Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings
of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
ADMINISTRATIVE BODY
The duly appointed/elected Town Board of the Town of Coeymans
or its authorized deputy or representative.
ASTM
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
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 parts per million by weight.
BUILDER
Any person, persons, or corporation who undertake to construct,
either under contract or for resale, any habitable building.
BUILDING DRAIN
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.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
CONTAMINATION
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.
CONTRACTOR
Any person, firm or corporation approved by the Village Board
to do work in the village.
DEVELOPER
Any person, persons or corporation who undertake to construct
simultaneously more than one housing unit on a given tract or land
subdivision.
ENGINEER
The professional engineer retained for the Town of Coeymans.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL USER
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.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from
sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
NYSDEC
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
or a duly authorized official of said Department.
NYSDOT
The New York State Department of Transportation.
OWNER
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, person
or group having title to real property.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions in grams-ionic weights per liter of solution.
POLLUTION
Man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological or radiological integrity of water.
POTW TREATMENT PLANT
That portion of the municipal system which is designed to
provide treatment, including recycling and reclamation of wastes received
by the municipal system.
PRETREATMENT
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.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
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.
PROPERTY LINE
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.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
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.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
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.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
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.
SPDES
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.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A pipe or conduit which carries storm- and surface waters
and drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of the Sewer District of the Town of Coeymans,
or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
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.
TOWN
The Town of Coeymans, County of Albany, State of New York.
USEPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency or, where
appropriate, a designation for the administrator or other duly authorized
official of said agency.
VILLAGE
The Village of Ravena, County of Albany, State of New York.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.