Unless otherwise stated in the section where the term is used
in this chapter, the meanings 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 these characteristics
of normal sewage. See "normal sewage."
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 Town of Cazenovia Sewer Advisory Committee, the members
of which shall have been duly appointed by the Town of Cazenovia Town
Board.
The Regional Administrator of the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (USEPA), Region 2.
A person requested, employed or contracted by an owner or
owners, occupant or lessee.
Any domestic waste disposal system that modifies the design
of a conventional disposal system, defined below, employing only a
septic tank and a subsurface soil absorption field. Examples of alternative
systems include, but are not limited to, mound systems, sand filtration
systems, built-up or filled systems, evapotranspiration-absorption
systems, aerobic digestion systems, non-water-borne systems and holding
tanks.
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine the quantity of ammonia in a sample, expressed as milligrams
per liter (mg/l) of ammonia nitrogen.
Refers to Appendix 75-A, Wastewater Treatment Standards - Individual Household Systems, as promulgated by the New York State Department of Health and as set forth at State of New York Title 10, Department of Health, Chapter II, Part 75 (as amended from time to time). The statutory authority for Appendix 75-A is set forth at Public Health Law § 201, Subdivision 1(1). Appendix A, which is incorporated herein by reference, is modified by certain provisions of Article XIV.
That person who makes application for any permit. The applicant
may be an owner, new or old, or his agent.
The USEPA, or the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation (NYSDEC), in the event the NYSDEC is delegated approval
authority responsibility by the USEPA.
The procedures defined in the current approved edition of
"Standard Methods," in this chapter or in other procedures approved
by the NYSDEC, NYSDOH or USEPA 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.
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine the quantity of oxygen utilized in five days at 20°
C. 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.
A building drain is privately owned and maintained.
All property and land within the Cazenovia Lake Watershed
as indicated/depicted on the attached Cazenovia Lake Watershed District
Map, including the Critical Water Quality Protection Zone and land
within 500 feet of Cazenovia Lake. (See attached Cazenovia Lake Watershed
District Map.)
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine the quantity of carbonaceous oxygen utilized in five
days at 20° C. in the aerobic carbonaceous biochemical oxidation
of organic matter or in a sample, expressed in milligrams per liter.
That individual or entity appointed by the Town of Cazenovia
Town Board to operate the Town of Cazenovia Pollution Control Facility
and corresponding system. Such an individual shall be licensed in
the State of New York and qualified to oversee distribution and POTW
operations. This definition shall also include his authorized deputy,
agent, or representative.
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 Town of Cazenovia Codes Enforcement Officer or any other
person authorized by law to perform his duties.
The optical density at the visual wavelength of maximum absorption,
relative to distilled water. One hundred percent transmittance is
equivalent to zero 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.
The one-time application fee to offset 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.
An impairment of the quality of the state's waters by
waste to a degree which creates a hazard to the public health through
poisoning or through spread of disease.
Any person, firm or corporation approved by the Town Board
to do work on the sewerage system in the Town.
The term shall refer to "approval authority," or to the Chief
Operator when the Town of Cazenovia 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.
An on-site domestic waste disposal system that uses a septic
tank for treatment and a subsurface soil absorption field for final
disposal exclusively into subsurface soil. "Subsurface soil" means
soil in its natural condition and does not include fill.
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.
Madison County, the county in which the Town of Cazenovia
Water Pollution Control Facility and corresponding system is located.
All property and land labeled as the Critical Water Quality
Protection Zone on the attached Cazenovia Lake Watershed District
Map, which area includes any land within 500 feet of Cazenovia Lake.
(See attached Cazenovia Lake Watershed District Map.)
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.")
The shortest horizontal linear distance from the nearest
point or structure or object to the high-water mark of the nearest
watercourse or the edge, margin or top of the precipitous bank forming
the mean high-water mark of a watercourse.
The Town of Cazenovia Consolidated Sanitary Sewer District
and its extensions.
Hereinafter referred to as a "waste disposal system" or "disposal
system" or "system," any system which disposes of domestic waste not
connected to the POTW and/or the sewerage system. (See "septic system.")
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
sanitary sewage.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
The control manhole or other point provided for the collection
of samples which are to be representative of a user's discharge
to the POTW.
