[Added 9-12-1984]
A.
These rules and regulations set forth uniform requirements for dischargers
into the Town of Newfane wastewater collection and treatment systems,
and enable Town of Newfane to protect public health in conformity
with all applicable state and federal laws as required by the Clean
Water Act of 1977 and the general pretreatment regulations, 40 CFR
Part 403.
B.
The objectives of these rules and regulations are:
(1)
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the Town of Newfane
treatment works which will interfere with the normal operation of
the treatment works or contaminate the resulting sludge.
(2)
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the publicly
owned treatment works (POTW) which do not receive adequate treatment
of the POTW or which pass through the system into receiving waters
or the atmosphere or otherwise are incompatible with the POTW;
(3)
To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewater
and sludge produced by the treatment processes.
C.
These rules and regulations provide for the regulation of discharges
into the Town of Newfane treatment works through the issuance of sewer
use permits.
D.
Except as otherwise provided herein, the Town Supervisor or duly
authorized representatives of the Town of Newfane shall administer,
implement, and enforce the provisions of this chapter.
[Amended 9-12-1984]
The meaning of the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended.
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
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.
The sanitary sewer from a building plumbing system to the
public sanitary sewer.
The National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or Pretreatment
Standard.
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).
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, dispensing, handling,
storage or sale of food.
Water-carried wastes from industrial processes, as distinct
from sanitary sewage.
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]
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.
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[1] or in accordance with any other method prescribed by the
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
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.
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.
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342).
Any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307(B)
of the Act and 40 CFR 403.5.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
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.
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)]
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
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.
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological, and radiological integrity of water.
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater.
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).
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial
user.
A sewer which carries liquid and is controlled by public
authority.
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.
Water-carried wastes generated by contact with human activity
from a residence, business building, and institutional or industrial
establishment.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface
and ground waters are not intended to be admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
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.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
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.
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
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.
Any industrial user of the Town's wastewater disposal
system who:
Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average work
day; or
Has in his wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to Section
307 of the Act of (state) statutes and rules; or
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.
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).
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.
The state system through which permits are issued to regulate
discharge into navigable waters from all point sources of pollution,
including industries and municipal wastewater treatment plants.
A sewer which carries storm or surface waters and drainage,
but is intended to exclude sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
The person(s) responsible for operating and maintaining the
sewage works of the Sewer District, or his authorized deputy, agent,
or representative.
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.
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.
The territorial limits of the Town of Newfane, New York.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
[1]
Editor's Note: Now the Water Environment Federation.
