Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
ACT
The Federal Clean Water Act, and any amendments and additions
thereto.
ASTM
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
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 and conveys it to the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The lateral extending 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.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
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.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, dike, lake or
other body of surface or ground water.
NPDES
The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit
program, whether administered by the Environmental Protection Agency
or by the State Department of Environmental Conservation.
OWNER
The person or persons who legally own, lease, or occupy private
property with wastewater facilities which discharge or will discharge
to the Village wastewater facilities.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
or group.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological or radiological integrity of water.
PRETREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutant properties in wastewater
to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise
introducing such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction or alteration
can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, process
changes or by other means, except as prohibited by 4O CFR 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 have 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 greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
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 that is controlled by public authority and is part of
the POTW.
RESIDENTIAL USER
All premises used only for human residency and which are
connected to the wastewater facilities.
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.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage and that are considered part of the POTW.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing
of sewage and are considered part of the POTW.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USERS
(1)
All industries subject to promulgated Categorical
Pretreatment Standards [21 primary industries].
(2)
Industries having substantial impact, either
singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the
operation of the treatment works.
(3)
Manufacturing industries using, on an annual
basis, more than 10,000 pounds and or 1,000 gallons of material containing
priority pollutants/substances of concern and discharging a measurable
amount of those pollutants to the sewer system from the process using
these pollutants.
(4)
Those industries discharging more than 5% of
the flow or load carried by the municipal system receiving the waste.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which,
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow,
exceeds, for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than
five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration of flows during
normal operation.
STANDARD METHODS
The latest edition of Standard Methods for Examination of
Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association,
Water Pollution Control Federation and American Water Works Association.
STATE
The State of New York.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Sanitary Sewer Superintendent or his authorized deputy,
agent or representative.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.