Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
BOARD OF SEWER COMMISSIONERS
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.
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 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.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension of the pipe from the building drain to the
public sewer or other place of disposal.
DISCOLORATION
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.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
HEALTH OFFICER
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.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
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.
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 hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
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.
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 which is owned or controlled by municipal or public
authority.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The liquid and intermixed solid wastes from homes or other
structures, exclusive of industrial wastes or storm- and surface waters
and drainage.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sanitary sewage and to which storm-,
surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of sanitary sewage and industrial waste, together
with such ground-, surface and storm waters as may be present.
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.
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.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.