As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
ASTM
American Society for Testing and Materials.
BOD ("BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND")
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory conditions in five days
at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN
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
pipe beginning five feet outside of the inner face of the building
wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sanitary
sewer or other place of disposal.
CHLORINE DEMAND
The difference between the amount of chlorine added to water,
wastewater or industrial wastes and the amount of residual chlorine
remaining at the end of a fifteen-minute contact period.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
BOD, total suspended solids (TSS), pH, fecal coliform bacteria,
chlorine demand, phosphorus and phosphorus compounds, fats, oils and
greases of animal or vegetable origin, if the wastewater treatment
system was designed to treat such pollutants and does remove such
pollutants to a substantial degree, except as prohibited herein or
identified in the village's state pollution discharge elimination
system permit.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
A sample consisting of several effluent portions collected
during a specific time period and combined to make a representative
sample.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, during which the only pollutant added to
the water is heat.
DEC
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
DOMESTIC WASTES
The wastewater from the noncommercial preparation, cooking
and handling of food or waste containing human excrement and similar
matter from the sanitary facilities of dwellings, commercial dwellings,
commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions.
EPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
FLOW RATE
The quantity of waste or liquid that flows in a certain period
of time.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from domestic and commercial preparation, cooking,
dispensing, handling, storage and sale of food.
INDUSTRIAL USER
Any industrial or commercial establishment with a classification
as designated in the most recent standard Industrial Classification
Manual as published by the Executive Office of the President, and
which utilizes the wastewater treatment system.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Wastewater resulting from the processes employed in industrial,
manufacturing, trade or business establishments as distinct from domestic
wastes.
MASS EMISSION RATE
The weight of material discharged to the wastewater treatment
system during a given time interval and, unless otherwise specified,
means pounds per day of a particular constituent or combination of
constituents.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or any other
body of surface or ground water.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
group or municipality.
PH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
POLLUTANT
Any waste, impurity or other additive, such as heat or radioactivity, that changes the quality and character of water delivered to the user, so that the discharged wastewater violates the standards as set in Article
V of this chapter.
PRETREATMENT
The application of physical, chemical and biological processes
to reduce the amount of pollutants or to alter the nature of the pollutant
properties in wastewater prior to discharging such wastewater into
the publicly owned wastewater treatment system.
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
All applicable federal rules and regulations implementing
Section 307 of the Act, including any amendments thereto, as well
as any nonconflicting state or local standards. In cases of conflicting
standards or regulations, the most stringent must be applied. In some
cases these "pretreatment standards" may not be sufficient to protect
the operation of the wastewater treatment system or may make it unable
to comply with the terms of the SPDES permit. In such cases, the Superintendent
reserves the right to impose more stringent "pretreatment standards"
than those specified in the EPA regulations.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
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 in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public
utility, either sanitary or storm.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer that carries liquid- and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater, stormwater or
drainage water.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Any user of the publicly owned wastewater treatment system
that:
(1)
Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average workday;
(2)
Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow carried by the wastewater
treatment system;
(3)
Has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined
in standards issued under Section 307(a) of the Act;
(4)
Is found by the Superintendent under the SPDES permit to have
a significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing
industries, upon the wastewater treatment system or upon the quality
of effluent from the treatment works;
(5)
Has in its wastewater any of the prohibited substances or characteristics in Article
IV, §
123-17, Prohibitions on wastewater discharges; or
(6)
Has in its wastewater any concentrations or characteristics in excess of those stipulated in Article
IV, §
123-18, Limitations on wastewater discharges.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, wastewater or industrial waste which
exceeds (in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity
of flow), for any period longer than 15 minutes, more than five times
the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during normal
operation and adversely affects the collection system and/or performance
of the wastewater treatment system.
SPDES
The State Pollution Discharge Elimination System.
STORM DRAIN OR STORM SEWER
A sewer which carries storm and surface water and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling
water.
STORMWATER
Any flow resulting from any form of natural precipitation.
This flow can occur during, immediately following or substantially
after (such as snow melt) the precipitation event.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of Public Works responsible for the wastewater
treatment system of the Village of Warsaw or any authorized representative
of the Village of Warsaw.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface
of or is in suspension in water, wastewater or other liquids and is
removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and referred to as "nonfilterable
residue."
THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act and amendments to
it.
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
Any substance which constitutes a hazard to human beings or animal or plant life or inhibits aquatic life or creates a hazard to recreation in the receiving waters of the effluent from a wastewater treatment plant. See Article
IV, §
123-17B, Toxic substances, for further definition.
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water not containing any pollutants limited or prohibited
by this chapter and/or the effluent standards in effect, or water
whose discharge will not cause any violation of receiving water quality
standards.
USER
The owner of any property from which wastewater is discharged
into the wastewater treatment system.
VILLAGE
The Village of Warsaw, County of Wyoming, State of New York,
acting through its Board of Trustees.
WASTE
Wastewater and any and all other impurities or waste substances
associated with human habitation or of human or animal origin or from
any producing, manufacturing or processing operation of whatever nature,
including such waste placed within containers of whatever nature prior
to and for purposes of disposal.
WASTEWATER (OR "SEWAGE")
The liquid- and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may
be present, whether treated or untreated, which is discharged into
or permitted to enter the village wastewater treatment system.
WASTEWATER CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS
The individual chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological
parameters, including volume and flow rate, and such other parameters
that serve to define, classify or measure the contents, quality, quantity
and strength of wastewater.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Any devices, facilities, structures, equipment or works owned
by the village for the purpose of the transmission, storage, treatment,
recycling and reclamation of industrial and domestic wastes or necessary
to recycle or reuse water at the most economical cost over the estimated
life of the system, including intercepting sewers, outfall sewers,
wastewater collection systems, pumping, power and other equipment
and their appurtenances; extensions, improvements, additions and alterations
thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply,
such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities; and any
works, including site acquisition of the land, that will be an integral
part of the treatment process or is used for the ultimate disposal
of residues resulting from such treatment.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
WPCF
The Water Pollution Control Federation.