Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in this Part 1 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 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 (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building
wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
The NYSDEC or any duly authorized official of said Department.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
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 sewage treatment plant. The reduction
or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological
processes, process changes or by other means, except as prohibited
by 40 CFR 403.6 of 40 CFR 403, General Pretreatment Regulations for
Existing and New Sources of Pollution.
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 (1.27 centimeters)
in any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments together
with such ground- , surface waters and stormwaters 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 user who has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more
per average workday; or has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in
the Town's wastewater system; or has in his wastes toxic pollutants
as defined pursuant to Section 307 of the Act;[2] or has been identified as one of the 21 industrial categories
pursuant to Section 307 of the Act; or is found by the Town to have
a significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing
industries, on the treatment or collection system.
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 flows during
normal operation.
Denotes a State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System established
by Article 17 of the Environmental Conservation Law of the State of
New York for issuance of permits authorizing discharge to the waters
of the state.
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage
but which excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted
cooling water.
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 USEPA or any duly authorized official of said Agency.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.[3]
