[Amended 12-4-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-14]
This chapter is adopted pursuant to the authority contained in RSA 149-I, RSA 47:11, RSA 31:39, RSA 44:2, and the provisions of the Lebanon City Charter §§ C419:16, C419:23, C419:57, and C419:58.
[Amended 12-4-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-14]
The purpose of this chapter is to provide a uniform framework for sewer services. See also Code of the City of Lebanon, Chapter 68, Fees; and Chapter 147, Special Assessments.
This chapter shall apply to any person, firm, proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association, government, governmental division or quasi-governmental corporation.
The Lebanon City Council, upon its own motion, or upon application and for good cause shown, may modify, suspend, repeal or amend the provisions of any section herein contained. The sections of this chapter and the parts thereof are separable. If any portion of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder thereof, or the application of such invalid portions to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.
All other chapters and parts of other chapters inconsistent or conflicting with any part of this chapter are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency or conflict.
Unless a provision explicitly states otherwise, the following terms and phrases, as used in this chapter, shall have the meanings hereinafter designated:
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the "Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
The Regional Administrator of the EPA or his or her duly appointed agent.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE USER
A. 
If the user is a corporation:
(1) 
The president, secretary, treasurer or a vice-president of the corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any other person who performs similar policy or decision-making functions for the corporation; or
(2) 
The manager of one or more manufacturing, production or operation facilities employing more than 250 persons or having gross annual sales or expenditures exceeding $25,000,000 (in second-quarter 1980 dollars), if authority to sign documents has been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures.
B. 
If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship: a general partner or proprietor, respectively.
C. 
If the user is a federal, state or local governmental facility: a director or highest official appointed or designated to oversee the operation and performance of the activities of the government facility, or their designee.
D. 
The individuals described in Subsections A through C, above, may designate another authorized representative if the authorization is in writing, the authorization specifies the individual or position responsible for the overall operation of the facility from which the discharge originates or having overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company, and the written authorization is submitted to the city.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND or BOD
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures for five days at 20° centigrade, usually expressed as a concentration (e.g., mg/l).
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from 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.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, also called the house connection, which is the responsibility of the user and not the city.
BYPASS
The intentional diversion of waste streams from any portion of a wastewater treatment facility.
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or CATEGORICAL STANDARD
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limitations promulgated by EPA in accordance with § 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1317) which apply to a specific category of users and which appear in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405-471.[1]
CITY MANAGER
The City Manager of the City of Lebanon or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and stormwater or surface water.
COMMERCIAL USE
Premises used for business or industrial use, but excluding residential uses and related accessory uses.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria.
CONSUMER
Any person, firm, corporation, association, government, governmental division or quasi-municipal corporation supplied by the City of Lebanon.
CONTROL AUTHORITY
Refers to the Regional Administrator of the EPA.
DEVELOPMENT
For purposes of Articles XIV and XV, includes any land use development or change of use which requires Planning Board review, and any action, whether or not requiring a building permit, which implicates an expansion of uses of the City’s sewer system.
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DIRECTOR
The Director, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, Water Division, or his duly appointed agent.
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
The Director of Public Works of the Department of Public Works of the City of Lebanon, New Hampshire, who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities by this chapter, or a duly authorized representative.
DOMESTIC WASTEWATER OR SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes or waste from sanitary conveniences of residences, commercial buildings and industrial plants, excluding groundwater, surface water or stormwater. (See also "industrial wastes.")
DWELLING UNIT
One or more rooms providing a unit for complete living facilities for one family or its equivalent, including cooking, eating, sleeping, living and toilet facilities.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate, the Regional Water Management Division Director, or other duly authorized official of said agency.
EXCESSIVE STRENGTH POLLUTANTS
Screening level or local limit pollutants (expressed in mg/l) exceeding the adopted levels in § 136-12E(3) and (4) .
