[Amended 3-12-1984; 5-29-1984]
A. ASTM BOD (denoting "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND") BUILDING DRAIN BUILDING SEWER COMBINED SEWER COOLING WATER EASEMENT GARBAGE INDUSTRIAL WASTES NATURAL OUTLET OWNER PERSON pH PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE PUBLIC SEWER SANITARY OR DOMESTIC SEWAGE SANITARY SEWER SEWAGE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT or WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT SEWAGE WORKS SEWER SLUG STORM DRAIN (sometimes termed "STORM SEWER") SUPERINTENDENT SUSPENDED SOLIDS WATERCOURSE WPCF
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
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.
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 sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal and shall also mean the sewer lateral.
A sewer receiving surface runoff, sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes.
The water discharged from air-conditioning, industrial-cooling, condensing and hydraulically powered equipment or similar apparatus.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.[1]
The liquid waste from industrial manufacturing processes as distinct from domestic or sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
Includes the owner in fee in any real estate and also all tenants, lessees or others in control or possession and use of the property in question.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
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.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and which is controlled by public authority, and shall also mean the sewer main.
The water-carried wastes from toilet and lavatory fixtures, kitchens, laundries, bathtubs, shower baths or equivalent plumbing fixtures as discharged from dwellings and business and industrial buildings.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground-, surface and storm waters as may be present.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
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 unpolluted cooling water.
The Superintendent of Sewage Works and/or of Water Pollution Control of the City of Newburgh or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
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.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
The Water Pollution Control Federation.[2]
B.
Word usage. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.