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ACT or THE ACT
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
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(2)Â
(3)Â
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
BOARD OF REVIEW OR HEARING BOARD
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
CATEGORICAL STANDARDS
CITY
CITY CHAMBERLAIN
CITY COUNCIL or COMMON COUNCIL or COUNCIL
COMBINED SEWER
COOLING WATER
EASEMENT
GARBAGE
HEALTH OFFICER
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
MAYOR
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or PRETREATMENT STANDARD
NATURAL OUTLET
NYSDEC
OWNER
PERSON
pH
PLUMBING INSPECTOR
POTW
POTW TREATMENT PLANT
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
SANITARY SEWER
SEWAGE
SEWAGE WORKS
SEWER
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER or SIGNIFICANT USER
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(2)Â
(3)Â
(4)Â
SLUDGE
SLUG
SPDES
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION
STORM DRAIN (sometimes termed "storm sewer")
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
USEPA
WASTEWATER CONTRIBUTION PERMIT
WATERCOURSE
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT (WPCP)
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the "Clean
Water Act" as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice president
if the industrial user is a corporation.
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership
or proprietorship, respectively.
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated above
if such representative is responsible for the overall operation of the facilities
from which the indirect discharge originates.
A duly appointed body of officials as defined in the City Charter.
That Board appointed according to provisions of Article X.
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.
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 [1.5 meters] outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public or other place
of disposal.
National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or pretreatment standards.
The City of Hornell.
The duly elected fiscal officer of the City.
The duly elected legislative body of the City.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
The water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning, cooling
or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
An authorization from a property owner for the use of his property
by another for a specific purpose.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking
and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
The Health Officer of the City or his duly authorized representative.
The liquid, solid or gaseous wastes from industrial manufacturing
processes, trade or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
The duly elected official of the City.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the Environmental Protection Agency in accordance with Section 307(B) and
(C) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1347) which applies to a specific category
of industrial users.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of
surface or ground water.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation or duly
authorized representatives of said Department.
The titleholder of real property.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in
grams per liter of solution.
The duly appointed official of the City.
Publicly owned treatment works.
That portion of a POTW which is designed to provide treatment, including
recycling and reclamation, of municipal sewage and industrial waste.
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial user.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination 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 the sewage works. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes or process changes and other means, except as prohibited by § 252-35 of this chapter.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and 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 the public sewers, with no
particle greater than 1/2 inch [3.27 centimeters] in any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights
and which is controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface and ground
waters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such
ground-, surface and storm waters as may be present.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of
sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Any industrial user of the city's wastewater disposal system
who:
Is subject to Categorical Pretreatment Standards (NRDC consent degree
industries);
Is found by the City, the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation (DEC) or the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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;
Is a manufacturing industry using substances of concern; or
Has a process discharge flow of more than 5% of the flow carried by
the Hornell POTW.
Heavy, slimy deposit or sediment, as the waste, resulting from a
wastewater treatment process.
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.
The state pollutant discharge elimination system.
The standard industrial classification (SIC) system as found in the
Standard Industrial Classification Manual. Bureau of the Budget, 1982, as
amended.
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage but
excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
The duly appointed officer of the Department of Public Works who
has responsible charge of the sewer system and water pollution control plant.
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.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency or duly authorized
representatives of said Agency.
An industrial wastewater contribution permit issued for industries'
contribution to the City of Hornell's sewage collection system.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or
intermittently.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
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"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.