The Binghamton-Johnson City Joint Sewage Board (Board), having
an approved flow management plan, as required under a series of administrative
consent orders by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
(NYS-DEC) to manage and provide for treatment of wastewater flows,
is the local authority for the requirements of and implementation
of the new or modified sewer connection application program.
The effective date of this new or modified sewer connection application program regulation is January 1, 2013, except that the requirement stated in the first paragraph of §
174-5A shall be satisfied by each municipal user not later than November 1, 2012.
These terms and their definitions whenever used in this regulation
shall apply to only this regulation, unless otherwise expressly stated
or required by subject matter of context:
AFFECTED OWNER
The owner whose sewage collection system will transport or
convey the wastewater from the new or modified sewer connection.
APPLICANT
An entity that requests approval for a new or modified sewer
connection and/or sewer extension.
AREA TRIBUTARY TO
Refers to a series of pumping stations, force mains and gravity
sewers owned by various municipalities that together convey wastewater
to a specific location, such as the treatment plant or a combined
sewer overflow, in the sewage collection system.
AVAILABLE SEWER CAPACITY
The difference between a sewer pipe's theoretical full
pipe capacity calculated using Manning's Equation, and the average
wastewater flow in the pipe based on the 2006, 2008 and 2010 flow
metering data plus the estimated peak sewage flow rate increase from
the new or modified sewer connection. The 2006 and 2008 flow metering
data was presented in the September 2009 Flow Management Evaluation
Report - Appendix C (approved by NYS-DEC in October 2009), and the
2010 flow metering data was presented in the April 2011 Flow Management
Process, Collection System Mapping Enhancement and Modeling Study
- Section 7 (approved by NYS-DEC in March 2011).
BOARD or JOINT SEWAGE BOARD
The Binghamton-Johnson City Joint Sewage Board, established
under the contract between the City of Binghamton and the Village
of Johnson City for the operation of the joint wastewater treatment
facility. The term includes any duly authorized designee, agent, or
representative of the Board.
EFFECTIVE DATE
The date upon which an act of legal significance, such as
an agreement or a contract, is considered to take effect and which
may be different from the date upon which the event described therein
actually occurs or is recorded.
FLOW CREDIT NOTE
An agreement between the Board and the applicant that flow
credits shall be made available to the applicant, developer, or a
municipal user under specific terms.
FLOW MANAGEMENT PLAN
Is specific to the Third Modification Consent Order (Case
No. R7-0580-90-12) between the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation (NYS-DEC) and respondents City of Binghamton, Village
of Johnson City, and the Binghamton-Johnson City Joint Sewage Board,
and refers to the written document approved by the NYS-DEC February
29, 2012. The flow management plan describes a programmatic approach
to convey, receive, and treat the wastewater and ensure current and
future flows receive adequate treatment.
HYDRAULIC AND POLLUTANT LOADING CAPACITY ANALYSIS
Refers to comparing the average wastewater flow rate and
pollutant design values of each unit process at the treatment plant
to the average wastewater flow rate and pollutant load plus the estimated
peak sewage flow rate and pollutant load from the new or modified
sewer connection.
I/I OFFSET FLOW CREDITS
Gallons per day of flow capacity available for proposed new
or modified sewer connections that are generated through I/I remediation
projects.
I/I REMEDIATION PROJECT
Is an improvement, public work, or repair that reduces infiltration
and inflow into the sewage collection system.
INFILTRATION
Wastewater, other than sewage, that enters a sewage collection
system, (including sewer service connections) from the ground through
such means as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manholes.
Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.
INFLOW
Water, other than sewage, that enters a sewage collection
system, (including sewer service connections) from sources such as:
roof leaders; cellar drains; sump pumps; missing or defective cleanout
caps; swimming pools; yard drains: area drains; foundation drains;
drains from springs and swampy areas; manhole covers; cross connections
between stormwater sewers and sanitary sewers; catch basins; cooling
towers; stormwaters; surface runoff; street wash waters: or drainage.
Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.
INTERMEDIATE MUNICIPAL USER
The municipal user whose sewage collection system will transport
or convey the new or modified sewage flow from the principal municipal
user's sewage collection system to the affected owner's
sewage collection system.
MUNICIPAL USER
A municipality or government entity which owns, or has jurisdiction
over, any public sewer which conveys wastewater to the treatment plant.
NEW OR MODIFIED SEWER CONNECTION
The construction of a new sewer connection to a sewer pipe
owned by an owner or municipal user tributary to the treatment plant,
or the modification of an existing sewer connection to a sewer pipe
owned by a municipal user tributary to the treatment plant.
NEW OR MODIFIED CONNECTION APPLICATION PROGRAM
Refers to the Board's application program established
pursuant to this article (or, alternatively, these rules and regulations)
that will promote a unified, consistent and coordinated process for
evaluating the effects of new or modified sewer connections and assuring
that new or modified sewer connections do not result in exceeding
the capacity of the sewage collection system.
PRINCIPAL MUNICIPAL USER
The municipal user to whose sewage collection system the
new or modified sewer connection is being made.
PRIVATE SEWER
A sewer not owned or controlled by a municipal user, not
including lateral sewers.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS or POTW
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Federal
Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292). This definition includes
any directly or indirectly connected sewers and appurtenances that
convey wastewater to the wastewater treatment plant, but does not
include pipes, sewer laterals or other conveyances serving not more
than a single home development not connected directly to the POTW.
SEWAGE
The water-carried domestic human or animal waste from residences,
industrial and commercial establishments, together with industrial
and commercial waste. Neither infiltration nor inflow are components
of sewage.
SEWAGE COLLECTION SYSTEM
All facilities for collecting, regulating, pumping, and transporting
sewage and may include a sanitary sewer system or, where permitted
by the NYSDEC, a combined sewer system.
SEWER CONNECTION APPLICATION
Refers to the form in which the applicant provides information
about the new or modified sewer connection and requests permission
to make such connection.
SEWER EXTENSION
Any and all sanitary sewer facilities, including sewer pipe
and manholes, and any fittings and connections related thereto which
are to become part of the POTW and which are anticipated to increase
flows in the sewer system by more than 2,500 gallons per day. It shall
also include, where applicable, all pumping stations, force mains,
and associated facilities.
SEWER EXTENSION ENGINEERING REPORT
Refer to the document that accompanies a sewer connection
application in which the applicant provides information about the
new or modified sewer connection and the affected sewage collection
system.
SEWER SYSTEM CAPACITY ANALYSIS
Refers to comparing the difference between a sewer pipe's
theoretical full pipe capacity calculated using Manning's Equation
and the average wastewater flow in the pipe based on the 2008 flow
metering data as presented in the September 2009 Flow Management Evaluation
Report - Appendix C (approved by NYS-DEC in October 2009) plus the
estimated peak sewage flow rate increase from the new or modified
sewer connection.
WASTEWATER
Is the composite of all flow constituents conveyed in a sewer
including sewage and infiltration and inflow.
The provisions of Article IV of the Joint Sewage Treatment Plant
Law and Article 3 of the Joint Sewage Treatment Plant Law Rules and
Regulations shall govern all matters involving proceeding pursuant
to this article.