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ACT or THE ACT
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
APPROVED
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF AN INDUSTRIAL USER
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(2)Â
(3)Â
BACKFLOW
BACKFLOW PREVENTER
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
BUILDING
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
CATEGORICAL STANDARDS
CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY (CPCN)
CESSPOOL
CODE
CONTROL AUTHORITY
COOLING WATER
CROSS-CONNECTION
CUSTOMER
DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
(DNREC)
DIRECT DISCHARGE
DRAINAGE SYSTEM
DWELLING
EASEMENT
ENGINEER
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA
EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT (EDU)
FACILITY
FALL
FIXTURE UNIT (FU)
FRONT FOOTAGE
GRAB SAMPLE
HOLDING TANK WASTE
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
INDUSTRIAL USER
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
INTERCEPTOR or SEPARATOR
INTERFERENCE
MULTIPLE LIVING UNIT
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD
NATIONAL POLLUTION DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM OR NPDES PERMIT
NATIONAL PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD or PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE
STANDARD
NATURAL OUTLET
NEW SOURCE
PARCEL
PERSON
PH
POLLUTANT
POLLUTION
POTABLE WATER
PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
PRETREATMENT STANDARD
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
RIGHT-OF-WAY
SANITARY SEWER
SCATTERED PARCEL
SEPTAGE
SEPTAGE DISCHARGE FEE
SEPTIC TANK
SEWAGE
SEWER SYSTEM
SEWER SYSTEM CONCEPT EVALUATION (SSCE)
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
STORMWATER
STREET
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TECHNICAL BULLETIN FOR BUILDING SEWER AND WATER SERVICE
TOXIC POLLUTANT
TRAP
UNIFIED SANITARY SEWER DISTRICT
USER
VACUUM BREAKER
VENT SYSTEM (VENTED)
WASTEWATER (used interchangeably with SEWAGE)
WATER MAIN
WATER SERVICE PIPE
WATER SYSTEM
WATERS OF THE STATE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following
terms and phrases, as used in this chapter, shall have the meanings
hereinafter designated:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.
The Administrator of the EPA in an NPDES state without an
approved state pretreatment program.
Accepted or acceptable under an applicable specification
cited in this Code or accepted as suitable for the proposed use under
procedures and powers of the County Engineer.
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.
The flow of water or other liquids, mixtures or substances
into the distribution pipes of a potable supply of water from any
source or sources.
A device or means to prevent backflow.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, five days at
20° C., expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams
per liter (mg/l).
A structure built, erected and framed of component structural
parts designed for the housing, shelter, enclosure or support of persons,
animals or property of any kind.
That part of the lowest 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 a point directly outside
of the building and to the building sewer.
That part of the drainage system which extends from the end
of the building drain and conveys its discharge to a public sewer,
private sewer, individual sewage disposal system or other point of
disposal.
National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or pretreatment
standards.
An approval granted to a private utility for a certain tax
parcel by the Delaware Public Service Commission under a process defined
in Title 26 of the Delaware Code.
A covered excavation in the ground which receives the discharge
of domestic sewage or other organic wastes from a drainage system,
so designed as to retain the organic matter and solids but permitting
the liquids to seep through the bottom and sides.
When used alone, the Sussex County Code, subsequent amendments
or any emergency rule or regulation which Sussex County Council may
lawfully adopt.
The approval authority, defined hereinabove, or, if the County
has adopted an approved pretreatment program under the provisions
of 40 CFR 403.11, the official designated therein.
The water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is
heat.
Any connection or arrangement between two otherwise separate
piping systems, one of which contains potable water and the other
water of unknown or questionable safety, whereby water may flow from
one system to the other.
Any person, firm, corporation or organization supplied with
water or provided with sewer service by Sussex County.
The agency responsible for monitoring all discharges to the
surface- and groundwaters of the State of Delaware.
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the State of Delaware.
Includes all the piping within a public or private system
conveying sewage or other liquid wastes by means of gravity.
A structure having walls and a roof designed and used for
the housing, shelter, enclosure or support of persons, animals or
property.
A right acquired by public authority to use or control property
for a designated use. An "easement" restricts but does not abridge
the rights of the fee owner to the use and enjoyment of his land.
The duly appointed County Engineer designated by the County
pursuant to Title 9 of the Delaware Code, who is the person overseeing
all aspects of the Sussex County Engineering Department charged with
certain duties and responsibilities under this chapter of the Code
or the authorized designee.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency; or, where
appropriate, the term may also be used as a designation for the Administrator
or other duly authorized official.
An arbitrary term used to express the load-producing effects
on the water system and/or sewer system caused by one average-sized
residential dwelling.
For the purposes of this chapter, the term "facility" means
any of the County-owned and -operated regional wastewater facilities.
This definition includes any sewers that convey wastewater to a facility.
For the purposes of this chapter, "facility" shall also include any
sewers that convey wastewaters to a facility from persons outside
Sussex County who are, by contract or agreement with the County, users
of the County's facility.
The slope of a line of pipe in reference to a horizontal
plane. In drainage systems it is usually expressed as the "fall" in
a fraction-of-an-inch-per-foot length of pipe.
A quantity in terms of which the load-producing effects on
the water system and/or sewer system of fixtures are expressed on
a representative chosen scale.
