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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #1289cr ~ OIL I RI~NCE ~ . 12 8 9 AN ORDNANCE AtvEI~D I NG T I TLE 8 , Q-IAPTER 10 , SECTION 5 (A) OF Tf-E CAIVTpV MN I C I PAL OCDE . 411-E1~JaS, the Lega I and Ordinance Corrmi ttee has determined that it is necessary to amend Title 3, Chapter 10, Section 5(A) of the Canton P~~unicipal Code as hereinafter set forth in order to comply with Federally mandated definitional requirements; and, 1M-E?-tEAS, the Canton City Counc i I has made a s imi I ar determination. NOiN, T}-EREFORE, BE I T OF~41 NED BY TI-E C I TY OOIIVC I L OF TI-E CITY OF CANTON, Fulton County, Illinois as follo~,vs: 1. That the Canton City Council hereby finds the foregoing recitals to be fact. 2. That Title 8, Chapter 10, Section 5(A) of the Canton Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "(A) Definitions: Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows: 1. Federal Government "Federal Act" means the Federal Clean V'Vater Act (33 U.S.C 466 et seq) as amended, (Pub. L. 95-217). "Administrator" means the Administrator of the U.S. environmental Protection Agency. "Federal Grant" shall mean the U.S. government participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works as provided for by Title II-Grants for Construction of Treatrnent V^Jorks or the Act and implementing regulations. 1 T ~ ~ 2. State Government "State Act" means the Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act of 1970. "Director" means the Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. "State Grant" shall mean the State of Illinois participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works as provided for by the Illinois Anti-Pollution Bond Act and for making such grants as filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Illinois. 3. Local Government "Ordinance" shall mean this Ordinance. "City" means the City of Canton, Illinois. "Approving Authority" means the corporate authorities of the City of Canton, Illinois. "Superintendent" means the Superintendent of ~^Jaste~vater Faci I ities and/or ~'Vaste4vater Treatment ~~lorks of the City, or, his or their authorized deputy, agent, or representative. 4. "Person" shall mean 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. 5. "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 b"later Act to regulate the discharge of pollutants pursuant to section 402 of the Federal Act. 6. Clarification of word usage: "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissible. 7. ~"Jastewater and its characteristics: "4Vaste~vater" shat) mean 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 industrial plants, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface vrater, and sto nrwater that may be present. 2 "Sewage" is used interchangeably with "~vaste~vater" "Effluent Criteria" are defined in any applicable "NPDES Permit". "I;Vater Quality Standards" are defined in the Water Pollution Regulations of Illinois. "Unpolluted V~Jater" is water 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 ~rrastewater treatment facilities provided. "ppm" shall mean parts per million by v~reight. "tJlilligrams per Liter" shall mean a unit of the concentration of water or wastewater constituent. It is 0.001 g 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. "Suspended Solids" (SS) shall mean 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. Quantative determination of suspended solids shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in the IEPA Divisions of Laboratories ~~lanual of Laboratory 1~7ethods. "dOD" (denoting iiochemical Oxygen Demand) shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standards laboratory procedure in five (5) days at 20 C, expressed in milligrams per liter. "ph'° shall mean 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 Itilanual of Laboratory h~1ethods. "Garbage" shall mean solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of food. "Properly Shredded Garbage" shall mean the wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles grill be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (1/2) inch (1.27 centir~ieters) in any dimension. 3 "Floatable Oil" is oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it vdill separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system. "Population Equivalent" is a term used to evaluate the impact of industrial or other evaste on a treatment works or stream. One population equivalent is 100 gallons of sewage per day, containing .17 pounds of BOD and .2 pounds of suspended solids. "Slug" shall mean 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 fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration of flows during normal operation. "Industrial waste" shall mean any solid, liquid or gasious substance discharge, 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. "t~9ajor Contributing Industry" shall mean an industrial user of the publicly owned treatment evorles that: (a) Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or rnore per average work day; or (b) has a flow greater than ten percent of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste; or (c) has in its waste, a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under section 307(a) of the Federal Act; or (d) is found by the permit issuant authority, in connection with the issuance of the NPDES permit to the publicly oevned 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 ~~vorks. 