As used in this Part
2, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
An unintentional discharge to the City's sewer system by a user in violation of the terms of the user's permit.
ACTThe Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the "Clean Water Act," as amended (33 U.S.C. §
1251 et seq.).
A. A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice president if the user is a corporation.
A general partner or proprietor if the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship, respectively.
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated in Subsection
A or
B of this definition if such representative is responsible for the overall operation of the facility from which the discharge to the POTW originates.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMANDThe quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C., expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams per liter.).
BOARDThe Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners of the City of Glens Falls, New York.
BUILDING DRAINThat part of the lowest horizontal piping of the drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the interface of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWERThat part of the piping of a drainage system which extends from the end of the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal and which receives the discharge of the building drain and conveys it to said public sewer or other place of disposal.
CITYThe City of Glens Falls, New York.
CODEThe Code of the City of Glens Falls, New York.
DOMESTIC WASTEWastewater produced by domestic or residential establishments.
EXISTING INDUSTRIAL USERAn industrial user which is contributing wastewater to the City's sewer system as of the effective date of this Part
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Solid waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
GRAB SAMPLEA sample taken from a point within the City's sewer system on a one-time basis, with no regard to the flow in the sewer system and without consideration of time.
INDUSTRIAL USERAn establishment producing industrial wastes which are contributed to the City's sewer system.
INDUSTRIAL WASTEThe fluid wastes from industrial or manufacturing processes, trades or businesses.
INTERFERENCEThe inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes or operations or that which contributes to a violation of any term of the City's SPDES permit. The term includes but is not limited to damage to or disruption of the structural integrity of the City's sewer system (sewage treatment facility plus appurtenant facilities and sewer lines) or the biological processes involved within the sewage treatment facility proper and the prevention of sewage sludge use or 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, the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act or more-stringent state or local criteria, including those contained in any state sludge management plan pursuant to Title IV of SWDA, applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the POTW.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. §
1347), which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of ground- or surface water.
NEW SOURCE INDUSTRIAL USERAny industrial user which begins contribution to the City's sewer system subsequent to the effective date of this Part
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That portion of the total oxygen demand of raw sanitary wastes exerted by the autotrophic bacteria Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter to oxidize ammonia to nitrate, as measured by the 15th Edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
NONCOMPATIBLE WASTEAny wastewater which would result in interference to the City's sewage system.
PASS-THROUGHA discharge which exits the POTW into a watercourse or waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's SPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
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A person who has been granted a domestic/commercial permit or an industrial wastewater discharge permit.
PERSONAny individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any other legal entity or their legal representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, and the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
pHThe logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
POLLUTIONThe man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological and/or radiological integrity of water.
PRETREATMENTThe reduction in 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 discharge to the POTW, in accordance with applicable federal, state or local pretreatment standards and/or the terms of the user's industrial wastewater discharge permit. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes or process changes by other means, except by dilution where dilution would be prohibited by 40 CFR
403.6(d).
Any substance included in the list, as amended, of priority pollutants promulgated by the United States EPA pursuant to the Clean Water Act of 1977 and the Consent Decree of N.R.D.C. Train, 8 E.R.C. 2120 (D.D.C., 1976).
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEMAny privy, septic tank, cesspool or other sewage disposal facility owned and operated by a person, other than the City's sewerage system.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGEThe wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have 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 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKSThe sewage treatment facility and appurtenant facilities and sewer lines of the City of Glens Falls, overseen by the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners. Where the context so indicates, "POTW" shall also refer to the administrative network which oversees the physical plant of the City's sewer system, presided over by the Board.
SEWAGEA combination of water-carried wastes from domestic residences, business buildings, commercial establishments and industrial establishments, together with such ground-, surface or storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITYThe physical plant, located on Shermantown Road in the City of Glens Falls, at which wastes discharged into the City's sewer system by all users of that system are received and treated prior to discharge into the Hudson River as liquid waste or into the sludge produced by said plant as solid waste.
SEWERA pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWERAGE SYSTEMAll facilities within the City for collecting, regulating, pumping, transporting, treating and discharging sewage.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USERAny industrial user that is:
[Amended 1-5-1988]
A. Subject to a National Categorical Pretreatment Standard;
Having substantial impact, either singly or in combination with other industrial users, on the operation of the POTW;
Using, on an annual basis, more than 10,000 pounds or 1,000 gallons of raw material containing a priority pollutant and is discharging a measurable amount of a priority pollutant to the POTW; or
Discharging more than 5% of the wastewatering the sewage treatment facility.
SLUG LOADINGAny discharge of wastewater in which the concentration of any given constituent or the quantity of total flow exceeds, for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flow during normal operation.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATIONA classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, 1972.
STATEThe State of New York.
SUPERINTENDENTThe Superintendent of the Water and Sewer Department of the City, appointed by the Board pursuant to this Part
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The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of or is suspended in the wastewater contributed to the City's sewerage system by the users thereof and which is removable by laboratory filtering.
USERAny person contributing wastewater to the City's sewerage system.
WASTEWATERThe liquid and water-carried domestic, commercial or industrial wastes discharged into the City's sewerage system by the users thereof, together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may be present.
WATERCOURSEA channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.