Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Part 3 shall be as follows:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
The latest published amendments or revisions applicable at
any time.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C. (68° F.) expressed in parts per million (ppm) or
milligrams per liter (mg/l).
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building sanitary
system which receives the discharge from sanitary drainage pipes inside
the walls of any building and conveys such discharge to the building
sewers, beginning four feet outside the outer face of the building
wall.
That part of the horizontal piping of a sanitary drainage
system which extends from the end of the building drain and which
receives the discharge of the building drain and conveys it to a public
sewer or other point of disposal, such as a public septic tank.
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff
and sewage.
The water discharge from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other sources.
The Orange County and/or New York State Department of Health.
Solid wastes from the domestic or commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food or from handling, storage and sale
of produce.
The fluid or solid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, woods, coffee grounds,
sawdust, shavings, eggshells, bark, sand, lime, cinder, ashes and
all other discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial
wastes.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The intensity of the acid or alkaline reaction of a solution
in terms of hydrogen concentration (but is not a measure of the total
concentration of acid or alkali present). The pH is expressed as the
common logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen concentration in
moles per liter:
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Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste
discharged into water.
Any privy, septic tank, cesspool or other sewage disposal
facility owned and operated by a person other than a municipal sewage
system.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that has 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 having a dimension greater than 1/2
inch in any dimension.
Any septic tank within a sewer district which uses said tank
as a solids collector in the treatment process.
A sewer controlled by the Town or Town Sewer District.
A natural watercourse or any other body of surface water
or groundwater into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
The conditioned human waste matter collected from privies,
septic tanks, cesspools and chemical toilets.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be inadvertently
present. The admixture of sewage as above defined with industrial
wastes or other wastes also shall be considered "sewage" within the
meaning of this definition.
The demand payment for use of public sewer and/or sewage
treatment plant for handling any sewage, industrial wastes or other
wastes inadvertently accepted for admission thereto in which the quantity
or characteristics thereof exceed the maximum values as defined herein.
All facilities within any sewer district for collecting,
regulating, pumping and transporting sewage to any water pollution
control facilities within the Town.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage at any Town of Montgomery water pollution control facility.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Any Town of Montgomery sanitary sewer district as created,
altered or modified by action of the Town Board of the Town of Montgomery.
Any industrial user of any of the Town's wastewater disposal
systems who:
Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average workday;
Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in any of the Town's
wastewater treatment systems;
Has in his wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to § 307
of the Act[1] or state statutes and rules; or
Is found by the Town, State Control Agency or the United States
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have significant impact,
either singly or in combination with other contributing industries,
on any of the wastewater treatment systems, the quality of sludge,
the system's effluent quality or air emissions generated by the system.
The grade or pitch or a line of pipe in reference to a horizontal
plane. In drainage it is usually expressed as the fall in a fraction
of an inch per foot length of pipe.
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 or flow during
normal operation.
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than cooling waters
and other unpolluted waters.
The Superintendent of Sewers or his duly appointed deputy,
agent or representative or person duly appointed by the Town.
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 Town of Montgomery;
Includes all the land lying within the geographic boundaries
of the Town of Montgomery, all the various sewer districts within
the Town and shall include the Town Board of the Town of Montgomery.
All the interceptor sewers, trunk sewers, lateral sewers,
force mains, pumping stations, sewage regulators and other appurtenant
structures owned and operated by any Town of Montgomery sewer district.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
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Editor's Note: See 33 U.S.C. § 1317.