Assessable parcel footage measurement as determined in this
chapter and by the Official Sussex County Property Map.
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration
of time.
Any waste from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, manufactured homes, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants
from any source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1317) into a County facility including holding
tank waste discharged into the system.
A source of indirect discharge which does not constitute
a discharge of pollutants under regulations issued pursuant to Section
402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1342).
Waste that originates from a business or industry having
a standard industrial classification (SIC) code or an expected classification,
or having a reasonable potential, in the opinion of the Engineer,
to adversely affect the facility (inhibition, pass-through of pollutants,
sludge contamination or endangerment of staff).
A device designed and installed to separate and retain deleterious,
hazardous or undesirable matter from normal waste streams while permitting
the normal waste stream to discharge into the drainage system.
The inhibition or disruption of the facility treatment processes
or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement
of the NPDES permit. The term includes prevention of sewage sludge
use or disposal in accordance with Section 405 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1345) or any criteria, guidelines or regulations developed
pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), the Clean Air Act,
the Toxic Substances Control Act[1] or more stringent state criteria, including those contained
in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV
of SWDA), applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by
the facility.
A condominium unit, townhouse unit, apartment unit, hotel
or motel room, manufactured home site, campground site, travel trailer
site and all other types of living units located on a single parcel.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA 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.
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 groundwater.
Any source, the construction of which is commenced after
the publication of proposed regulations prescribing a Section 307(c)
(33 U.S.C. § 1317) categorical pretreatment standard which
will be applicable to such source, if such standard is thereafter
promulgated within 120 days of proposal in the Federal Register. Where
the standard is promulgated later than 120 days after proposal, a
"new source" means any source, the construction of which is commenced
after the date of promulgation of the standard.
An area of land measured, surveyed and plotted and set apart
for separate use, ownership and occupancy possibly encompassing two
previously recorded individual lots.
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. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, and the
singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
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, garbage,
sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive
materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, 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.
Water which is satisfactory for drinking, culinary and domestic
purposes and meets the requirements of the primary and secondary standards
of the Safe Drinking Water Act.[2]
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 a facility. The reduction
or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological
processes or process changes 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.
See definition of "National Categorical Pretreatment Standard"
above.
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned in this instance by Sussex
County used in this chapter interchangeably with "facility."
A legal right of passage over another person's ground acquired
by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface-
and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
Any single parcel of land abutted on at least two sides by
developed property.
Liquid and solid materials pumped from a septic tank, cesspool
or holding tank, excluding industrial waste.
A fee assessed to a user for each discharge made at the facility.
A watertight receptacle which receives the discharge of a
drainage system and is designed and constructed to separate solids
from the liquid, digest organic matter through a period of detention
and allow the liquids to discharge into the soil outside of the tank
through a system of open joint or perforated piping or disposal pit.
Used interchangeably with "wastewater."
All improvements utilized for collecting, transmitting, treating,
process monitoring and disposing of sewage.
A Sussex County Engineering Department fee-based service
study identifying system connection point(s), service to off-site
parcels, district status and necessity of any use of existing infrastructure
agreement.
Any industrial user of the County's wastewater disposal system
who has a discharge flow of 10,000 gallons or more per average workday
or has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the County's wastewater
treatment system or has, in his wastes, toxic pollutants as defined
pursuant to Section 307 of the Act or is found by the County, Delaware
DNREC or the United States Environmental Protection Agency 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.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and runoff resulting therefrom.
A public or private thoroughfare which affords the principal
means of access to abutting property.
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of
or is suspended in water, wastewater or other liquids and which is
removable by laboratory filtering.
A nonregulatory document outlining standards and details
for the installation of private building sewers and water service
lines. Modifications to this document based on the latest technology
shall be posted on the Sussex County website 30 days prior to taking
effect.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provision of CWA 307(a)[3] or other acts.
A fitting or device so designed and constructed as to provide,
when properly vented, a liquid seal which will prevent the back passage
of air without materially affecting the flow of sewage through it.
The Unified Sanitary Sewer District of Sussex County with
boundaries as established and/or subsequently amended by Sussex County
Council.
Any person, partnership, corporation or an employee thereof
that utilizes a facility for discharge of septage.
A device which prevents backsiphon of water by admitting
atmospheric pressure through ports to the discharge side of device.
A system of pipe or pipes installed to provide a flow of
air to or from a drainage system or to provide a circulation of air
within such system to protect trap seals from siphonage and back pressure.
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions,
whether treated or untreated, which are contributed into or permitted
to enter the facility.
A water supply pipe for public use.
The pipe from the connection point of the public water system
to the structure.
All facilities for supplying, treating, storing, transmitting,
distributing and measuring water.
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways,
wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, drainage systems and all other
bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural
or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow
through or border upon the state or any portion thereof.
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Word usage. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
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Abbreviations. The following abbreviations shall have the designated
meanings:
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BOD — Biochemical oxygen demand.
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CFR — Code of Federal Regulations.
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COD — Chemical oxygen demand.
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CPCN — Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.
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DNREC — Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental
Control.
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EDU — Equivalent dwelling unit.
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FU — Fixture unit.
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mg/l — Milligrams per liter.
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NPDES — National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
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SIC — Standard industrial classification.
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SWDA — Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901
et. seq.
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TSS — Total suspended solids.
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USC — United States Code.
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