Throughout this Part 2 the term "shall" means mandatory and
"may" means permissive. The terms below when used in this Part 2 as
defined are capitalized. These terms are adopted pursuant to this
Part 2 and are as follows:
ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD
The governing body of each County Sewer District established
by the Monroe County Legislature.
APPROVED LABORATORY PROCEDURE
Procedures established in 40 CFR 136 by a National Environmental
Laboratory Accreditation Conference laboratory certified by the New
York State Department of Health to perform those specific analyses.
Procedures not defined in 40 CFR 136 shall be performed by the procedures
contained in the book "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water
and Waste Water" published by the American Public Health Association
or other laboratory procedure approved by the Director for the determination
of pollutant concentration of discharges to the Publicly Owned Treatment
Works.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMP)
Activity schedules, practice prohibitions, 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 the Publicly Owned
Treatment Works, County Storm Drainage System, Stormwater and/or Receiving
Waters. BMPs also include treatment requirements, operating procedures,
and practices to control plant runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or
waste disposal, or drainage from raw material storage.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The results obtained using an Approved Laboratory Procedure
to measure the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter or in satisfying the oxygen demand of other materials
present, and shall be expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in accordance
with Sections 307(b) and (c) of the Clean Water Act, (33 U.S.C. § 1317)
that applies to a specific category of Users and that appear in 40
CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405 through 471.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer receiving a mixture of Stormwater runoff and Wastewater.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
The sample resulting from the combination of individual samples
of Wastewater taken at selected intervals for a specified time period.
The individual samples may have equal volumes or the individual volumes
may be proportioned to the flow at the time of sampling.
CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY
Construction activities subject to New York State Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System Permits. Such activities include, but
are not limited to, clearing and grubbing, grading, excavating and
demolition.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any system of heat transfer, condensation,
air conditioning, noncontact cooling, refrigeration, or other sources.
COUNTY
The County of Monroe, New York.
COUNTY SEWER DISTRICTS
All Pure Waters and Sewer Districts created, altered, or
modified by action of the County Legislature, including, but not limited
to, the following:
A.
Northwest Quadrant Pure Waters District.
B.
Irondequoit Bay South Central Pure Waters District.
C.
Gates-Chili-Ogden Sewer District.
D.
Rochester Pure Waters District.
COUNTY STORM DRAINAGE SYSTEM
Monroe County owned or operated Storm Sewers and facilities
by which Stormwater is collected and/or conveyed, including, but not
limited to, any roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, gutters,
curbs, inlets, piped storm drains, pumping facilities, retention and
detention basins, natural and human-made or altered drainage channels
(i.e., ditches), reservoirs and other drainage structures.
DAILY DISCHARGE
The discharge of a pollutant measured during a calendar day
or any twenty-four-hour period that reasonably represents the calendar
day for purposes of sampling.
DIRECTOR
The Director of Environmental Services of the County of Monroe,
employees acting under his/her supervision or his/her duly authorized
agent or representative.
FATS, OILS AND GREASES (FOG)
Any material which is extractable from an acidified sample
of waste by Hexane or another specified solvent in an Approved Laboratory
Procedure.
ILLICIT CONNECTIONS
Either of the following:
A.
Any drain or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface,
which allows an illegal discharge to enter the County Storm Drainage
System. Examples include, but are not limited to, any drain or conveyances
which allow any Nonstormwater discharge, including Sewage, Process
Wastewater and Wastewater, to enter the County Storm Drainage System
and any connection to the County Storm Drainage System from indoor
drains and sinks, regardless of whether said drain or connection had
been previously allowed, permitted or approved by the Director; or
B.
Any drain or conveyance connected from a commercial or industrial
land use to the County Storm Drainage System which has not been documented
in plans, maps or equivalent records and approved by the Director.
ILLICIT DISCHARGE
Any direct or indirect Nonstormwater discharge to the County Storm Drainage System except discharges pursuant to a SPDES Permit (other than the SPDES Permit for discharges from the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System) or as exempt in §
343-37 of this Part
2 and any Stormwater discharges to the Sanitary Sewer except as permitted by the Director.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any liquid, gaseous or solid substance or any combination
discharged to the Publicly Owned Treatment Works which results from
any process of industry, manufacturing, trade or business or from
the development or recovery of any natural resources.
INFILTRATION
Water other than Wastewater that inadvertently enters a sewerage
system (including sewer service connections) from the ground through
such means as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manholes.
Infiltration does not include and is distinguished from Inflow.
INFLOW
Water, other than Wastewater, that is purposefully designed
to enter a sanitary sewer system (including building drains) from
sources such as, but not limited to, Stormwater, roof leaders, cellar
drains, sump pumps, area drains, drains from springs and wetland areas,
manhole covers, cross connections between Storm Sewers and Sanitary
Sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, foundation drains, swimming
pools, surface runoff, street wash waters, or drainage. Inflow does
not include and is distinguished from Infiltration.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, either alone or in conjunction with a
discharge or discharges from other sources, both inhibits or disrupts
the Publicly Owned Treatment Works, its treatment processes or operations,
or its Sewage Sludge processes, use or disposal, and therefore causes
a violation of any requirement of the County's State Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System Permit (including an increase in the
magnitude or duration of a violation) or of the prevention of Sewage
Sludge use or disposal in accordance with the following statutory
provisions or any other statutory provisions in effect at the time
and regulations or Permits issued thereunder (or more stringent State
or local regulations):
A.
