Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of the terms used in this article shall be as follows:
ASTM
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
BOARD
The Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Patchogue.
BOD (denotes "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. (68° F.), expressed in parts per million (ppm) or
milligrams per liter (mg/l).
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage
system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage
pipes inside the walls of any building and conveys such discharge
to the building sewers beginning three feet outside of the outer face
of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
That part of the horizontal piping of a drainage system which
extends from the end of the building drain and which receives the
discharge of the building drain and conveys it to a sewer. The materials
used to connect the building sewer to the Village's sewer shall be
deemed part of the building sewer.
COLLECTION SYSTEM
A system of pipes, normally found in streets, into which
the building sewer connects.
COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES
All properties located within the existing Sewer District,
as expanded and as may be expanded from time to time in the future,
that are not herein defined as being residential properties.
[Added 3-26-2001 by L.L. No. 2-2001]
COMPATIBLE INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Liquid wastes from industry, commercial, trade or business
processes, whether the same are from manufacturing or otherwise, as
distinct from sewage, which contain no objectionable wastes and are
amenable to adequate treatment and removal by the waste treatment
processes existing at the Village's sewage treatment plant.
COOLING WATER
The water discharge from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, and carrying no contamination
other than abnormal heat.
COUNTY
The County of Suffolk or a county sewer district.
DISCHARGE
An effluent or substance, or the act of unloading or emitting
an effluent or substance directly or indirectly into all or part of
a sewage works, as the sense demands.
DISPOSAL SYSTEM
The entire system of sewers, treatment facilities and their
appurtenances for collecting and treating sewage, industrial waste
and other wastes.
DISTRICT
The Incorporated Village of Patchogue Sewer District.
DOMESTIC WASTES
Liquid waste of the kind and nature normally emanating from
a household residence.
FLOW EQUALIZATION
The damping of sanitary diurnal flow variation to achieve
a constant flow rate to the sewage treatment works.
FOOD ESTABLISHMENT
A retail establishment serving prepared food or drink within
an enclosed building for consumption within the building or off the
premises, including, but not limited to, restaurants, bars, lunch
counters, cafes, diners, fast-food establishments, food take-out establishments,
pizza parlors and luncheonettes.
[Added 1-12-2009 by L.L. No. 2-2009]
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic or commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food or from the handling, storage and sale
of produce.
GREASE
A material composed of fatty matter from animal or vegetable
sources or hydrocarbons of petroleum origins. The terms "oil and grease"
or "oil and grease substances" shall be deemed grease by definition.
[Added 1-12-2009 by L.L. No. 2-2009]
GREASE TRAP
A water-tight device constructed to separate and trap or
hold grease from the wastewater discharged from a food establishment
in order to prevent grease from entering the sanitary sewer system,
also referred to as a "grease interceptor" or "grease recovery device."
The grease trap may be an internal grease trap located within the
facility, an external grease trap located outside the food establishment,
or both.
[Added 1-12-2009 by L.L. No. 2-2009]
HOUSE CONNECTIONS
Synonymous with "building connection" or "sewer stub" and
shall mean the branch of pipe leading from the public sewer in the
street toward the property line of the user.
IMPACT FEE
On any parcel proposed for a change of use, a one-time fee
imposed upon a parcel for the parcel's proportionate use of the district's
flow capacity beyond the existing flow allowance if the proposed design
flow for the parcel will increase the parcel's existing flow as approved
by the Suffolk County Department of Health Services.
[Added 12-11-2023 by L.L. No. 11-2023]
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any liquid, gaseous, solid or other waste substance, or a
combination thereof, resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing,
trade or business or from the development or recovery of any natural
resources.
INSURANCE POLICY
Shall have the meaning assigned to it by the Insurance Law
of the State of New York.
INTERCEPTOR
A device designated and installed so as to separate and retain
deleterious, hazardous or otherwise undesirable matter such as grease,
oil or sand from wastes.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any watercourse, lake, pond, ditch or other body of surface
or groundwater, or cesspools, storm sewers or combined sewers which
overflow into a watercourse, lake, pond, ditch or other body of surface
or ground water. It shall be synonymous with a "discharge point."
NYSDEC
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
OBJECTIONABLE, PROHIBITED OR LIMITED WASTES
(1)
Any waste which is or is deemed to be toxic
or incompatible with the Village's treatment process or to receiving
waters or is not amenable to treatment or causes the Village's treatment
plant to be in violation of its SPDES permit.
(2)
Any waste which contains substances, materials
and constituents which prevent the sludge produced by the Village's
sewage treatment from being accepted by the County of Suffolk.
(3)
Garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings,
bark, sand, lime, cinders, ashes, offal, oil, tar, dye stuffs, grit,
abrasives, metal filings or trimmings and the like.
(4)
Any chemical or chemical compound which may
pose a hazard or danger to the treatment works or personnel of the
Village and any chemicals or chemical compounds having the following
nature or characteristics or having similar objectionable characteristics,
such as alcohols; arsenic and arsenicals; cyanide; heavy metals and
other metal finishings or process wastes; acid pickling waste; mercury
and mercurials; silver and silver compounds; sulfanamides; toxic dyes
(organic or mineral); zinc; all strong oxidizing agents such as chromates,
dichromates, permanganates, peroxide and the like; gasoline; greases
and oils; compounds producing hydrogen sulfide, methane or any other
toxic, flammable or explosive gases, either upon acidification, alkalization,
oxidation or reduction; strong reducing agents such as nitrites, sulfides,
sulfites and the like; flammable or explosive liquids or solids; or
radioactive materials.
