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.
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 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 and shall also mean the sewer lateral.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer receiving surface runoff, sanitary sewage and/or
industrial wastes.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from air-conditioning, industrial-cooling,
condensing and hydraulically powered equipment or similar apparatus.
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 waste from industrial manufacturing processes
as distinct from domestic or sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
OWNER
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.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
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.
PUBLIC SEWER
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.
SANITARY OR DOMESTIC SEWAGE
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.
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 waters as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
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 or flow during
normal operation.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of Sewage Works and/or of Water Pollution
Control of the City of Newburgh or his authorized deputy, agent or
representative.
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.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
WPCF
The Water Pollution Control Federation.