8. Sewer types, and appurtenances: "Sewer" shall mean a pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other 4vaste liquids, including storm, surface and groundwater drainage. 4 "Public Sewer" shall mean 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 (or combined sewer system), even through those sewers may not have been constructed with City funds . "Sanitary Sewer°' shall mean a sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes or a combination of both, and into which storm, surface, and ground~vaters or polluted industrial Urastes are not intentionally admitted. "Storm Sewer" shall mean a serrrer that carries storm, surface and groundwater drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling vrater. "Combined Se~rrer" shall mean a sewer vrhich is designed and intended to receive wastewater, storm, surface and groundwater drainage. "wilding Sewer" shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal. "building Drain" shall mean that part of the lowest piping of a drainage system evhich 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 (5) feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the bui Iding oval I. "Storrt~vater Runoff" shall mean that portion of the precipitation that is drained into the sewers. "Seoverage" shall mean the system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation and pumping of sewage. "Easement" shall mean an acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others. "Pretreatment" shall mean the treatment wastewaters from sources before introduction into the wastewater treatment works. "1~'Jastewater Treatment V"forks" shall mean an arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastes"eater, industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "waste treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "pollution control plant". 5 10. "4Nastewater Facilities" shall mean the structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and transport effluent to a watercourse. 11. 4"Jatercourse and connections: "~Natercourse" shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. "Natural Outlet" shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or groundUrater. 12. User types: "User Class" shall mean the type of user "residential, institutional/governmental, commercial", or "industrial" as defined herein. "Residential User" shall mean all dwelling units such as houses, mobile homes, apartments, permanent multi-family dwellings. "Corm~ercial User" shall include transit lodging, retail and wholesale establishments or places engaged in selling merchandise, or rendering services. "Institutional/Governmental User" shall include schools, churches, penal institutions, and users associated vrith Federal, State, and local governments. "Industrial Users" shall include establishments engaged in manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials of substance into products. "Control ~11anhole" shall mean a structure located on a site from which industrial wastes are discharged. 4"there feasible, the manhole shall have an interior drop. The purpose of a "control manhole" is to provide access for the City representative to sample and/or measure discharges. "b~'aste~vater Service Charge" shall be the periodic charge levied on al I users of the `."/aste4vater Faci 1 ities. The service charge shall be computed as outlined in this Chapter and shall consist of the total or the Sasic User Charge, the Local Capital Cost and a Surcharge, if applicable. "User Charge" shall mean a charge levied on users of treatment works for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement. 6 . , "Basic User Charge" shall mean the basic assessment levied on all users of the public sewer system. "Debt Service Charge" shall be the amount to be paid each billing period for payment of interest, principal and coverage of (loan, bond, etc.) outstanding. "Capital Improvement Charge" shall mean a charge levied on users to improve, extend or reconstruct the sewage treatment evorks . "Local Capital Cost Charge" shall mean charges for costs other than the Operations, h4laintenance and Replacement costs, i.e. debt service and capital improvement costs. "Surcharge" shall mean 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 this Chapter. "Replacement" shall mean 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 are designed and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance" includes replacement. "Useful Life" shall mean the estimated period during which the collection system and/or treatment works will be operated. "Sewerage Fund" is the principal accounting designation for all revenues received in the operation of the sewerage system. 3. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect ten (10) days after its passage by the City Council of the City of Canton, Fulton County, Illinois, approval by the I~~~ayor thereof, and publication in pamphlet form as provided by law. PASSED by the City Council of the City of Canton, Fulton County, Illinois at a regular meeting this 21st day of August ~gg0, upon a roll call vote as follows: 7 AYES: Aldermen Kovachevich, Fuller, Steck, Sarff, Meade, Bohler, Chapman. NAYS: None ABSENT: Alderman May APPROVED: 1 Donald E. Edwards, Mayor ATTEST: Nanc White., City Clerk.