As used in this bylaw, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
Any person requesting approval to discharge wastewaters into
the municipal facilities or a new connection to the wastewater works.
The director in an NPDES state with an approved state pretreatment
program or the Administrator of the EPA in a non-NPDES or an NPDES
state without an approved state pretreatment program.
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice
president, if the industrial user is a corporation; a general partner
or proprietor, if the industrial user is a partner or proprietorship,
respectively; a duly authorized representative of the individual designated
above, if such representative is responsible for the overall operation
of the facilities from which the wastewater discharge originates.
A public sewer shall be considered available when the property
upon which a building is situated abuts a street, easement or right-of-way
in which a public sewer is located. If said building is more than
150 feet (45.7 meters) from the nearest public sewer, application
may be made in writing to the Board of Sewer Commissioners to declare
the public sewer "not available." A pressurized force main sewer shall
be considered "not available."
Practices such as preventative maintenance, scheduling of
activities or process alterations which enable the user to comply
with the provisions of this bylaw or any applicable state and/or federal
guidelines.
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 Plainville Board of Sewer Commissioners or its duly authorized
deputy, agent or representative(s).
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil or waste inside the walls of
the building and conveys it to the building sewer.
The extension from the building drain commencing at a point
five feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall
and extending to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
Regulations promulgated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
or local agencies or by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b)
and (l) of the Clean Water Act and designated as "national categorical
pretreatment standards" or "pretreatment standards."
A public sewer receiving both surface water and sewage.
Wastewater constituents for which the POTW was designed or
is operated to adequately treat.
The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is
heat.
The approval authority, defined hereinabove; the Superintendent
of the Town of North Attleborough has an approved pretreatment program
under the provisions of 40 CFR 403.11.
Either the previously negotiated agreements or a wastewater
discharge permit and shall include the criteria for discharge to the
POTW.
The wastewater derived principally from dwellings, business
buildings, institutions and the like. It may not contain groundwater,
surface water, stormwater or process or wash water from industrial
enterprises.
A general term applied to one in the business of and licensed
by the Town for laying drains from existing public sewers to the building
drain of homes, commercial buildings, industrial buildings, and similar
structures and properties.
An interest in land owned by another that entitles its holder
to a specific limited use or enjoyment.
An averaging of variations in flow and composition of sewage
from particular sources by an equalizing basin or other means to provide
a flow of reasonably uniform volume and composition prior to discharge
into a public sewer.
Amounts or concentrations of a constituent of a wastewater
which in the judgment of the Superintendent: a) will cause damage
to any Town facility; b) will be harmful to a wastewater treatment
process; c) cannot be removed in the Town treatment works to the degree
required to meet the limiting stream classification standards of the
Ten Mile River and/or EPA and state effluent standards; d) can otherwise
endanger life, limb or public property; or e) can constitute a nuisance.
Structures and conduits for the purpose of collecting, treating,
neutralizing, stabilizing or disposal of domestic wastewater and/or
industrial or other wastewaters as are disposed of by means of such
structures and conduits, including treatment and disposal works, necessary
intercepting, outfall and outlet sewers, and pumping stations integral
to such facilities, with sewers, equipment, furnishings thereof and
other appurtenances connected therewith.
The animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and serving of food. It is composed largely of
putrescible organic matter and its natural moisture content.
A sample which is taken from a wastestream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the flow in the wastestream and without consideration
of time.
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants
from any source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act (33
U.S.C. 1317) into the POTW (including holding tank waste discharged
in the stream).
The permit required to be obtained from the Town of North Attleborough by significant industrial users to discharge to the Town of North Attleborough POTW, as set forth in Article V of this bylaw.
A source of indirect discharge which does not constitute
a "discharge of pollutants" under regulations issued pursuant to Section
402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1342).
The liquid wastes from the industrial manufacturing, processing,
trade or business, as distinct from sewage discharged from residences
or from commercial establishments whose sewage is similar in strength
to that discharged from residences.
All water-carried wastes and wastewater excluding domestic
wastewater and unpolluted water. Includes all wastewater from any
producing, manufacturing, processing, testing, institutional, commercial,
agricultural or other operations where the wastewater discharged includes
nondomestic wastes.
A discharge by an industrial user which, alone or in conjunction
with discharges by other sources, inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its
treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or
disposal, and which is a cause of a violation of any requirement of
the POTW's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or
duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use
or disposal by the POTW in accordance with the following statutory
provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent
state or local regulations): Section 405 of the Clean Water Act, the
Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) [including Title II, more commonly
referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)],
and including state regulation contained in any state sludge management
plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D or the SWDA, the Clean Water
Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the Marine Protection Research
and Sanctuaries Act.
A unit of the concentration of water or sewage constituent.
