Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates
otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Part 1 shall be as follows:
ADMINISTRATOR
The Superintendent of Sewage or his deputy, agent or representative,
as appointed by the Town Board of the Town of Crawford.
BOD (DENOTING "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND")
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic
matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C. (68°
F.) expressed in parts per million (ppm) or milligrams per liter (mg/l).
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building sanitary
drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other sanitary
drainage pipes inside the walls of any building and which conveys such discharge
to the building sewers, beginning four feet outside the outer face of the
building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
That part of the horizontal piping of a sanitary drainage system
which extends from the end of the building drain and which receives the discharge
of the building drain and conveys it to a public sewer or other point of disposal,
such as a public septic tank.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff and
sewage.
COOLING WATER
The water discharge from any system of condensation, air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration or other sources.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic or commercial preparation, cooking
and dispensing of food or from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The fluid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trades
or businesses as distinct from sanitary sewage.
OTHER WASTES
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, coffee grounds, sawdust,
shavings, eggshells, bark, sand, lime, cinders, ashes and all other discarded
matter not normally present in sewage or industrial wastes.
PERMITTEE
Any person who obtains a permit for sewer connection.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
pH
The intensity of the acid or alkaline reaction of a solution in terms
of hydrogen concentration but is not a measure of the total concentration
of acid or alkali present. The pH is expressed as the common logarithm of
the reciprocal of the hydrogen concentration in moles per liter: pH = 1/(h)+
POLLUTANT
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 water.
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
Any privy, septic tank, cesspool or other sewage disposal facility
owned and operated by a person other than a municipal sewage system.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that
have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely
under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle
having a dimension greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEPTIC TANK
Any septic tank within the Town of Crawford Sewer District No. 1
whose effluent is discharged to the public sewer.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer controlled by the Town of Crawford Sewer District No. 1.
RECEIVING WATERS
A natural watercourse or any other body of surface or ground water,
into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm- , surface and ground
waters shall not be admitted.
SCAVENGER WASTES
The conditioned human waste matter collected from privies, septic
tanks, cesspools, swimming pool water and chemical toilets.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such
groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be inadvertently present.
The admixture of sewage, as above defined, with industrial wastes or other
wastes also shall be considered sewage within the meaning of this definition.
SEWAGE SURCHARGE
The demand payment for the use of the public sewers and/or sewage
treatment plant for handling any sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes
accepted for admission thereto in which the quantity or characteristics thereof
exceed the maximum values as defined herein.
SEWAGE SYSTEM
All facilities within any sewer district for collecting, regulating,
pumping and transporting sewage to the Town of Crawford Sewer District No.
1 sewage treatment facility within the Town.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWER DISTRICT
The Town of Crawford Sanitary Sewer District as created, altered,
modified or extended by action of the Town Board of the Town of Crawford.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Any industrial user of any of the Town's wastewater disposal systems
who:
(1)
Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average workday;
(2)
Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in any of the Town's wastewater
treatment systems;
(3)
Has in his wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to § 307
of the Act or New York State statutes and rules; or
(4)
Is found by the Town, the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation, the Department of Health or the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to have significant impact, either singly or in combination
with other contributing industries, on any of the wastewater treatment systems,
the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality or air emissions generated
by the system.
SLOPE
The grade or pitch of a line of pipe in reference to a horizontal
plane. In drainage, it is usually expressed as the fall in a fraction of an
inch per foot length of pipe.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which in concentration
of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of
duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average twenty-four-hour
concentration or flow during normal operation.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage (excludes
sewage and industrial wastes other than cooling waters and other unpolluted
waters).
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension
in, water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the "Clean
Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
TOWN OF CRAWFORD or TOWN
Includes Sewer District No. 1 within the Town and includes the Town
Board of the Town of Crawford.
TOWN SEWER SYSTEM
The interceptor sewers, trunk sewers, lateral sewers, force mains,
pumping stations, sewage regulators and other appurtenant structures owned
and operated by the Town of Crawford Sewer District No. 1.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or
intermittently.