Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
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 outside the inner face of the building wall.
That part of the building's sanitary pipe system starting five feet outside the inner face building wall to its connection with the public sewer system and conveying the sewage of one building site.[1]
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Any sewerage system serving one or more residences in separate structures which is not connected to a municipal sewerage system or which is connected to a municipal sewerage system as a distinct and separately managed district or segment of such system.
[Added 12-6-1988 by Ord. No. 65]
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
The appointed Health Officer of the Town or his authorized representative.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface water or groundwater.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal on the concentration of hydrogen ions in mols per liter of solution.
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 in any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and which is controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface, and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground-, surface, and stormwaters as may be present.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage and approved quantities of industrial wastes.
Any accepted portion of the public sewer system of the Town of Wolcott.[2]
The authority of waste treatment of the Town, or its authorized representative.
The appointed Sewer Inspector of the Town or his authorized representative.
[Amended 10-21-1980 by Ord. No. 43]
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
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.
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
The Town of Wolcott acting through any authorized representative.
The appointed engineer of the Town.
Any substance, whether gaseous liquid or solid, which when discharged to the sewer system in sufficient quantities may tend to interfere with any sewage treatment process to constitute a hazard to human beings or animals, or to inhibit aquatic life in the receiving waters of the effluent from the sewage treatment plant.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
