Unless otherwise stated in the section where the term is used
in this chapter, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be
as stated below. When not inconsistent with the context, the present
tense shall include the future, and words used in the plural shall
include the singular and vice versa. Furthermore, a masculine pronoun
shall include the feminine. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
Sewage whose concentration of one or more characteristics
of normal sewage exceeds the maximum concentrations of the characteristics
of normal sewage. See "normal sewage."
The unit for billing sewer rents. For multiple-family residential
units, each individual dwelling unit will constitute a separate account.
For nonresidential property, each occupant of a multi-occupant building
will constitute a separate account.
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.
The Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (USEPA), Region 2.
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the quantity of ammonia in a sample, expressed as milligrams
of nitrogen per liter.
That person who makes application for any permit. The applicant
may be an owner, new or old, or his agent.
The USEPA, or the NYSDEC, in the event the NYSDEC is delegated
approval authority responsibility by the USEPA.
Any structure or use that is approved by all of the agencies,
boards and authorities of the Town of Inlet but which has not yet
been connected to and/or using the public sewer.
The procedures defined as "standard methods" in this article,
or other procedures approved by the Superintendent, for flow measurement
or determination of the concentration of pollutants or their surrogates
in waters, wastewaters, and/or sludges.
The latest edition of any ASTM specification, when stipulated
in this chapter.
An authorized representative of the industrial user may be:
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice
president, if the industrial user is a corporation;
A general partner or proprietor, if the industrial user is a
partnership or proprietorship, respectively;
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 originates.
The unused treatment capacity at the WWTP measured in gallons
of daily of flow of normal sewage averaged on a monthly basis taking
into account actual flow into the WWTP (including any infiltration
or inflow), any approved development and any special treatment needs
of nondomestic sewage.
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine the quantity of oxygen utilized in the aerobic biochemical
oxidation of organic matter or in a sample, expressed in milligrams
per liter.
Any person who undertakes to construct a building or any
part of a building, either under contract or for resale.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage
system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage
pipes inside the building walls, and conveys it to the building lateral,
which begins five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
Principal and interest payments on bonds and notes issued
in connection with the POTW.
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine the difference between the amount of chlorine added to
a sample and the amount of chlorine remaining in the sample at the
end of a specified contact time at room temperature, expressed in
milligrams per liter.
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to measure the oxygen requirement of that portion of matter, in a
sample, that is susceptible to oxidation, by a specific chemical oxidant,
expressed in milligrams per liter.
The optical density at the visual wave length of maximum
absorption, relative to distilled water. One-hundred-percent transmittance
is equivalent to 0.0 optical density.
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.
Attachment of one user to a sewer. (See "extension.")
The one-time application fee to offset Town of Inlet expenses
to process an application for a connection of a building/street lateral
to the public sewer. The fee also covers plan review, permit issuance,
street repair cost, and inspection costs. The fee may be scaled to
the amount of work involved, or to the size of the public sewer involved.
The term shall refer to approval authority, or to the Superintendent
when Town of Inlet has an approved pretreatment program under the
provisions of 40 CFR 403.11.
A manhole accessible to the control authority in or upstream
of the street lateral, such that samples collected from the manhole
represent the discharge to the POTW.
A pollutant that the POTW treatment plant was designed to
treat, defined in accordance with the Act.
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, refrigeration, or other sources. It shall contain no
polluting substances which would produce COD or suspended solids in
excess of five milligrams per liter, or toxic substances, as limited
elsewhere in this chapter.
Hamilton County, New York.
The Criminal Procedure Law of the State of New York.
The Civil Practice Laws and Rules of the State of New York.
The employee of the Town delegated the authority to enforce
the building and zoning codes.
The designed for flow of sewage in the WWTP measured in gallons
of daily flow of normal sewage averaged on a monthly basis.
Any person who subdivides land for the purpose of constructing,
or causing to be constructed, buildings for which wastewater disposal
facilities are required.