The concentration of a substance in a sample at the end of
pipe.
The person appointed by the Town of Cazenovia as enforcement
officer, or such other person as may be designated by the Town of
Cazenovia to perform the duties herein conferred on the enforcement
officer. The enforcement officer may also be the Chief Operator.
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.
A system in which:
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 quantity of liquid or waste that flows in a certain period
of time.
A pipe or conduit used for carrying sewage under pressure.
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, or business, 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.
See "user, institutional."
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/or
Is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's
NPDES/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,
county or local regulations):
Section 405 of the Clean Water Act;
SWDA) (including Title II, more commonly referred to as the "Resource Conservation and Recovery Actnservation and Recovery Act - RCRA"), and including state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the SWDA;
The Clean Air Act;
The Toxic Substances Control Act; and
The 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 or right-of-way line, as the case may be.
Includes all repairs, replacements, expansions or modifications
to an existing domestic waste disposal system other than those repairs
that are defined as "minor repairs." Any repair to a failed domestic
waste disposal system is a major repair.
Includes repair work to domestic waste disposal systems,
including, but not limited to, tank pumping, repair of broken pipes
and other normal maintenance, but does not include replacement, expansion
or modification of existing systems.
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), as amended, 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.
§ 1392), as amended.
Any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307(B)
of the Act, and 40 CFR 403.5, as amended.
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
to the state's waters.
Any building constructed or placed on an undeveloped site
and requiring a new wastewater system and currently not utilizing
a wastewater system.
That individual or entity who purchased or acquired property
within the service area of the Town of Cazenovia Water Pollution Control
Facility after the effective date of this chapter.
Any source, the construction of which is commenced after
the publication of the proposed regulation prescribing a categorical
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, or give offense to the senses, obstruct,
or otherwise interfere with the reasonable use or maintenance of the
POTW.
Any structure occupied and used for residential, commercial,
industrial, or institutional purposes.
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine the quantity of fats, wax, grease, and oil, in a sample,
expressed in fats, oil and grease (FOG) milligrams per liter.
That individual or entity who owns or owned a property, within
the service area of the POTW, purchased or acquired prior to the effective
date of this chapter, or inherited the property at any time and who
intends to sell or transfer the property, or has sold or transferred
the property to a new owner, also the agent of the old owner.
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, eggshells,
coffee grounds, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lyme, ashes, and all
other discarded matter not normally present in sewage; also, the discarded
matter not normally present in sewage.
Any individual, firm, company, association, corporation,
society, person or group having title to real property.
The discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the state
in quantities or concentrations 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).
These tests are defined as follows:
Test pits are test holes used to determine subsurface conditions.
Test pits or test holes are to be conducted as set forth in Appendix
A, and they are not used to conduct percolation tests.
Percolation tests determine the movement of water downward and
radially through the interstitial spaces (or pores) between particles
in natural subsurface soil. Such a test is to be conducted in the
manner set forth in Appendix A.
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
hydrogen ions, 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"; expressed as milligrams per liter,
mg/l (TP).
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;
in this instance, the Town of Cazenovia Water Pollution Control Facility.
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
processes, process changes or by other means.
The most recently revised or updated list, developed by the
EPA, in accordance with the Act.
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 boundary line of a public highway, street, alley or easement
controlled by the village, Town or county.
A sanitary sewer within the highway limits, easement limits
or other rights-of-way, including street laterals.
A treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292), as amended, which is owned in part, in this
instance, by the Town of Cazenovia. 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.
Any construction or modification of a domestic waste disposal
system for an existing building which already has a system. Complete
replacement of a system for an existing property with a system shall
be considered a replacement wastewater system.
A drain installed to receive water collecting on the surface
of a roof for disposal.
The transfer of ownership to another person or entity for
consideration, and does not include a transfer of ownership through
inheritance.
All liquids and solids in and removed from septic tanks,
holding tanks, cesspools or approved types of chemical toilets, including,
but not limited to, those serving private residences, commercial establishments,
institutions and industries. 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.
The legally defined bounds of real property from which wastewater
may be discharged into the POTW. The service area of the POTW includes
parts of the Town of Cazenovia, Village of Cazenovia and the Town
of Nelson. The bounds shall be established, altered, changed, modified,
reduced, enlarged, combined or consolidated by action of the Town
of Cazenovia Town Board.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments and
such groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be inadvertently
present.
