Sponsor
Alderman Hart
Title
Ordinance 13-14
To repeal, recreate and revise sections of Chapter 98 - Utilities, Article IV. - Wastewater System of the Municipal Code of the City of Racine, Wisconsin.
The Common Council of the City of Racine, Wisconsin, do ordain as follows:
Part 1: In Sec. 98-124. - Definitions, of the Municipal Code of the City of Racine, add the following definitions in the correct alphabetical order:
“Best Management Practices or BMPs means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in Sec. 98-151(a) and (b) [40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b)]. BMPs include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage. [Note: BMPs also include alternative means (i.e., management plans) of complying with, or in place of certain established categorical Pretreatment Standards and effluent limits].
BETX means an aggregate concentration of total benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, and xylenes.
City means the City of Racine, Wisconsin.
Class I - Domestic user means any user of the wastewater system that meets the following condition:
(1) A user that generates wastewater with a strength equal to or less than normal strength wastewater independent of the quantity of flow discharged.
Class II - Industrial user means any user of the wastewater system that meets the following condition:
(1) A user that generates wastewater with strength greater than normal domestic strength wastewater independent of the quantity of flow discharged.
Federal grant means Grant No. C550552-01 dated April 3, 1974, from the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States of America, of the city, or any other grants received by the city from the EPA for the purpose of expanding its complete wastewater system.
Groundwater discharge means polluted water disc...
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