Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
BOD (DENOTING 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., expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
carrying sewage which receives discharge from soil, waste and other
drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to
the building's sewer.
COMMERCIAL-INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any and all other wastes not being domestic wastes, including
but not limited to the wastes from commercial, laboratory and industrial
processes, wastes from domestic operations, or certain trade operations,
such as sand, grit, waste petroleum products from automotive service
stations and the like, animal wastes, straw and related items from
dairy or other farming operations.
DOMESTIC WASTES
Waterborne human or animal excreta or body wastes and normal
culinary, laundry and washing wastes originating in residences.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
OWNER
Any person in title to or having any interest in real property
in any of the sanitary sewer districts and their extension or extensions,
and/or any drainage district or districts now existing or subsequently
created by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Brockport, New
York.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that has 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 1/4 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer which is controlled by Sewer Commissions of the Village
of Brockport, New York.
SANITARY SEWER
A pipe or conduit which carries sewage and to which stormwater,
surface waters and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
The water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings,
institutions and industrial establishments and other places.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage under the control of the Sewer Commissions of the Village of
Brockport, New York.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER DISTRICT
Any of the sanitary sewer systems, sewer districts and their
extension or extensions, and/or any drainage district or districts
now existing or subsequently created by the Board of Trustees of the
Village of Brockport.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface water drainage
but excludes sewage, commercial-industrial and domestic wastes.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of Public Works of the Village of Brockport.
His office is now located in the Village Hall on Market Street, in
the Village of Brockport, 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
filterings.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously
or intermittently.