(5)
Any matter which contains pathogenic bacteria
in quantities larger than normally encountered in raw domestic sewage,
or any matter which can reasonably be expected to contain such pathogenic
bacteria in such quantities.
(6)
Industrial wastes containing solids which will
precipitate greater than 300 parts per million upon acidification
(pH below 5.5) or alkalization (pH above 8.5) or oxidation or reduction.
(7)
Industrial wastes having a viscosity exceeding
1.10 poises (absolute viscosity) upon discharge or after acidification
(pH below 5.5) or alkalization (pH above 8.5).
(8)
Industrial waste having a temperature upon discharge
outside of the range of 32° to 150° F. In no case shall any
discharge cause the influent temperature at the sewage treatment plant
to exceed 104° F. (40° C.).
(9)
Industrial waste having a color of an intensity
in excess of 500 platinum-cobalt standard units, as determined under
Part 204A of the 15th Edition of Standard Method for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater. In testing such intensity, samples shall
be diluted with distilled water to bring the range within 10 to 50
units and judged on a basis of intensity or transmission of light
rather than true color (Platinum-Cobalt Standard).
(10)
Industrial waste having chemical characteristics
in excess of the following limits:
(a)
Five-day, twenty-degree-centigrade BOD: 300
parts per million maximum.
(b)
Suspended solids: 300 parts per million maximum.
(c)
Chlorine demand (30 minutes at room temperature):
25 parts per million maximum.
(d)
Settleable solids (Imhoff cones test), one hour:
15 milliliters per liter maximum.
(e)
Hydrogen ion concentration (pH): 6.0 to 9.0.
(11)
Materials which exert or cause unusual volume
of flow or concentration of wastes, constituting "slugs" as defined
herein.
(12)
Any water or waste containing fats, wax, grease
or oils in excess of 100 milligrams per liter or containing substances
which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between 32°
and 150° F.
(13)
Any garbage that has not been properly shredded
to a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow
conditions normally prevailing in sewers.
(14)
Any waste, including business, commercial or
industrial wastes, which exceeds allowable discharge levels as promulgated
by the United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to Section
307(b) and (c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and Amendments,
entitled "Industrial Pretreatment Requirements," and such other liquids,
substances or materials that may be enumerated by the Village to be
objectionable or toxic; that may be defined by the Village to have
toxic or otherwise deleterious effect upon or be incompatible with
the sewage works, processes, equipment, groundwaters or watercourses;
or that create or constitute a public nuisance.
OTHER WASTES
Garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand,
lime, cinders, ashes, offal, oil, tar, dyestuffs, acids, chemicals
and all other discarded matter not sewage or industrial waste.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, 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.
POLLUTED
The alteration of the biological, chemical, radiological
or aesthetic integrity of water from the presence of sewage, industrial
waste or other waste.
PRETREATMENT
Any treatment process or processes required to produce a
discharge compatible with the Village's sewage works and which will
conform to both qualitative and quantitative requirements of this
article.
PRIVATE
When used as a modifier, those facilities not owned by the
Village or a public entity.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
Garbage that has been shredded to such degree that all particles
will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing
in the sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC
Those facilities owned or operated by a sewage works corporation
under the Transportation Corporations Law or by a governmental entity
other than the municipality.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all the owners of abutting properties and
others within a district or area have equal rights and which is controlled
by public authority.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES
All single-family, two-family and three-family dwellings
located within the existing Sewer District, as expanded and as may
be expanded from time to time in the future.
[Added 3-26-2001 by L.L. No. 2-2001]
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SCAVENGER WASTES
The liquid and waste solids contained in subsurface sanitary
sewage disposal systems and appurtenances, waste sludge generated
at sewage treatment plants and other similar wastes.
SCDHS
The Suffolk County Department of Health Services.
SCDPW
The Suffolk County Department of Public Works.
SEWAGE
Water-carried wastes from residences, institutions, businesses,
commercial and industrial buildings and establishments, or a combination
thereof, together with such ground-, surface and stormwater as may
be inadvertently present. The admixture of sewage with industrial
waste or other wastes shall also be considered "sewage" within the
meaning of this definition.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
The entire system of sewers, treatment facilities and their
appurtenances for collecting and treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities and appurtenances for collecting, pumping,
treating and disposing of sewage, and shall be synonymous with "sewer
system."
SEWER
A pipe, conduit or pump for carrying sewage, and shall include
interceptor, trunk and street lateral pipes and their related facilities
and appurtenances.
SLOPE
The grade or pitch of a line of pipe in reference to a horizontal
plane. In a drainage context it shall express the fall on a fraction
of an inch per foot's length of pipe.
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.
STORM SEWER
A pipe or device which carries storm- and surface waters
and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than
unpolluted cooling water.
SURETY BOND
Shall have the meaning assigned to it by the Insurance Law
of the State of New York.
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.
TOXIC SUBSTANCE
Any substance or combination of substances, including disease-causing
agents, which, when discharged and exposed, ingested, inhaled or assimilated
into any organism, either directly from the environment or indirectly
through food chains, will, on the basis of information available to
the NYSDEC, cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer,
genetic mutations, physiological malfunction, including malfunction
in reproduction, or physical deformations in such organisms or their
offspring.
USEPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
WAREWASH SINK
Any sink, compartment sinks, containers, buckets, or other
device or vessel in a food establishment where utensils, dishware
equipment and other items coming into contact with food are cleaned.
[Added 1-12-2009 by L.L. No. 2-2009]
WASTE
Any discarded substance.
WATERCOURSE
A stream, river, creek, channel, harbor, bay or ocean of
any kind in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.