Section 405 of the Clean Water Act;
B.
Solid Waste Disposal Act (including Title II, more commonly
referred to as the "Resource Conservation and Recovery Act") as well
as State regulations contained in any State sludge management plan
prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act;
D.
Toxic Substance Control Act; and
E.
Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act.
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4)
A conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with
drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters,
ditches, manhole channels, or storm drains):
A.
Owned or operated by a state, county, city, town, borough, village
parish, district association or other public body (created by or pursuant
to State law) having jurisdiction over disposal of Sewage, Industrial
Wastes, Stormwater or other wastes, including special districts, under
State law, such as a sewer district, flood control district, or drainage
district, or similar entity, or an Indian tribe or an authorized Indian
tribal organization, or a designated and approved management agency
under Section 208 of the Clean Water Act that discharges to Waters
of the United States;
B.
Designed or used for collecting or conveying Stormwater;
C.
Which is not a Combined Sewer; and
D.
Which is not part of a Publicly Owned Treatment Works.
NATIONAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in accordance
with Sections 307(b) and (c) of the Clean Water Act, (33 U.S.C. § 1317)
which applies to Industrial Users. This term includes prohibition
discharge limits established pursuant to 40 CFR Part 403.5.
NEW SOURCE
Any building, structure, facility or installation from which
there is or may be a discharge of Pollutants, construction of which
began after the publication of the proposed Categorical Pretreatment
Standard pursuant to Section 307(c) of the Clean Water Act, which
will be applicable to such source if such Standards are thereafter
promulgated in accordance with that section, provided that certain
location and construction criteria are met.
NORMAL SEWAGE
Wastewater, which, when analyzed, shows Pollutant concentrations
which do not exceed 300 milligrams per liter Biochemical Oxygen Demand,
300 milligrams per liter Total Suspended Solids and/or 10 milligrams
per liter total phosphorus.
NUISANCE
The use or lack of use of the Publicly Owned Treatment Works
or County Storm Drainage System in such manner so as to endanger life
or health, give offense to the senses, obstruct or otherwise interfere
with the reasonable operation or maintenance of the Publicly Owned
Treatment Works or County Storm Drainage System.
PASS-THROUGH
A discharge which exits the POTW into Waters of the United
States in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction
with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a
violation of any requirement of the POTW's State Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System Permit (including any increase in the magnitude
or duration of a violation).
PERMIT
A temporary, revocable written document allowing the use
of the Publicly Owned Treatment Works for specific discharge of Wastewaters
over a limited period of time. Permits available from Monroe County
include, but are not limited to: Industrial Sewer Use Permits; Industrial
Waste Generator Permits; Scavenger Waste Hauler Disposal Permits;
Short-Term Discharge Permits; Recreational Vehicle Disposal Permits;
Sludge Generator Disposal Permits and Sewer Connection Permits.
PERSON
Any individual, public or private, corporation, partnership,
political subdivision, federal, State or local agency or entity, association,
trust, estate or any other legal entity whatsoever or an agent or
employee thereof.
pH
A measurement of the acid or base characteristics of an aqueous
solution expressed in standard units.
POLLUTANT
Anything which causes or contributes to pollution when placed/discharged
into or onto the State's waters, lands and/or air, which interferes
with the beneficial use of that water, land and/or air by any living
thing at any time. Pollutants may include, but are not limited to:
dredged spoil; solid waste incinerator residue; filter backwash; Sewage;
Sewage Sludge; munitions; chemical wastes; biological materials; radioactive
materials [except those regulated under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954,
as amended (42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.)]; heat; wrecked or discharged
equipment; rock; sand; cellar dirt; industrial, municipal, and agricultural
waste discharged into water; paints, varnishes and solvents; oil and
other automotive fluids; nonhazardous liquid; yard wastes; refuse,
rubbish, litter or other discarded or abandoned objects; ordinances
and accumulations, so that same may cause or contribute to pollution;
floatables; pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers; hazardous substances
and wastes; fecal coliform and pathogens; dissolved and particulate
metals; animal wastes; wastes and residues that result from constructing
a building or structure; and noxious or offensive matter of any kind.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENT
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a National Pretreatment Standard, imposed on an Industrial
User.
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
A facility that treats Sewage or other liquid wastes for
discharge into the groundwaters of New York State, serving one or
more parcels of land or residential households, or a private, commercial
or institutional facility.
