Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Part 3 shall be as follows:
AHJ
Authority having jurisdiction, as approved by the Town Board
("AHJ" herein).
ASTM
The latest edition of American Society for Testing and Materials.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INDUSTRIAL USER
An authorized representative of the industrial user may be:
A.
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice
president, if the industrial user is a corporation.
B.
General partner or proprietor, if the industrial user is a partnership
or proprietorship, respectively.
C.
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated
above, if such representative is responsible for the overall operation
of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originate.
BOD (denoting BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five days
at 20° C. expressed in parts per million by weight.
BUILDER
Any person, persons or corporation who undertake to construct,
either under contract or for resale, any habitable building.
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 beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension of pipe or conduit from the building drain
to the public sewer or other place of disposal. One portion of the
building sewer extends from the building drain to the public street
right-of-way and a second portion extends from the public street right-of-way
to the public sewer.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer receiving both surface water runoff and sewage.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
The sample resulting from the combination of individual samples
of wastewater taken at selected intervals for a specified time period.
The individual samples may have equal volumes or the individual volumes
may be proportioned to the flow at the time of sampling.
CONTRACTOR
Any person, firm or corporation approved by the Town Board
to construct work in the Town.
DEVELOPER
Any person, persons or corporation who undertake to construct
simultaneously more than one housing unit on a given tract or land
subdivision.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL SURVEY (ICS)
The survey of industries in New York State initiated by the
NYSDEC to determine chemical usage and storage by those industries.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The wastewater from industrial processes, trade or business,
as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
OUTSIDE SEWER DISTRICT
Any sewer service area outside the Town limits which is connected
to the Town sewer system.
OWNER
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, person
or group having title to real property.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions in grams-ionic weights per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such 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 sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carried sewage and to which stormwaters, surface
waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwaters, surface waters and stormwaters as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit used for carrying sewage.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER (SIU)
An industrial user of the Town sewage treatment plant, who
is:
A.
Subject to national categorical pretreatment standards promulgated
by the EPA;
B.
Having substantial impact, either singly or in combination with
other industries, on the operation of the treatment works;
C.
Using, on an annual basis, more than 10,000 pounds or 1,000
gallons of raw material containing priority pollutants and/or substances
of concern and discharging a measurable quantity of these pollutants
to the sewer system; or
D.
Discharging more than 5% of the flow or load of conventional
pollutants received by the sewage treatment plant.
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A user discharging a measurable quantity of a pollutant may
be classified as nonsignificant if, at the influent to the sewage
treatment plant, the pollutant is not detectable.
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SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE (SNC)
A user is in significant noncompliance if its violations
meet one or more of the following criteria:
A.
Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here
as those, in 66% or more of all of the measurements taken during a
six-month period, which exceed (by any magnitude) the daily maximum
limit or average limit for the same pollutant parameter.
B.
Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as
those in which 33% or more of all of the measurements for each pollutant
parameter taken during a six-month period equal or exceed the product
of the daily maximum limits multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC
= 1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oil and grease; TRC = 1.2 for all other
pollutants).
C.
Any other violation of a pretreatment effluent limit (daily
maximum or long-term average) that the Town determines has caused,
alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass-through
(including endangering the health of sewage treatment plant personnel
or the general public).
D.
Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare, or to the environment, or has resulted in the Town's exercise of its emergency authority under Article
XXI of this Part
3.
E.
Failure to meet, within 90 days after the scheduled date, a
compliance schedule milestone contained in a local control mechanism
or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction
or attaining final compliance.
F.
Failure to provide, within 30 days after the due date, required
reports such as baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day compliance
reports, periodic self-monitoring reports, and reports on compliance
with compliance schedules.
G.
Failure to report accurately any noncompliance.
H.
Any other violation which the Town determines will adversely
affect the implementation or operation of the local pretreatment program.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A pipe or conduit which carries stormwaters and surface waters
and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of Public Works or his authorized deputy,
agent or representative is the AHJ of the Town of Lenox .
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.
TOTAL KJELDAHL NITROGEN
The quantity of nitrogen released as ammonia during the digestion
of ammonium and organic compounds by the kjeldahl method and standard
laboratory procedures, expressed as milligrams per liter of nitrogen.
TOTAL PHOSPHORUS
The quantity of orthophosphate measured by standard laboratory
procedures following hydrolysis of phosphorus compounds, expressed
as milligrams per liter of phosphorus.
TOWN
The Town of Lenox, New York.
TOWN BOARD or BOARD
The duly elected Board of the Town of Lenox or its authorized
deputy or representative.
TOWN ENGINEER
The consulting professional engineer retained as Town Engineer
by and for the Town of Lenox.
VILLAGE
The Village of Canastota, New York.
WASTEWATER
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwaters, surface waters and stormwaters as may be present.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
WWTP
Wastewater treatment plant located in the Village of Canastota.