Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of
terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The legally constituted Board of Trustees of the Village of Colonie.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic
matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C. (68°
F.), expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l). Measurement shall be as set
forth in the latest edition of Standard Methods of the Examination of Water
and Waste Water.
The difference between the amount of chlorine added to water, sewage
or industrial wastes and the amount of residual chlorine remaining at the
end of a twenty-minute contact period at room temperature.
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff and
sewage.
The Board of Commissioners appointed by the County Legislature to
the Albany County Sewer District.
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 or suspended solids in excess of 10 parts per million,
by weight, or toxic substances as limited elsewhere herein.
The County of Albany.
The trunk sewers, force mains, pumping stations, sewage regulators,
water pollution control plants (sewage treatment plants) and other appurtenant
structures owned and operated by the Albany County Sewer District.
Any county sanitary sewer district as created, altered or modified
by action of the Albany County Legislature.
The Albany County Department of Health.
The Executive Director of the Albany County Sewer District.
Food wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking
and dispensing of food and from the handling and storage and sale of produce.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trades
or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of
surface water or groundwater.
Sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes which, when analyzed, show
by weight the following characteristics:
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, eggshells, coffee
grounds, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, cinder, ashes and all other
discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial wastes.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group contributing directly or indirectly to the village sewer system.
The negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration in moles
per liter. It indicates the intensity of acidity and alkalinity of the pH
scale running from 0.0 to 14.0. A pH value of 7.0, the midpoint of the scale,
represents neutrality. Values above 7.0 represent acid conditions.
Garbage that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles
will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in the
public sewer to which it is discharged, with no particle having a dimension
greater than one-half (1/2) inch in any dimension.
A sewer controlled by a public body.
A natural watercourse or body of water into which treated or untreated
sewage is discharged.
Sewage discharging from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings (including
apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, factories or institutions
and free from stormwater, surface water, industrial wastes and other wastes.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface and ground
waters are not intentionally admitted.
The matter collected from privies, septic tanks, cesspools and chemical
toilets, fluid wastes which are nontoxic, industrial wastes and sludge from
small sewage treatment plants, all of which are transported by licensed tank
trucks.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such
ground-, surface and storm water as may be inadvertently present. The admixture
of "sewage," as above defined, with industrial wastes or other wastes also
shall be considered "sewage" within the meaning of this definition.
The demand payment for the use of the county sewerage system for
handling any sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes accepted for admission
thereto in which the characteristics thereof exceed the maximum values of
such characteristics in normal sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
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 flow during normal operation.
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage but
excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than cooling waters and other
unpolluted waters.
The duly designated Superintendent of Public Works of the Village
of Colonie or his authorized representative.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in
water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by flotation, skimming
and sedimentation. Measurement shall be as set forth in the latest edition
of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Waste Water.
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, which, when discharged
to a public sewer in sufficient quantities, may be hazardous to sewer district
personnel, may tend to interfere with any biological sewage treatment process
or may constitute a hazard to human beings or animals or inhibit aquatic life
or create a hazard to recreation in the receiving waters of the effluent from
a sewage treatment plant.
The Village of Colonie and the lands contained therein.
The legally constituted Planning Commission of the Village of Colonie.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
