Town of Royalton, NY General Provisions

This chapter sets forth the uniform requirements for discharges into sewer systems under the jurisdiction and control of the Town of Royalton and prohibits the disposal into any public sewer system of any pollutant or waste in violation of all applicable federal, New York State, Niagara County, and local laws and regulations, including the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended by the Clean Water Act of 1977, and any amendments thereto.

§ 135-2 Definitions.

Words used in the present tense include the future, words in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter, the singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.

Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in the local law shall be as follows:

ASTM

The American Society for Testing and Materials.

ACT or THE ACT

The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, set forth in Chapter 26 of Title 33 of the Code of Laws of the United States of America (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.)

BOARD

The Town Board of the Town of Royalton.

BOD (denoting "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND")

The pollutional strength of a waste expressed in terms of 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 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 (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.

BUILDING SEWER

The extension from the building drain to the public sanitary sewer or other place of disposal, also called "house connection."

CHLORINE DEMAND

The difference between the amount of chlorine added to water, wastewater or industrial wastes and the amount of residual chlorine remaining at the end of a fifteen-minute contact period.

COMMERCIAL USER

Includes any property occupied by a nonresidential establishment not within the definition of an "industrial user" and which is connected to the wastewater treatment system.

COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT

Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), total suspended solids (TSS), pH, fecal coliform bacteria, chlorine demand, phosphorus and phosphorus compounds, fats, oils and greases of animal or vegetable origin, if the wastewater treatment system was designed to treat such pollutants and removes such pollutants to a substantial degree, except as prohibited herein or identified in the Town's SPDES permit.

COMPOSITE SAMPLE

A sample consisting of several effluent portions collected during a specified time period and combined to make a representative sample.

CONCENTRATION

Refers to the mass of a substance or material per unit volume of liquid. Concentration may be expressed as parts per million by weight (ppm) or as milligrams per liter (mg/l).

CONNECTION

The physical tie-in of the building sewer or sewer extension to the public sanitary sewer.

COOLING WATER

The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling, or refrigeration during which the only pollutant added to the water is heat.

DEC

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

DOMESTIC WASTES

The wastewater from the noncommercial preparation, cooking and handling of food, or waste containing human excrement and similar matter from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, commercial dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions.

EPA

The United States Environmental Protection Agency.

FLOW RATE

The quantity of waste or liquid that flows in a certain period of time.

FLOW VOLUME

The quantity of wastes or liquid.

GARBAGE

The animal or vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, dispensing, storage or sale of food.

INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT

Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant.

INDUSTRIAL USER

Any nonresidential user of the publicly owned wastewater treatment system that:

(1)

Is identified in Division A, B, D, E or I of the Federal Standard Industrial Classification Manual;

(2)

Discharges toxic or poisonous substances, or any substance(s) which either singularly or in combination with other contributary users cause(s) interference in the wastewater treatment system; or

(3)

Has in its wastewater any of the prohibited substances or characteristics described in Article V, § 135-22, Prohibitions on wastewater discharges; or

(4)

Has in its wastewater any concentrations or characteristics in excess of those stipulated in Article V, § 135-23, Limitations on wastewater discharges.

INDUSTRIAL WASTES

The wastewater resulting from the processes employed in industrial, manufacturing, trade or business establishments as distinct from domestic wastes.

INFILTRATION

The water entering a sewer system including sewer service connections, from the ground through such means as, but not limited to, defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manhole walls. Infiltration does not include and is distinguished from inflow.

INFILTRATION/INFLOW

The total quantity of water from both infiltration and inflow without distinguishing the source.

INFLOW

The water discharged into a sewer system, including service connections from such sources as, but not limited to, roof leaders, cellar, yard and area drains, foundation drains, cooling water discharges, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross-connections from storm sewers and combined sewers, catch basins, stormwaters, surface runoff, street wash waters, or drainage. "Inflow" does not include and is distinguished from infiltration.

INTERFERENCE

Any of the following:

(1)

The inhibition, upset or disruption of any of the wastewater treatment system operation or processes;

(2)

Any condition which significantly contributes to either a violation of the Town's SPDES permit or causes a treatment problem with the wastewater treatment facility;

(3)

Prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the wastewater treatment plant or which requires disposal in anything greater than the least restrictive disposal method permitted by federal or state agencies;

(4)

The term interference as defined by 40 CFR 403.3(1);

(5)

Loading in excess of that allowed by user's permit or this chapter.

MASS EMISSION RATE

The weight of material discharged to the wastewater treatment system during a given time interval. Unless otherwise specified, the "mass emission rate" shall mean pounds per day of a particular constituent or combination of constituents.

MG/L

Milligrams per liter.