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the State of New York. (For reference, see "indirect
discharge.")
See "sewage, domestic."
The sanitary sewer installed in anticipation of future connection
to a POTW but which is not used, in the meantime, for transport of
storm or sanitary sewage.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
For the purpose of determining compliance with limitations prescribed by Article IX, "end of pipe" shall mean the control manhole, provided the samples collected from the control manhole are representative of the discharge to the POTW.
The concentration of a substance in a sample of wastewater
at end of pipe.
See "national categorical pretreatment standard."
The agency of the federal government charged with the administration
and enforcement of federal environmental laws, rules, and regulations.
Also may be used as a designation for the Administrator or other duly
authorized official of this agency.
The estimated amount of wastewater flow that a typical two-bedroom
single family residence generates measured in gallons per day (i.e.,
300 gallons per day). For the purpose of establishing sewer rents,
the number of EDUs attributable to each sewer account will be based
on design flow estimates for the particular use at the account's
location, not the actual flow. Where available for a given use, the
design flow estimates from the most recent guidance document issued
by the NYSDEC will establish the number of EDUs for that use.
Operating and maintenance costs in excess of those attributable
to normal sewage.
Attachment of a sewer line, with more than one user, to an
existing sewer line.
All buildings, other structures, grounds and contiguous property
at any locations related to or connected with a user at the user's
location.
Oil, grease, or fat in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in a wastewater treatment
facility.
The limit of wastewater flow authorized in the SPDES permit
for the WWTP. The flow limit is measured in gallons per day averaged
on a monthly basis.
The quantity of liquid or waste that flows in a certain period
of time.
The solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food, from the handling, storage, and sale of produce, and from
the packaging and canning of food.
A single sample of wastewater representing the physical,
chemical, and biological characteristics of the wastewater at one
point and time.
The form used by the NYSDEC to survey industries to perform
and update the Industrial Chemical Survey.
The introduction of wastewater into a POTW for treatment
and ultimate discharge of the treated effluent to the state's
waters. (For reference, see "Direct Discharge.")
Meaning or pertaining to industry, manufacturing, commerce,
trade, business, or institution, and is distinguished from domestic
or residential.
The survey of industries in New York State, initiated by
the NYSDEC, to determine chemical usage and storage by those industries.
See "user, industrial."
The liquid or liquid-carried solid, liquid and/or gaseous
wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, service, utility,
or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system
(excluding building drains) from the ground through such means as
defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manholes. Infiltration
does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow. Infiltration
is inadvertent, that is, not purposely designed or built into the
sewer or drain.
Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system
(including building drains) from sources such as, but not limited
to, roof leaders, cellar drains, area drains, drains from springs
and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections between storm
sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, stormwaters,
foundation drains, swimming pools, surface runoff, street wash waters,
or drainage. Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.
Inflow is purposely designed and/or built into the sewer or drain.
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with discharges
by other sources:
Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations,
or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and
Therefore is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the
POTW's SPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or
duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use
or disposal by the POTW in accordance with the following statutory
provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent
state or local regulations):
Section 405 of the Clean Water Act;
The Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) [including Title II, more
commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
(RCRA), and including state regulations contained in any state sludge
management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D or the SWDA];
Clean Air Act;
Toxic Substance Control Act; and
Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act.
The sewer extension from the building drain to the street
lateral or other place of wastewater disposal.
The sewer extension from the public sewer to the property
line.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(B) and (C) of the Act (22
U.S.C. § 1347), which applies to a specific category of
industrial users. These standards apply at the end of the categorical
process ("end of process").
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342).
Any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307(B)
of the Act, and 40 CFR 403.5.
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
to state's waters.
That individual or entity who purchased property within the
service area of the Town of Inlet after the effective date of this
chapter.
Any source, the construction of which is commenced after
the publication of the proposed regulation prescribing a Section 307(C)
(33 U.S.C. § 1317) categorical pretreatment standard which
will be applicable to such source, if such standard is thereafter
promulgated.
