Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING MATERIALS
(herein referred to as "astm" or federal specifications referred
to in this chapter). The latest published amendments or revisions
applicable at any time.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
The Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation
of the State of New York until such time as a federally approved industrial
pretreatment program is required. At such time, upon federal approval,
the Regional Administrator shall become the approval authority.
A.S.T.M.
The latest edition of American Society for Testing and Materials.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF 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
partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship,
respectively; or a duly authorized representative of the individual
designated above, if such representative is responsible for the overall
operation of the facilities from which the discharge originates.
B.O.D.
(denoting biochemical oxygen demand) The quantity of oxygen
utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard
laboratory procedure in five days at 20º C, expressed in parts
per million by weight.
BUILDER
Any person, persons, or corporation who undertakes to construct,
either under contract or for resale within two years, any habitable
building.
BUILDING LATERAL
The piping used to convey the discharge from soil, waste,
and other drainage pipes inside the building walls and extending from
the public sewer up to the foundation of the structure being served
by the sewer system.
COMMERCIAL SERVICE
Any service from business buildings or institutions from
which the wastes are not predominantly industrial.
COMMISSIONER
The Commissioner of the Department of Public Works of the
Town of Bethlehem or his or her authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
CONTRACTOR
Any person, firm, or corporation approved by the Commissioner
to do work in the Town of Bethlehem.
CONTROL AUTHORITY
Refers to the approval authority, defined hereinabove, or
the Supervisor or the Commissioner of Public Works or the Superintendent
of Water and Sewer of the Town of Bethlehem.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is
heat.
CROSS CONNECTION
Any physical connection or arrangement between two otherwise
separate piping systems, one of which contains potable water and the
other water of unknown or questionable safety, whereby water may flow
from one system to the other, the direction of the flow depending
on the pressure differential between the two systems.
CRUSHER RUN
Crushed limestone material commonly used as base stone for
road construction, manhole installation and pipe bedding.
DEVELOPER
Any person, persons, or corporation who undertakes to construct
simultaneously more than one housing unit on a given tract or land
subdivision.
DIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the State of New York.
DISTRICT
The Bethlehem Sewer District including Delmar-Elsmere Sewer
District and extensions in the Town of Bethlehem, Albany County, New
York.
DISTRICT BOUNDARIES
The physical boundaries as presently established or as may
be extended from time to time as duly provided by Town law.
DOMESTIC WASTE
Liquid wastes from 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.
ENGINEER
Any professional engineer retained as engineer for this district.
FLOWABLE FILL
A mixture of portland cement, fly ash, mineral filler, water
and admixtures proportioned to provide a nonsegregating, free-flowing,
self-consolidating material that will result in a hardened, dense
backfill.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
GRAB SAMPLE
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration
of time.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
The introduction of wastewater into the POTW for treatment
(including holding tank waste discharged into the system) and ultimate
discharge of the treated effluent to the waters of the State of New
York.
INDUSTRIAL USER
A discharger to the POTW whose discharge includes nondomestic
wastes.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from
domestic wastes.
INSPECTOR
The Commissioner who is appointed and duly authorized by
the Town Board to inspect and approve the installation of building
laterals and their connection to the public sewer system or his or
her authorized representative.
INTERFERENCE
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes
or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement
of the Town's SPDES permit. The term includes prevention of sewage
sludge disposal by the POTW in accordance with Section 405 of the
Act (33 U.S.C. § 1345) or any criteria, guidelines or regulations
developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), the Clean
Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act or more stringent state
criteria (including those contained in any state sludge management
plan prepared pursuant to Title IV of SWDA) applicable to the method
of disposal or use employed by the POTW.
LARGE SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Any industrial user who has a discharge flow of 100,000 gallons
or more per average workday or discharges a loading of any pollutant
in quantities greater than 15% of the loading (lb/d) received at the
POTW treatment plant based on the most recent headworks analysis completed
by, or on behalf of, the Town.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or groundwater.
NEW SOURCE
Any source, the construction of which is commenced after
the publication of proposed regulations 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 within 120 days of proposal in the Federal Register. Where
the standard is promulgated later than 120 days after proposal, a
"new source" means any source, the construction of which is commenced
after the date of promulgation of the standard.
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 gramionic weights per liter of solution.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste
discharged into water.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT
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 obtained by physical, chemical or biological
processes or process changes or other means, except as prohibited
by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial
user.
PRIVATE SEWER
A sewer privately owned and not directly controlled by public
authority.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such degree that all articles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
public sewers, with no article greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PROPERTY LINE
The edge of a sewer right-of-way in those instances where
the building lateral connects to the public sewer located in a right-of-way.
"Property line" shall also mean the edge of the street right-of-way
in those instances where the building lateral connects to a public
sewer located off or in the paved portion of the street.
PROPERTY OWNER
The person or entity that is in title to the property served
or to be served by the public sewer.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292) which is owned in this instance by the Town.
This definition includes any sewers that convey wastewater to the
POTW treatment plant, but does not include pipes, sewers or other
conveyances not connected to a facility providing treatment. For the
purposes of this chapter, "POTW" shall also include any sewers that
convey wastewaters to the POTW from persons outside the Town who are,
by contract or agreement with the Town, users of the Town's POTW.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and is controlled by public authority.
REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR
The Regional Administrator, Region No. 2, United States Environmental
Protection Agency, as empowered by the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act or other federal statute.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface,
and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage, subject to the control
and direction of this district.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Any industrial user who has a discharge flow between 25,000
gallons and 100,000 gallons per average workday or has a loading of
any pollutant between 5% and 15% of the loading (lb/d) received at
the POTW treatment plant based on the most recent headworks analysis
completed by, or on behalf of, the Town or has in his or her wastes
toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to Section 307 of the Act or
has been identified as one of the industrial categories pursuant to
Section 307 of the Act or is found by the Town to have significant
impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries,
on the treatment or collection system.
SLOPE
The grade or pitch of a line of pipe in reference to a horizontal
plane. In drainage it is usually expressed as the fall in a fraction
of an inch per foot length of pipe.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer used for conveying rainwater, surface water, condensate,
cooling water or similar liquid wastes, exclusive of sewage and industrial
waste.
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 Bethlehem, Albany County, New York.
TOWN BOARD
The duly elected Town Board of the Town of Bethlehem, or
its authorized deputy or representative.
TOXIC POLLUTANT
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provision of CWA Section 307(a) or other
acts.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the Town's POTW.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions,
together with other matter which may be present, whether treated or
untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the POTW.
WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT (INDUSTRIAL)
As set forth in Article
VI of this chapter, the permit issued by the Commissioner to an industrial user establishing the conditions and requirements under which the industrial user may discharge to the POTW.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
WATERS OF THE STATE
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.