This Part 1 shall be known as the "Sewer Use Ordinance."
It is the purpose of this Part 1 to protect the sewage collection
and treatment facilities, to prevent danger to life or damage to property,
to promote the health, safety and general welfare, to prohibit the
introduction of stormwater, surface or subsurface waters into the
sanitary sewers, to provide for the fair distribution of treatment
costs and to form a basis and policy for controlling the quantity
and quality of wastes accepted into the sewerage systems of the sewer
districts now or hereafter created in the Town of Hamlin, Monroe County,
New York.
A.Â
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER (sometimes called "house lateral")
COMMERCIAL-INDUSTRIAL WASTES
DOMESTIC WASTES
GARBAGE
GOVERNING BODY
NATURAL OUTLET
OWNER
PERSON
pH
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWERS
SANITARY SEWER
SEWAGE
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
SEWAGE WORKS
SEWER DISTRICT
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
WATERCOURSE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings
of terms used in this Part 1 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
carrying sewage which receives discharge from soil, waste and other
drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to
the building's sewer.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
Any and all other wastes not being domestic wastes but not
limited to the wastes from commercial, laboratory and industrial processes,
wastes from domestic operations or certain trade operations, such
as sand, grit, waste petroleum products from automotive service stations,
and the like, and animal wastes, straw and related items from dairy
or other farming operations.
Waterborne human or animal excreta or body wastes and normal
culinary, laundry and washing wastes originating in residences.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
The Town Board acting as the governing body to administer
the affairs of any sewer district in the Town of Hamlin.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
Any person with title to or having any interest in real property
in any of the sanitary sewer districts and the extension or extensions
and/or any drainage district or districts now existing or subsequently
created by the Town Board of the Town of Hamlin, New York.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
The waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food 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 1/4 inch in any dimension.
A sewer system administered and/or controlled by the Town
Board of the Town of Hamlin, New York.
A pipe or conduit which carries sewage and to which stormwater,
surface water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
The water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings,
institutions and industrial establishments and other places.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage under the control of the Town Board of the Town of Hamlin,
New York.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
Any of the sanitary sewer districts and their extension or
extensions and/or any drainage district or districts now existing
or subsequently created by the Town Board of the Town of Hamlin.
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface water drainage
but excludes sewage and commercial-industrial and domestic wastes.
That person designated by the Town Board to administer the
affairs of any sewer district in the Town of Hamlin.
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.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously
or intermittently.
B.Â
Word usage. In this Part 1, "shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
