This Part 2 shall be cited as the "Town of Williamson
Sewer Use Law."
It is the purpose of this Part 2 to protect
the sewage collection and treatment facilities, to prevent danger
to life or damage to property, to promote the health, safety and general
welfare, to prohibit the introduction of storm-, surface or subsurface
waters into the sanitary sewers, to provide for the fair distribution
of treatment costs and to form a basis and policy for controlling
of wastes accepted into the sewage systems of the Town of Williamson,
New York.
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BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER (sometimes called "house lateral")
COMMERCIAL-INDUSTRIAL WASTES
DOMESTIC WASTES
EASEMENT
EFFLUENT
GARBAGE
IMPROVED PROPERTY
NATURAL OUTLET
OWNER
PERSON
pH
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC FACILITY
PUBLIC SEWER
SANITARY SEWER
SEWAGE
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT (also referred to as "wastewater treatment
facility" or "water pollution control plant")
SEWAGE WORKS
SEWER COMMISSION
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(2)Â
(3)Â
SEWER DISTRICT
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
STREET
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOWN
WATERCOURSE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in this Part 2 shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 21º C. expressed in milligrams per liter.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of drainage system
carrying sewage which receives discharge from soil, waste and other
drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to
the building's sewer, beginning three feet outside the inner face
of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer.
Any and all other wastes not being domestic wastes but not
limited to the wastes from commercial, laboratory and industrial processes,
wastes from domestic operations or certain trade operations such as
sand, grit, waste petroleum products from automotive service stations,
and the like, animal wastes, straw and related items from dairy or
other farming operations, pumice and processing wastes from canning
plants.
Waterborne human or animal excreta or body wastes and normal
culinary, laundry, and washing wastes originating in residences, commercial,
industrial and other buildings.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
The liquid discharged from the wastewater treatment facility
after removal of a percentage of the combined waste material.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
Any property within this Town upon which there is erected
a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy
or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary
sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
Any person in title to or having any interest in real property
in any of the sanitary sewer districts and their extensions and/or
any drainage district or districts now existing or subsequently created
by the Town of Williamson, New York.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter solution.
Waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food
that has 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 1/4 inch in any dimension.
A washroom consisting of seat and wash basin.
A sewer which is controlled by the Sewer Commission of the
Town of Williamson, New York, by easement or public right-of-way.
A pipe or conduit which carries sewage and to which storm-,
surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
The water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings,
institutions and industrial establishments and other places.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage maintained and operated by the Town.
The duly elected or appointed Williamson Town
Board serving as Sewer Commissioners. They shall govern all sewer
districts in the Town of Williamson in accordance with applicable
law and regulations for sewers issued by the New York State Department
of Health.
Biannually they shall review this Part 2 for
possible revisions.
The Commissioners shall levy appropriate taxes
or sewer rentals for sewer services upon the property owners within
said district and shall collect such taxes or rents as authorized.
Any of the sanitary sewer districts and their extension or
extensions and/or any drainage district or districts now existing
or subsequently created by the Town Board of the Town of Williamson.
A sewer which carries storm- and surface water drainage,
but excludes sewage, commercial-industrial and domestic wastes.
Includes any street, highway, road, lane, court, alley or
public square.
The Town Engineer or the person appointed by the Town Board
in charge of the sewage system in the sewer district.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filterings.
The Town of Williamson, County of Wayne, New York.
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water
either continuously or intermittently.
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"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
