Unless otherwise stated in the section where
the term is used in this chapter, the meaning of terms used in this
chapter shall be as stated below. When not inconsistent with the context,
the present tense shall include the future, and words used in the
plural shall include the singular and vice versa. Furthermore, a masculine
pronoun shall include the feminine. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is
permissive.
Sewage whose concentration of one or more characteristics
of normal sewage exceeds the maximum concentrations of the characteristics
of normal sewage. See "normal sewage."
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., as
the same may be amended.
The Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (USEPA), Region II.
The analytical result obtained, using an approved laboratory
procedure, to determine the quantity of ammonia in a sample, expressed
as milligrams of nitrogen per liter.
That person who makes application for any permit. The applicant
may be an owner, current, former or new, or his agent.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA),
or the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC)
in the event the NYSDEC is delegated approval authority responsibility
by the USEPA.
The procedures defined as "Standard Methods" in this article,
or other procedures approved by the sewer district, for flow measurement
or determination of the concentration of pollutants or their surrogates
in waters, wastewaters, and/or sludges.
The latest edition of any ASTM specification, when stipulated
in this chapter, or any successor specifications.
The duly appointed attorney for the Town Board of the Town
of Wawayanda.
An authorized representative of the industrial user may be:
A principal executive officer of at least the
level of vice president, if the industrial user is a corporation;
A general or managing partner or proprietor,
if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively;
A managing member, if the industrial user is
a limited liability company; or
A federal, state or local governmental facility: a director
or highest official appointed or designated to oversee the operation
and performance of the activities of the government facility or his
or her designee.
[Added 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023[1]]
A duly authorized representative of the individual
designated above, if such representative is responsible for the overall
operation of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
The duly authorized representative shall be identified in writing.
The authorization shall specify the individual or position responsible
for the overall operation of the facility from which the discharge
originates or have an overall responsibility for environmental matters
for the company and the written authorization is submitted to the
Town of Wawayanda.
[Amended 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023]
BMPs refers to schedules of activities, prohibition of practices,
maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement
the prohibitions listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1)(b). BMPs include treatment
requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant
site runoff, spills or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage
from raw materials storage.
[Added 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023]
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the aerobic biochemical
oxidation of organic matter under a standard laboratory procedure
in five days at 20º C., expressed in parts per million, by weight.
Any person who undertakes to construct a building or any
part of a building, either under contract or for resale.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage
system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage
pipes inside the building walls and conveys it to the building lateral,
which begins five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
The duly appointed Building Inspector of the Town of Wawayanda.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
An industrial user subject to a categorical pretreatment
standard or categorical standard.
[Added 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023]
Any regulation containing pollution discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1317) that applies to a specific category of users and that appear in 40 CFR Chapter 1 Subchapter N Parts 405 through 471.
[Added 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023]
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine the difference between the amount of chlorine added to
a sample and the amount of chlorine remaining in the sample at the
end of a specified contact time at room temperature, expressed in
milligrams per liter (mg/L).
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to measure the oxygen requirement of that portion of matter, in a
sample, that is susceptible to oxidation, by a specific chemical oxidant,
expressed in mg/L.
The optical density at the visual wavelength of maximum absorption,
relative to distilled water. One-hundred-percent transmittance is
equivalent to zero optical density.
A sewer receiving both stormwater surface runoff and sanitary
sewage.
The sample resulting from the combination of individual samples
of wastewater taken at selected intervals, for a specified time period.
The individual samples may have equal volumes or the individual volumes
may be proportioned to the flow at the time of sampling.
Attachment of one user to a sewer (see "extension").
The one-time application fee to offset Town expenses to process
an application for a connection of a building/street lateral to the
public sewer. The fee also covers plan review, permit issuance, and
inspection costs. The fee may be scaled (upward or downward, in the
Town's reasonable discretion) to the amount of work involved or to
the size of the public sewer involved.
The term shall refer to "approval authority" or to the Town
when the Town has an approved pretreatment program under the provisions
of 40 CFR 403.11.
