Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates
otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
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 20° C. (68°
F.) expressed in parts per million (ppm) or milligrams per liter (mg/l).
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building sanitary
drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other sanitary
drainage pipes inside the walls of any building and conveys such discharge
to the building sewers, beginning five feet outside the outer face of the
building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
That part of the horizontal piping of a sanitary drainage system
which extends from the end of the building drain and which receives the discharge
of the building drain and conveys it to a public sewer or other point of disposal.
CHLORINE DEMAND
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 68° F. temperature.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff and
sewage.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic or commercial preparation, cooking
and serving of foods.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The fluid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or
business, as distinct from sanitary wastes.
OTHER WASTES
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, coffee grounds, sawdust,
shavings, egg shells, bark, sand lime, cinders, ashes and all other discarded
matter not normally present in sewage or industrial wastes.
PERMITTEE
Any person who obtains a permit for sewer connection.
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.
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
Any privy, septic tank, cesspool or other sewage disposal facility
owned and operated by a person other than a municipal sewage system controlled
by public authority.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that
has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely
under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle
having a dimension greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer controlled by a government agency or public authority.
RECEIVING WATERS
A natural watercourse or any other body of surface or groundwater
into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface and ground
waters are not intentionally admitted.
SCAVENGER WASTES
The conditioned human waste matter collected from privies, septic
tanks, cesspools and chemical toilets.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such
ground, surface and stormwater 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.
SEWAGE CHARGE
The demand payment for the use of public sewer and/or sewage treatment
plant for handling any sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes accepted
for admission thereto, in which the quantity or characteristics thereof exceed
the maximum values as defined herein.
SEWAGE SYSTEM
All facilities for collecting, regulating, pumping and transporting
sewage to and away from the sewage treatment plant.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste, which, in concentration
of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for period of duration
longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration
or flow during normal operation.
STORM SEWER (STORM DRAIN)
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage but
excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than cooling waters and other
unpolluted waters.
TOWN SEWER DISTRICT
Any Town sanitary sewer district as created, altered or modified
by action of the Town Board.
WATERCOURSE
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water continuously
or intermittently.