A. BOARD OF SEWER COMMISSIONERS BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand") BUILDING DRAIN BUILDING SEWER CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER DISCOLORATION GARBAGE HEALTH OFFICER INDUSTRIAL WASTE JOINT REGIONAL SEWERAGE BOARD MUNICIPALITY NATURAL OUTLET PERSON pH PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE PUBLIC SEWER SANITARY SEWAGE SANITARY SEWER SEWAGE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT SEWAGE WORKS SEWER SLUG STORM DRAIN (sometimes termed "storm sewer") SUSPENDED SOLIDS WATERCOURSE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The Board of Sewer Commissioners appointed by the Board of Trustees in accordance with § 3-308 of the Village Law and charged with administering the sewerage system of the Village of Pomona.
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 sewer system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of a building and conveys it to the building sewer, at a point five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension of the pipe from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
The Code Enforcement Officer of the Village of Pomona.
[Amended 2-8-1988 by L.L. No. 1-1988]
An intensity of color in the untreated waste which is less than 80% luminance as determined by the spectrophotometric method defined by Standard Methods, and shall also mean such color as will, in combination with domestic wastes, not be susceptible to removal by secondary treatment methods used for domestic wastes.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
The Health Officer or the person duly licensed by the Public Health Law, State of New York, or other applicable law, and performing the duties of Health Officer of this municipality.
Any liquid, gaseous, solid or 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, which may cause or might reasonably be expected to cause pollution of the waters of the state in contravention of the standards adopted in the Public Health Law.
The Board governing the Joint Sewerage Project.
The Village of Pomona.
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.
Those septic tanks, cesspools, sewage disposal devices or subsurface drainage systems in connection with the foregoing serving or designed to serve residential, business or commercial structures and any establishment producing industrial wastes.
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.
A sewer which is owned or controlled by municipal or public authority.
The liquid and intermixed solid wastes from homes or other structures, exclusive of industrial wastes or storm- and surface waters and drainage.
A sewer which carries sanitary sewage and to which storm-, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of sanitary sewage and industrial waste, together with such ground-, surface and storm waters 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 waters.
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.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
B.
The term "shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.