A manhole accessible to the control authority in or upstream
of the street lateral, such that samples collected from the manhole
represent the discharge to the POTW.
A pollutant that the POTW treatment plant was designed to
treat, defined in accordance with the Act.
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, refrigeration, or other sources. It shall contain no
polluting substances which would produce COD or suspended solids in
excess of five mg/L or toxic substances, as limited elsewhere in this
chapter.
The County is Orange County, New York.
See "former or current owner."
The discharge of a pollutant measured during a calendar day
or any twenty-four-hour period that reasonably represents the calendar
day for the purpose of sampling. For pollutants with limitations expressed
in units of mass, the daily discharge is calculated as the total mass
of the pollutant discharged over the day. For pollutants with limitations
expressed in other units of measurement, the daily discharge is calculated
as an average measurement of the pollution over the day.
[Added 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023]
The daily average of all effluent samples for a pollutant
collected during a calendar day or any twenty-four-hour period that
reasonably represents a calendar day for the purpose of sampling.
[Added 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023]
The maximum allowed discharge limit of a pollutant during
a calendar day or any twenty-four-hour period that reasonably represents
a calendar day for purposes of sampling. Where daily maximum limits
are expressed in units of mass, the daily discharge is the total mass
discharged over the course of the day. Where daily maximum limits
are expressed in terms of concentration, the daily discharge is the
average measurement of the pollutant concentration derived from all
measurements taken that day.
[Added 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023]
Any person who uses land for the purpose of constructing,
or causing to be constructed, buildings for which facilities or systems
to dispose wastewater are required.
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the State of New York (for reference, see "indirect
discharge").
See "sewage, domestic."
The sanitary sewer installed in anticipation of future connection
to a POTW but which is not used, in the meantime, for transport of
storm or sanitary sewage.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
For the purpose of determining compliance with limitations prescribed by Article IX, the control manhole, provided the samples collected from the control manhole are representative of the discharge to the POTW.
The concentration of a substance in a sample of wastewater
at end of pipe.
See "national categorical pretreatment standard."
The agency of the federal government charged with the administration
and enforcement of federal environmental laws, rules, and regulations.
Also may be used as a designation for the Administrator or other duly
authorized official of this agency, and also means any successor agency
to the EPA.
Attachment of a sewer line, with more than one user, to an
existing sewer line.
All buildings, other structures, grounds and contiguous property
at any locations related to or connected with a user at the user's
location.
Oil, grease, or fat in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in a wastewater treatment
facility.
The quantity of liquid or waste that flows in a certain period
of time.
That individual or entity who owns or owned a property, within
the service area of the POTW, purchased prior to the effective date
of this chapter, or who inherited the property at any time and intends
to sell the property or has sold the property to a new owner, and
also includes the agent of the former or current owner.
The solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food; from the handling, storage, and sale of produce; and from
the packaging and canning of food.
A single sample of wastewater representing the physical,
chemical, and biological characteristics of the wastewater at one
point and time.
The form used by the NYSDEC (or any successor form) to survey
industries to perform and update the Industrial Chemical Survey.
The introduction of wastewater into a POTW for treatment
and ultimate discharge of the treated effluent to the state's waters
(for reference, see "direct discharge").
Meaning or pertaining to industry, manufacturing, commerce,
trade, business, or institution, and is distinguished from domestic
or residential.
The survey of industries in New York State, initiated by
the NYSDEC, to determine chemical usage and storage by those industries.
See "user, industrial."
The liquid or liquid-carried solid, liquid and/or gaseous
wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, service, utility,
or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system
(excluding building drains) from the ground through such means as
defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manholes. Infiltration
does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow. Infiltration
is inadvertent, that is, not purposely designed or built into the
sewer or drain.
Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system
(including building drains) from sources such as, but not limited
to, roof leaders, cellar drains, area drains, drains from springs
and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross-connections between storm
sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, stormwaters,
foundation drains, swimming pools, surface runoff, street wash waters,
or drainage. Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.
