The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
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 outside the inner face of the building wall.
The appointed Building Inspector of the Town or his authorized representative.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
The sewer operation and maintenance group of the Department of Public Works.
Any person, company or corporation involved in the business of land development or involved in the construction or extension of public utility systems.
The appointed Director of Health of the Town or his authorized representative.
The appointed Director of Public Works of the Town.
Any and all breaks, clogs, collapse and malfunctions which would hinder the appurtenant equipment or process from performing the intended function.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sales 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 water or groundwater.
Any and all substances which would endanger life, limb and public property or constitute a nuisance.
Twenty-four consecutive hours, excluding holidays, weekends and any other days which the Town Hall is closed.
Any and all liquids, solids or gases produced as a result of either residential occupation, or commercial or industrial processes.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions in moles per liter of solution.
Any person licensed under Chapter 393 of the Connecticut General Statutes.
Containing toxic or poisonous substances which would have an adverse effect on the receiving stream or which can otherwise endanger life, limb and public property or constitutes a nuisance.
The wastes from preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow condition normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of adjoining properties have equal rights and which is controlled by public authority.
Any person licensed under Chapter 391 of the Connecticut General Statutes.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface water, and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing sewage.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage and approved quantities of industrial waste.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
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 of flows during normal operation.
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
Any development of land which proposes two or more smaller lots from a larger parcel of land.
Any combination of tanks, chambers, trenches, boxes, pipes, conduits and other appurtenances for the disposal of sewage when public sewers are not available.
Any person licensed under Chapter 393A of the Connecticut General Statutes.
The Superintendent of Waste Treatment of the Town or his authorized representative.
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.
The Town of Southington acting through any authorized representative.
The appointed Engineer of the Town.
That elected body which administers the zoning laws of the Town.
Substance, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, which when discharged to the sewer system in sufficient quantities may tend to interfere with any sewage treatment process, to constitute a hazard to human beings or animals, or to inhibit aquatic life in the receiving waters of the effluent from the sewage treatment plant.
Containing no toxic or poisonous substance which would have an adverse effect on the receiving stream or which can otherwise endanger life, limb and public property or constitute a nuisance.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
Any combination of pipes, motors, screens, filters, casings, tanks, pumps, treatment equipment or other appurtenances for the supply of water to residential, commercial and industrial establishments and being distinct from publicly owned water supply system.
Any person licensed under Chapter 482 of the Connecticut General Statutes, and any statutory amendment or substitution thereof.