This chapter may and shall be cited as the "Town of Porter Sewers
Law."
The Town of Porter, to protect the health, safety and welfare
of its citizens, and to protect and preserve the environment, has
heretofore initiated the installation of sanitary sewers in parts
of the Town. However, the effectiveness of said sanitary sewer system
is contingent on its proper utilization. Any misuse will hamper its
effectiveness and compromise its purpose. Therefore, it is the purpose
of this chapter to enact rules and regulations to govern the use of
said sanitary sewer system, and thereby insure its proper utilization
and effectiveness of operation.
This chapter shall apply to all the territory within the confines
of the borders of the Town of Porter, excepting any incorporated village.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
ABNORMAL POLLUTANT
Industrial waste, substance or wastewater characteristic,
in excess of that found in normal wastewater, but which is otherwise
acceptable for disposal into a public sewer under the terms of this
chapter.
ABNORMAL POLLUTANT SURCHARGE
The charge levied against any person for services rendered
during treatment of abnormal pollutants or waste. This charge is intended
to partially defray the added cost of transporting and treating abnormal
pollutants or waste. This charge shall be in addition to the usual
annual charge for sanitary sewer service.
ABNORMAL WASTEWATER
Any wastewater having a suspended solids, BOD or phosphate
content in excess of that found in normal wastewater, but which is
otherwise acceptable for disposal into a public sewer under the terms
of this chapter.
ABNORMAL WASTEWATER PERMIT
A permit approved by and issued by the Administrator, permitting
the discharge or deposit of abnormal wastewater into a sanitary sewer
system upon payment of a surcharge.
ABNORMAL WASTEWATER SURCHARGE
The charge levied against any person for services rendered
during treatment of abnormal sanitary wastewater or waste. This charge
is intended to partially defray the added cost of transporting and
treating abnormal wastewater or waste. This charge shall be in addition
to the usual charge for sanitary sewer service.
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.,
as may be amended.
ADMINISTRATOR
The administrator of the sewer system of the Town of Porter.
BOD STRENGTH INDEX
The measure of the biochemical oxygen demand content of wastewater
in parts per million (milligrams per liter).
BOD (DENOTING BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
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.
BUILDING
Includes houses, structures, establishments or properties
used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purpose.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a sewerage system
which receives discharge from sewerage pipes inside the walls of the
building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet
outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any system such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid, solid or gaseous wastes derived from industrial
manufacturing processes, trade, business and institutions, as distinct
from sanitary wastewater.
[Amended 3-23-1981 by L.L. No. 1-1981]
LABORATORY DETERMINATION
The measurements, tests, and analyses of the characteristics
of waters and wastes, in accordance with the methods contained in
the latest edition of "Standard Methods for Examination of Water and
Wastewater," a joint publication of the American Public Health Association,
the American Waterworks Association and the Water Pollution Control
Federation, or in accordance with any other method prescribed by the
Town by rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this section.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or groundwater.
NORMAL WASTEWATER
Wastewater which, when analyzed, shows by weight a daily
average of not more than 2,500 pounds per million gallons (300 parts
per million) of suspended solids, not more than 2,500 pounds per million
gallons (300 parts per million) of BOD and not more than 83 pounds
per million gallons (10 parts per million) of phosphorous as P, and
which is otherwise acceptable for the public sewer under the terms
of this chapter.
OBJECTIONABLE WASTE
Any wastes which can harm either the sewers, sewer treatment
process or equipment, or which have an adverse effect on the receiving
stream, or which can otherwise endanger life, limb, public property,
or constitute a nuisance.
OWNER
Owner of record of the freehold of the premises or lesser
estate therein, a mortgagee, or vendee in possession, assignee of
rents, receiver, executor, trustee, lessee, or other person, firm
or corporation in control of a building.
P (denoting phosphorous)
The total phosphorous determined under standard laboratory
procedures, expressed in milligrams per liter.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
including municipal corporations, or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
POLLUTANT
Any substance or wastewater characteristic present in polluted
water or waste.
POLLUTED WATER OR WASTE
Any water or liquid waste containing any of the following:
phenols or other substances to an extent imparting taste and odor
in receiving waters; toxic or poisonous substances in suspension,
colloidal state or solution, or noxious odorous gases; more than 10,000
parts per million, by weight of dissolved solids, of which more than
2,500 parts per million are chloride; more than 10 parts per million
of suspended solids and/or BOD; color exceeding 50 parts per million,
or having a pH value of less than 5.5 or more than 9.5; and/or any
water or waste not approved for discharge into a stream or waterway
by the appropriate state or federal authority.
PRETREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutant properties in wastewater
to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise
introducing such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction or alternation
can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, process
changes or by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6, General
Pretreatment Regulations for Existing and New Sources of Pollution,
promulgated by the USEPA.
[Added 3-23-1981 by L.L. No. 1-1981]
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 (1.27 centimeters)
in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and which is controlled by public authority.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works as defined by 33 U.S.C. § 1292.
It includes any sewers that convey wastewater to a treatment plant
but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected
to a facility providing treatment.
[Added 3-23-1981 by L.L. No. 1-1981]
RULES AND REGULATIONS
Any additional rules and regulations adopted by the Town
Board of the Town of Porter.
SS STRENGTH INDEX
The measure of the suspended solids content of wastewater
in parts per million (milligrams per liter).
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries wastewater, and to which storm, surface
and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying wastewater.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Any user who:
[Added 3-23-1981 by L.L. No. 1-1981]
A.
Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average work
day;
B.
Has in his waste toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to Section
307 of the Act;
C.
Has been identified as one of the 21 industrial categories pursuant
to Section 307 of the Act; or
D.
Is found by the Town to have significant impact, either singly
or in combination with other contributing industries on the treatment
or collection system.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, wastewater, or industrial waste which,
in connection with 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.
STANDARD METHODS
The latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater" prepared and published jointly by the American
Public Health Association, American Waterworks Association and the
Water Environment Federation.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes wastewater and industrial wastes.
STRENGTH INDEX
Both the biochemical oxygen demand index and the suspended
solids strength index.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of water, or are
in suspension in water, wastewater or other liquids, and which are
removable by laboratory filtering.
SYSTEM
The trunk sewers, interceptors, pumping stations, treatment
plant, outfall conduits, and so forth designed to collect, transmit,
treat and dispose of estimated flows and loadings of participants
and other users of the system.
TOWN
The Town of Porter, New York.
UNPOLLUTED WATER OR WASTE
Any water or liquid waste containing none of the following:
phenols or other substances to an extent imparting taste and odor
in receiving waters; toxic or poisonous substances in suspension,
collodial state or solution, or noxious or odorous gases; not more
than 10,000 parts per million, by weight, of dissolved solids, of
which not more than 2,500 parts per million may have a pH value of
less than 5.5 nor higher than 9.5.
WASTEWATER
A combination of the water-carried wastes from buildings,
institutions and industrial establishments.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES
All facilities for collection, pumping, treating and disposing
of wastewater and sludge.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.