Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act and amendments to
it.
BOD (denotes "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., expressed in parts per million by weight.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes
inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer
beginning five feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building
wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal and is analogous to the definition of "sewer"
as set forth herein.
CHLORINE DEMAND
The difference between the amount of chlorine added to water,
wastewater or industrial wastes and the amount of residual chlorine
remaining at the end of a fifteen-minute contact period.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), total suspended solids (TSS),
pH, fecal coliform bacteria, chlorine demand, phosphorus and phosphorus
compounds, fats, oils and greases of animal or vegetable origin, if
the wastewater treatment system was designed to treat such pollutants
and does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree, except as
prohibited herein.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
A sample consisting of several individual effluent portions
collected during a specific time period and combined to make a representative
sample.
CONNECTION
The physical tie-in of the building sewer or sewer extension
to the public sanitary sewer.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, during which the only pollutant added to
the water is heat.
DEC
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
DOMESTIC WASTES
The wastewater from the noncommercial preparation, cooking
and handling of food, or containing human excrement and similar matter
from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, commercial dwellings,
commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions.
DWELLING UNIT
A single housekeeping unit comprised of one or more rooms
with running water and with provisions for cooking and sleeping.
EPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
FLOW RATE
The quantity of waste of liquid that flows in a certain period
of time.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL USER
(1)
A nongovernmental, nonresidential user which
discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day of sanitary
waste and which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual under divisions A, B, D, E and I.
(2)
A user which discharges any wastewater containing
toxic pollutants or which has any other adverse effect on the treatment
works.
(3)
A commercial user of an individual system.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The wastewater resulting from the processes employed in industrial,
manufacturing, trade or business establishments, as distinct from
domestic wastes.
MASS EMISSION RATE
The weight of material discharged to the wastewater treatment
system during a given time interval. Unless otherwise specified, the
mass emission rate shall mean pounds per day of a particular constituent
or combination of constituents.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or any other
body of surface or ground water.
OWNER
Any person owning real property in the Village of LeRoy.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
group or agent therefor.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
POLLUTANT
Any waste, impurity or other additive, such as heat or radioactivity, that changes the quality and character of water delivered to the user, so that the discharged wastewater violates the standards as set in §
168-5 of this chapter.
PRETREATMENT
The application of physical, chemical and biological processes
to reduce the amount of pollutants in or alter the nature of the pollutants
in or alter the nature of the pollutant properties in a wastewater
prior to discharging such wastewater into the publicly owned wastewater
treatment system.
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
All applicable federal rules and regulations implementing
§ 307 of the Act, including any amendments hereto, as well
as any nonconflicting state or local standards. In cases of conflicting
standards or regulations, the more stringent thereof shall be applied.
The Superintendent recognizes that in some cases these pretreatment
standards may not be sufficient to protect the operation of the wastewater
treatment system or may make it unable to comply with the terms of
the SPDES permit. In such cases, the village reserves the right to
impose more stringent pretreatment standards than those specified
in the EPA regulations.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such other waters as may be present.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWER RENTS
A scale of quarterly charges established and imposed in the
Village of LeRoy for the use of the sewer system or any part or parts
thereof.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
An industrial user of the publicly owned wastewater treatment
system that:
(1)
Has a flow of 25,000 gallons per day or more
per average work day;
(2)
Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow carried
by the wastewater treatment system receiving the waste;
(3)
Has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic
amounts as defined in standards issued under § 307(a) of
the Act;
(4)
Is found by the Department of Water and Sewage,
in connection with the issuance of a State Pollution Discharge Elimination
System Permit at the publicly owned treatment works receiving the
waste, to have a significant impact, either singly or in combination
with other contributing industries, on the works, wastewater treatment
system or upon the quality of effluent from the treatment works;
(5)
Has in its wastewater any of the prohibited substances or characteristics in §
168-5C, Prohibited wastewater discharges; or
(6)
Has in its wastewater any concentrations or characteristics in excess of those stipulated in §
168-5D, Limited wastewater discharges.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, wastewater 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 flows during normal
operation and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or
performance of the wastewater treatment system.
SPDES
The State Pollution Discharge Elimination System.
STORM DRAIN OR STORM SEWER
A drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface
water or unpolluted water from any source.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or immediately following any form
of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface
of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater or other liquids, and
that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and referred to
as "nonfilterable residue."
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, which, when
discharged to a public sewer in sufficient concentrations, may in
the opinion of the Department of Water and Sewage be hazardous to
sewer maintenance and personnel, tend to interfere with any wastewater
treatment process or to constitute a hazard to human beings or animals,
or to inhibit aquatic life or to create a hazard to recreation in
the receiving waters of the effluent from a wastewater treatment plant.
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water not containing any pollutants limited or prohibited
by this chapter and/or the effluent standards in effect or water whose
discharge will not cause any violation of receiving water quality
standards.
USER
Any person that discharges, causes or permits the discharge
of wastewater into the wastewater treatment system.
VILLAGE
The Village of LeRoy, Genesee County, New York.
WASTE
Includes wastewater and any and all other impurities or waste
substances, liquid, solid, gaseous or radioactive, associated with
human habitation, or of human or animal origin, or from any producing,
manufacturing or processing operation of whatever nature, including
such waste placed within containers of whatever nature prior to, and
for purposes of, disposal.
WASTE TREATMENT WORKS
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater,
industrial wastes and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "waste
treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "water pollution
control plant."
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may
be present, whether treated or untreated, which is discharged into
or permitted to enter the wastewater treatment system; sometimes referred
to as "sewage."
WASTEWATER CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS
The individual chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological
parameters, including volume and flow rate and such other parameters
that serve to define, classify or measure the contents, quality, quantity
and strength of wastewater.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Any devices, facilities, structures, equipment or works owned
by the Village of LeRoy for the purpose of the transmission, storage,
treatment, recycling and reclamation of industrial and domestic wastes,
or necessary to recycle or reuse water at the most economical cost
over the estimated life of the system, including intercepting sewers,
outfall sewers, wastewater collection systems, pumping, power, and
other equipment and their appurtenances: extensions, improvements,
remodeling, additions and alterations thereof; elements essential
to provide a reliable recycled supply, such as standby treatment units
and clear well facilities; and any works, including site acquisition
of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process
or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently,
WPCF
The Water Pollution Control Federation.