A discharger to the POTW who commences discharge after the
effective date of this chapter.
See "sewage, normal."
The use or lack of use of the POTW in such a manner so as
to endanger life or health, give offense to the senses, or obstruct
or otherwise interfere with the reasonable use or maintenance of the
POTW.
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine the quantity of fats, wax, grease, and oil, in a sample,
expressed in milligrams per liter.
That individual or entity who owns or owned a property, within
the service area of the POTW, purchased prior to the effective date
of this chapter, who or inherited the property at any time and intends
to sell the property, or has sold the property to a new owner, also
the agent of the old owner.
All expenses associated with the POTW except capital costs.
Operation and maintenance costs include depreciation expenses.
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, egg shells,
coffee grounds, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, ashes, and all
other discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial
wastes. Also, the discarded matter not normally present in sewage
or industrial waste.
The owner of real property within the sewer district.
The discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the state
in quantities, which, alone or in conjunction with discharges from
other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the
POTW's SPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or
duration of a violation).
A temporary revocable written document allowing use of the
POTW for specified wastes over a limited period of time, containing
sampling locations and reporting frequencies, and requiring other
actions as authorized by this chapter.
Any individual, public or private corporation, political
subdivision, federal, state, or local agency or entity, association,
trust, estate or any other legal entity whatsoever.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of
hydrogenions, in gram moles per liter of solution. A pH value of 7.0,
the pH scale midpoint, represents neutrality. Values above 7.0 represent
alkaline conditions. Values below 7.0 represent acid conditions.
See "total phosphorus."
Any material placed into or onto the state's waters,
lands and/or airs, which interferes with the beneficial use of that
water, land and/or air by any living thing at any time.
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological, and/or radiological integrity of the state's waters,
lands and/or airs resulting from the introduction of a pollutant into
these media.
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater and to treat sludge and residuals derived from such treatment.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature 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 alteration can be achieved by physical, chemical, or biological
process, process changes, or by other means, except as prohibited
by 40 CFR 403.6(D).
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial
user.
Any categorical standard or prohibitive discharge standard.
The most recently revised or updated list, developed by the
EPA, in accordance with the Act.
See "national prohibitive discharge standard."
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, and with no particle having a dimension greater
than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
The treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of the Act,
(33 U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned by the Town of Inlet.
This definition includes any sewers and appurtenances that transport
wastewater to the POTW treatment plant, but does not include pipes,
sewers, or other conveyances not connected directly or indirectly
to a facility providing treatment.
A natural watercourse or body of water (usually waters of
the state) into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
Shall include, but not be limited to, any printed, typewritten,
handwritten or otherwise recorded matter of whatever character (including
paper or electronic media), including but not limited to, letters,
files, memoranda, directives, notes and notebooks, correspondence,
descriptions, telephone call slips, photographs, permits, applications,
reports, compilations, films, graphs and inspection reports. For the
purposes of this chapter, records shall mean records of and relating
to waste generation, reuse and disposal, and shall include records
of usage of raw materials.
A drain installed to receive water collecting on the surface
of a roof for disposal.
All liquids and solids in and removed from septic tanks,
holding tanks, cesspools, or approved type of chemical toilets, including
but not limited to those serving private residences, commercial establishments,
institutions, and industries. Also sludge from small sewage treatment
plants. Septage shall not have been contaminated with substances of
concern or priority pollutants.
A private domestic sewage treatment system consisting of
an underground tank (with suitable baffling), constructed in accordance
with any and/or all local and state requirements.
Sewer District No. 1 of the Town of Inlet.
The legally defined bounds of real property from which wastewater
may be discharged into the POTW. The bounds shall be established,
altered, changed, modified, reduced, enlarged, combined, or consolidated
by action of the Town of Inlet.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, and
such ground, surface, and stormwater as may be inadvertently present.
The admixture of sewage, as defined above, with industrial wastes
and other wastes shall also be considered sewage, within the meaning
of this definition.
