The term "Board of Trustees" means the Board of Trustees of a sanitary district organized under this Act.
The term "District Director" means the chief administrative officer of such sanitary district.
The term "Waters" means all accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural and artificial, public and private, or parts thereof, which are wholly or partially within, or flow through, the territorial boundaries of such sanitary district.
The term "Wastewater" means the combination of liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, including polluted cooling water.
The term "Sanitary Wastewater" means the combination of liquid and water-carried wastes discharged from toilet and other sanitary plumbing facilities.
The term "Industrial Wastewater" means a combination of liquid and water-carried waste, discharged from any industrial establishment and resulting from any trade or process carried on in that establishment including the wastewater from pretreatment facilities and polluted cooling water.
The term "Combined Wastewater" means wastewater including sanitary wastewater, industrial wastewater, storm water, infiltration and inflow carried to the sewage treatment plant by a sewer.
The term "Pollutant" means any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into any waters as will or is likely to create a nuisance or render such waters harmful or detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare, or to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, or other legitimate uses, or to livestock, wild animals, birds, fish, or other aquatic life, or causes or may cause interference with the operation of the sanitary district sewage treatment plant.
The term "Interference" means an inhibition or disruption of the sanitary district's sewage treatment plant, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal which is a cause of or significantly contributes to either a violation of any requirement of the sewage treatment work's ability to discharge to the waters of the State of Illinois or to the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the sewage treatment work in accordance with the applicable statutory and regulatory provisions.
The term "Person" means any and all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm or association, and any unit of local government or private corporation organized or existing under the laws of this or any other state or country.
In the case of the failure by conference, conciliation and persuasion to correct or remedy any claimed violation, the District Director may order whoever causes such discharge to show cause before the Board of Trustees of such sanitary district why such discharge should not be discontinued. A notice may be served on the offending party directing him or it to show cause before such Board of Trustees why an Order should not be entered directing the discontinuance of such discharge. Such notice shall specify the time and place where a hearing will be held and shall be served personally or by registered or certified mail at least 5 days before the hearing; and in the case of a unit of local government or a corporation, such service shall be upon an officer or agent thereof. After reviewing the evidence, the Board of Trustees may issue an order to the party responsible for such discharge, directing that the user responsible shall cease such discharge immediately or that following a specified time such discharge shall cease or the discharge permit or permits previously issued to such discharger shall be revoked immediately or after a time certain, or shall issue such other order as may serve to abate said discharge. If the party fails to cease such discharge in accordance with the Board's Order, the sanitary district may disconnect such discharge on Order of the Board of Trustees.
The Court shall specify a time, not exceeding 20 days after the service of the copy of the Petition, in which the party complained of must answer the Petition, and in the meantime, the party may be restrained. In case of default in answer or after answer, the Court shall immediately inquire into the facts and circumstances of the case and enter any appropriate judgment order in respect to the matters complained of. An appeal may be taken from the final judgment in the same manner and with the same effect as appeals are taken from judgments of the Circuit Court in other actions for mandamus or injunction.
At any public hearing, testimony must be taken under oath and recorded stenographically. The transcript so recorded must be made available to any member of the public or any party to the hearing upon payment of the usual charges therefor.
In any such hearing, the Board, or the designated member or members, or any officer or employee of the District designated by the Board, may subpoena and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of evidence reasonably necessary to the resolution of the matter under consideration. The Board, or the designated member or members, or any officer or employee of the District designated by the Board, shall issue such subpoenas upon the request of any party to a Show Cause Hearing under paragraph (8) of this Section or upon its own Motion, and may examine witnesses.
70 ILCS 2405/26