As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
ADMINISTRATOR
The Superintendent of Wastewater or their designated representative.
[Amended 2-3-2015 by L.L. No. 3-2015]
AGENCY
The City of Cortland Department of Wastewater Treatment.
BENEFICIAL USES
Uses of the waters of the state that may be protected against
quality degradation, including domestic, municipal, agricultural and
industrial supply, power generation, recreation, aesthetic enjoyment,
navigation and the preservation and enhancement of fish, wildlife
and other aquatic resources or reserves and other uses, both tangible
or intangible as specified by federal and state law.
BUILDING SEWER
A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user
to a community sewer.
COMMUNITY SEWER
A sewer owned and operated by the agency tributary to a treatment
facility operated by the agency.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, cooling refrigeration or other sources. It shall contain
no polluting substances which would produce BOD
5 or suspended solids each in excess of 10 milligrams per liter, or of toxic substances as limited in Article
II.
FEDERAL ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Act, PL 92-500, and any amendments
thereto; as well as any guidelines, limitations and standards promulgated
by the United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the
Act.
GARBAGE
Animal and vegetable wastes from the preparation, cooking
and disposing of food and from the handling, processing, storage and
sale of food.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum pump tank trucks.
INDUSTRIAL USER
Any nongovernmental user of publicly owned treatment works
identified in any of the following divisions of the Standard Industrial
Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget:
Division A
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Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
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Division B
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Mining
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Division D
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Manufacturing
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Division E
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Transportation, Communication, Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services
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Division I
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Services
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INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any liquid, gaseous or solid substances, or a combination
thereof, resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade
or business or from development or recovery of natural resources.
INDUSTRY
Any establishment which uses water in a product or generates
a wastewater during any period of production.
INFILTRATION
The water entering a sewer system, including sewer service
connections, from the ground, through such means as but not limited
to defective pipes, pipe joints, connections or manhole walls. "Infiltration"
does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.
INFLOW
The water discharged into a sewer system, including service
connections from such sources as but not limited to roof leaders,
cellar, yard and area drains, cooling water discharges, drains from
springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections from storm
sewers, catch basins, stormwaters, surface runoff, street wash waters
or drainage. "Inflow" does not include and is distinguished from infiltration.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges from other sources, both:
(1)
Inhibits or disrupts the agency's wastewater collection and/or
treatment system, including its wastewater treatment processes or
operations and its sludge treatment processes, use or disposal; and
(2)
Therefore, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the
agency's State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) permit
(including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation)
or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance
with applicable federal, state and local regulations.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY
Any wastewater contributor identified in the Standard Industrial
Classification (SIC) Manual in any of Divisions A, B, D, E and I that:
(1)
Has a discharge flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average workday
(if seasonal, the average shall be computed on the period of use);
or
(2)
Has a flow or pollutant loading greater than 5% of the design
capacity of the agency's treatment works; or
(3)
Has in its wastes toxic pollutants in toxic amounts as defined
in the standards issued under Section 307(a) of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972; or
(4)
Is found by the agency's authorized representative to have significant
impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries,
on the treatment works or upon the quality of effluent from the treatment
works.
MASS EMISSION RATE
The weight of material discharged to the community sewer
system during a given time interval. Unless otherwise specified, a
mass emission rate shall mean pounds per day of a particular constituent
or combination of constituents.
PASS-THROUGH
A discharge which exits the agency's wastewater collection
and treatment system into water of the United States in quantities
or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any
requirement of the agency's SPDES permit (including an increase in
the magnitude or duration of a violation).
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, partnership, association and
private, public and municipal corporations' responsible corporate
officer, the United States of America, the State of New York, districts
and all political subdivisions, governmental agencies and mandatories thereof.
POLLUTANTS
Shall mean, or may be defined now or hereafter by appropriate
local, state or federal authorities or by the Commissioner as, substances
which may be present in wastewater, whether gaseous, liquid or solid,
the amount which may contain soluble or insoluble solids of organic
or inorganic nature which may deplete the dissolved oxygen content
of natural waters, contribute solids, contain oil, grease or floating
solids which may cause unsightly appearance on the surface of such
waters or contain material detrimental to aquatic life.
PREMISES
A parcel of real estate or portion thereof, including any
improvements thereon, which is determined by the agency to be a single
user for purposes of receiving, using and paying for service.
PRETREATMENT
The treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction
into the sewage treatment works.
PRIORITY POLLUTANTS
Any of the contaminants on the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (USEPA) List of 126 Pollutants which are defined
as priority pollutants.
PRIVATE SEWER
A sewer either on private property or in a public street
which has not yet been constructed by nor is controlled by a public
agency.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
The treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of the Act
(33 U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned, in this case, by the
City of Cortland. This definition includes any sewers and appurtenances
that transport wastewater to the treatment plant, but does not include
pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected directly or indirectly
to a facility providing treatment.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer intended to carry only sanitary or sanitary and industrial
wastewater from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants
and institutions.
