Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in these regulations shall be as follows:
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
The duly appointed members of the Board of Public Works of
the Town of Lee or its authorized superintendent, agent or representatives.
BOD (DENOTES "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND")
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 by weight.
CHLORINE DEMAND
The amount of chlorine which must be added to water or waste
to produce a residual chlorine content of at least 0.1 milligram per
liter after a minimum contact time of 10 minutes.
DRAIN LAYER or LICENSED DRAIN LAYER
Either an individual, partnership or corporation to whom
or to which the Town of Lee has issued a license to install, alter
or repair sewers, sewer connections, house connections, etc., during
the period when such license is valid and the proper agents and representatives
of such drain layer.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
SEWAGE
Wastewater or water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions and industrial establishments. Sewage shall
be further classified as follows:
(1)Â
DOMESTIC OR SANITARY SEWAGEThe solid and liquid wastes from toilet and lavatory fixtures, kitchens, laundries, bathtubs, shower baths or equivalent plumbing fixtures as discharged from dwellings, public buildings and business and industrial buildings.
(2)Â
INDUSTRIAL SEWAGE OR WASTESThe water-carried wastes of any industrial process, as distinct from domestic or sanitary sewage. All substances carried in industrial wastes, whether dissolved, in suspension or mechanically carried by water, shall be considered as industrial wastes.
(3)Â
STORMWATERThe runoff or discharge of rain and melted snow or other water from roofs, surfaces of public or private lands or elsewhere. Stormwater also shall include subsoil drainage as defined in Subsection
(4) below.
(4)Â
SUBSOIL DRAINAGEWater from the soil percolating into subsoil drains and through foundation walls, basement floors or underground pipes.
(5)Â
COOLING WATERThe wastewater from air-conditioning, industrial cooling, condensing and hydraulically powered equipment or similar apparatus.
(6)Â
GARBAGESolid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce. "Properly shredded garbage" shall mean garbage which has been shredded so that no garbage particles will be greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage or wastewater owned by the Town of Lee.
SEWER or DRAIN
The pipe or conduit, together with manholes and other structures
or equipment appurtenant thereto, provided to carry sewage, waste
liquids, stormwater or other waters. Sewers shall be further classified
as follows:
(1)Â
PUBLIC SEWERA trunk, main or lateral sewer up to and including the Y-branch or tee provided for connection thereto and to which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and which is controlled by public authority. The public sewer does not include the building or house sewer or the building connection lateral after it is connected with a building sewer.
(2)Â
SANITARY SEWERA sewer which carries only sanitary sewage and to which stormwater, subsoil drainage and cooling water are not intentionally admitted.
(3)Â
COMBINED SEWERA sewer receiving both stormwater and domestic sewage, including acceptable discharge of industrial wastes, subsoil drainage and cooling water.
(4)Â
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAINA pipeline carrying stormwater, subsoil drainage, acceptable cooling water or other reasonable clean waters but excluding domestic and polluted industrial waste.
(5)Â
BUILDING DRAINThat part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage system that receives the discharge from the 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.
(7)Â
BUILDING CONNECTION LATERALThe pipe laid incidental to the original construction of a public sewer from said public sewer up to some point at the side of the street, highway or similar location and there capped, having been provided and intended for extension and for use at some time thereafter as part of a building or house sewer connection.
SLUG
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.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by filtering
as prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage
and Industrial Waste, American Public Health Association.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.