PROCESS WASTEWATER
Any water which during manufacturing or processing comes
in direct contact with or results from the production or use of any
raw material, intermediate product, finished product, by-product,
or waste product.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Clean
Water Act, which is owned by a state or municipality [as defined by
Section 502(4) of the Clean Water Act]. This definition includes any
devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling and
reclamation of Sewage or Industrial Wastes of a liquid nature. It
also includes sewers, pipes and other conveyances only if they convey
Wastewater to a County-owned, -leased, or -operated Wastewater Treatment
Plant.
RECEIVING WATERS
A natural Watercourse or body of water into which treated
Wastewater is ultimately discharged.
RULE or REGULATION
Each statement of general or specific applicability that
implements, interprets or describes the organization, procedures,
or requirements of the County Sewer Districts as pertains to Users
and other Persons that may have an impact on operations of the Publicly
Owned Treatment Works.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which conveys Wastewater and to which Stormwater,
surface and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
SCAVENGER WASTES
Wastes hauled to the Publicly Owned Treatment Works, collected
from privies, septic tanks, cesspools, chemical toilets, camper and
marine holding tanks; Sewage Sludge or sludges from treatment of nonhazardous
Industrial Wastes; or other domestic, commercial and Industrial Waste.
SEWAGE
That component of Wastewater discharged from the sanitary
conveniences of dwellings (including apartments, houses and hotels,
industrial buildings and institutions) such as toilets, showers, dishwashers,
backwash from swimming pools, etc.
SEWAGE SLUDGE
Any solid, semi-solid, or liquid residue removed during the
treatment of municipal Wastewater or domestic Sewage. Sewage Sludge
includes, but is not limited to, solids removed during primary, secondary,
or advanced Wastewater treatment, scum, seepage, portable toilet pumpings,
Type III marine sanitation device pumpings, and Sewage Sludge products.
Sewage Sludge does not include grit or screenings, or ash generated
during the incineration of Sewage Sludge.
SLUG LOAD or SLUG DISCHARGE
Any discharge at a flow rate or concentration, which could cause a violation of the prohibited discharge Standards in §
343-15 of this Part
2. A Slug Discharge is any discharge of a nonroutine, episodic nature, including but not limited to an accidental spill or a noncustomary batch discharge, which has a reasonable potential to cause Interference or Pass-Through, or in any other way violate the POTW's regulations, local limits or Permit conditions.
STANDARD
A criterion established by the applicable regulatory authority.
STATE
The State of New York.
STATE POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMIT (SPDES)
The Permit issued by the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation [under authority delegated pursuant to 33 U.S.C. § 1342(b)]
that authorizes the discharge of Pollutants to Waters of the United
States, whether the Permit is applicable on an individual or general
area-wide basis.
STORM SEWER
A sewer system which collects and conveys Stormwater and
drainage. Storm Sewers are separate from Combined and Sanitary Sewers.
STORMWATER
The flow resulting from any natural form of precipitation,
whether retained temporarily or not.
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS (TSS)
The dry weight expressed in milligrams per liter of solids
that either, float on the surface, are in suspension in Wastewater,
or are settleable and can be removed from Wastewater by filtration,
as determined by an Approved Laboratory Procedure.
UNPOLLUTED WATERS
Stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface
drainage and uncontaminated Cooling Water.
USER
Any individual, association, organization, partnership, firm,
corporation or other entity discharging to the Publicly Owned Treatment
Works or County Storm Drainage System.
USER, INDUSTRIAL
Any source that discharges Industrial Waste to the Publicly
Owned Treatment Works.
USER, SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL (SIU)
Unless exempted under procedures defined in 40 CFR Chapter
1, Subchapter N, Part 403, any Industrial User of the Publicly Owned Treatment Works who:
A.
Is subject to Categorical Pretreatment Standards; or
B.
Discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of Process
Wastewater to the Publicly Owned Treatment Works, unless this volume
is modified and approved by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency; or
C.
Contributes a Process Wastewater stream which makes up 5% or
more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the
Wastewater Treatment Plant; or
D.
Is designated as such by the Director on the basis that the
Industrial User has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting
the Publicly Owned Treatment Works operation or for violating any
National Pretreatment Standard or Pretreatment Requirement.
WASTEWATER
Liquid and water-carried Industrial Wastes and Sewage from
residential dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial and manufacturing
facilities and institutions, whether treated or untreated, which are
contributed to the Publicly Owned Treatment Works.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
That portion of the POTW which is designated to provide treatment
(including recycling and reclamation) of municipal Sewage and Industrial
Waste.
The following abbrevations shall have the meanings indicated:
BMP
Best Management Practices.
BOD
Biochemical Oxygen Demand.
CAP
Corrective action plan.
CERCLA
Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability
Act.
CFR
Code of Federal Regulations.
EPA
United States Environmental Protection Agency.
FOG
Fats, Oils and Grease.
I & I
Inflow and Infiltration.
MS4
Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System.
NELAC
National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference.
NYCRR
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations.
NYSDEC
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
POTW
Publicly Owned Treatment Works.
RCRA
Resource Conservation Recovery Act.
SPDES
State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
TSS
Total Suspended Solids.