EXISTING SOURCE
Any source of discharge, the construction or operation of which commenced prior to the publication by EPA of proposed categorical pretreatment standards, which will be applicable to such source if the standard is thereafter promulgated in accordance with § 307 of the Clean Water Act.
FLOATABLE OIL
Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable oil if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system.
FORCE MAIN
A line without access from individual properties, providing a connection from a pump station to a pump station, trunk or sanitary sewer main.
GARBAGE
The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of foods.
GENERAL BENEFIT FACILITIES
Improvements such as pump stations, trunk, force or easement mains that provide benefit or advantage to an area exceeding that served by special benefit facilities.
GRAB SAMPLE
A sample that is taken from a waste stream without regard to the flow in the waste stream and over a period of time not to exceed 15 minutes.
GREASE
The material removed from a grease interceptor (trap) serving a restaurant or other facilities requiring such grease interceptors. Also means volatile and nonvolatile residual fats, fatty acids, soaps, waxes and other similar materials.
HAULER
Those persons, firms or corporations who pump, haul, transport or dispose of septage and who are licensed by the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services and conform to the requirements set forth in RSA 485-A:4, XVI-a.
HAZARDOUS WASTE
A solid, semisolid, liquid or contained gaseous waste, or any combination of these wastes which:
A. 
Because of either quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may:
(1) 
Cause or contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or
(2) 
Pose a present or potential threat to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of or otherwise mismanaged.
B. 
Has been identified as a hazardous waste by the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services using the criteria established under RSA 147-A:3, I or as listed under RSA 147-A:3, II. Such wastes include, but are not limited to, those which are reactive, toxic, corrosive, ignitable, irritants, strong sanitizers or which generate pressure through decomposition, heat or other means. Such wastes do not include radioactive substances that are regulated by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.
HOUSE CONNECTION
See definition of "building sewer."
HUMAN EXCREMENT AND OTHER PUTRESCIBLE MATERIAL
The liquid or solid matter discharged from the intestinal canal of a human or other liquid or solid waste materials which are likely to undergo bacterial decomposition; provided, however, that these terms shall not include garbage as defined by RSA 485-A, or revisions thereto.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE or DISCHARGE
The introduction of pollutants into the Lebanon Treatment Works from any nondomestic source regulated under § 307(b), (c) or (d) of the Clean Water Act.
INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGE PERMIT or IDP
The written permit between the city and an industrial user that discharges wastewater to the Lebanon Treatment Works, that outlines the conditions under which discharge to the Lebanon Treatment Works will be accepted.
INDUSTRIAL USER
A person who discharges industrial wastes to the sanitary sewer of the city.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any liquid, gaseous, or solid waste substance resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing trade or business or from development of any natural resources.
INSTANTANEOUS DISCHARGE LIMIT
The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete or composite sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the duration of the sampling event.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, inhibits or disrupts the Lebanon Treatment Works, its treatment processes or operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and therefore, is a cause of a violation of the city's NPDES permit or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with any of the following statutory/regulatory provisions or permits issued thereunder, or any more stringent state or local regulations: § 405 of the Clean Water Act; the Solid Waste Disposal Act, including Title II commonly referred to as "RCRA;" any state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; the Clean Air Act; the Toxic Substances Control Act; the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act; and 40 CFR Part 503, Standards for Sewage Sludge Use and Disposal.
LEBANON TREATMENT WORKS
A "treatment works," as defined by § 212 of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292) which is owned by the city. This definition includes any devices or systems used in the collection, storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature. It also includes sewers, pipes and other conveyances only if these structures convey wastewater to the Lebanon Treatment Works wastewater treatment facility. The term also means the municipality that has jurisdiction over discharges to and from such a treatment plant, and any sewer that conveys wastewater to the Lebanon Treatment Works from persons outside the city who are, by contract or agreement with the city, users of the city's Lebanon Treatment Works.
LOCAL LIMITS
Numerical limitations on the discharge of pollutants established by the city, as distinct from state or federal limitations for nondomestic wastewater discharged to the Lebanon Treatment Works.
