[Amended 4-5-1982[1]]
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Word usage. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
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ACT
ASTM
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMPs)
BOD (denoting BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
BUILDING SANITARY DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
CLEAN WATER ACT
CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
COMBINED SEWER
CONNECTION
CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY
CONTAMINATION
DEPARTMENT
DOMESTIC WASTE
GARBAGE
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
ILLICIT CONNECTION
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(2)Â
ILLICIT DISCHARGE
INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
INTERCEPTOR
LICENSED PLUMBER
MS4
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM
NATURAL OUTLET
NONSTORMWATER DISCHARGE
PERSON
pH
POLLUTANT
POLLUTION
PREMISES
PRETREATMENT
PRIVATE SEWER or INDIVIDUAL SANITARY DISPOSAL SYSTEM
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
PUBLIC SEWER
SANITARY SEWER
SANITARY WASTE
SEWAGE
SEWAGE WORKS
SEWER
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
SLUG
SPECIAL CONDITIONS
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(2)Â
(3)Â
(4)Â
STATE POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (SPDES) STORMWATER
DISCHARGE PERMIT
STORM SEWER (sometimes termed "storm drain")
STORMWATER
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT OFFICER (SMO)
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
303(d) LIST
TMDL
TOTAL MAXIMUM DAILY LOAD
TOWN
TOWN ENGINEER
TOXIC
UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or USEPA
WASTEWATER
WATERCOURSE
For the purpose of this chapter, the terms used herein
are defined as follows:
The Federal Clean Water Act, as amended.
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, general
good housekeeping practices, pollution prevention and educational
practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices
to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants directly or indirectly
to stormwater, receiving waters, or stormwater conveyance systems.
BMPs also include treatment practices, operation procedures, and practices
to control site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or water disposal,
or drainage from raw materials storage.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007; amended 12-2-2019 by L.L. No. 8-2019]
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.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building sanitary
drainage system which receives the discharge from waste piping inside
the walls of any building and conveys such discharge to the building
sewer beginning three feet outside the outer face of the building
wall.
That part of the horizontal piping of a sanitary system which
extends from the end of the building sanitary drain and conveys sewage
to a public sewer, individual sanitary disposal system or other approved
facility.
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251
et seq.), and any subsequent amendments thereto
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
The person or persons duly authorized by the Town Board to
inspect and approve the installation of building sewers and their
connection to the public sewer system.
A pipe or conduit designed to carry both stormwater and wastewater.
[Added 12-2-2019 by L.L.
No. 8-2019]
The "connection" to the public sewer shall include the building
sewer and the tap into the public sewer.
Any activity requiring authorization under the SPDES permit
for stormwater discharges from construction activity, GP-02-01, as
amended or revised, including construction projects resulting in land
disturbance of one or more acres. Construction activities include
but are not limited to clearing and grubbing, grading, excavating,
and demolition.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
An impairment of the quality of the waters of the state by
waste to a degree which creates a hazard to the public health through
poisoning or through the spread of disease.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
Water-carried waste generated by residences.
[Added 12-2-2019 by L.L.
No. 8-2019]
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
Any material, including any substance, waste, or combination
thereof, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical,
chemical, or infectious characteristics may cause, or significantly
contribute to, a substantial present or potential hazard to human
health, safety, property, or the environment when improperly treated,
stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
Any drain or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface,
which allows an illegal discharge to enter the MS4, including but
not limited to:
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
Any conveyance which allows any nonstormwater discharge including
treated or untreated sewage, process wastewater, and wash water to
enter the MS4 and any connection to the storm drain system from indoor
drains and sinks, regardless of whether said drain or connection had
been previously allowed, permitted, or approved by an authorized enforcement
agency; or
Any drain or conveyance connected from a commercial or industrial
land use to the MS4 which has not been documented in plans, maps,
or equivalent records and approved by an authorized enforcement agency.
Any direct or indirect nonstormwater discharge to the MS4, except as exempted in § 267-36 of this chapter.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
Activities requiring the SPDES permit for discharges from
industrial activities except construction, GP-98-03, as amended or
revised.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
The combination of liquid and water-carried waste from industrial
processes, trade or business as distinct from domestic or sanitary
wastes.
A device designed and installed so as to separate and retain
deleterious, hazardous matter or otherwise undesirable matter, such
as grease, oil or sand, and to permit only normal sewage to discharge
into the public sewer.
A plumber duly licensed by the Town of Grand Island.
Municipal separate storm sewer system.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
A conveyance or system of conveyances (including, but not
limited to, roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch
basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, man-made channels, or storm drains):
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007; amended 12-2-2019 by L.L. No. 8-2019]
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or groundwater.
