As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
An area to which wastewater or effluent is distributed for
infiltration to the soil.
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., as
may be amended.
The Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (USEPA), Region 2.
That person who makes application for any permit. The applicant
may be an owner, new or old, or his agent.
Cayuga County Sewer District No. 2, established by the County
of Cayuga in 2005.
The solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food, from the handling, storage, and sale of produce, and from
the packaging and canning of food.
A plumbing appurtenance that is installed in a sanitary drainage
system to intercept oily and greasy wastes from a wastewater discharge.
Such device has the ability to intercept free-floating fats and oils.
A device designed and installed to separate and retain for
removal, by automatic or manual means, deleterious, hazardous or undesirable
matter from normal wastes, while permitting normal sewage or wastes
to discharge into the sanitary drainage system by gravity.
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater, and to treat sludge and residuals derived from such treatment,
which is owned and operated, in this instance, by the WCWSA and is
a part of the overall POTW by and through contract with the CCWSA.
A treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned, in this instance by the
District and directly operated by the CCWSA. This definition includes
any sewers and appurtenances that transport wastewater to the POTW
treatment plant, but does not include pipes, sewers, or other conveyances
not connected directly or indirectly to a facility providing treatment.
The Sanitary Code of Cayuga County, State of New York, effective
January 1, 1965, as amended.
All liquids and solids in and removed from septic tanks,
holding tanks, cesspools, or approved type of chemical toilets, including
but not limited to those serving private residences, commercial establishments,
institutions, and industries; also sludge from small sewage treatment
plants. Septage shall not have been contaminated with substances of
concern or priority pollutants.
A private domestic sewage treatment system consisting of
an underground tank (with suitable baffling), constructed in accordance
with any and/or all local and state requirements.
The legally defined bounds of real property from which wastewater
may be discharged into the POTW. The bounds shall be established,
altered, changed, modified, reduced, enlarged, combined, or consolidated
by action of the County of Cayuga as it pertains to the District.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, and
such groundwater, surface water, and stormwater as may be inadvertently
present. The admixture of sewage, as defined above, with industrial
wastes and other wastes shall also be considered sewage within the
meaning of this definition.
Liquid wastes from the noncommercial preparation, cooking
and handling of food, liquid wastes containing human excrement and
similar matter from the sanitary conveniences in dwellings, commercial
buildings, industrial buildings, and institutions, or liquid wastes
from clothes washing and/or floor/wall washing. Therefore, domestic
sewage includes both black water and grey water. (See "sewage, sanitary.")
A sewer in which all abutting property owners have equal
rights, and the use of which is controlled by the CCWSA and/or the
Village.
A sewer which carries sewage, and to which stormwaters, surface
waters, and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
A sewer which carries stormwaters and surface waters and
drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastewaters, other than
cooling waters and other unpolluted waters.
Any person who contributes, causes, or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the POTW.
The Village of Fair Haven.
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastewaters
from dwellings, commercial establishments, industrial facilities,
and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and
stormwater that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which
is contributed into or permitted to enter into the POTW.
The following abbreviations as used throughout this chapter
shall have the following meanings:
A.
CCWSA: Cayuga County Water and Sewer Authority.
B.
CEO: Code Enforcement Officer of the Village of Fair Haven.
C.
NYSDEC: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
D.
NYSDOH: New York State Department of Health.
E.
POTW: Publicly owned treatment works.
F.
WCWSA: Wayne County Water and Sewer Authority.
Terms not defined in this article, or terms found to be ambiguous
or improperly defined in this article, shall be defined by the Act,
or regulations pursuant thereto.
