[Amended 9-12-1984]
The meaning of the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended.
ASTM
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
The pollutional strength of a waste expressed in terms of
the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic
matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20°
C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING SEWER
The sanitary sewer from a building plumbing system to the
public sanitary sewer.
CONCENTRATION
Shall refer to the mass of a substance or material per unit
volume of liquid. Concentration may be expressed as parts per million
of water by weight (ppm) or as milligrams per liter (mg/l).
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, dispensing, handling,
storage or sale of food.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Water-carried wastes from industrial processes, as distinct
from sanitary sewage.
INDUSTRY or INDUSTRIAL USER
Any establishment defined as such by the Standard Industrial
Classification Manual (latest edition) prepared by the Statistical
Documents Division, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office
of the President of the United States. It shall also include any user
which discharges or may accidentally discharge wastewater containing
toxic substances, or any substances which cause any interference on
upset of the wastewater treatment plant.
[Amended 1978]
INTERFERENCE
The inhibition, upset, or disruption of any of the wastewater
treatment plant operations or process which contributes to either
a violation of the Town's SPDES permit or causes a nuisance condition
within the POTW. The term includes prevention of sewage sludge use
or disposal by the wastewater treatment plant in accordance with all
applicable state and/or federal laws, regulations and guidelines.
See 40 CFR 403.3(k) for detailed definition.
LABORATORY DETERMINATION
The measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics
of waters and wastes in accordance with the methods contained in the
latest edition at the time of any such measurement, test or analyses,
of Standard Methods for Examination of Water and Sewage, a joint publication
of the American Public Health Association, the American Waterworks
Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation or in accordance with any other method prescribed by the
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
LOADING
The multiplication of a waste constituent concentration times
the rate of flow of the liquid carrying the waste times a conversion
factor to obtain the units of pounds per day.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS or PRETREATMENT
STANDARD
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(B) and (C) of the Act which
applies to a specific category of industrial users. "Pretreatment
standards" or "standards" shall mean prohibited discharge standards,
categorical pretreatment standards, and legal limits.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
NYSDEC
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
OWNER
The owner or owners of record of the freehold of the premises
or lesser estate therein, a mortgagee or vendee in possession, assignee
of rents, receiver, executor, trustee, lessee, or other person, firm
or corporation in control, or person exercising dominion and control
over the premises.
PASS-THROUGH
A discharge which exits the POTW 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 POTW's NYDES permit (including
an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation). [40CFR 403.3(p)]
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
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.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological, and radiological integrity of water.
PRETREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutants, or the
alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to
a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise
introducing such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction or alteration
can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, process
changes or by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial
user.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer which carries liquid and is controlled by public
authority.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292) which is owned in this instance by the Town
of Newfane. This definition includes any sewers that convey wastewater
to the POTW treatment plant, but does not include pipes, sewers, or
other conveyances not connected to a facility providing treatment.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Water-carried wastes generated by contact with human activity
from a residence, business building, and institutional or industrial
establishment.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface
and ground waters are not intended to be admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments.
SEWAGE WORKS
All sewers, interceptors, pumping stations, treatment facilities,
outfall conduits, and so forth, employed to collect, transmit, treat
and dispose of flows and loading of sanitary sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWER DISTRICT
Shall refer to any sanitary sewer district created in accordance
with the provisions of the New York State Town Law, within the Town
of Newfane.
SHALL
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking or 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 greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Any industrial user of the Town's wastewater disposal
system who:
A.
Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average work
day; or
B.
Has in his wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to Section
307 of the Act of (state) statutes and rules; or
C.
Is found by the Town to have significant impact, either singly
or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater
treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent
quality, or air emissions generated by the system.
SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE
An industrial user whose violation meets one or more of the
criteria set forth in 40 CFR 403.8(f)(2)(viii), with the exception
of 40 CFR 403.8(f)(2)(viii)(F) (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).
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste which
in concentration of any given constituent or in any quantity of flow
exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes or more
than five times the average 24 concentration or flows during normal
operation.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries storm or surface waters and drainage,
but is intended to exclude sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
SUPERINTENDENT
The person(s) responsible for operating and maintaining the
sewage works of the Sewer District, or his authorized deputy, agent,
or representative.
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.
SYSTEM
All sewers, interceptors, pumping stations, treatment facilities,
outfall conduits, and so forth, employed to collect, transmit, treat
and dispose of flows and loading of sanitary sewage.
TOWN
The territorial limits of the Town of Newfane, New York.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.