[11-28-1972, art. 1, §§ 1—22]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this article 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
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 (one and five tenths meters) outside the inner
face of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
The commissioner of public works of the city, or his authorized
deputy, agent or representative.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or groundwater.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogenions
in grams per liter of solution.
The wastes from the preparation, cooling 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.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and is controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface
and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such ground, surface and stormwaters as may be present.
Any arrangement of devices an structures used for treating,
sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which
in concentration of 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.
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling
water.
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.
[11-28-1972, art. 5, §§ 1—3; Ord. of 9-11-1984]
(a)
The commissioner, and other duly authorized employees of the city
and/or of the Hoosac Water Quality District bearing proper credentials
and other identification shall be permitted to enter all properties,
of any person or entity who causes or permits the contribution of
wastewater into the city's sewer system or Hoosac Water Quality
District treatment works, for the purposes of inspection, observation,
measurement, sampling, testing and record examination to determine
compliance with provisions of this article.
(b)
Persons, entities or occupants of premises where wastewater is created
or discharged shall allow employees of the city and/or Hoosac Water
Quality District or their representatives ready access at all reasonable
times to all areas of the premises in performance of any of their
duties as required in this article.
(c)
The city, the Hoosac Water Quality District and the Environmental
Protection Agency acting through their employees or representatives
shall have the right to set upon any property subject to the provisions
of this article such devices as are necessary to conduct sampling,
inspection, compliance monitoring, or metering operations. Where property
of any person or occupant has security measures in force which would
require proper identification and clearance before entry into their
premises, the person, entity, or occupant of the property shall make
necessary arrangements with their security personnel so that upon
presentation of suitable identification, personnel from the city,
the Hoosac Water Quality District or the Environmental Protection
Agency will be permitted to enter without delay, for the purpose of
performing their specific responsibilities.
(d)
The commissioner and any other duly authorized employees of the city
and/or the Hoosac Water Quality District bearing proper credentials
and identifications shall be permitted to enter all private properties
through which the city hold a duly negotiated easement for the purposes
of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement sampling,
repair, and maintenance of any portions of the sewage works lying
within said easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said
easement, shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly
negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.
(e)
While performing the necessary work on private properties referred
to in this section, the commissioner or duly authorized employees
of the city and the Hoosac Water quality District shall observe all
safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company,
and the company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the
city employees, and the city shall indemnify the company against loss
or damage to its property by city employees, and against liability
claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted
against the company and growing out of gauging and sampling operation,
except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company
to maintain safe conditions as required in section 14-40.
[11-28-1972, art. 4, § 1]
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently
break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure,
appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the sewage works. Any
person violating this section shall be subject to immediate arrest
under charge of disorderly conduct.
[11-28-1972, art. 6, §§ 1-3; Ord. of 2-9-1999]
Any person found to be violating any provision of this article
except this section, shall be served by the city with written notice
stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time
limit for the satisfactory correction thereof. The offender shall,
within the period of time stated in such notice, permanently cease
all violations.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall
become liable to the city for any expense, loss or damage occasioned
the city by reason of such violation.
