A.Â
ADMINISTRATIVE BODY
ASTM
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
BUILDER
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
COMBINED SEWER
CONTAMINATION
CONTRACTOR
DEVELOPER
ENGINEER
GARBAGE
INDUSTRIAL USER
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
LOCAL GOVERNING BODY/VILLAGE BOARD/LOCAL BOARD
NATURAL OUTLET
NYSDEC
NYSDOT
OWNER
PERSON
pH
POLLUTION
POTW TREATMENT PLANT
PRETREATMENT
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PROPERTY LINE
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
PUBLIC SEWER
SANITARY SEWER
SEWAGE
SEWER
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
SPDES
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOWN
USEPA
VILLAGE
WATERCOURSE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings
of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The duly appointed/elected Town Board of the Town of Coeymans
or its authorized deputy or representative.
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in parts per million by weight.
Any person, persons, or corporation who undertake to construct,
either under contract or for resale, any habitable building.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes
inside the wall of the building and conveys it to the building sewer,
beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
A sewer receiving both runoff and sewage.
An impairment in the quality of the waters of the state by
waste to a degree which creates a hazard to the public health through
poisoning or through the spread of disease.
Any person, firm or corporation approved by the Village Board
to do work in the village.
Any person, persons or corporation who undertake to construct
simultaneously more than one housing unit on a given tract or land
subdivision.
The professional engineer retained for the Town of Coeymans.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
Any industrial or commercial establishment with a classification
as designated in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972
edition, as published by the Executive Office of the President, and
which utilizes the services of the village's sewer system.
The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from
sewage.
The Town Board or Village Board.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
or a duly authorized official of said Department.
The New York State Department of Transportation.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, person
or group having title to real property.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions in grams-ionic weights per liter of solution.
Man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological or radiological integrity of water.
That portion of the municipal system which is designed to
provide treatment, including recycling and reclamation of wastes received
by the municipal system.
The reduction of the amount 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 reductions or alteration
can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, process
changes or by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6, General
Pretreatment Regulations for Existing and New Sources of Pollution.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow condition normally prevailing in
public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
The curbline, if the building owner is to connect with the
public sewer in a public street. "Property line" shall mean the edge
of a sewer right-of-way in those instances where the building sewer
connects to the public sewer in a right-of-way.
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292). This includes any sewers that convey waste
water to the POTW, but does not include pipes, sewers, or other conveyances
not connected to a facility providing treatment.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried waste from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such ground-, surface and storm water as may be present.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Any user who has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more
per average workday or has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the
municipality's wastewater system or has in his wastes toxic pollutants
as defined pursuant to Section 307 of the Act or has been identified
as one of the 21 industrial categories pursuant to Section 307 of
the Act or is found by the county to have significant impact, either
singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the
treatment or collection system.
Denotes the State Pollution Discharge Elimination System
established by Article 17 of the Environmental Conservation Law of
the State of New York for issuance of permits authorizing discharges
to the waters of the state.
A pipe or conduit which carries storm- and surface waters
and drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
The Superintendent of the Sewer District of the Town of Coeymans,
or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
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.
The Town of Coeymans, County of Albany, State of New York.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency or, where
appropriate, a designation for the administrator or other duly authorized
official of said agency.
The Village of Ravena, County of Albany, State of New York.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
B.Â
Word usage. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
The purpose of these rules and regulations is specifically stated
as follows:
A.Â
To prohibit excessive volume and/or inordinate rates of flow of sewage
and wastes into the village system and all sewers tributary thereto.
B.Â
To prohibit the contribution of sewage, industrial wastes or other
wastes of a flammable nature or which create in any way a poisonous
or hazardous environment for sewage maintenance and operation personnel.
C.Â
To prohibit the contribution of sewage, industrial wastes or other
wastes which may impair the hydraulic capacity or operation of the
intercepting sewers, force mains, pumping stations, sewage regulators
and other structures and appurtenances of the village system and sewers
tributary thereto.
D.Â
To prohibit the contribution of sewage, industrial wastes or other
wastes which may create operating difficulties at the water pollution
control plant as it now exists or may be constructed, modified or
improved in the future.
E.Â
To prohibit and/or regulate the contribution of sewage, industrial
wastes or other wastes which require treatment at the plant or greater
expenditures than are required for equal volumes of normal sewage.
F.Â
To require the pretreatment of flow control, before introduction
into the village sewerage system or sewers tributary thereto, of such
wastes as may impair the strength and/or durability of the structures
appurtenant to the system or may interfere with the normal treatment
processes or may impair the designated uses of the classified receiving
waters.
G.Â
To provide cooperation with the County Department of Health and any
other agencies which have requirements or jurisdiction for the protection
of the physical, chemical and bacteriological quality of watercourses
within or bounding the village.
H.Â
To protect the public health and to prevent nuisances.