Inflow is purposely designed and/or built into the sewer or drain,
sometimes without approval of the Town.
The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged
at any time, determined from the analysis of any discreet or composite
sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the
duration of the sampling.
[Added 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023]
An inhibition or disruption of the POTW, its treatment processes
or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal which is a
cause, in whole or in part, of a violation of any requirement of the
Town POTW's SPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or
duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use
or disposal by the POTW in accordance with the following statutory
provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent
state or local regulations):
Section 405 of the Clean Water Act.
The Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) (including
Title 11, more commonly referred to as the "Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act-RCRA"), and including state regulations contained
in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle
D or the SWDA).
The Clean Air Act.
The Toxic Substance Control Act.
The sewer extension from the building drain to the street
lateral or other place of wastewater disposal.
The sewer extension from the public sewer to the property
line.
Isolation waste, infectious agents, human blood and blood
products, pathological waste, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding,
surgical waste, potentially contaminated laboratory waste, and dialysis
waste.
[Added 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023]
The sum of all daily discharges measured during a calendar
month divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that
month.
[Added 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023]
The highest allowable average of a daily discharge or a calendar
month, calculated as the sum of all daily discharges measured during
the calendar month divided by the number of daily discharges measured
during that month.
[Added 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023]
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(B) and (C) of the Act (22
U.S.C. § 1347), which applies to a specific category of
industrial users. These standards apply at the end of the categorical
process ("end of process").
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342).
Any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307(B)
of the Act and 40 CFR Section 403.5.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
That individual or entity who purchased property within the
service area of the POTW after the effective date of this chapter,
and also includes the agent of the new owner.
Any source, the construction of which is commenced after
the publication of the proposed regulation prescribing a Section 307(C)
(33 U.S.C. § 1317) categorical pretreatment standard which
will be applicable to such source, if such standard is thereafter
promulgated in accordance with that section.
A discharger to the POTW who commences discharge after the
effective date of this chapter.
Water used for cooling that does not come into direct contact
with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product or finished
product.
[Added 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023]
See "sewage, normal."
The use or lack of use of the POTW in such a manner so as
to endanger life or health, give offense to the senses, or obstruct
or otherwise interfere with the reasonable use or maintenance of the
POTW.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
The analytical result obtained when using an approved laboratory
procedure to determine the quantity of fats, wax, grease, and oil
in a sample, expressed in mg/L.
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, eggshells,
coffee grounds, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, ashes, and all
other discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial
wastes. Also, the discarded matter not normally present in sewage
or industrial waste.
The discharge which exits the Town POTW into waters of the
state in quantities which, alone or in conjunction with discharges
from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of
the POTW's SPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or
duration of a violation).
A temporary revocable written document allowing use of the
POTW for specified wastes over a limited period of time, containing
sampling locations and reporting frequencies, and requiring other
actions as authorized by this chapter.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
limited liability company or group.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of
hydrogen ions, in gram moles per liter of solution. A pH value of
7.0, the pH scale midpoint, represents neutrality. Values above 7.0
represent alkaline conditions. Values below 7.0 represent acid conditions.
See "total phosphorus."
Any material placed into or onto the state's waters, lands
and/or airs which interferes with the beneficial use of that water,
land and/or air by any living thing at any time.
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological, and/or radiological integrity of the state's waters, lands
and/or airs resulting from the introduction of a pollutant into these
media.
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater.
Any substantive procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial
user.
Any categorical standard or prohibitive discharge standard.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature 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 achieved by physical, chemical, or biological
process, by process changes, or by other means, except as prohibited
by 40 CFR Section 403.6(D).
The most recently revised or updated list, developed by the
EPA, in accordance with the Act.
A privately owned system (also referred to as "private wastewater
disposal system") that provides the means for the disposal of sewage,
excreta, kitchen wastes, sink wastes, industrial or commercial wastes
or laundry wastes through the use of pipes, septic tank(s), leaching
pit(s), subsurface tile field systems, subsurface sand filters or
other means approved by the Building Inspector or the Town Engineer.
