As used in this Part 3, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
The quantity of oxygen used in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20º C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
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 sewer, beginning three feet [nine-tenths
(0.9) meter] outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING DRAIN SYSTEM
That part of the plumbing system which receives, conveys
and removes liquid and water-carried wastes to a building drain.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
CITY
The City of Watertown, New York.
CITY SEWER SYSTEM
All sewers, laterals, pump stations, treatment plants or
works or other connections which connect with or pertain to a connection
with the sewers, plants, public works and/or other projects of the
Department.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer intended to receive wastewater as well as storm-
and surface water.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
A combination of individual samples of wastewater taken at
selected intervals, generally hourly, for a specified period. Individual
samples may have equal volume or may be proportioned to the flow at
the time of sampling.
CONTROL AUTHORITY
The City Engineer of the City of Watertown or the City Engineer's
duly appointed representative.
[Added 4-18-1994]
COOLING WATER
The water discharges from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, cooling refrigerations or other sources. It shall contain
no polluting substances which would produce BOD or suspended solids
each in excess of 10 milligrams per liter.
DEC
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
DEPARTMENT
The Engineering Department of the City of Watertown.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
EFFLUENT
Treated wastewater flowing from any treatment device or facility.
ENGINEER
The Engineer of the City of Watertown or his authorized deputy,
agent or representative.
EPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
FEDERAL ACT
The 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendment, Public
Law 92-500, and the 1977 Clean Water Act, Public Law 95-217, and any
amendments thereto; as well as any guidelines, limitations and standards
promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the
Act.
FLOW RATE
The quantity of waste or liquid that flows in a certain period
of time.
GARBAGE
Animal and vegetable wastes from the preparation, cooking
and disposing of food and from the handling, processing, storage and
sale of food products and produce.
GRAB SAMPLE
A single sample of wastewater taken at either set time or
flow.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
Any sanitary waste from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical
toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
PERMITTED USER
For the purpose of permit fees, is any entity required to
obtain a permit or contract issued by the Industrial Pretreatment
Program, including but not limited to significant industrial users,
industrial users, outside permitted users and haulers.
[Added 7-1-1996]
POLLUTANTS
Shall mean or may be defined now or hereafter by appropriate
local, state or federal authorities or by the Commissioner as substances
which may be present in wastewater, whether gaseous, liquid or solid,
the amount which may contain soluble or insoluble solids of organic
or inorganic nature which may deplete the dissolved oxygen content
of nature waters, contribute solids, contain oil, grease or floating
solids, which may cause unsightly appearance on the surface of such
waters, or contain materials detrimental to aquatic life.
PREMISES
Any parcel of real property, including land improvements
or appurtenances, such as buildings, grounds, etc.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292); includes any sewers that convey wastewater
to the POTW but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances
not connected to a facility providing treatment.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
RULES AND REGULATIONS
These rules and regulations relating to the use of the public
sewer system issued by the City of Watertown.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer intended to carry only sanitary or sanitary and industrial
wastewater from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants
and institutions.
SANITARY WASTE
Wash water, culinary wastes, the liquid waste containing
only human excreta and similar matter, flowing in or from a building
drainage system or sewer originating in a dwelling, business building,
factory or institution.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying wastewater.
SHREDDED GARBAGE
Garbage shredded to such a degree that all particles will
be carried freely under flow conditions normally prevailing in public
sewers, with no particle having a dimension greater than one-half
(1/2) inch in any direction.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USERS
[Amended 4-18-1994]
(1)
Those industries meeting one or more of the
following criteria:
(b)
A user subject to categorical pretreatment standards;
or
[1]
Discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per
day or more of process wastewater to the POTW (excluding sanitary,
noncontact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater);
[2]
Contributes a process waste stream which makes
up 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity
of the POTW treatment plant; or
[3]
Is designated as such by the City on the basis
that it has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's
operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
(2)
Upon a finding that a user meeting the criteria in Subsection
(1)(b) has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's 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.
STORM SEWER
A sewer intended to carry only stormwaters, surface runoff,
street wash waters and drainage.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The total suspended matter that either floats on the surface
of or is in suspension in water or wastewater, as determined by standard
methods.
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
Any substances, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, which,
when discharged to the sewer system in sufficient amounts, may tend
to interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard
to recreation in the receiving waters of the effluent from the sewage
treatment plant, pose a hazard to sewer maintenance personnel or constitute
a hazard to fish or animal life or inhibit aquatic life.
TREATMENT WORKS
Any devices or systems used in the storage, treatment, cycling
and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of liquid
nature. This includes intercepting sewers; outfall sewers; sewage
collection systems; pumping, power and other equipment and their appurtenances;
extensions, improvements, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof;
elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply, such as
standby treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works,
including site acquisition of the land that will be an integral part
of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues
resulting from such treatment; or any other method or system for preventing,
abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating or disposing of municipal
waste, including stormwater runoff or industrial waste, including
waste in combined stormwater and sanitary sewer systems.
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water to which no constituent has been added, either intentionally
or accidentally, which would render such water unacceptable to the
agency having jurisdiction thereof for disposal to storm or natural
drainages or directly to surface waters.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the City of Watertown treatment works.
WASTEWATER
The water carrying domestic, human or animal waste from residences,
buildings, industrial establishments or other places, together with
such ground infiltration, industrial and commercial wastes as may
be present.
WASTEWATER CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS
The individual chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological
parameters, including volume, flow rate and such other parameters
that serve to define, classify or measure the contents, quality, quantity
and strength of wastewater.