Illinois Administrative Code › Title 17 - CONSERVATION › Part 3730 - ALLOCATION OF WATER FROM LAKE MICHIGAN › Subpart A - GENERAL RULES › Section 3730.102 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
As used in this Part except where the context indicates
				  otherwise, the following terms shall have the meanings specified:
"Act" means the Level of Lake Michigan Act [615 ILCS 50
				  ];
"Annual accounting period" shall be October 1 of each
				  calendar year through the last day in September in the succeeding calendar
				  year;
"Chicago Area Waterway System" or "CAWS" is an engineered
				  system of man-made canals and natural waterways that serves as both a
				  navigation link between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River system and an
				  outlet for stormwater and effluent. It consists of the North Shore Channel,
				  North Branch of the Chicago River (below the North Branch Dam), Chicago River,
				  South Branch of the Chicago River, South Fork of the South Branch of the
				  Chicago River (Bubbly Creek), Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Cal-Sag Channel
				  and portions of the Calumet River and Little Calumet River leading up to the
				  O'Brien lock. In this Part the term "Chicago Area Waterway System" has the same
				  meaning as the term "Sanitary and Ship Canal" used in the Level of Lake
				  Michigan Act [615 ILCS 50];
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Natural
				  Resources;
"Director" means the Director of the Illinois Department of
				  Natural Resources or his or her duly delegated representatives;
"Emergency allocation" means a temporary allocation of Lake
				  Michigan water in accordance with Section
				  3730.305;
"Emergency and standby use" means water pumped to maintain an
				  adequate water supply in the event of a partial or total failure of the primary
				  water supply source of a permittee;
"Gross annual pumpage" means the total amount of water
				  delivered to a user's system;
"Hearing Officer" means a person duly designated as the
				  hearing officer by the Director;
"Hydrant uses" means, but is not limited to, all water
				  obtained from hydrants for uses such as fire fighting and training, water main
				  flushing, sewer flushing, street cleaning, and unmetered public and private
				  construction;
"Net annual pumpage" means the total amount of water
				  delivered to a user's system not including wholesale water delivered to other
				  water systems, also referred to as system input volume;
"New users" refers to any regional organization,
				  municipality, political subdivision, agency, instrumentality, organization,
				  association, or individual that did not have an allocation of Lake Michigan
				  water from the Department on July 1, 1980;
"Non-revenue water" is the difference between net annual
				  pumpage (system input volume) and billed, authorized consumption. Non-revenue
				  water shall be determined by taking the net annual pumpage of a water system
				  and subtracting from that amount the quantity of water that is billed, metered
				  consumption and that is billed, unmetered consumption. Non-revenue water
				  includes water that is lost from the system due to underregistration of meters,
				  systematic data handling errors, leakage anywhere within the distribution
				  system, unauthorized consumption or unbilled authorized consumption;
"Party" means an entity that:
has made application to the Department for an allocation of
				  the Lake Michigan diversion pursuant to the Act; or
has been made a party by the Hearing Officer pursuant to
				  Section
				  3730.203(c);
"Permittee" means any regional organization, municipality,
				  political subdivision, agency, instrumentality, organization, association or
				  individual that has an allocation permit for water from the Lake Michigan
				  diversion;
"Water Year" mans the annual accounting period consisting of
				  12 months terminating on the last day of September. As an example, the 2015
				  Water Year begins on October 1, 2014 and terminates on September 30,
				  2015.