As used in this Part 1, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
ABNORMAL SEWAGE
Sewage whose concentration of one or more characteristics
of normal sewage exceeds the maximum concentrations of the characteristics
of normal sewage. See "normal sewage."
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., as
may be amended.
ADMINISTRATOR
The regional administrator of the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (USEPA), Region 2.
AMMONIA
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the quantity of ammonia in a sample, expressed as milligrams
of nitrogen per liter.
APPLICANT
Any person or entity who makes application for any wastewater-related
permit.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
The USEPA, or the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation (NYSDEC) in the event that the NYSDEC is delegated approval
authority responsibility by the USEPA.
APPROVED LABORATORY PROCEDURE
The procedures defined as "standard methods" in this article,
or those specified in 40 CFR 136, or otherwise specified by any other
regulatory agency of appropriate jurisdiction for determining the
concentration of pollutants or their surrogates in waters, wastewaters
and/or sludges.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INDUSTRIAL USER
An authorized representative of the industrial user may be:
(1)
A principal executive officer of at least the
level of a vice president, if the industrial user is a corporation.
(2)
A general partner or proprietor, if the industrial
user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively.
(3)
A duly authorized representative of the individual
designated above, if such representative is responsible for the overall
operation of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
BOD-5, (denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under an approved laboratory procedure for five
days at 20º C., usually expressed as a concentration (e.g., milligrams
per liter).
BUILDER
Any person who undertakes to construct a building or any
part of a building, either under contract or for resale.
BUILDING SEWER
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 building walls and conveys it to the building lateral,
which begins five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BYPASS
The intentional diversion of waste streams from any portion
of an industrial user's treatment facility.
CFR
Code of Federal Regulations.
CHLORINE DEMAND
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the difference between the amount of chlorine added to
a sample and the amount of chlorine remaining in the sample at the
end of a specified contact time at room temperature, expressed in
milligrams per liter.
CITY
The City of Glen Cove, Nassau County, New York.
CITY ATTORNEY
The Office of the City Attorney for the City of Glen Cove.
CITY COUNCIL
The duly elected City Council of the City of Glen Cove.
COD (denoting Chemical Oxygen Demand)
A measure of the oxygen-consuming capacity of inorganic and
organic matter present in wastewater. It is expressed as the amount
of oxygen consumed from a chemical oxidation utilizing an approved
laboratory procedure, expressed in milligrams per liter.
COLOR
The optical density at the visual wavelength of maximum absorption,
relative to distilled water. One hundred percent transmittance is
equivalent to zero optical density.
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.
CONNECTION
Attachment of one user to the city's sewer. (See "extension.")
CONNECTION CHARGE (TAP FEE)
The one-time application fee to offset City of Glen Cove
expenses to process an application for a connection of a building/street
lateral to the public sewer. The fee also covers plan review, permit
issuance, street repair cost and inspection costs. The fee may be
scaled to the amount of work involved, or to the size of the public
sewer involved.
CONTROL AUTHORITY
Refers to approval authority, or to the Director when City
of Glen Cove has an approved pretreatment program under the provisions
of 40 CFR 403.11.
CONTROL MANHOLE
A manhole accessible to the control authority in or upstream
of the street lateral, such that samples collected from the manhole
represent the discharge to the POTW.
CONVENTIONAL POLLUTANT
A pollutant that the POTW treatment plant was designed to
treat, defined in accordance with the Act.
COOLING WATER, CONTACT
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, refrigeration or other sources. It shall contain no
polluting substances which would produce COD or suspended solids in
excess of five milligrams per liter, or toxic substances, as limited
elsewhere in this Part 1.
COOLING WATER, NONCONTACT
Water used for cooling which does not come into direct contact
with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product or finished
product and which contains no pollutants.
COUNTY
Nassau County, New York.
DEVELOPER
Any person who subdivides land for the purpose of constructing,
or causing to be constructed, buildings for which wastewater disposal
facilities are required.
DIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to tidal or coastal or surface waters. (For reference, see "indirect
discharge.")
DIRECTOR
The Director of Public Works of the City of Glen Cove or
his or her authorized deputy, agent or representative.
DISCHARGE PERMIT
A temporary revocable written document allowing use of the
POTW for specified wastes over a limited period of time, containing
sampling locations and reporting frequencies, and requiring other
actions as authorized by this Part 1.
DISCHARGE PERMITTEE
The significant industrial user or any other user who has
been issued a discharge permit pursuant to this Part 1.
DRY SEWERS
The sanitary sewer installed in anticipation of future connection
to the city's POTW but which is not used, in the meantime, for transport
of storm or sanitary sewage.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
END OF PIPE
For the purpose of determining compliance with limitations
prescribed by this Part 1, "end of pipe" shall mean the control manhole
or approved control sampling point, provided that the samples collected
from the control manhole or sampling point are representative of the
discharge to the POTW.
ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE PLAN
A plan describing the enforcement mechanisms to ensure compliance with this Part
1, as noted in Article
IX of this Part
1.
EPA, USEPA or UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
The agency of the federal government charged with the administration
and enforcement of federal environmental laws, rules and regulations.
Also may be used as a designation for the administrator or other duly
authorized official of this agency.
EXTENSION
Attachment of a sewer line with more than one user to an
existing sewer line.
FACILITY
All buildings, other structures, grounds and contiguous property
at any locations related to or connected with a user at the user's
location.
FLOATABLE OIL
Oil, grease or fat in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in a wastewater treatment
facility.
FLOW RATE
The quantity of liquid or waste that flows in a certain period
of time.
GARBAGE
The solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food, from the handling, storage and sale of produce and from the
packaging and canning of food.
GRAB SAMPLE
A single sample of wastewater representing the physical,
chemical and biological characteristics of the wastewater at one point
and time.
HEARING BOARD
The representatives of the city or duly appointed designees authorized by Article
IX of this Part
1 to adjudicate appeals for violations of this Part
1.
ICS FORM
The form used by the NYSDEC to survey industries to perform
and update the industrial chemical survey.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
The introduction of wastewater into the city's POTW for treatment
and ultimate discharge of the treated effluent to tidal or coastal
or surface waters. (For reference, see "direct discharge.")
INDUSTRIAL
Meaning or pertaining to industry, manufacturing, commerce,
trade, business or institution, and is distinguished from domestic
or residential.
INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL SURVEY (ICS)
The survey of industries in New York State, initiated by
the NYSDEC, to determine chemical usage and storage by those industries.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid or liquid-carried solid, liquid and/or gaseous
wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, service, utility
or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INFILTRATION
Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system
(excluding building drains) from the ground through such means as
defective pipes, pipe joints, connections or manholes. Infiltration
does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow. Infiltration
is inadvertent, that is, not purposely designed or built into the
sewer or drain.
INFLOW
Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system
(including building drains) from sources such as, but not limited
to, roof leaders, cellar drains, area drains, drains from springs
and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross-connections between storm
sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, stormwaters,
foundation drains, swimming pools, surface runoff, street wash waters
or drainage. Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.
Inflow is purposely designed and/or built into the sewer or drain.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with discharges
from other sources, both:
(1)
Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment
processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal;
and
(2)
Therefore is a cause of a violation of any requirement
of the POTW's SPDES 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):
(a)
ection 405 of the Clean Water Act.
(b)
The Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), 42 U.S.C.
§ 6901 et seq. (including Title II, more commonly referred
to as the "Resource Conservation and Recovery Act," RCRA), and including
state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared
pursuant to Subtitle D of the SWDA),
(c)
The Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7401
et seq.
(d)
The Toxic Substance Control Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2601
et seq.
(e)
The Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries
Act.
LATERAL, BUILDING
The sewer extension from the building drain to the street
lateral or other place of wastewater disposal.
LATERAL, STREET
The sewer extension from the public sewer to the property
line.
MASS DISCHARGE LIMITS
The limit imposed by permit upon the loading of a particular
pollutant or parameter, expressed in pounds per day or other units,
as appropriate.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD, or CATEGORICAL STANDARD
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with § 307(B) and (c) of the Act
(22 U.S.C. § 1347), which applies to a specific category
of industrial users. These standards apply at the end of the categorical
process (end of process).
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
to state's waters.
NEW OWNER
That individual or entity who purchased property within the
service area of the City of Glen Cove after the effective date of
this Part 1.
NEW SOURCE
Any source which is commenced after the publication of proposed
regulations prescribed by § 307(c) of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1317) categorical pretreatment standards which will be
applicable to such source, if the standard is thereafter promulgated.
NEW USER
A discharger to the POTW who commences discharge after the
effective date of this Part 1.
NUISANCE
The creation of any condition, or a discharge to the POTW
in such a manner so as to endanger life or health, give offense to
the senses or obstruct or otherwise interfere with the reasonable
use or maintenance of the POTW.
NYSDEC
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
OIL AND GREASE
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine the quantity of fats, wax, grease and oil in a sample,
expressed in milligrams per liter.
OLD OWNER
That individual or entity who owns or owned a property, within
the service area of the POTW, purchased prior to the effective date
of this Part 1, or who inherited the property at any time and intends
to sell the property, or has sold the property to a new owner, also
the agent of the old owner.
OTHER WASTES
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, eggshells,
coffee grounds, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, ashes and all
other discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial
wastes. Also, the discarded matter not normally present in sewage
or industrial waste.
