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Word usage. For the purposes of this Part 2, "shall"
is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
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ABNORMAL POLLUTANT
ABNORMAL POLLUTANT SURCHARGE
ABNORMAL SEWAGE
ABNORMAL SEWAGE PERMIT
ABNORMAL SEWAGE SURCHARGE
ACT
APPLICANT
ASTM
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
BOD STRENGTH INDEX
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
COOLING WATER
ENGINEER
GARBAGE
INDUSTRIAL WASTE PERMIT
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
INDUSTRY
INFLOW
INTERCEPTOR SEWER
INTERFERENCE
LABORATORY DETERMINATION
NATURAL OUTLET
NORMAL SEWAGE
NYSDEC
OBJECTIONABLE WASTE
OWNER
P (denoting "phosphate")
PERSON
pH
POLLUTANT
POLLUTED WATER OR WASTE
POTW (publicly owned treatment works)
PRESSURE SEWERS
PRETREATMENT
PROPERLY OPERATING SEPTIC SYSTEM
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
RULES AND REGULATIONS
SANITARY SEWER
SEWAGE
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
SEWAGE WORKS
SEWER
SEWER DISTRICT
SEWER INSPECTOR
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
(1)Â
(2)Â
(3)Â
(4)Â
SLUG
SS STRENGTH INDEX
STANDARD METHODS
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
STRENGTH INDEX
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
SYSTEM
TOWN
TOWN SEWER DISTRICT
UNPOLLUTED WATER OR WASTE
USEPA
WATERCOURSE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in this Part 2 shall be as follows:
Industrial waste, substance or wastewater characteristic
in excess of that found in normal sewage but which is otherwise acceptable
into a public sewer under the terms of this Part 2.
The charge levied against any person for services rendered
during treatment of abnormal pollutants or waste. This charge is intended
to partially defray the added cost of transporting and treating abnormal
pollutants or waste. This charge shall be in addition to the usual
monthly charge for sanitary sewerage service.
Any industrial waste having a suspended solids or BOD content
in excess of that found in normal sewage but which is otherwise acceptable
into a public sewer under the terms of this Part 2.
A permit approved by and received from the Town permitting
the discharge or deposit of abnormal sewage into a sanitary sewer
upon payment of a surcharge.
The charge levied against any person for services rendered
during treatment of abnormal sanitary sewage or waste. This charge
is intended to partially defray the added cost of transporting and
treating abnormal sewage or waste. This charge shall be in addition
to the usual monthly charge for sanitary sewerage service.
The Federal Clean Water Act, as amended.
The person or persons who have properly applied for permission
to hook up and install an acceptable sewer system within the Town
of Wheatfield.
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.
The measure of the biochemical oxygen demand content of sewage
in parts per million (milligrams per liter).
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a sewerage system
which receives discharge from sewerage 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.
The water discharged from any system of condensation such
as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration.
The engineer of the Town or the authorized deputy, agent
or representative.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
A permit to deposit or discharge industrial waste into any
sanitary sewer in the Town.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade, business, institutions or other SIC Index establishments or
operations as distinct from sanitary or domestic sewage.
Any person generating or producing as a by-product liquid
wastes from manufacturing processes, trade, business, institution
or other SIC Index operations as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Water other than wastewater that enters a sewerage system
(including sewer service connections) from sources such as roof leaders,
cellar drains, yard drains, area drains, foundation drains, drains
from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections between
storm sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, stormwaters,
surface runoff, street wash waters or drainage. "Inflow" does not
include and is distinguished from infiltration.
Any public sewer or appurtenances owned and operated by the
Town of Wheatfield.
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes
or operations or which contributes to a violation of any requirement
of Niagara County Sewer District No. 1 SPDES permit. The term includes
prevention of sewage sludge reuse, reclamation or disposal by the
POTW in accordance with Section 405 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1345)
or any criteria, guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the
Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances
Control Act or more stringent state criteria applicable to the method
of disposal or use employed by the POTW.
The measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics
of waters and wastes in accordance with the methods contained in the
latest edition at the time of any such measurement, test or analysis
of Standard Methods for Examination of Water and Sewage, a joint publication
of the American Public Health Association, the American Waterworks
Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation or in accordance
with any other method prescribed by the United States Environmental
Protection Agency or by any other method specifically approved by
the engineer.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
Sewage which, when analyzed, shows by weight a daily average
of not more than 2,500 pounds per million gallons [300 parts per million]
of suspended solids and not more than 2,500 pounds per million gallons
(300 parts per million) of BOD, and which is otherwise acceptable
into a public sewer under the terms of this Part 2.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
or its duly authorized agent.
Any wastes that can harm either the sewers, sewer treatment
process or equipment, have an adverse effect on the receiving stream
or can otherwise endanger life, limb, public property or constitutes
a nuisance.
Owners of record of the freehold of the premises or lesser
estate therein, a mortgagee or vendee in possession, assignee of rents,
receiver, executor, trustee, lessee or other person, firm or corporation
in control of a building.
The total phosphate determined under standard laboratory
procedures, expressed in milligrams per liter.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
including municipal corporation, or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
Any substance or wastewater characteristic present in polluted
water or waste.
Any water or liquid wastes containing any of the following:
phenols or other substances to an extent imparting taste and odor
in receiving waters; toxic or poisonous substances in suspension,
colloidal state or solution; noxious odorous gases; more than 10,000
parts per million, by weight of dissolved solids, of which more than
2,500 parts per million are chloride; more than 10 parts per million
each of suspended solids and/or BOD; color exceeding 50 parts per
million or having a pH value of less than 5.5 or more than 9.5; and/or
any water or waste not approved for discharge into a stream or waterway
by the appropriate state or federal authority.
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292). It includes any sewers that convey wastewater
to the POTW but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances
not connected to a facility providing treatment.
Any pipe or conduit for carrying sewage under pressure and
without intermediate openings to the atmosphere.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of the pollutant properties
in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a publicly owned treatment
works. 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, General Pretreatment Regulations for
Existing and New Sources of Pollution.
A septic system that meets the health and sanitation code
of the County of Niagara and Health Department standards of the State
of New York.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such 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 is controlled by public authority.
Any additional rules and regulations adopted by the Town
of Wheatfield.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwaters as may be present.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
All facilities for collection, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
The Town Sewer District.[1]
Any person, agent or representative of the United States
Environmental Protection Agency, New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation or Town Sewer District who has the proper authority to
approve, inspect, observe, sample or test building sewers or appurtenances
in the sewer system.
All industries subject to promulgated categorical
pretreatment standards.
Industries having substantial impact, either
singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the
operation of the treatment works.
Manufacturing industries using, on an annual
basis, more than 10,000 pounds or 1,000 gallons of raw material containing
priority pollutants/substances of concern and discharging a measurable
amount of these pollutants to the sewer system from the process using
these pollutants.
Those industries discharging more than 5% of
the flow or load carried by the treatment plant receiving the waste.
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.
The measure of the suspended solids content of sewage in
parts per million (milligrams per liter).
The Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater
prepared and published jointly by the American Public Health Association,
American Waterworks Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation,
latest edition.
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes other than unpolluted
cooling wastes.
Both the biochemical oxygen demand index and the suspended
solids strength index.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
The trunk sewers, interceptors, pumping stations, pressure
lines, grinder pump stations, treatment plant, outfall conduits and
so forth designed to collect, transmit, treat and dispose of estimated
flows and loadings of participants and other users of the system.
The Town of Wheatfield, New York, and as defined by General
Municipal Law, the Town Board or the engineer of the Town or appropriate
authorized officer or agent of the Town.
Any legally constituted sanitary sewer district or sewer
improvement area created by any Town.
Any water or liquid waste containing none of the following:
phenols or other substances to an extent imparting taste and odor
in receiving waters; toxic or poisonous substances in suspension,
colloidal state or solution; noxious or odorous gases; not more than
10,000 parts per million, by weight, of dissolved solids, of which
not more than 2,500 parts per million are chloride; not more than
10 parts per million each of suspended solids and BOD; color not exceeding
50 parts per million, nor a pH value of less than 5.5 nor higher than
9.5; and/or any water or waste approved for discharge into a stream
or waterway by the appropriate state or federal authority.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency or its
duly authorized agent.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
[1]
Editor's Note: See definition of "Town Sewer
District" below.
