In order to assure the proper disposal of sewage
and wastewaters and the proper operation and maintenance of the public
sewers, sewage treatment plant and other sewage works within the Village
of Port Chester, the following regulations are enacted by the Village
of Port Chester, under the authority of Charter of the Village of
Port Chester, New York.[1]
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Editor's Note: See provisions of Charter,
Title II, Subdivision 32.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in these regulations shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in mg/l (milligrams per liter) by weight.
The amount of chlorine which must be added to water or waste
to produce a residual chlorine content of at least 0.1 milligram per
liter after a minimum contact time of 10 minutes.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
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.
Shall mean waste water or water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments. Sewage
shall be further classified as follows:
DOMESTIC OR SANITARY SEWAGEShall mean the solid and liquid wastes from toilet and lavatory fixtures, kitchens, laundries, bathtubs, shower baths, or equivalent plumbing fixtures as discharged from dwellings, business and industrial buildings.
INDUSTRIAL SEWAGE OR WASTESShall include the liquid-carried wastes of any industrial process as distinct from domestic or sanitary sewage. All substances carried in industrial wastes, whether dissolved, in suspension or mechanically carried by liquid, shall be considered as industrial wastes.
STORMWATERShall include the runoff or discharge of rain and melted snow or other water from roofs, surfaces of public or private lands, or elsewhere. Storm water also shall include "subsoil drainage" as defined in D below.
SUBSOIL DRAINAGEShall include water from the soil percolating into subsoil drains and through foundation walls, basement floors or underground pipes.
COOLING WATERShall include the waste water from air conditioning, industrial cooling condensing and hydraulically-powered equipment or similar apparatus.
GARBAGEShall mean solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce. "Properly Shredded Garbage" shall mean garbage which has been shredded so that no garbage particles will be greater than one-half (1/2) inch in any dimension.
Shall mean any arrangement of devices and structures used
for treating sewage.
Shall mean all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating,
and disposing of sewage or waste water.
Shall mean the pipe or conduit, together with manholes and
other structures or equipment appurtenant thereto, provided to carry
sewage waste liquids, storm water or other waters. Sewers shall be
further classified as follows:
PUBLIC SEWERShall mean a trunk, main or lateral sewer up to and including the "Y" branch or tee provided for connection thereto, and to which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and which is controlled by public authority. The public sewer does not include the building or house sewer, or the "building connection lateral" after it is connected with a building sewer.
SANITARY SEWERShall mean a sewer which carries only sanitary sewage and to which storm water, subsoil drainage and cooling water are not intentionally admitted.
COMBINED SEWERShall mean a sewer receiving both storm water and domestic sewage, including acceptable discharge of industrial wastes, subsoil drainage, and cooling water.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAINA pipeline carrying stormwater, subsoil drainage, acceptable cooling water or other reasonable clean waters, but excluding domestic and polluted industrial waste.
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
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.
Shall mean the "Superintendent of the Sewage Works," "Village
Engineer," "Director of Superintendent of Public Works," or "other
designated official" of the Village of Port Chester 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 filtering
as prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage
and Industrial Waste, American Public Health Association.
The Village of Port Chester or the village's duly authorized
representative, including but not limited to the Village Superintendent
of Public Works as defined below.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