PASS THROUGH
The discharge which exits the POTW into waters of New York
State in quantities, which, alone or in conjunction with discharges
from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of
the POTW's SPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or
duration of a violation).
PERMIT
See "discharge permit."
PERSON
Includes an individual, partnership, corporation, association,
scientific or academic establishment, government agency, or organizational
unit thereof, and any other legal entity.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of
hydrogen ions, expressed in standard units.
POLLUTANT
Any material placed into or onto tidal, coastal or surface water or land which interferes with the beneficial use of that water or land or is otherwise designated as a pollutant by federal, state or other law. The term specifically includes: dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, petroleum or petroleum wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water. For the purposes of this Part
1, the term also means sewage from vessels within the meaning of § 312 of the Act.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and/or radiological integrity of tidal, coastal or surface
waters, lands and/or airs resulting from the introduction of a pollutant
into these media.
POTW TREATMENT PLANT
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater, and to treat sludge and residuals derived from such treatment.
PRETREATMENT (TREATMENT)
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
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 into the POTW. The reduction
or alteration can be achieved by physical, chemical or biological
process, process changes, or by other means, except as prohibited
by 40 CFR 403.6(D).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial
user.
PRIORITY POLLUTANTS
The most recently revised or updated list of priority pollutants,
developed by the EPA, in accordance with the Act.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
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, and with no particle having a dimension greater than
1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works, as defined by § 212 of the Act
(33 U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned, in this instance, by
City of Glen Cove. This definition includes any sewers and appurtenances
that transport wastewater to the POTW treatment plant, but does not
include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected directly
or indirectly to a facility providing treatment.
RECEIVING WATERS
A natural watercourse or body of water, including tidal,
coastal or surface waters, into which treated or untreated sewage
is discharged. Such waters shall include all streams, lakes, ponds,
marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers,
irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulations
of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or
private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the
State of New York or any portion thereof.
RECORDS
Includes any documents or other things subject to the disclosure rules of Article 31 of the New York State Civil Practice Law and Rules, or required to be maintained by this Part
1.
ROOF DRAIN
A drain installed to receive water collecting on the surface
of a roof for disposal.
SEPTAGE
All liquids and solids in and removed from septic tanks,
holding tanks, cesspools or approved type of chemical toilets, including
but not limited to those serving private residences, commercial establishments,
institutions and industries. Also sludge from small sewage treatment
plants. Septage shall not have been contaminated with substances of
concern or priority pollutants.
SEPTIC TANK
A private domestic sewage treatment system consisting of
an underground tank (with suitable baffling), constructed in accordance
with any and/or all local and state requirement.
SERVICE AREA OF THE POTW
The legally defined bounds of real property from which wastewater
may be discharged into the POTW. The bounds shall be established,
altered, changed, modified, reduced, enlarged, combined or consolidated
by action of the City of Glen Cove City Council.
SEVERE PROPERTY DAMAGE
Substantial physical damage to property, damage to the treatment
facilities which causes them to become inoperable or substantial and
permanent loss of natural resources which can reasonably be expected
to occur in the absence of a bypass. Severe property damage does not
mean economic loss caused by delays in production.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, and
such groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be inadvertently
present. The mixture of sewage, as defined above, with industrial
wastes and other wastes shall also be considered sewage within the
meaning of this definition.
SEWAGE, DOMESTIC (DOMESTIC WASTES)
Liquid wastes from the noncommercial preparation, cooking
and handling of food, liquid wastes containing human excrement and
similar matter from the sanitary conveniences in dwellings, commercial
buildings, industrial buildings and institutions, or liquid wastes
from clothes washing and/or floor/wall washing. Therefore, domestic
sewage includes both black water and grey water. (See "sewage, sanitary.")
SEWAGE, NORMAL
(1)
Sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes, which
show, by analysis, the following characteristics:
(a)
BOD (five-day): 250 milligrams per liter or
less.
(b)
Suspended solids: 240 milligrams per liter or
less.
(c)
Phosphorus: 50 milligrams per liter or less.
(d)
Ammonia: 30 milligrams per liter or less.
(e)
Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen: 50 milligrams per liter
or less.
(f)
Total Nitrogen: 40 milligrams per liter or less.
(g)
Chlorine demand: 15 milligrams per liter or
less.
(h)
Chemical oxygen demand: 350 milligrams per liter
or less.
(i)
Oil and grease: 100 milligrams per liter or
less.
(2)
Despite satisfying one or more of these characteristics,
if the sewage also contains substances of concern, it may not be considered
normal sewage.
SEWAGE, SANITARY
Liquid wastes from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings
(including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, factories
or institutions, and free from stormwater, surface water, industrial
wastes and other wastes. (See "domestic wastes.")
