Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, certain
terms or words used herein shall be interpreted or defined as follows:
BUILDING DRAIN
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.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any liquid, gaseous, solid or other waste substance, or a
combination thereof, resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing,
trade or business or from the development or recovery of any natural
resources.
[Amended 10-3-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994]
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of the hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
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, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and which is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
The water-carried human or animal wastes and permissible
industrial wastes from residences, buildings, industrial establishments
or other places, together with such groundwater infiltration and surface
water as may be present.
[Amended 10-3-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994]
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SLUG
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.
SUPERINTENDENT
The official appointed by the Town Board to supervise the
management of sewage collection and treatment facilities in the town
or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
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
filtering.
TOWN
The municipality, any sewer districts or extensions thereunder,
the Supervisor and any and all employees or agents designated to enforce
the provisions of this chapter.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage; also referred to as a "sewage treatment plant".