SANITARY WASTE
Wash water, culinary wastes and liquid waste containing only
human excreta and similar matter, flowing in or from a building drainage
system or sewer originating in a dwelling, business building factory
or institution.
SHALL
The term "shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
SHREDDED GARBAGE
Garbage shredded to such a degree that all particles will
be carried freely under flow conditions normally prevailing in public
sewers, with no particle having a dimension greater than 1/2 inch
in any direction.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER (SIU)
(1)
Any discharger subject to categorical pretreatment standards.
(2)
Any other industrial user that discharges an average of 25,000
gallons per day or more of process wastewater (excluding sanitary,
noncontact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewaters) to the wastewater
treatment plant (WWTP) or that contributes a process waste stream
which makes up 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or
organic capacity of the WWTP; or
(3)
That is designated as such by the WWTP on the basis that the
industrial user has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting
the WWTP operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
The WWTP may, at any time, upon its own initiative or in response
to a petition received from a noncategorical user, with the consent
of the appropriate control authority, determine that such industrial
user is not a significant industrial user.
(4)
Uses more than 10,000 pounds or 1,000 gallons per year of priority
pollutants or substances of concern and discharges measurable quantities
of these pollutants to the sewer system which can be shown to:
(a)
Interfere with the operation of the WWTP;
(b)
Pass through the treatment plant and pollute the receiving waters;
(c)
Concentrate in the sludge, thereby limiting opportunities for
disposal or reuse; or
(d)
Pose a hazard to City workers; or
(5)
Industries which are major contributing industries as previously
defined.
SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE (SNC)
An industrial user is in significant noncompliance of the
Wastewater Discharge Law if its violation(s) meets one or more of
the following criteria:
[Amended 4-2-2002 by L.L.
No. 1-2002; 12-3-2013 by L.L. No. 3-2016]
(1)
Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here
as those in which 66% or more of all the measurements taken for the
same pollutant parameter during a six-month period, exceed (by any
magnitude) a numeric pretreatment standard or requirement, including
instantaneous limits.
(2)
Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as
those, in which 33% or more of all of the measurements for the same
pollutant parameter during a six-month period equal or exceed the
product of the numeric pretreatment standard or requirement including
instantaneous limits, multiplied by the applicable TRC [TRC = 1.4
for biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), total suspended solids (TSS),
fats, oil and grease; TRC = 1.2 for all other pollutants].
(3)
Any violation of a pretreatment effluent limit (daily maximum
or long-term average) that the Administrator determines has caused,
alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass-through
(including endangering the treatment plant personnel or the general
public).
(4)
Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health or welfare or to the environment or has resulted in the Administrator's exercise of their emergency authority under §
289-45 of this chapter.
(5)
Failure to meet, within 90 days after the schedule date, a compliance
schedule milestone contained in a permit, or enforcement order for
starting construction, completing construction or attaining final
compliance.
(6)
Failure to provide, within 30 days after the due date, required
reports such as baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day compliance
reports, periodic self-monitoring reports and reports on compliance
with compliance schedules.
(7)
Failure to report accurately any noncompliance with this chapter.
(8)
Any other violation, which may include a violation of best management
practices, which the Administrator determines will adversely affect
the implementation or operation of the Local Industrial Pretreatment
Program.
STORM SEWER
A sewer intended to carry only stormwaters, surface runoff,
street wash water and drainage.
SUBSTANCES OF CONCERN
Are those substances defined by the New York State Department
of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) as substances of concern in
their industrial chemicals survey (ICS) form.
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, which, when
discharged to the sewer system in sufficient amounts, may tend to
interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to
recreation in the receiving waters of the effluent from the sewage
treatment plant, pose a hazard to men working in the sewer system
or constitute a hazard to fish or animal life.
TREATMENT WORKS
Any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling
and reclamation of municipal sewage and/or industrial wastes of a
liquid nature or necessary to recycle or reuse water at the most economical
cost over the useful life of the works, including interceptor sewers,
outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, metering stations, pumping,
power and other equipment and 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;
or any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing,
treating, separating or disposing of municipal waste, including storm
runoff, or industrial waste, including waste in combined stormwater
and sanitary sewer systems.
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water to which no constituent has been added, either intentionally
or accidentally, which would render such water unacceptable to the
agency having jurisdiction thereof for disposal to storm or natural
drainages or directly to surface waters.
USER
Any person that discharges, causes or permits the discharge
of wastewater to the community sewer system.
WASTE
Any substance which contains sewage and any and all other
waste materials from habitation, of human or animal origin, or from
any producing, manufacturing or processing operations of whatever
nature, including such wastes placed within containers of whatever
nature prior to and for purposes of disposal.
WASTEWATER
Waste and water, whether treated or untreated, discharged
into or permitted to enter a community sewer.
WASTEWATER CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS
The individual chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological
quality (parameters), including volume and flow rate and such other
parameters that serve to define, classify or measure the contents,
quantity, quality and strength of wastewater.
WATERS OF THE STATE
Any water, surface or underground, within the boundaries
of the State of New York.