Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in this Part 2 shall be as follows:
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 21º C. expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN
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.
COMMERCIAL-INDUSTRIAL WASTES
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.
DOMESTIC WASTES
Waterborne human or animal excreta or body wastes and normal
culinary, laundry, and washing wastes originating in residences, commercial,
industrial and other buildings.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
EFFLUENT
The liquid discharged from the wastewater treatment facility
after removal of a percentage of the combined waste material.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
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.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
OWNER
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.
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 solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
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.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer which is controlled by the Sewer Commission of the
Town of Williamson, New York, by easement or public right-of-way.
SANITARY SEWER
A pipe or conduit which carries sewage and to which storm-,
surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
The water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings,
institutions and industrial establishments and other places.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage maintained and operated by the Town.
SEWER COMMISSION
(1)
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.
(2)
Biannually they shall review this Part 2 for
possible revisions.
(3)
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.
SEWER DISTRICT
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.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries storm- and surface water drainage,
but excludes sewage, commercial-industrial and domestic wastes.
STREET
Includes any street, highway, road, lane, court, alley or
public square.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Town Engineer or the person appointed by the Town Board
in charge of the sewage system in the sewer district.
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
filterings.
TOWN
The Town of Williamson, County of Wayne, New York.
WATERCOURSE
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water
either continuously or intermittently.