Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings
of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
BOD (denotes "biochemical oxygen demand")
The quantity of oxygen in the biochemical oxidation of organic
matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20°
C.), expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN
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 sewer and terminates five feet outside the inner face
of the building wall.
COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any and all other liquid, gaseous, solid or other waste substance or a combination thereof resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade or business or from the development or recovery of any natural resources not hereinafter classified as unacceptable or restricted by Article
V.
DIRECTOR
The Director of the Municipal Utility System.
DOMESTIC WASTES
Waterborne human or animal excreta or body wastes and normal
culinary, laundry and washing wastes originating in residences.
GARBAGE
Solid waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
OWNER
Any person in title or having any interest in real property
in any 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 Bath, New York, or the Village
of Bath, New York.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
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.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer which is controlled by the Sewer Commissioners of
the Town of Bath, New York, or the Village of Bath, New York.
SANITARY SEWER
A pipe or conduit which carries sewage and to which stormwater,
surface water and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
The water-carried human or animal wastes from residences,
commercial buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
SEWAGE SYSTEM
All facilities which are used or useful, in whole or in part,
for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage, industrial
wastes and other wastes.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWER COMMISSION
The duly elected or appointed governing body of a sewer district
in the Town of Bath or Village of Bath.
SEWER DISTRICT
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 Bath, New
York, or the Village of Bath, New York.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
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.
TOXIC OR POISONOUS SUBSTANCE
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, which, when
discharged to a public sewer in sufficient quantities, will be detrimental
to the sewer system, interfere with any biological sewage treatment
process, constitute a hazard to human beings or animals, inhibit aquatic
life or create a hazard to recreation in the receiving waters of the
effluent from a sewage treatment plant.