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying or transporting sewage.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM (also POTW)
All facilities for collecting, regulating, pumping and transporting
wastewater to and away from the POTW treatment plant.
SEWERAGE SURCHARGE
The demand payment for the use of a public sewer and/or sewage
treatment plant for the handling of any sewage, industrial wastes
or other wastes accepted for admission thereto in which the characteristics
thereof exceed the maximum values of such characteristics in normal
sewage. (See "volume charge.")
SEWER, COMBINED
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff
and sewage.
SEWER, PUBLIC
A sewer in which all abutting property owners have equal
rights, and the use of which is controlled by the City of Glen Cove.
SEWER, SANITARY
A sewer which carries sewage, and to which stormwater, surface
waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWER, STORM (STORM DRAIN)
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastewaters, other than cooling
waters and other unpolluted waters.
SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE (SNC)
A user is in significant noncompliance if it is in violation
of or meets one or more of the criteria defined in 40 CFR 403, as
amended.
SLUG
A substantial deviation from normal rates of discharge or
constituent concentration (see normal sewage) sufficient to cause
interference and/or pass-through; or a discharge which, in concentration
of any constituent or in quantity of flow, that exceeds, for any period
of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five times the average
twenty-four-hour concentration or flow during normal user operations,
shall constitute a slug.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972, and subsequent revisions.
STANDARD METHODS
Procedures contained in the latest edition of Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American
Public Health Association; procedures established by the Administrator,
pursuant to § 304(G) of the Act and contained in 40 CFR
136, and amendments thereto (If 40 CFR 136 does not include a sampling
or analytical technique for the pollutant in question, then procedures
set forth in EPA publication, Sampling and Analysis Procedures for
Screening of Industrial Effluents for Priority Pollutants, April 1977,
and amendments thereto, shall be used.); any other procedure approved
by the Director, whichever is the most conservative.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation; also the flow resulting therefrom.
SUBSTANCES OF CONCERN
Those compounds which the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation has determined may be harmful to man or the environment.
SUMP PUMP
A mechanism used for removing water or wastewater from a
sump or wet well.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the dry weight of solids, in a sample, that either float
on the surface of or are in suspension or are settleable, and can
be removed from the sample by filtration, expressed in milligrams
per liter.
TOTAL KJELDAHL NITROGEN (TKN)
The sum of ammonia nitrogen and organic nitrogen as determined
by an approved laboratory procedure, expressed in milligrams of nitrogen
per liter.
TOTAL NITROGEN (TN)
The sum of organic, ammonia, nitrate and nitrite nitrogen
concentrations contained in an individual sample, determined by approved
laboratory procedures and expressed as milligrams per liter.
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
Any substance, or any pollutant or combination of pollutants
listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the EPA under provisions
of § 307(a), or any pollutant identified in regulations
implementing § 405(d) of the Act.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the POTW.
USER, EXISTING
A discharger to the POTW who is discharging on or before
the effective date of this Part 1.
USER, INDUSTRIAL
A discharger to the POTW who discharges nondomestic wastewaters.
USER, NEW
A discharger to the POTW who initiates discharge after the
effective date of this Part 1.
USER, SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL (SIU
(1)
A user subject to categorical pretreatment standards;
or
(2)
A user that:
(a)
Discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per
day or more of process wastewater to the POTW (excluding sanitary,
noncontact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater);
(b)
Contributes a process waste stream which makes
up 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic loading
to the POTW treatment plant; or
(c)
Is designated as such by the city on the basis
that it has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's
operation (inhibition, pass-through of pollutants, sludge contamination
or endangerment of POTW workers) or for violating any pretreatment
standard or requirement.
(3)
Upon a finding that a user meeting the criteria
in Subsection 2(b) of this subsection has no reasonable potential
for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any
pretreatment standard or requirement, the city may at any time, on
its own initiative or in response to a petition received from a user,
and in accordance with procedures in 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine
that such user should not be considered a significant industrial user.
VOLUME CHARGE (USER CHARGE)
The demand sewer use charge which is based, in part or wholly,
on the volume of normal sewage discharged into the POTW (there may
be surcharges, as provided elsewhere in this Part 1). The volume charge
shall be based on a specific cost per 100 cubic feet or per 1,000
gallons. The specific charge shall be subject to approval by the City
Council. The moneys so obtained shall be used for current operation
and maintenance, for retirement of bonded indebtedness and for funding
of capital projects of the POTW and sewer collection system. The volume
charge or surcharge rates may be recalculated annually.
WASTES
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance discarded or disposed
of by any user.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastewaters
from dwellings, commercial establishments, industrial facilities and
institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater
that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed
into or permitted to enter the POTW.