Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
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 parts per million by weight.
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.
COMMISSIONER
The Commissioner of Streets of the Village of Hudson Falls or his
duly authorized deputy, agent or representative.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food
and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial processes, as distinct from sanitary
sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of
surface or ground water.
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 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.
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 stormwaters as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of
sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage but
excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
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.