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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.
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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.
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ASTM
ACT or THE ACT
BOARD
BOD (denoting "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND")
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
CHLORINE DEMAND
COMMERCIAL USER
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
CONCENTRATION
CONNECTION
COOLING WATER
DEC
DOMESTIC WASTES
EPA
FLOW RATE
FLOW VOLUME
GARBAGE
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
INDUSTRIAL USER
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(3)Â
(4)Â
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
INFILTRATION
INFILTRATION/INFLOW
INFLOW
INTERFERENCE
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(2)Â
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(4)Â
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MASS EMISSION RATE
MG/L
NATIONAL PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD or PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE
STANDARD
NATURAL OUTLET
OFFICIAL WRITTEN NOTICE
OWNER or PROPERTY OWNER
PERSON or PERSONS
pH
POLLUTANT
PRETREATMENT
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
RESIDENTIAL USER
SPDES (STATE POLLUTION DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM)
SANITARY SEWER
SEWER
SLUG
SPDES PERMIT
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
STORMWATER
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOWN
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
UNPOLLUTED WATER
USER
WASTE
WASTEWATER CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS
WASTEWATER or SEWAGE
WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
WATERCOURSE
WEF
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in the local law shall be as follows:
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
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.)
The Town Board of the Town of Royalton.
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.
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.
The extension from the building drain to the public sanitary
sewer or other place of disposal, also called "house connection."
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.
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.
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.
A sample consisting of several effluent portions collected
during a specified time period and combined to make a representative
sample.
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).
The physical tie-in of the building sewer or sewer extension
to the public sanitary sewer.
The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning,
cooling, or refrigeration during which the only pollutant added to
the water is heat.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
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.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
The quantity of waste or liquid that flows in a certain period
of time.
The quantity of wastes or liquid.
The animal or vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking, dispensing, storage or sale of food.
Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant.
Any nonresidential user of the publicly owned wastewater
treatment system that:
Is identified in Division A, B, D, E or I of the Federal Standard
Industrial Classification Manual;
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
The wastewater resulting from the processes employed in industrial,
manufacturing, trade or business establishments as distinct from domestic
wastes.
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.
The total quantity of water from both infiltration and inflow
without distinguishing the source.
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.
Any of the following:
The inhibition, upset or disruption of any of the wastewater
treatment system operation or processes;
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;
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;
The term interference as defined by 40 CFR 403.3(1);
Loading in excess of that allowed by user's permit or this chapter.
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.
Milligrams per liter.
Any regulation developed under the authority of § 307
(b) of the Act and 40 CFR 403.5, as amended from time to time.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or any other
body of surface or groundwater.
By personal delivery or delivery received by certified or
registered mail.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A common sewer controlled by the Town of Royalton or an agency
or subdivision thereof, or any other public authority.
All premises used only for human residency and which are
connected to the wastewater treatment 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.
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions.
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater, stormwater or
drainage water.
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.
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.
A sewer which carries storm or surface waters and drainage,
but is intended to exclude sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
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.
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.
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."
The Town of Royalton, Niagara County, New York.
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.
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.
The owner, lessee, operator or occupant of any property from
which wastewater is discharged into the Town's wastewater treatment
system.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
The Water Environment Federation.
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"Shall"
is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
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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.