MAY
Permissive (see "shall" below).
MEDICAL WASTE
Isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood products, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding, surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory wastes, chemotherapy wastes and dialysis wastes.
MULTIFAMILY USE
Premises with two or more dwelling units.
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM or NPDES PERMIT
A permit issued pursuant to § 402 of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1342).
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body or surface water or groundwater.
NEW SOURCE
A. 
Any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is (or may be) a discharge of pollutants, the construction of which commenced subsequent to the publication of proposed pretreatment standards under § 307(c) of the Clean Water Act, which will be applicable to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section, provided that:
(1) 
The building, structure, facility or installation is constructed at a site at which no other source is located;
(2) 
The building, structure, facility or installation totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at an existing source; or
(3) 
The production or wastewater generating processes of the building, structure, facility or installation are substantially independent of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these are substantially independent, factors such as the extent to which the new facility is integrated with the existing plant, and the extent to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity as the existing source, should be considered.
B. 
Construction on a site at which an existing source is located results in a modification rather than a new source if the construction does not create a new building, structure, facility or installation meeting the criteria of Subsection A(1) or A(3) above but otherwise alters, replaces or adds to existing process or production equipment.
C. 
Construction of a new source, as defined under this subsection, has commenced if the owner or operator has:
(1) 
Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous on-site construction program:
(a) 
Any placement, assembly or installation of facilities or equipment; or
(b) 
Significant site preparation work, including clearing, excavation or removal of existing buildings, structures or facilities which is necessary for the placement, assembly or installation of new source facilities or equipment; or
(2) 
Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase of facilities or equipment which are intended to be used in its operation within a reasonable time. Options to purchase or contracts which can be terminated or modified without substantial loss, and contracts for feasibility, engineering and design studies, do not constitute a contractual obligation under this subsection.
NHDES
The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services.
NONCONTACT COOLING WATER
Water used for cooling which does not directly contact any raw material, intermediate product, waste product or finished product.
NONDOMESTIC WASTEWATER
The wastewater and waterborne wastes from industrial processes, trade or business as distinct from domestic wastewater, sewage or unpolluted water.
NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
Replaces Standard Industrial Classification Codes (SIC) as the new government standard for standardizing and cataloging industry.
NOTICE OF ALLOCATION
A notice issued by the City Manager, prior to the issuance of a sewer use permit, reserving for the future use of an applicant for that sewer use permit, the privilege of utilizing a stated amount of sewer capacity, expressed as a specific estimated number of gallons per day, for a time period set forth by this Code.
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PASS-THROUGH
A discharge which exits the Lebanon Treatment Works into waters 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 city's NPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any other legal entity; or their legal representatives, agents or assigns. This definition includes all federal, state and local governmental entities.
PH
A logarithmic measure devised to express the hydrogen ion concentration of a solution, expressed in standard units. Solutions with pH values greater than seven are basic (or alkaline); solutions with pH values less than seven are acidic.
POLLUTANT
Dredged soil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, medical wastes, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, municipal, agricultural and industrial wastes and certain characteristics of wastewater (e.g., pH, temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD, toxicity or odor).
POLLUTION PREVENTION
The use of processes, practices or products that reduce or eliminate the generation of pollutants and wastes, or that protect natural resources through conservation or more efficient use.
PRETREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to, or in lieu of, introducing such pollutants into the Lebanon Treatment Works. This reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes; by process changes; or by other means, except by diluting the concentration of the pollutants unless allowed by an applicable pretreatment standard.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment imposed on a user, other than a pretreatment standard.
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS or STANDARDS
Prohibited discharge standards and local limits.
PROHIBITED DISCHARGE STANDARDS or PROHIBITED DISCHARGES
Absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances; these prohibitions appear in § 136-10 of this chapter.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
Wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be transported freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater, stormwater, groundwater, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source, which is controlled by a governmental agency or public utility.
QUARTER
One-fourth year or a three-month period.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE or RV
A mobile vehicle or trailer used for temporary living (i.e., camper).
