Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
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.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
The Keuka Park Sewer District and extensions thereto.
A publicly owned pressurized pipe to convey sanitary sewage.
A privately owned pipe running from a private pumping facility to a public sewer or force main.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trades or businesses as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
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.
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 1/4 inch in any dimension.
A sewer or force main in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and which is controlled by a public authority.
A sewer flowing by gravity, which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
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.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste 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 or flows during normal operation.
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
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.
Town of Jerusalem and shall mean the Town Board or its agents.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.