Liquid wastes from the noncommercial preparation, cooking,
and handling of food, liquid wastes containing human excrement and
similar matter from the sanitary conveniences in dwellings, commercial
buildings, industrial buildings, and institutions, or liquid wastes
from clothes washing and/or floor/wall washing. Therefore, domestic
sewage includes both black water and grey water. (See "sewage, sanitary.")
Sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes, which show, by analysis,
the following characteristics:
BOD (five day): 2,090 pounds per million gallons (250 milligrams
per liter), or less.
Suspended solids: 2,500 pounds per million gallons (300 milligrams
per liter), or less.
Phosphorus: 125 pounds per million gallons (15 milligrams per
liter), or less.
Ammonia: 250 pounds per million gallons (30 milligrams per liter),
or less.
Total Kjeldahl nitrogen: 417 pounds per million (50 milligrams
per liter), or less.
Chlorine demand: 209 pounds per million gallons (25 milligrams
per liter), or less.
Chemical oxygen demand: 2,920 pounds per million gallons (350
milligrams per liter), or less.
Oil and grease: 830 pounds per million gallons (100 milligrams
per liter), or less.
In spite of satisfying one or more of these characteristics,
if the sewage also contains substances of concern, it may not be considered
normal sewage.
Liquid wastes from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings
(including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, factories,
or institutions, and free from stormwater, surface water, industrial,
and other wastes. (See "domestic wastes.")
See "POTW treatment plant."
Sewage which has characteristics greater than those of normal
sewage and/or which contains substances of concern.
A pipe or conduit for carrying or transporting sewage.
All facilities for collecting, regulating, pumping, and transporting
wastewater to and away from the POTW treatment plant.
The demand payment for the use of a public sewer and/or sewage
treatment plant for the handling of any sewage, industrial wastes,
or other wastes accepted for admission thereto in which the characteristics
thereof exceed the maximum values of such characteristics in normal
sewage.
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff
and sewage.
A sewer in which all abutting property owners have equal
rights, and the use of which is controlled by the Town of Inlet.
A sewer which carries sewage, and to which storm, surface,
and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastewaters, other than cooling
waters and other unpolluted waters.
See "user, significant industrial."
A user is in significant noncompliance if its violation(s)
meet(s) one or more of the following criteria:
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;
Technical Review Criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as
those, in 33% or more of all of the measurements for each pollutant
parameter taken during a six-month period, which 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);
Any other violation of a pretreatment effluent limit (daily
maximum or long-term average) that the Superintendent determines has
caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference
or pass through (including endangering the health of POTW personnel
or the general public);
Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare or to the environment or has resulted in the Superintendent's exercise of its emergency authority under Article XI of this chapter;
Failure to meet, within 90 days after the schedule date, a compliance
schedule milestone contained in a local control mechanism or enforcement
order for starting construction, completing construction, or attaining
final compliance;
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;
Failure to report accurately any noncompliance;
Any other violation which the Superintendent determines will
adversely affect the implementation or operation of the local pretreatment
program.
A substantial deviation from normal rates of discharge or
constituent concentration (see normal sewage) sufficient to cause
interference. In any event, a discharge which, in concentration of
any constituent or in quantity of flow, that exceeds, for any period
of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five times the average
twenty-four-hour concentration or flow during normal user operations,
shall constitute a slug.
The State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit issued
to the Town of Inlet by the NYSDEC.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972, and subsequent revisions.
Procedures contained in the latest edition of "Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Wastewater," published by the American
Public Health Association, procedures established by the Administrator,
pursuant to Section 304(G) of the Act and contained in 40 CFR, Part
136, and amendments thereto. (If 40 CFR, Part 136, does not include
a sampling or analytical technique for the pollutant in question,
then procedures set forth in EPA publication, "Sampling and Analysis
Procedures for Screening of Industrial Effluents for Priority Pollutants,"
April 1977, and amendments thereto, shall be used), any other procedure
approved by the Administrator, or any other procedure approved by
the Superintendent, whichever is the most conservative.
