Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Part 2 shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a 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 three feet (0.914 meter) outside of the building
wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewerage.
The Director of the Water and Water Pollution Control of
the City of Putnam, or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.[1]
Either an individual, partnership or corporation to whom
the State of Connecticut has issued a license to install building
sewers during the period when such license is valid.
The solids and liquid wastes from toilet and lavatory fixtures,
kitchens, laundries, bathtubs, shower baths or equivalent plumbing
fixtures, as discharged from dwellings, business and industrial buildings.[2]
All putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from
the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of foods.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade, or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.[3]
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
Any individual, firm, company, association, partnership,
society, corporation, or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
The 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 (1.27 centimeters)
in any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and which is controlled by public authority.
Plastic, metal and glass food containers, dust sweepings,
wastepaper, rags, wood, excelsior, bedding, rubber, leather, rubbish,
leaves, brush, small dead animals and birds, and similar waste materials
that ordinarily accumulate in and around a home or business, except
building materials and portions of trees greater than six inches in
diameter.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water, and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.[4]
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwater, surface water, and stormwaters as may be present.[5]
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.[6]
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing
of sewage.[7]
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.[8]
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
Any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste which
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds,
for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five
times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during normal
operation.[9]
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling
water.[10]
The 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.[11]
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
The Water and Sewer Commission appointed by the Mayor and
ratified by the Common Council.
