Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in this Article shall be as follows:
ASTM
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
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., expressed in milligrams per liter. The laboratory determinations
shall be made in accordance with standard methods.
BOARD
The duly elected Board of Trustees of the Village of Cobleskill
or its authorized deputy, agent or representative.
BUILDER
Any person, persons or corporation who undertakes to construct,
either under contract or for resale, any habitable building.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from pipes inside the walls of the building
and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside
the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
CONTAMINATION
An impairment of the quality of the waters of the state by
waste to a degree which creates a hazard to the public health through
poisoning or through the spread of disease.
CONTRACTOR
Any person, firm or corporation approved by the Board to
do work in the Village.
COUNTY
The County of Schoharie.
DEVELOPER
Any person, persons or corporation who undertake to construct
simultaneously more than one housing unit on a given tract or land
subdivision.
ENGINEER
The professional engineer retained by the Village of Cobleskill.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NYSDEC
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any sewer outlet that would ultimately reach a watercourse,
pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
OWNER
Any individual, firm, company, corporation, association,
society, person or group having title to real property.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
PH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions in moles per liter of solution.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
PRETREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of the pollutant properties
in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a publicly owned treatment
works. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical
or biological processes, by process changes or by other means, except
as prohibited by 40 CRF 403.6, General Pretreatment Regulations for
Existing and New Sources of Pollution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that has 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 one-half (1/2) inch in
any dimension.
PROPERTY LINE
Boundary of the street if the building sewer is to connect
with the public sewer in a public street. "Property line" shall mean
the edge of a permanent sewer right-of-way in those instances where
the building sewer connects to the public sewer in a right-of-way.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
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 wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such ground-, surface and storm water as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage; also known as "water pollution control plant" and/or "publicly
owned treatment works (POTW)."
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
STANDARD METHODS
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the
most recent edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water,
Sewage and Industrial Wastes, published jointly by the American Public
Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water
Pollution Control Federation.
STATE PLUMBING CODE
The New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code
applicable to plumbing, including all amendments.
[Amended 3-18-1996 by L.L. No. 2-1996]
STORM SEWER OR STORM DRAIN
A pipe or conduit which carries storm- and surface waters
and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
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. The laboratory determination shall be made in accordance
with standard methods.
TRAP
A device, fitting or assembly of fittings installed in the
building drain to prevent sewer gases from entering and circulating
through the building drainage system inside the building.
USEPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
VENT
That part of a plumbing system consisting of piping installed
to permit adequate circulation of air in all parts of the building
sanitary drainage system and to prevent trap siphonage and back pressure.
VILLAGE
The Village of Cobleskill, Schoharie County, New York.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.