SANITARY SEWER
A public sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions, together with minor quantities of groundwater, stormwater and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
SCREENING LEVEL
Numerical values above which actions are initiated to evaluate, prevent or reduce adverse impacts due to flammability, chemical reactivity, organic/solids loadings, interference, toxicity, pass-through, or worker health and safety.
SEMIPUBLIC USE
Premises of private, nonprofit organizations such as schools, hospitals and religious institutions.
SEPTAGE or SEPTIC TANK WASTE
Any liquid, solid or sludge pumped from chemical toilets, vaults, septic tanks, or cesspools or other holding tanks, that have received only domestic wastewater.
SEPTAGE TANK TRUCK
Any watertight vehicle that is used for the collection and hauling of septage as described above and which complies with the regulations of the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (RSA 485-A, or revisions thereto).
SEWAGE
Human excrement and gray water (household showers, dish washing operations, etc.).
SEWER
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater, stormwater, groundwater, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source.
SEWER COLLECTION SYSTEM
The pipes or conduits, pumping stations, force mains, interceptors, and all other devices, appurtenances and facilities used for the collecting, processing or conducting wastewater to the treatment plant, treatment works, or treatment facility.
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SEWER CONNECTION
A pipe connecting a public sewer with a building sewer or series of private sewers for the purpose of conveying sewage of any kind from said building or buildings to the public sewer. See definitions of building sewer and house sewer.
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SEWER INTERCEPTOR
A component of a sewer collection system that flows from the trunk sewer lines and directs the flow of sewage to the wastewater treatment facility. These sewer mains are the larger pipes collecting sewage from the smaller collection sewer mains serving neighborhoods and commercial areas.
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SEWER MAIN EXTENSION
Construction, transfer or acquisition of sewer mains along a public or private street, or public or private property to service more properties/areas of the City. This definition applies to extensions of sewer mains that will be owned and operated by the City.
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SEWER UNIT
Equivalent to 210 gpd (10,000 cubic feet per year) of sewer as established by these regulations.
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SEWER USE PERMIT
Permit issued by the City Manager for connection to the public sewer system for the purposes of disposing of sanitary sewerage to the Lebanon Treatment Works through use of the City’s sewer collection system.
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SHALL
Mandatory (see "may" above).
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
A. 
A user:
(1) 
Subject to categorical pretreatment standards under 40 CFR 403.8 and 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N; or
(2) 
That:
(a) 
Discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of process wastewater to the Lebanon Treatment Works (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater);
(b) 
Contributes a process waste stream which comprises 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the Lebanon Treatment Works treatment plant; or
(c) 
Is designated as such by the city on the basis that it has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the Lebanon Treatment Works operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
B. 
Upon determining that a user meeting the criteria in Subsection B(1) or B(2) has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the Lebanon Treatment Works operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the city may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from a user, and in accordance with procedures in 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine that such user should not be considered a significant industrial user.
SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE or SNC
An industrial user is in significant noncompliance if its violation meets one of the following criteria:
A. 
Chronic violations. A pattern of violating the same pretreatment standard daily maximum or average limit (any magnitude of exceedence) 66% or more of the time in a six-month period.
B. 
Technical review criteria (TRC violations). Thirty-three percent or more of the measurements exceed the same pretreatment standard daily maximum limit or average limit by more than the TRC factor in a six-month period. [The TRC factor is 1.4 for biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), total suspended solids (TSS), oil and grease and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH.]
C. 
For pH monitoring, excursions shall be considered SNC when:
(1) 
The total time during which the pH values are outside the required range of pH values exceeds seven hours and 26 minutes in any calendar month;
(2) 
An individual excursion from the range of pH values exceeds 60 minutes;
(3) 
An excursion occurs which the Director of Public Works believes has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass-through; or endangered the health of the sewage treatment personnel or the general public; or
(4) 
Any pH less than or equal to 2.0 or greater than or equal to 12.5.
