Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings
of terms used in this Part 1 shall be as follows:
Any person requesting approval to discharge wastewaters into
municipal facilities or for a new connection to the public system.
The total volume of sewage in gallons measured at a metering
station or other point during a continuous period of 365 days divided
by 365.
The quantity of dissolved oxygen, expressed in milligrams
per liter, used in the biochemical oxidation of wastewater in five
days at 20° C. (68° F.) under standard laboratory procedures.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and/or other stacks
inside the building and terminates 10 feet outside the inner face
of the building wall.
That part of the horizontal piping which begins 10 feet outside
the inner face of the building wall and extends to a public sewer,
private sewer or other place of wastewater disposal.
Pollutant discharge limitations for specific industrial user
categories promulgated under federal law by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency.
The measure of the oxygen-consuming capacity of inorganic
and organic matter present in water or wastewater. It is expressed
as the amount of oxygen consumed from a chemical oxidant in a specific
test. It does not differentiate between stable and unstable organic
matter and thus does not necessarily correlate with biochemical oxygen
demand.
The amount, in milligrams per liter, of chlorine required
to be added to water, wastewater, or other liquids to achieve a combined
chlorine residual of one milligram per liter after 15 minutes of contact.
The City of Springfield or pertaining or belonging to said
City.
A sewer receiving and conveying both sanitary wastewater
and surface runoff from storms.
The Director of Public Works of the City or his authorized
deputy or representative.
The liquid wastes and liquid-borne wastes discharged from
sanitary conveniences such as toilets, washrooms, urinals, sinks,
showers, drinking fountains, laundry rooms, kitchens, cafeterias and
floor drains, essentially free of industrial wastes or toxic materials.
See "storm drain."
Amounts or concentration of a constituent of a wastewater
which, in the judgment of the municipality:
Will cause damage to any facility;
Will be harmful to a wastewater treatment process;
Cannot be removed in the treatment works to the degree required
in the limiting stream classification standards of the Connecticut
River and/or its tributaries;
Can otherwise endanger life or property; or
Can constitute a nuisance.
Includes structures, conduits, pumping stations, treatment
and disposal works, and other appurtenances for the purpose of collecting,
treating and disposing of domestic and/or industrial wastewater.
The wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking
and serving of food. It is composed largely of putrescible organic
matter, usually with a high natural moisture content.
An industry discharging industrial wastewater to a public
sewer.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
laboratories, trades or businesses which predominate, as distinct
from domestic wastewaters.
An establishment with facilities for mechanical, testing,
trade, or manufacturing purposes.
A sewer, located in public and/or private property, which
collects the entire flow from a number of public and/or private sewers,
conveys the flow to a suitable collection point for final discharge
to a place of wastewater treatment and is entirely controlled by the
municipality.
A discharge by an industrial user which, alone or in conjunction
with discharges by other sources, inhibits or disrupts the City's
wastewater works, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge
processes, use or disposal and which is a cause of a violation of
any requirement of the City's NPDES permit (including an increase
in the magnitude or duration of a violation) or of the prevention
of sewage sludge use or disposal by the City in accordance with the
following statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder
(or more stringent state or local regulations): Section 405 of the
Clean Water Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) [including Title
II, more commonly referred to as the "Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act (RCRA)," including state regulations contained in any state sludge
management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the SWDA], the
Clean Water Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the Marine
Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act.
Any contractor licensed by the Director of Public Works to
install building sewers, private sewers and public sewers in the City.
The highest volume, in gallons, measured at a metering station
or other point during any continuous twenty-four-hour period.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
The discharge of pollutants through the City's wastewater
works into navigable waters in quantities or concentrations which,
alone or in conjunction with discharges from other sources, are a
cause of a violation of any requirement of the City's NPDES permit
(including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
group, trust, municipality or governmental authority.
The negative logarithm (to the base 10) of the hydrogen ion
concentration in grams per liter of solution.
Any drain located on private property and not under the full
care and control of the Department of Public Works.
Any sewer located on private property that collects and conveys
wastewater from two or more building sewers, discharges into a public
sewer, and is not under the full care and control of the Department
of Public Works.
Garbage that has 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 drain located in a public way, private way, or easement
in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and
which is under the full care and control of the Department of Public
Works.
Any sewer owned or maintained by the City and any sewer situated
outside the City that is owned or maintained by a city, town or district
that discharges into City wastewater treatment works.
Any watercourse, river, pond, ditch, lake, aquifer, or other
body of surface water or groundwater receiving discharge of wastewaters.
A sewer which carries domestic and/or industrial wastewaters
and to which surface runoff from storms and groundwater is not intentionally
admitted.
A pipe or conduit for carrying wastewater.
Any discharge of water or wastewater 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 flow, during normal operation.
A pipe or conduit for conveying rainwater, groundwater, subsurface
water, condensate, cooling water, or other similar discharges.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, wastewater, or other liquids, and which are removable by
laboratory filtering, and are referred to as "nonfilterable residue"
in the laboratory test prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association.
A condition in water or wastewater caused by the presence of
suspended matter, resulting in the scattering and absorption of light
rays.
A measure of fine suspended matter in liquids.
An analytical quantity usually reported in arbitrary turbidity
units determined by measurements of light diffraction.
Substances in liquid, solid or gaseous form that can be carried
in water.
The spent water of the municipality and may be a combination
of the liquid and liquid-borne wastes from residences, commercial
buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with any
groundwater and surface water that may be present.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
wastewater.
All structures, equipment and processes for collecting, pumping,
treating and disposing of wastewater.
