that is collected and drained into the storm sewers.

Suspended solids. 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 is referred to as non-filterable residue.

Total kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN). The quantity of organic nitrogen and ammonia as determined in accordance with Standard Methods.

Total phosphorous (TP). The quantity of total phosphorous as determined in accordance with the Standard Methods.

Unpolluted water. 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.

User. Any residential, commercial, institutional, governmental, industrial or other person which discharges wastewater to the wastewater facilities, including any wastewater hauler or special user as defined herein.

User charge or wastewater service charge. A charge levied on users of wastewater facilities for the cost of operation and maintenance of such facilities. The user charge may also include debt service and other costs related to the wastewater facilities.

Village. The Village of Hartland, a municipal corporation.

Wastewater facilities. The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away, store, and treat domestic and industrial waste and septage and dispose of the effluent and sludge.

Wastewater treatment works. An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, septage, industrial waste, and sludge. Sometimes use is synonymous with waste treatment.

Water meter. Any device approved by the village that will accurately reflect in gallons the inflow of water from the source of the water into the buildings (governmental, institutional, commercial or industrial establishment). Water meters shall be installed and operated at all times and comply with C700-77 AWWA standard for cold water meters. Water meters shall be owned and serviced by the village.

Watercourse. A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water, either continuously or intermittently.

Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (WPDES) Permit. A document issued by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources which establishes effluent limitations and monitoring requirements for the regional wastewater treatment facility. WPDES permit and modifications thereof pertain to the commission wastewater treatment facility.

(Ord. No. 786-10, § 1, 12-13-2010; Ord. No. 800-12, § 1, 12-10-2012)