NATIONAL PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD or PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD

Any regulation developed under the authority of § 307 (b) of the Act and 40 CFR 403.5, as amended from time to time.

NATURAL OUTLET

Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or any other body of surface or groundwater.

OFFICIAL WRITTEN NOTICE

By personal delivery or delivery received by certified or registered mail.

OWNER or PROPERTY OWNER

The owner or owners of record of the freehold of a 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 possession of or control over the premises, or person using the services of a premises.

PERSON or PERSONS

Any individual, public or private corporation, political subdivision, government agency, municipality, industry, partnership, association, society, firm, trust, estate or any other legal entity.

The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution.

POLLUTANT

Any dredged soil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and any industrial, municipal or agricultural waste, impurity or additive discharged into wastewater.

PRETREATMENT

The application of physical, chemical or biological processes, to reduce the amount of pollutants in or alter the nature of the pollutant properties in a wastewater prior to discharging such wastewater into the publicly owned wastewater treatment system.

PRETREATMENT STANDARDS

All applicable federal rules and regulations implementing the Act, including any amendments hereto, as well as any nonconflicting state or local standards. In cases of conflicting standards or regulations, the more stringent thereof shall be applied. It is recognized that in some cases these pretreatment standards may not be sufficient to protect the operation of the wastewater treatment system, or make it unable to comply with the terms of the SPDES permit. In such cases, the Superintendent shall have the right to impose more stringent pretreatment standards than those specified in the EPA regulations.

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 common sewer controlled by the Town of Royalton or an agency or subdivision thereof, or any other public authority.

RESIDENTIAL USER

All premises used only for human residency and which are connected to the wastewater treatment system.

SPDES (STATE POLLUTION DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM)

The New York State system through which permits are issued to regulate discharge into the waters of New York State from all point sources of pollution including industries and municipal wastewater treatment plants.

SANITARY SEWER

A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions.

SEWER

A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater, stormwater or drainage water.

SLUG

Any discharge of water, wastewater, 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 flow during normal operation.

SPDES PERMIT

A permit issued by the Department of Environmental Conservation of the State of New York in accordance with Title 8 (§ 17-0801) of the New York Environmental Conservation Law and the rules and regulations thereunder, to regulate the discharge of pollutants into the waters of the state.

STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN

A sewer which carries storm or surface waters and drainage, but is intended to exclude sewage and polluted industrial wastes.

STORMWATER

Any flow originating from or resulting from any form of natural precipitation. This flow can occur during, immediately following or substantially after (such as snow melt) the precipitation event.

SUPERINTENDENT

The person responsible for the administration of the wastewater treatment system(s) of the Town of Royalton or his or her duly authorized deputy, agent or representative.

SUSPENDED SOLIDS

Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in the most recent edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater."

TOWN

The Town of Royalton, Niagara County, New York.

TOXIC SUBSTANCES

Any substance whether gaseous, liquid or solid which constitutes a hazard to human beings or animal or plant life, or inhibits aquatic life or creates a hazard to recreation in the receiving waters of the effluent from a wastewater treatment plant. See § 135-22B, Toxic substances, for further definition.

UNPOLLUTED WATER

Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standard and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewaters treatment facilities provided.

USER

The owner, lessee, operator or occupant of any property from which wastewater is discharged into the Town's wastewater treatment system.

WASTE

Something that is superfluous or rejected; something that can no longer be used for its originally intended purpose. "Wastes" also includes garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, cinders, ashes, offal, oil, tar, dye stuffs, acids, chemicals and all other discarded matter which may cause or might be reasonably expected to cause pollution of the waters of the State of New York.

WASTEWATER CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS

The individual chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological parameters, including volume and flow rate and such other parameters that serve to define, classify or measure the contents, quality, quantity, and strength of wastewater.

WASTEWATER or SEWAGE

The water-carried human or animal wastes as well as wastes which are normal by-products of human activity in and from residences, buildings, businesses and industrial establishments or the other places, together with such groundwater infiltration and surface water as may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is discharged into or permitted to enter the Town wastewater treatment system.

WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

Any existing and future devices, facilities, structures, equipment or works owned or used by the Town for the purpose of wastewater treatment, reuse or disposal including facilities for the purpose of: transmission, storage, wastewater treatment, sludge disposal, recycling, reuse, reclamation of industrial and domestic wastes, or site acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment.

WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS

Any devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes and/or sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "waste treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "water pollution control plant."

WATERCOURSE

A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.

WEF

The Water Environment Federation.

"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.

Terms not otherwise defined herein shall be as adopted in the latest edition of Glossary – Water and Wastewater Control Engineering, published by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Environment Federation.