A.
Word usage.
(1)
Unless otherwise defined herein, technical terms shall
be as defined in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Health Association,
the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control
Federation.
(2)
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
B.
BOARD
BOD (denoting BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
COMBINED SEWER
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
COOLING WATER
DEC
EFFLUENT
EPA
FEDERAL ACT or ACT
FLOW RATE
GARBAGE
GRAB SAMPLE
HOLDING TANK WASTE
INDUSTRIAL USER
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT
INFLUENT
INTERFERENCE
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY
NORMAL SEWAGE
OWNERS
PERSON
pH
POTW or PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS
PREMISES
PRETREATMENT
PRIVATE SEWER
PUBLIC SEWER
RCRA
SANITARY SEWER
SANITARY WASTE
SEWER
SEWER SYSTEM
SHREDDED GARBAGE
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USERS
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
SPDES PERMIT
STORM SEWER
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
TREATMENT PLANT
UNPOLLUTED WATER
USER
WASTEWATER
WASTEWATER CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS
Whenever used in these rules and regulations, unless
otherwise expressly stated or required by subject matter or context,
the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
The Town Board of the Town of Owego.
The quantity of oxygen used 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
which begins five feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the
building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
A sewer intended to receive stormwater and surface water
as well as wastewater.
A combination of individual samples of wastewater taken at
selected intervals, generally hourly, for a specified period. Individual
samples may have equal volume or may be proportioned to the flow at
the time of sampling.
The water discharges from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other sources. It shall contain
no polluting substances which would produce BOD or suspended solids,
each in excess of 10 milligrams per liter.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Treated wastewater flowing from any treatment device of a
facility.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
The 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments,
Public Law 92-500, 1977 Clean Water Act, Public Law 95-217 and any
amendments thereto, as well as any guidelines, limitations and standards
promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant
to the Act.
The quantity of waste or liquid that flows in a certain period
of time.
Animal and vegetable wastes from the preparation, cooking
and disposing of food and from the handling, processing, storage and
sale of food products and produce.
A single sample of wastewater taken at neither a set time
nor flow rate.
Any sanitary waste from holding tanks, such as marine vessels,
chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum pump
tank trucks.
Any nonresidential user served by the POTW, which user is
identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972,
Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented under
one of the following divisions:
Any discarded matter, including any liquid, gaseous or solid
substance, or a combination thereof, resulting from any process of
industry or manufacturing, processes, trade or business or from development
or recovery of natural resources. The term shall not include garbage.
Wastewater in which industrial wastes are carried.
A permit, issued by the Board, authorizing the user to deposit
or discharge industrial wastewater into any public sewer served by
the Consolidated Sewer District.
Wastewater, raw or partly treated, flowing into any sewage
treatment device of sewage treatment facilities.
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes
or operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal. The term includes
any action which contributes to a violation of any requirement of
the Town of Owego's SPDES permit or which results in the prevention
of sewage sludge reuse, reclamation or disposal by the POTW in accordance
with Section 405 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1345) or any criteria,
guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal
Act (SWDA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean
Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act or any more stringent state
criteria applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the
POTW.
All significant industrial users and any other industries
having a wet process discharge to the sewer system.
Sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes having pollutant
concentrations which do not exceed 240 mg/l of BOD5, 300 mg/l of TSS or 50 mg/l of oil and grease and which is otherwise
acceptable for discharge into the POTW under the terms of these rules
and regulations. The numbers and values of characteristics are subject
to revision by the Town Board when, in the opinion of the Board, a
revision is necessary in order to maintain the physical integrity
of the POTW or to maintain the treatment works' capability of providing
treatment in compliance with federal, state or local standards.
The Town of Owego.
Any individual, firm, company, partnership, association,
private or public corporation, political subdivision, governmental
agency, municipality, industry, trust, estate or any other legal entity
whatsoever.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
The Consolidated Sewer District's sewage treatment plants.
This term also includes any devices or systems used in the storage,
treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial
wastes of liquid nature by the Town of Owego Consolidated Sewer District.
This includes intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection
systems, pumping power and other equipment and their appurtenances;
extensions, improvements, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof;
elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby
treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works, including
site acquisition of the land, that will be an integral part of the
treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal or residues resulting
from such treatment; or any other method or system for preventing,
abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating or disposing of municipal
waste, including stormwater runoff or industrial waste, including
waste in combined stormwater and sanitary sewer systems.
Any parcel or real property, including land, improvements,
appurtenances or buildings, grounds, etc.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater prior to discharge to the POTW.
A sewer which is not owned or controlled by a public agency.
A sewer which is owned or controlled by a governmental agency.
This term includes any devices or systems used by the governmental
agency in the storage, transmission, treatment or reclamation of municipal
sewage or industrial wastes.
The Solid Waste Disposal Act as amended by the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended (RCRA), P.L. 94-580, as amended
by P.L. 95-609 and by P.L. 96-482; 42 U.S.C. § 6091.
A sewer intended to carry only sanitary or sanitary and industrial
wastewater from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants
and institutions.
Wash water, culinary wastes, the liquid waste containing
only human excreta and similar matter, flowing in or from a building
drainage system or sewer originating in a dwelling, business building,
factory or institution.
A pipe or conduit for carrying wastewater. The term includes
sanitary sewers and combined sewers.
All sewers, laterals, pump stations, treatment plant or other
conveyances which connect with or pertain to a connection with the
sewers, plant or public works.
Garbage shredded to such a degree that all particles will
be carried freely under flow conditions normally prevailing in public
sewers, with no particle having any dimension greater than 1/2 inch.
Those industries meeting one or more of the following criteria:
All industrial facilities subject to promulgated
federal categorical pretreatment standards.
Industrial facilities having a substantial impact,
either singly or in combination with other industrial facilities,
on the operation of the treatment works.
A single industrial facility using, on an annual
basis, more than 10,000 pounds or 1,000 gallons of substance constituting
a priority pollutant (designated pursuant to the Act) and discharging
a measurable amount of that substance to the sewer system from the
process using that substance.
Those industries discharging more than 1% of
the average daily flow or more than 1% of the load of conventional
pollutants tributary to the treatment plant receiving the waste.
All industries discharging heavy metals in any
quantity or priority pollutants in any amount where the Board determines
that the discharge of such materials into the sewer system may have
a significant impact on or may interfere with the POTW.
A wastewater discharge permit issued by the DEC under the
State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
A sewer intended to carry only stormwaters, surface runoff,
street wash waters and/or drainage exclusive of sanitary wastes.
The total suspended matter in water or wastewater, as determined
by the Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
Any substances, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, which,
when discharged to the sewer system in sufficient amounts, may tend
to interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard
to the receiving waters of the effluent from the sewage treatment
plant, pose a hazard to sewer maintenance personnel or constitute
a hazard to animal life or inhibit aquatic life. This definition includes,
but is not limited to, EPA priority pollutants.
The Consolidated Sewer District sewage treatment plants.
Water to which no constituent has been added, either intentionally
or accidentally, which would render such water unacceptable to the
agency having jurisdiction thereof for disposal to storm or natural
drainage or directly to surface waters.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the POTW, including the Consolidated Sewer District
sewage treatment plants.
The water-carried domestic, human or animal waste from residences,
buildings, industrial establishments or other places, together with
such ground infiltration and industrial and commercial wastes as may
be present.
The individual chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological
parameters, including volume, flow rate and such other parameters,
that serve to define, classify and measure the contents, quality,
quantity and strength of wastewater.