See "national prohibitive discharge standard."
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 and with no particle having a dimension greater than
1/2 inch in any dimension.
A treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. 1292). This definition includes any sewers and appurtenances
that transport wastewater to the POTW treatment plant but does not
include pipes, sewers, or other conveyances not connected directly
or indirectly to a facility providing treatment.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by a public authority.
A natural watercourse or body of water (usually waters of
the state) into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
Shall include, but not be limited to, any printed, typewritten,
handwritten or otherwise recorded matter of whatever character (including
paper or electronic media), including but not limited to letters,
files, memoranda, directives, notes and notebooks, correspondence,
descriptions, telephone call slips, photographs, permits, applications,
reports, compilations, films, graphs and inspection reports. For the
purposes of this chapter, records shall mean records of and relating
to waste generation, reuse and disposal and shall include records
of usage of raw materials.
A drain installed to receive and dispose of water collecting
on or running off the surface of a roof.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface,
and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
All liquids and solids in and removed from septic tanks,
holding tanks, cesspools, or approved types of chemical toilets, including
but not limited to those serving private residences, commercial establishments,
institutions, and industries. Also, sludge from small sewage treatment
plants. Septage shall not have been contaminated with substances of
concern or priority pollutants.
A private domestic sewage treatment system consisting of
an underground tank (with suitable baffling), constructed in accordance
with any and/or all local and state requirements.
The legally defined bounds of real property from which wastewater
may be discharged into the POTW. The bounds shall be established,
altered, changed, modified, reduced, enlarged, combined, or consolidated
by action of the Town Board.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments and
such ground-, surface, and stormwater as may be present.
Liquid wastes from the noncommercial preparation, cooking,
and handling of food; liquid wastes containing human excrement and
similar matter from the sanitary conveniences in dwellings, commercial
buildings, industrial buildings, and institutions; or liquid wastes
from clothes washing and/or floor/wall washing. Therefore, domestic
sewage includes both black water and grey water.
Sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes which
show, by analysis, the following characteristics:
BOD (five-day): 2,090 pounds per million gallons
(250 mg/L) or less.
Suspended solids: 2,500 pounds per million gallons
(300 mg/L) or less.
Phosphorus: 125 pounds per million gallons (15
mg/L) or less.
Ammonia: 250 pounds per million gallons (30
mg/L) or less.
Total Kjeldahl nitrogen: 417 pounds per million
(50 mg/L) or less.
Chlorine demand: 209 pounds per million gallons
(25 mg/L) or less.
Chemical oxygen demand: 2,920 pounds per million
gallons (350 mg/L) or less.
Oil and grease: 830 pounds per million gallons
(100 mg/L) or less.
In spite of satisfying one or more of these
characteristics, if the sewage also contains substances of concern,
it may not be considered normal sewage.
Liquid wastes from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings
(including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, factories,
or institutions and free from stormwater, surface water and industrial
and other wastes (see "domestic waste").
See "POTW Treatment Plant." Any arrangement of devices and
structures used for treating sewage.
Sewage which has characteristics greater than those of normal
sewage and/or which contains substances of concern.
A pipe or conduit for carrying or transporting sewage.
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff
and sewage.
A district legally formed under New York State law and recognized
by the Town of Wawayanda for the purpose of collecting, transporting,
pumping, and/or treating wastewater within the Town of Wawayanda.
A sewer in which all abutting property owners have equal
rights and the use of which is controlled by the Town.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface,
and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
A sewer which carries stormwaters and surface waters and
drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastewaters, other than
cooling waters and other unpolluted waters.
The demand payment for the use of a public sewer and/or sewage
treatment plant for the handling of any sewage, industrial wastes,
or other wastes accepted for admission thereto in which the characteristics
thereof exceed the maximum values of such characteristics in normal
sewage. See "volume charge."
All facilities for collecting, regulating, pumping, and transporting
wastewater to and away from the POTW treatment plant.