State of New York.
See "waters of the state."
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation; also the flow resulting therefrom.
Those compounds which the NYSDEC has determined may be harmful
to man or the environment.
The Sewer Use Law of the Town of Inlet.
A mechanism used for removing water from a sump or wet well.
The person(s) appointed by the Town Board to oversee operation
and maintenance of the wastewater system(s) and otherwise carry out
duties and functions defined herein and as may be prescribed by the
Town Board. This definition shall also include his authorized deputy,
agent, or representative.
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the dry weight of solids, in a sample, that either float
on the surface of, or are in suspension, or are settleable, and can
be removed from the sample by filtration, expressed in milligrams
per liter.
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the quantity of ammonia in a sample and released during
the acid digestion of organic nitrogen compounds, expressed as milligrams
of nitrogen per liter.
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the total quantity of orthophosphate, in a sample of
wastewater, following the hydrolysis of phosphorus compounds, expressed
as milligrams of phosphorus per liter of sample.
The Town of Inlet, Hamilton County, NY, acting on behalf
of the district.
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid, or solid, that when
discharged to a public sewer in sufficient quantities may be hazardous
to POTW operation and maintenance personnel, tend to interfere with
any biological sewage treatment process, or to constitute a hazard
to recreation in the receiving waters, due to the effluent from a
sewage treatment plant or overflow point. Any pollutant or combination
of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the EPA
under provisions of CWA 307(A), or other Acts.
Any person who contributes, causes, or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the POTW.
A discharger to the POTW who is discharging on or before
the effective date of this chapter.
A discharger to the POTW who discharges nondomestic wastewaters.
A discharger to the POTW who initiates discharge after the
effective date of this chapter.
An industrial user of the Town of Inlet POTW who is:
Subject to national categorical pretreatment standards promulgated
by the EPA;
Having substantial impact, either singly or in combination with
other industries, on the operation of the treatment works;
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;
Discharging more than 5% of the flow or load of conventional
pollutants received by the POTW treatment plant.
Note: A user discharging a measurable quantity of a pollutant
may be classified as nonsignificant if, at the influent to the POTW
treatment plant, the pollutant is not detectable.
The sewer user charge is based, in part or wholly, on the volume of normal sewage discharged into the POTW (there may be surcharges, as provided for in Article XII). The user charge shall be based on equivalent dwelling units (EDUs). The specific charge shall be subject to approval by the Town of Inlet. The moneys so obtained shall be used for current operation and maintenance, for retirement of bonded indebtedness, and for funding of capital projects, of the POTW. The basis of user charge calculations shall be made available to the public, on demand, as provided in Article XIII. The user charge shall be recalculated annually, as well as the surcharge rates.
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastewaters
from dwellings, commercial establishments, industrial facilities,
and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and
stormwater that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which
is contributed into or permitted to enter the POTW.
A permit as set forth in Article X of this chapter.
See "sewage, unusual strength or character."
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, water courses, waterways,
wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage
systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or
underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through, or border upon the state or any portion thereof.
The fiscal year of the sewer district, January 1 to December
31.
The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
American National Standards Institute.
American Society for Testing and Materials.
American Water Works Association.
Biochemical oxygen demand.
Code of Federal Regulations.
Code of Public Law and Rules.
Chemical oxygen demand.
Environmental Protection Agency.
Liter.
Milligram.
Milligrams per liter.
National Clay Pipe Institute.
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
New York State Department of Health.
New York State Department of Transporation.
Total phosphorus.
Pounds per square inch.
Publicly owned treatment works.
Parts per million, weight basis.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
Standard industrial classification.
State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. 690 L, et seq.
United State Code of Laws.
United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Total suspended solids.
Terms not defined in this article, or terms found to be ambiguous
or improperly defined in this article, shall be defined by the Act,
or regulations pursuant thereto.