See "POTW treatment plant."
Liquid wastes from the 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. (See "sewage, sanitary.")
Sewage or other wastes which show, by analysis, the following
characteristics:
B.O.D. (five-day): less than 250 milligrams per liter.
Suspended solids: less than 300 milligrams per liter.
Phosphorus: less than 15 milligrams per liter.
Ammonia: less than 30 milligrams per liter.
Total Kjeldahl nitrogen: less than 50 milligrams per liter.
CBOD: less than 300 milligrams.
Chlorine demand: less than 25 milligrams per liter.
Chemical oxygen demand: less than 350 milligrams per liter.
Oil and grease: less than 100 milligrams per liter.
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, restaurants and hotels), office buildings,
factories or institutions and free from stormwater, surface water,
industrial and other wastes. (See "domestic wastes.")
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.
A sewer owned and maintained by the Town of Cazenovia and/or
the Town of Nelson and/or the Village of Cazenovia, generally intended
to convey sewage from the Towns and Village to the POTW/POTW treatment
plant.
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 Cazenovia
and/or the Town of Nelson and/or the Village of Cazenovia.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwaters, surface
waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
A sewer which carries stormwaters and surface waters and
drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastewaters, other than
cooling waters and other unpolluted waters.
All facilities for collecting, regulating, pumping and transporting
wastewater to and away from the POTW treatment plant.
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 and BOD loading, exceeds, for
any period of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five times
the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flow and BOD loading
during normal user operations shall constitute a slug.
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 the 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
Chief Operator, whichever is the most conservative.
State of New York.
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1392).
See "waters of the state."
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation; also the flow resulting therefrom.
Any structure occupied and used for residential, commercial,
industrial, or institutional purposes.
Those compounds which the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation has determined may be harmful to humans or the environment.
A mechanism used for removing water from a sump or wet well.
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 able to be settled and
can be removed from the sample by filtration, expressed in milligrams
per liter; total suspended solids.
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 total phosphorus (TP) per liter of sample.
The duly elected Town Board of the Town of Cazenovia or its
authorized deputy or representative.
The Town of Cazenovia and/or the Town of Nelson, as applicable.
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, that, when
discharged to a public sewer in sufficient quantities, may be hazardous
to sewer maintenance personnel, tend to interfere with any biological
sewage treatment process or 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 the provisions
of CWA 307(A), or other acts.
See "septage" and "wastewater."
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
or wastewaters that may impact the POTW, as defined in 40 CFR 403,
as amended.
A public, quasi-public or private entity formed for the purpose
of and/or which provides educational, health care, social, financial,
administrative or other similar services. Institutional users include,
but are not limited to, hospitals, nursing homes, secondary schools,
colleges, universities, and other similar entities.
A discharger to the POTW who initiates discharge after the
effective date of this chapter.
An industrial user of the 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.
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*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.
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The Village of Cazenovia.
Waste generated from a residence or other building or structure,
including, but not limited to, human body waste and household or domestic
waste such as toilet, bath, sink, dishwashing or laundry waste.
The liquid and water-carried 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, watercourses, waterways,
wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage
systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or
underground, natural or artificial, intermittent, public or private,
which are contained within, flow through or border upon the state
or any portion thereof.
The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
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ANSI
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American National Standards Institute
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ASTM
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American Society for Testing and Materials
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AWWA
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American Water Works Association
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BOD
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Biochemical oxygen demand
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CBOD
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Carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand
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CFR
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Code of Federal Regulations
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COD
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Chemical oxygen demand
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EPA
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Environmental Protection Agency
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L
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Liter
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Mg
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Milligrams
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Mg/l
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Milligrams per liter
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NPDES
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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
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NYSDEC
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New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
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NYSDOH
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New York State Department of Health
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NYSDOT
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New York State Department of Transportation
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P
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Total phosphorus
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PSI
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Pounds per square inch
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POTW
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Publicly owned treatment works
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PPM
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Parts per million, weight basis
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SIC
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Standard Industrial Classification
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SPDES
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State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
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SWDA
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Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901et seq.
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U.S.C.
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United States Code of Laws
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USEPA
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
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TSS
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Total suspended solids
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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.