It is 0.001 gram of the constituent in one liter of water.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (:33
U.S.C. 1347) which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
1342).
Any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307(b)
of the Act and 40 CFR 403.5.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
Any building, structure, facility or installation from which
there is or may be a discharge of pollutants, the construction of
which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards
under Section 307(c) of the Act, which will be applicable to such
source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance
with that section.
A twenty-four-hour day in which the standard and routine
operations and work of the facility is conducted. It would include,
but is not limited to: daily cleaning, routine maintenance and production.
It would not include: work stoppages, scheduled and unscheduled shutdowns,
holiday schedules, major cleanups and the like.
The Town of North Attleborough, County of Bristol, Commonwealth
of Massachusetts.
Any material (animal, vegetable or hydrocarbon) which is
extractable from an acidified sample of a waste by freon or other
designated solvent and as determined by the appropriate standard procedure.
The discharge of pollutants through the POTW into navigable
waters in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction
with discharges from other sources, are a cause of a violation of
any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit (including an increase
in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
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.
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt, or industrial, municipal or agricultural waste
discharged into water.
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological, and radiological integrity of water.
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutants, or the
alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to
a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise
introducing such pollutants to the POTW. The reduction or alteration
can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, or
process changes other than the above means, except as prohibited by
40 CFR 403.6(d).
Any substantive or procedural requirements related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard, imposed on an industrial
user.
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.
The Town of North Attleborough owns treatment works, as defined
in Section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1292). This definition includes
any sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW treatment plant, but
does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected
to a facility providing treatment. For the purposes of this bylaw,
"POTW" shall also include any sewers that convey wastewater to the
POTW from persons outside the Town who are, by agreement with the
Town, users of the Town's POTW.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and is controlled by public authority.
Any watercourse, river, pond, ditch, lake, aquifer or other
body of surface water or groundwater receiving discharge of wastewaters.
A public sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwaters,
surface waters, and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
The sludge produced in individual domestic on-site wastewater
disposal systems such as septic tanks and cesspools.
The spent water of the Town, and may be a combination of
the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings,
industrial plants and institutions, together with any groundwater,
surface water, and stormwater that may be present.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
A sewer pipeline running laterally from a street sewer, an
off-street sewer or a trunk sewer to an individual tract, lot or parcel
of land to serve one or more houses or other buildings, whether or
not connected to any house or building.
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
Any industrial user of the POTW who: a) has a discharge flow
of 25,000 gallons or more per normal operating day; or b) has a flow
greater than 5% of the flow to the POTW; or c) who discharges wastes
containing toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to Section 307 of
the Act; or d) is found by the Town, state control agency or the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have significant impact,
either singly or in combination with other contributing industries,
on the POTW, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality,
or air emissions generated by the system.
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial wastes 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 of flows during
normal operation.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972.
Those methods outlined in the most recent edition of the
EPA manual "Methods for Chemical Analysis of Water And Wastes" and/or
the APHA, AWWA, WPCF publication "Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater" or in 40 CFR 136.
The Massachusetts Division of Water Pollution Control.
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling
water.
The Superintendent of the Sewer Department and/or Water Pollution
Control of the Town of North Attleborough, or his authorized deputy,
agency or representative(s).
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage, industrial wastes or other liquids, and which are
removable by laboratory filtration.
The Town of Plainville in the County of Norfolk, Commonwealth
of Massachusetts.
Any substance or mixture, whether gaseous, liquid or solid,
which, when discharged into the sewer system, may tend to interfere
with any wastewater treatment process, constitute a hazard to human
beings or animals, inhibit aquatic life or create a hazard to recreation
in the receiving waters of the effluent from POTW.
Water whose discharge will not cause any violation of receiving
water standards of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
An incident in which there is unintentional and temporary
noncompliance with categorical pretreatment standards or the provisions
of this bylaw because of factors beyond the control of the industrial
user. An upset does not include noncompliance to the extent caused
by operational error, improperly designed treatment facilities, inadequate
treatment facilities, lack of preventive maintenance, or careless
or improper operation.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the Town's POTW.
Substances in liquid, solid or gaseous form that can be carried
in water.
The spent water of a community which may be a combination
of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial
buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with any groundwater,
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
The following abbreviations shall have the designated
meanings:
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BOD
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Biochemical Oxygen Demand
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CFR
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Code of Federal Regulations
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EPA
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Environmental Protection Agency
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mg/l
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Milligrams per liter
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NPDES
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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
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O/G
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Oil and Grease
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POTW
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Publicly Owned Treatment Works
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SIC
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Standard Industrial Classification
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TTO
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Total Toxic Organic
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TTS
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Total Suspended Solids
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U.S.C.
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United States Code
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