It is the purpose of this chapter to protect
the sewage collection and treatment facilities, to prevent danger
to life or damage to property, to promote the health, safety and general
welfare, to prohibit the introduction of stormwater, surface water,
subsurface water or sump pump water into the sanitary sewers, to provide
for the fair distribution of treatment costs and to form a basis and
policy for controlling of wastes accepted into the sewage systems
of the Village of Clyde, State of New York.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Act, also known as the "Clean
Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
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 buildings 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.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1347) which applies to a specific category of industrial
users.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
NYSDEC
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
or duly authorized official of said Department.
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 Village of Clyde.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter solution.
POTW
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292), and such includes any sewers that convey
wastewater to the POTW but such does not include pipes, sewers or
other conveyances not connected to a facility providing treatment.
POTW TREATMENT PLANT
That portion of a POTW which is designed to provide treatment
(including recycling and reclamation) of municipal sewage and industrial
waste.
PRETREATMENT
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
Pollutant Regulations for Existing and New Sources of Pollution.
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 dimensions.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer which is controlled by the Sewer Commission of the
Village of Clyde.
SANITARY SEWER
A pipe or conduit which carries sewage and to which stormwater,
surface water and groundwater and are not intentionally admitted into
the sewerage system.
SEWAGE
The water carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings,
institutions and industrial establishments and other places.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM
The sanitary sewerage system and its extension or extensions
and/or any drainage system or systems now existing or subsequently
created by the Village Board of the Village of Clyde, State of New
York.
SEWER COMMISSION
The duly appointed Board of Sewer Commissioners of the Village
of Clyde, State of New York.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
A.
All industries subject to promulgated categorical pretreatment
standards;
B.
Industries having substantial impact either singly or in combination
with other contributing industries on the operation of the treatment
works;
C.
Manufacturing industries using, on an annual basis, more than
10,000 pounds or 1,000 gallons of raw material containing priority
pollutants/substances of concern and discharging a measurable amount
of these pollutants to the sewer system from the process using these
pollutants;
D.
Those industries discharging more than 5% of the flow or load
carried by the treatment plant receiving the waste.
SPDES
The State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System established
by Article 17 of the Environmental Conservation Law of the State of
New York for issuance of permits authorizing discharge to the waters
of the State of New York.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer or drain which carries stormwater, sump pump or surface
water drainage but such shall exclude sewage, commercial-industrial
and domestic wastes.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Village of Clyde official in charge of sewers under the
direction of the Sewer Commission of the Village of Clyde.
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.
USEPA
United States Environmental Protection Agency or duly authorized
official of said agency.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously
or intermittently.