See "user, significant industrial."
A user is in significant noncompliance if its violation(s)
meet(s) one or more of the following criteria:
Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits,
defined here as those, in 66% or more of all of the measurements taken
during a six-month period, which exceed (by any magnitude) the daily
maximum limit or average limit for the same pollutant parameter.
Technical review criteria (TRC) violations,
defined here as those, in 33% or more of all of the measurements for
each pollutant parameter taken during a six-month period, which equal
or exceed the product of the daily maximum limits multiplied by the
applicable TRC (TRC = 1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oil and grease; TRC
= 1.2 for all other pollutants).
Any other violation of a pretreatment effluent
limit (daily maximum or long-term average) that the sewer district
determines has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges,
interference or pass-through (including endangering the health of
POTW personnel or the general public).
Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health or welfare or to the environment or has resulted in the sewer district's exercise of its emergency authority under Article XI of this chapter.
Failure to meet, within 90 days after the schedule
date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in a local control
mechanism or enforcement order for starting construction, completing
construction, or attaining final compliance.
Failure to provide, within 30 days after the
due date, required reports such as baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day
compliance reports, periodic self-monitoring reports, and reports
on compliance schedules.
Failure to report accurately any noncompliance.
Any other violation which the Town determines
will adversely affect the implementation or operation of the local
pretreatment program.
The user received a violation notice from the
EPA or the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
for operations involving sewage of any type.
A substantial deviation from normal rates of discharge or
constituent concentration (see "normal sewage") sufficient to cause
interference. In any event, a discharge that, in concentration of
any 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 flow during normal user operations
shall constitute a slug.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972, and subsequent revisions.
Procedures contained in the latest edition of "Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" published by the American
Public Health Association; procedures established by the Administrator
pursuant to Section 304(G) of the Act and contained in 40 CFR Part
136, and amendments thereto (If 40 CFR Part 136 does not include a
sampling or analytical technique for the pollutant in question, then
procedures set forth in the EPA publication "Sampling and Analysis
Procedures for Screening of Industrial Effluents for Priority Pollutants,"
April 1977, and amendments thereto, shall be used.); any other procedure
approved by the Administrator; or any other procedure approved by
the Town, whichever is the most conservative or comprehensive.
The State of New York.
A permit used pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342).
[Added 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023]
See "waters of the state."
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation.
Those compounds which the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation has determined may be harmful to man or the environment.
A mechanism used for removing water from a sump or wet well.
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the dry weight of solids, in a sample, that either float
on the surface, are in suspension, or are settleable and can be removed
from the sample by filtration, expressed in mg/L.
That individual duly appointed by the Town Board as the sewer
district System Operator. Such an individual shall be certified by
New York State to operate the sanitary sewer system and treatment
facilities and is otherwise qualified to oversee wastewater treatment
and collection facilities. This definition shall also include his
authorized deputy, agent, or representative. In carrying out his duties
as set forth in this chapter, the System Operator is authorized and
encouraged to seek the advice and assistance of the Town Engineer.
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the quantity of ammonia in a sample and released during
the acid digestion of organic nitrogen compounds, expressed as milligrams
of nitrogen per liter.
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the total quantity of orthophosphate in a sample of wastewater,
following the hydrolysis of phosphorus compounds, expressed as milligrams
of phosphorus per liter of sample.
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension
of, water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
[Added 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023]
The Town of Wawayanda, Orange County, New York, acting through
the Town Board.
The duly appointed engineer for the Town of Wawayanda.
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid, or solid, that when
discharged to a public sewer in sufficient quantities may be hazardous
to POTW operation and maintenance personnel, tend to interfere with
any biological sewage treatment process, or constitute a hazard to
recreation in the receiving waters, due to the effluent from a sewage
treatment plant or overflow point. Any pollutant or combination of
pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the EPA under
provisions of the Clean Water Act, Section 307(A), or other acts.
Any person who contributes, causes, or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the POTW.