Any discharge to the MS4 that is not composed entirely of
stormwater.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
Any individual, association, organization, partnership, firm,
corporation or other entity recognized by law.
[Amended 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
Dredged spoil, filter backwash, solid waste, incinerator
residue, treated or untreated sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions,
chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat,
wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, or industrial, municipal,
agricultural waste or ballast discharged into water, any of which
may cause or might reasonably be expected to cause pollution of the
waters of the state in contravention of water quality standards.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
Any building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land, whether
improved or unimproved, including adjacent sidewalks and parking strips.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
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 POTW. 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 sewer privately owned and not directly serviced by public
authority.
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.
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.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and is controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
Liquid or solid waste generated by humans and human activities.
Does not include industrial waste.
[Added 12-2-2019 by L.L.
No. 8-2019]
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.
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 municipality's wastewater system; or has in his waste toxic pollutants,
as defined pursuant to Section 307 of the Act; 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 significant impact, either
singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the
treatment or collection system.
[Amended 12-2-2019 by L.L. No. 8-2019]
Any discharge of water or wastewater which, in concentration
of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any given
period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the
average twenty-four-hour concentration of flows during normal operation
and which shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance
of the wastewater treatment works.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
Discharge compliance with water quality standards: the condition
that applies where the Town has been notified that the discharge of
stormwater authorized under their MS4 permit may have caused or has
the reasonable potential to cause or contribute to the violation of
an applicable water quality standard. Under this condition, the Town
must take all necessary actions to ensure future discharges do not
cause or contribute to a violation of water quality standards.
303(d) listed waters: the condition in the Town's MS4 permit
that applies where the MS4 discharges to a 303(d) listed water. Under
this condition, the stormwater management program must ensure no increase
of the listed pollutant of concern to the 303(d) listed water.
Total maximum daily load (TMDL) strategy: the condition in the
Town's MS4 permit where a TMDL including requirements for control
of stormwater discharges has been approved by EPA for a water body
or watershed into which the MS4 discharges. If the discharge from
the MS4 did not meet the TMDL stormwater allocations prior to September
10, 2003, the Town was required to modify its stormwater management
program to ensure that reduction of the pollutant of concern specified
in the TMDL is achieved.
The condition in the Town's MS4 permit that applies if a TMDL
is approved in the future by EPA for any water body or watershed into
which an MS4 discharges: Under this condition, the Town must review
the applicable TMDL to see if it includes requirements for control
of stormwater discharges. If an MS4 is not meeting the TMDL stormwater
allocations, the Town must, within six months of the TMDL's approval,
modify its stormwater management program to ensure that reduction
of the pollutant of concern specified in the TMDL is achieved.
A permit issued by the Department that authorizes the discharge
of pollutants to waters of the state.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
A sewer which is designed or used for collecting or carrying
stormwater runoff, snowmelt, and drainage, but which excludes sewage
and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
[Amended 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
Rainwater, surface runoff, snowmelt and drainage.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
The Town Engineer and Code Enforcement Officer, and their
staffs, and any other employee, contractor or other public official(s)
designated by the Town Board to enforce this chapter. The SMO also
accepts and reviews stormwater pollution prevention plans (SWPPPs),
forwards the plans to such agency, committee, employee, or board of
the Town of Grand Island which may be reviewing any applications for
a construction activity requiring submission of a SWPPP, and inspects
stormwater management practices.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
The Superintendent of Sewers for the Town of Grand Island
as appointed by the Town Board, or his authorized deputy, agent or
representative.
[Repealed 10-15-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012; added 12-2-2019 by L.L. No. 8-2019]
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.
A list of all surface waters in the state for which beneficial
uses of the water (drinking, recreation, aquatic habitat, and industrial
use) are impaired by pollutants, prepared periodically by the Department
as required by Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act. 303(d) listed
waters are estuaries, lakes and streams that fall short of state surface
water quality standards and are not expected to improve within the
next two years.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
Total maximum daily load.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
The maximum amount of a pollutant to be allowed to be released
into a water body so as not to impair uses of the water allocated
among the sources of that pollutant.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
The Town of Grand Island.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
The Town Engineer of the Town of Grand Island.
Any of the pollutants designated by federal regulations pursuant
to Section 307(a)(1) of the Act.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency or, where
appropriate, a designation for the administrator or other duly authorized
official of said agency.
Water that is not stormwater, is contaminated with pollutants
and has been or will be discarded.
[Added 12-17-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007]
A drainage channel in which a flow of water occurs, either
continuously or intermittently.
[Amended 12-2-2019 by L.L. No. 8-2019]
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Editor's Note: This ordinance, amending this
and other sections throughout the chapter, was enacted to comply with
the requirements of the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation and the United States Environmental Protection Agency
(Federal Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1150 et seq.).
