Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates
otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
B.O.D. (denoting biochemical oxygen demand)
The quantity of oxygen utilized 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 any building and conveys it to the building or house lateral, beginning
four feet outside the building wall.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food
and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid from industrial processes, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NOTICE
Forty-eight hours' written notice.
OWNER
Any person having title to or any interest in real property in the
Town of Wheatland, New York.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
group or agent therefor, including municipal corporations and school districts.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in
grams per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that
have been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely
under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle
greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer controlled by a public authority, i.e., the Town of Wheatland,
New York.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm- , surface and ground
waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried waste from residences, business
buildings, institutions, industrial establishments or other places.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices, buildings and structures owned, operated
or leased by the Town of Wheatland, New York or the Northeast Sanitary Sewer
District (N.E.S.S.D.), for the proper treatment of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities for the collection, pumping, treatment and disposal
of sewage and industrial or other waste, owned and operated or maintained
by the Town of Wheatland or the Northeast Sanitary Sewer District (N.E.S.S.D.)
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage, but
excludes sewage and polluted industrial waters.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
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.
TOWN
The Town of Wheatland, Monroe County, New York.