A discharger to the POTW who is discharging on or before
the effective date of this chapter.
A discharger to the POTW who discharges nondomestic wastewater.
A discharger to the POTW who initiates discharge after the
effective date of this chapter.
An industrial user of the Town's POTW who is:
Subject to national categorical pretreatment
standards promulgated by the EPA.
Having substantial impact, either singly or
in combination with other industries, on the operation of the treatment
works.
Using, on an annual basis, more than 10,000
pounds or 1,000 gallons of raw material containing priority pollutants
and/or substances of concern and discharging a measurable quantity
of these pollutants to the sewer system.
Discharging more than 5% of the flow or load
of conventional pollutants received by the POTW treatment plant.
Discharges on average of 25,000 gpd or more of process wastewater
to sewer system.
[Added 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023]
Designated on the basis that an industrial user has a reasonable
potential for adversely effecting the POTW’s operation or for
violating any pretreatment standard or requirement in accordance with
40 CFR 403.8(f)(6).
[Added 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023]
Upon a finding that a user meeting the criteria above has no
reasonable potential for adversely effecting the POTW’s operation
or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirements, the Town
may, at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition
received from an industrial user, and in accordance with procedures
40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine that such a user should not be considered
a significant industrial user.
[Added 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023[2]]
Note: A user discharging a measurable quantity
of a pollutant may be classified as nonsignificant if, at the influent
to the POTW treatment plant, the pollutant is not detectable.
The demand sewer use charge which is based, in part or wholly, on the volume of normal sewage discharged into the sewage collection system (There may be surcharges, as provided for in Article XII.) The volume charge shall be based on a specific cost per 1,000 gallons. The specific charge shall be subject to approval by the Town Board.
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastewaters
from dwellings, commercial establishments, industrial facilities,
and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and
stormwater that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which
is contributed into or permitted to enter the POTW.
A permit as set forth in Article X of this chapter.
See "sewage, unusual strength or character."
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways,
wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage
systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or
underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through, or border upon the state or any portion thereof.
A drilled, dug, or driven structure that connects a subsurface
aquifer or groundwater source to the ground surface. Typically, wells
are used to withdraw groundwater for domestic, municipal, or industrial
use.
[Amended 12-29-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2023]
The following abbreviations shall have the designated
meanings:
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ANSI
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American National Standards Institute
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ASTM
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American Society for Testing and Materials
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AWWA
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American Water Works Association
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BOD
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Biochemical oxygen demand
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BMP
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Best management practice
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BMR
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Baseline monitoring report
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CFR
|
Code of Federal Regulations
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COD
|
Chemical oxygen demand
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|
CPLR
|
Code of Public Law and Rules
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|
EPA
|
Environmental Protection Agency
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gpd
|
Gallons per day
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|
IU
|
Industrial user
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L
|
Liter
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Mg
|
Milligram
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mg/L
|
Milligrams per liter
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|
NCPI
|
National Clay Pipe Institute
|
|
NPDES
|
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
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NYSDEC
|
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
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|
NYSDOH
|
New York State Department of Health
|
|
NYSDOT
|
New York State Department of Transportation
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P
|
Total phosphorus
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|
POTW
|
Publicly owned treatment works
|
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ppm
|
Parts per million, weight basis
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psi
|
Pounds per square inch
|
|
RCRA
|
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act[1]
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SIC
|
Standard industrial classification
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|
SIU
|
Significant industrial user
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|
SNC
|
Significant noncompliance
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SPDES
|
State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
|
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SWDA
|
Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. § 690L
et seq.
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TSS
|
Total suspended solids
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|
U.S.C.
|
United States Code of Laws
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USEPA
|
United States Environmental Protection Agency
|
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TSS
|
Total suspended solids
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[1]
Editor's Note: See 42 U.S.C.A. § 6901 et seq.
Terms not defined in this article, or terms
found to be ambiguous or improperly defined in this article, shall
be defined by the Act, or regulations issued pursuant thereto, or
by the Town.
