Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used herein shall be as follows:
ASTM
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
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 200° C. expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l) by weight.
In computing BOD, reference shall be made to the latest edition of
Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Waste Water.
CHLORINE DEMAND
The amount of chlorine which must be added to water or waste
to produce a residual chlorine content of at least 0.1 mg/l after
a minimum contact time of 10 minutes.
COD (denoting chemical oxygen demand)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation
of organic and inorganic matter under standard laboratory procedure
expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l) by weight. In computing COD,
reference shall be made to the latest edition of Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Waste Water.
DEC
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
DISTRICT
Fishers Island Sewer District (FISD).
DRAIN LAYER or LICENSED DRAIN LAYER
Either an individual, partnership or corporation to whom
the Town of Southold has issued a license and the proper agents and
representatives to install, alter or repair sewers, sewer connections,
house connections, etc., during the period when such license is valid.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
NPDES
The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
SEWAGE
Wastewater or water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions and industrial establishments. Sewage shall
be further classified as follows:
(1)
DOMESTIC OR SANITARY SEWAGEThe solid and liquid wastes from toilet and lavatory fixtures, kitchens, laundries, bath tubs, shower baths or equivalent plumbing fixtures as discharged from dwellings, business and industrial buildings.
(2)
INDUSTRIAL SEWAGE OR WASTESIncludes the water carried wastes of any industrial process as distinct from domestic or sanitary sewage. All substances carried in industrial wastes, whether dissolved, in suspension, or mechanically carried by water, shall be considered as industrial wastes. At the present, no industrial wastes exist or are anticipated.
(3)
STORMWATERIncludes the runoff or discharge of rain and melted snow or other water from roofs, surfaces of public or private lands or elsewhere. "Stormwater" also shall include "subsoil drainage" as defined herein.
(4)
SUBSOIL DRAINAGEIncludes water from the soil percolating into subsoil drains and through foundation walls, basement floors or underground pipes.
(5)
COOLING WATERIncludes the wastewater from air conditioning, industrial cooling, condensing and hydraulically powered equipment or similar apparatus.
(6)
GARBAGESolid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce. "Properly shredded garbage" shall mean garbage which has been shredded so that no garbage particles will be greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage or wastewater.
SEWER or DRAIN
The pipe or conduit, together with manholes and other structures
or equipment appurtenant thereto, provided to carry sewage, waste
liquids, stormwater or other waters. Sewers shall be further classified
as follows:
(1)
PUBLIC SEWERA trunk, main or lateral sewer up to and including the Y-branch or tee provided for connection thereto, and to which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and which is controlled by public authority. The public sewer does not include the building or house sewer or the building lateral after it is connected with a building sewer.
(2)
SANITARY SEWERA sewer which carries only sanitary sewage and an acceptable discharge of industrial wastes and to which stormwater, subsoil drainage and cooling water are not intentionally admitted.
(4)
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAINA pipe line carrying stormwater, subsoil drainage, acceptable cooling water or other clean waters, but excluding domestic sewage and industrial wastes.
(5)
BUILDING DRAINThat part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage system that receives the discharge from the soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(7)
BUILDING CONNECTION LATERALThe pipe laid incidental to the original construction of a public sewer from said public sewer up to and including the Y-branch, tee or other connection provided for use thereafter as part of a building connection.
SLUGS
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 flows during normal
operation.
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 filtering
as prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage,
and Industrial Waste, American Public Health Association.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.