Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 905 - PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL CODE › Section 905.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
In addition to the definitions contained in the Private Sewage
				Disposal Licensing Act [225 ILCS 225 ], the following definitions shall
				apply:
"Act" means the Private Sewage Disposal Licensing Act [225 ILCS
				225 ].
"Aerobic Treatment Plant" means equipment or devices for the
				treatment of sewage by the forced addition of air or oxygen.
"Ag Experiment Station" means the University of Illinois at
				Urbana-Champaign Agricultural Experiment Station.
"Approved" or "Approval" means accepted by or acceptable to the
				Department or local authority.
"Approved Certification Agency" means an organization that has
				been accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and has
				been found to meet the requirements specified in the International Organization
				for Standardization (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission Guide 65 to
				evaluate wastewater treatment units and components for compliance with National
				Sanitation Foundation (NSF) International/ANSI Standards.
"Building Drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal
				piping of a drainage system that receives the discharge from soil, waste and
				other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the
				building (house) sewer. The building drain's developed length terminates 5 feet
				outside the building foundation wall.
"Building Sewer" means that part of the horizontal piping of a
				drainage system that extends from the end of the building drain, receives the
				discharge of the building drain and conveys it to a public sanitary sewer or
				private sewage disposal system. The building sewer commences 5 feet outside the
				building foundation wall.
"Clear Water" means cooling water and condensate water from
				refrigeration or air conditioning equipment, cooled condensate from steam
				heating systems and sub-soil drainage.
"Common Collector" means an underground enclosed conduit
				designed to carry treated sewage effluent exclusive of storm water and that
				serves more than one property.
"Common Property" means the property that is used by all owners
				or tenants for a private sewage disposal system.
"Component" means an integral part of a private sewage disposal
				system that is necessary for the satisfactory design, construction and
				operation of the system.
"Discharge Point" means the point at which treated effluent
				discharges from an approved private sewage disposal system, which is compliant
				with Section
				905.110(a).
"Domestic Sewage" means waste water derived principally from
				dwellings, business or office buildings, institutions, food service
				establishments and similar facilities.
"Effective Size" means the size of screen opening where 90
				percent by weight of a sample of filter media is retained on the screen and 10
				percent passes through the screen.
"Effluent" means treated or partially treated liquid discharged
				from a private sewage disposal system or a component.
"Estimated Seasonal High Water Table" means the highest level
				to which the soil is saturated, as determined by direct observation or as may
				be determined by a Soil Classifier examining additional information.
"Gravelless Seepage System" means the use of approved
				perforated 8-inch or 10-inch diameter filter-wrapped plastic pipe in lieu of
				4-inch pipe and gravel, in subsurface fields and serial distribution
				systems.
"Hot Tub" means an artificial container of water with a liquid
				capacity greater than 100 gallons and designed with a mechanical air injection
				system or re-circulating device. These devices may filter or disinfect the
				water for reuse and are not intended to be drained between uses.
"Influent" means something that flows into a private sewage
				disposal system or a component.
"Limiting Layer" means a horizon or condition in the soil
				profile or underlying strata that includes:
An estimated high water table, whether perched or
				regional.
Masses of loose rock fragments, including gravel, with
				insufficient fine soil to fill the voids between the fragments.
Rock formation, other stratum or soil condition that is so
				slowly permeable that it effectively limits downward passage of
				effluent.
"Liquid Capacity" means the volume of a tank below the invert
				of the outlet line.
"Local Authority" means a local unit of government that
				enforces a private sewage disposal ordinance that has been approved by the
				Department; or a local health department that has been designated an agent of
				the State for conduct of the Private Sewage Disposal Program.
"Maintained and Serviced" means the tasks, procedures and
				inspections required by the manufacturer of the component/system or the
				Department for the private sewage disposal system to operate within the
				parameters and requirements of this Part and any other restrictions established
				as part of the system approval or as part of a variance.
"Minimum Slope" means the slope required for treated effluent
				to travel in the designed direction of flow.
"Non-Residential Property" means any property that is not
				residential property.
"NPDES Permit" means any general or individual National
				Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit issued by the Illinois
				Environmental Protection Agency or the United States Environmental Protection
				Agency.
"NSF International" means the National Sanitation Foundation
				International, an independent testing laboratory.
"NSF International/ANSI Standard 40 Wastewater Treatment
				System" means any system that has been certified by an approved certification
				agency to meet NSF International/ANSI Standard 40, Residential Wastewater
				Treatment Systems.
"Portable Potable Hand Washing Unit" means a self-contained,
				movable, potable water unit equipped with a waste-receiving holding container
				that may be moved or transported from site to site.
"Portable Sanitation Business" means any partnership, company,
				limited liability company, corporation or individual that sells, rents, leases,
				transports, services, cleans, sanitizes or maintains a portable toilet or
				portable potable hand washing unit or pumps, or transports or disposes of waste
				from portable toilets or portable potable hand washing units.
"Portable Sanitation Technician" means any individual who is
				certified by the Department to be an employee for a portable sanitation
				business and who has completed the training required by this Part.
"Portable Sanitation Technician Trainee" means any individual
				who is certified by the Department as an employee for a portable sanitation
				business for less than one year.
"Portable Toilet" means a self-contained, movable unit equipped
				with a waste-receiving holding container that may be moved or transported from
				site to site.
"Proper Operation" means operation of a system within the
				parameters and requirements of this Part, the Act and any other restrictions
				established as part of the system approval or as part of a variance.
"Residential Property" means a single-family home or
				multi-family unit that is intended for occupation as living quarters and is not
				used to conduct any business that generates wastewater or domestic
				sewage.
"Septage" means the solid and liquid wastes removed from
				private sewage disposal systems.
"Shall" means that the stated provision is mandatory.
"Soil Boring" means an observation pit, dug by hand or backhoe,
				or an undisturbed soil core taken intact and undisturbed by a probe.
"Soil Classifier" means one of the following:
A Certified Professional Soil Classifier (CPSC) who is
				certified by the Illinois Soil Classifiers Association (ISCA) or a certified
				soil classifier with the American Registry of Certified Professionals in
				Agronomy, Crops and Soils (ARCPACS).
A person who is a full member or associate member of the
				Illinois Soil Classifiers Association (ISCA), provided that direct supervision
				is provided to this person by an ISCA Certified Professional Soil Classifier or
				ARCPACS certified soil classifier who accompanies the person on at least 25% of
				the soil investigations and reviews and signs all of that person's soil
				investigation reports.
"Sub-soil Drainage" means groundwater such as runoff water,
				seepage water or clear water from the soil that is free from domestic
				sewage.
"Subsurface Seepage System" means a subsurface seepage field or
				seepage bed.
"Uniformity Coefficient" means a number obtained by dividing
				that size of sand in millimeters of which 60% by weight is smaller, by that
				size of sand in millimeters of which 10% by weight is smaller.
"Waste" means either human waste or domestic sewage or
				both.
"Wastewater Source" means any equipment, facility or other
				source of any type whatsoever that discharges wastewater, directly or
				indirectly, to the waters of the State.
"Water Table" means the upper limit of the portion of the soil
				or rock formation that is completely saturated with water.
Soil science terms used throughout the text of this Part are
				defined in the Soil Science Society of America, Glossary of Soil Science Terms
				unless otherwise defined.