D. 
Any other discharge violation that the Director of Public Works believes has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass-through, including endangering the health of Lebanon Treatment Works personnel or the general public.
E. 
Any discharge of pollutants that has caused imminent endangerment to the public or to the environment, or has resulted in the Director of Public Work's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge.
F. 
Failure to meet, within 90 days of the scheduled date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in a wastewater discharge permit or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction or attaining final compliance.
G. 
Failure to provide, within 30 days after the due date, any required reports, including industrial discharge permit applications, periodic self-monitoring reports and reports on compliance with compliance schedules.
H. 
Failure to accurately report noncompliance.
I. 
Any other violation(s) which the Director of Public Works determines will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the local pretreatment program.
SLUG LOAD or SLUG
A. 
Any discharge of water, wastewater, sewage or industrial sewage 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;
B. 
Any discharge at a flow rate or concentration that could cause a violation of the prohibited discharge standards in § 136-10 of this chapter; or
C. 
Any discharge which may adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the Lebanon Treatment Works.
SOURCE REDUCTION
A. 
Any practice which:
(1) 
Reduces the amount of any hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant entering any waste stream or otherwise released into the environment (including fugitive emissions) prior to recycling, treatment or disposal; and
(2) 
Reduces the hazards to public health and the environment associated with the release of such substances, pollutants or contaminants.
B. 
The term includes equipment or technology modifications; process or procedure modifications; reformulation or redesign of products; substitution of raw materials; and improvements in housekeeping, maintenance, training or inventory control. The term "source reduction" does not include any practice which alters the physical, chemical or biological characteristics or the volume of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant through a process or activity which itself is not integral to and necessary for the production of a product or the providing of a service.
SPECIAL BENEFIT FACILITIES
The sanitary sewer to which a building sewer from an abutting property can be connected.[2]
STATE
The State of New Hampshire.
STORM DRAIN or STORM SEWER
A drain or sewer for conveying stormwater, groundwater, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation, including snow melt.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS or TSS
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater or other liquid, and which is removable by laboratory filtering.
TREATMENT PLANT, TREATMENT WORKS or TREATMENT FACILITY
Any device or system used in the storage, treatment, equalization, recycling or reclamation of wastewater and/or wastewater sludges as defined herein.
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water of quality equal to or better than the State Water Quality Standards (Part Env-Ws 432) or water that would not cause a violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the Lebanon Treatment Works.
USER CHARGE
An operations and maintenance charge levied on use of Lebanon Treatment Works facilities. The term "operations and maintenance" includes replacement.
USER or INDUSTRIAL USER
A source of pollutants introduced into the Lebanon Treatment Works from any nondomestic source regulated under § 307 (b), (c) or (d) of the Clean Water Act.
WASTEWATER
Liquid and water-carried industrial wastes and/or sewage from residential dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial and manufacturing facilities and institutions, whether treated or untreated, which are contributed to the Lebanon Treatment Works.
WATERCOURSE
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water either continuously or intermittently.
ZONING CHAPTER
The Zoning Chapter of the City of Lebanon.[3]
[1]
Editor's Note: The former definition of "City," which immediately followed, was repealed 12-4-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-14.
[2]
Editor's Note: The former definition of "State," which immediately followed, was repealed 12-4-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-14.
[3]
Editor's Note: The Zoning Chapter is on file in the City offices.
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The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
BOD -- Biochemical oxygen demand
CFR -- Code of Federal Regulations
COD -- Chemical oxygen demand
CF -- Cubic feet
EPA -- Environmental Protection Agency
Gpd -- Gallons per day
IDP -- Industrial discharge permit
l -- Liter
mg -- Milligrams
mg/l -- Milligrams per liter
NAICS -- North American Industry Classification System
NHDES -- New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
NPDES -- National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
POTW-- Publicly owned treatment works
SWDA -- Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.
TDS -- Total dissolved solids
TSS -- Total suspended solids
USC -- United States Code