As used in this Part 1, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
ABNORMAL SEWAGE
Sewage whose concentration of one or more characteristics
of normal sewage exceeds the maximum concentrations of the characteristics
of normal sewage (see "normal sewage").
ACT or THE ACT
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.
ADMINISTRATOR
The Regional Administrator of the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (USEPA), Region 2.
AMMONIA
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the quantity of ammonia in a sample, expressed as milligrams
of nitrogen per liter.
APPLICANT
That person who makes application for any permit. The applicant
may be an owner, new or old, or his agent.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
The USEPA, or the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation (NYSDEC), in the event that the NYSDEC is delegated approval
authority responsibility by the USEPA.
APPROVED LABORATORY PROCEDURE
The procedures defined as "Standard Methods" in this Part
1, or other procedures approved by the Superintendent, for flow measurement
or determination of the concentration of pollutants or their surrogates
in waters, wastewaters and/or sludges.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INDUSTRIAL USER
An authorized representative of the industrial user may be:
(1)
A principal executive officer of at least the level of Vice-President,
if the industrial user is a corporation;
(2)
A general partner or proprietor, if the industrial user is a
partnership or proprietorship, respectively;
(3)
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated
above, if such representative is responsible for the overall operation
of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
BOD (DENOTING "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND")
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine the quantity of oxygen utilized in the aerobic biochemical
oxidation of organic matter or in a sample, expressed in milligrams
per liter.
BUILDER
Any person who undertakes to construct a building or any
part of a building, either under contract or for resale.
BUILDING DRAIN
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.
CHLORINE DEMAND
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.
CITY
The City of Oneida, in the County of Madison, State of New
York, incorporated on March 28, 1901.
CITY ENGINEER
The Engineer for the city, or his authorized agent or representative.
CITY POTW
That portion of the POTW owned by the City of Oneida in the
County of Madison, State of New York.
COD (DENOTING "CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND")
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.
COLOR
The optical density at the visual wave length of maximum
absorption, relative to distilled water. One hundred percent transmittance
is equivalent to 0.0 optical density.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
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.
CONNECTION
Attachment of one user to a sewer through a building lateral.
(See "extension.")
CONNECTION CHARGE (TAP FEE)
The one time application fee to offset Town of Verona 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
and inspection costs. The fee may be scaled to the amount of work
involved or to the size of the public sewer involved.
CONTRIBUTORY AREA
The legally defined bounds of real property from which wastewater
may be discharged into the POTW. The bounds shall be established,
altered, changed, modified, reduced, enlarged, combined or consolidated
by action of the Town of Verona Town Board.
CONTROL AUTHORITY
The term shall refer to the approval authority, or to the
Town Engineer when the Town of Verona has an approved pretreatment
program under the provisions of 40 CFR 403.11, or to the Superintendent
when the Town of Verona has an approved pretreatment program under
the provisions of 40 CFR 403.11, or, if the Town of Verona has entered
into an intercommunity agreement, a person authorized to exercise
certain terms of said intercommunity agreement.
CONTROL MANHOLE
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.
CONVENTIONAL POLLUTANT
A pollutant that the POTW treatment plant was designed to
treat, defined in accordance with the Act.
COOLING WATER
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 Part 1.
COUNTY
Oneida County, the county in which the Town of Verona is
located.
DEVELOPER
Any person who subdivides or improves land for the purpose
of constructing or causing to be constructed buildings for which wastewater
disposal facilities are required.
DIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the State of New York (for reference, see "indirect
discharge").
DISTRICT
A sewer district of the Town of Verona duly formed in accordance
with the laws of the State of New York.
DRY SEWERS
The sanitary sewer installed in anticipation of future connection
to a POTW but which is not used, in the meantime, for transport of
storm or sanitary sewage.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
EFFLUENT
Wastewater after some degree of treatment, flowing out of
any treatment device or facilities.
END OF PIPE
For the purpose of determining compliance with limitations prescribed by Article
IX, the control manhole, provided that the samples collected from the control manhole are representative of the discharge to the POTW.
EPA, USEPA OR UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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.
EXTENSION
Attachment of a sewer line, with more than one user, to an
existing sewer line.
FACILITY
All buildings, other structures, grounds and contiguous property
at any locations related to or connected with a user at the user's
location.
FLOATABLE OIL
Oil, grease or fat in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in a wastewater treatment
facility.
FLOW RATE
The quantity of liquid or waste that flows in a certain period
of time.
FORCE MAIN
A pipeline carrying flow under pressure.
GARBAGE
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.
GRAB SAMPLE
A single sample of wastewater representing the physical,
chemical and biological characteristics of the wastewater at one point
and time. Sample duration must not exceed 15 minutes.
GREASE OR FATS
Any material which is measured by analytical methods as defined
and regulated by the New York State Department of Health Environmental
Laboratory Approval Program.
ICS FORM
The form used by the NYSDEC to survey industries to perform
and update the industrial chemical survey.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
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").
INDUSTRIAL
Industry, manufacturing, commerce, trade, business or institution,
and is distinguished from domestic or residential.
INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL SURVEY (ICS)
The survey of industries in New York State, initiated by
the NYSDEC, to determine chemical usage and storage by those industries.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
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.
INFILTRATION
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.
INFLOW
Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system
(including building drains) from sources such as, but not limited
to, roof leaders, sump pumps, 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.
INFLUENT
Wastewater, raw or partly treated, flowing into any sewage
treatment device or facilities.
INTERCEPTING SEWER
A sewer which receives dry weather flow from sanitary sewers
and/or additional predetermined quantities of combined waste and conducts
such flow to a plant for treatment or disposal.
INTERCOMMUNITY AGREEMENT
An agreement lawfully entered into by and between the Town
of Verona, Oneida County, New York, acting on its own behalf or on
the behalf of one of its districts, and any other person or group
of persons, as defined herein, for the purpose of providing or receiving
services for wastewater collection, treatment, management and related
services.
(1)
CITY OF ONEIDA INTERCOMMUNITY AGREEMENTThe Intercommunity Wastewater Service Agreement by and between the City of Oneida, Madison County, New York and the Town of Verona, Oneida County, New York, dated May 30, 1995, and any amendments thereto.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with discharges
from other sources:
(1)
Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations,
or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and
(2)
Therefore 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) 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 or local regulations):
(a)
Section 405 of the Clean Water Act;
(d)
The Toxic Substance Control Act; and
(e)
The Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act.
LATERAL, BUILDING
The sewer extension from the building drain to the street
lateral or other place of wastewater disposal.
LATERAL, STREET
The sewer extension from the public sewer to the property
line.
LICENSED HAULER
A person duly permitted to discharge trucked or hauled wastes
into the Town POTW in accordance with this Part 1.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD, OR CATEGORICAL STANDARD
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with § 307(B) and (C) of the Act
(33 U.S.C. § 1317), which applies to a specific category
of industrial users. These standards apply at the end of the categorical
process ("end of process").
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
to the state's waters.
NEW OWNER
That individual or entity who purchased property within the
service area of the POTW after the effective date of this Part 1.
NEW SOURCE
Any source, the construction of which is commenced after
the publication of the proposed regulation prescribing a § 307(C)
(33 U.S.C §1317) Categorical Pretreatment Standard which will
be applicable to such source, if such standard is thereafter promulgated.
NEW USER
A discharger to the POTW who commences discharge after the
effective date of this Part 1.
NUISANCE
The use or lack of use of the POTW in such a manner so as
to endanger life or health, give offense to the senses or obstruct
or otherwise interfere with the reasonable use or maintenance of the
POTW.
OLD OWNER
That individual or entity who owns or owned a property, within
the service area of the POTW, purchased prior to the effective date
of this Part 1, or who inherited the property at any time and intends
to sell the property, or has sold the property to a new owner, also
the agent of the old owner.
OTHER WASTES
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, egg shells,
coffee grounds, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, ashes and all
other discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial
wastes. Also, the discarded matter not normally present in sewage
or industrial waste.
PASS-THROUGH
The discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the state
in quantities 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).
PERMIT
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 Part 1.
PERSON
Any individual, public or private corporation, political
subdivision, federal, state or local agency or entity, association,
trust, estate or any other legal entity whatsoever.
pH
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.
POLLUTANT
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.
POLLUTION
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.
POTW TREATMENT PLANT
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater, and to treat sludge and residuals derived from such treatment.
PREMISES
Any parcel of real property including land, improvements
or appurtenances, as buildings, grounds, etc.
PRETREATMENT (TREATMENT)
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
process, process changes or by other means, except as prohibited by
40 CFR, § 403.6(D).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial
user.
PRIORITY POLLUTANTS
The most recently revised or updated list, developed by the
EPA, in accordance with the Act.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
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.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works, as defined by § 212 of the Act,
(33 U.S.C. §1292), which is owned, in this instance, by the Town
of Verona, or another municipality or governmental entity within their
respective corporation limits. 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.
RECEIVING WATERS
A natural watercourse or body of water (usually waters of
the state) into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
RECORDS
Any printed, typewritten, handwritten or otherwise recorded
matter of whatever character (including paper or electronic media),
including but not limited to, letters, files, memoranda, directives,
notes and notebooks, correspondence, descriptions, telephone call
slips, photographs, permits, applications, reports, compilations,
films, graphs and inspection reports. For the purposes of this Part
1, "records" shall mean records of and relating to waste generation,
reuse and disposal, and shall include records of usage of raw materials.
ROOF DRAIN
A drain installed to receive water collecting on the surface
of a roof for disposal.
SEPTAGE
All liquids and solids in and removed from septic tanks,
holding tanks, cesspools or approved type of chemical toilets, including,
but not limited to, those serving private residences, commercial establishments,
institutions and industries; also sludge from small sewage treatment
plants. Septage shall not have been contaminated with substances of
concern or priority pollutants.
SEPTIC TANK
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.
SERVICE AREA
The legally defined bounds of real property within the Town
of Verona from which wastewater may be discharged into the POTW. The
bounds shall be established, altered, changed, modified, reduced,
enlarged, combined or consolidated by action of the Town of Verona
Town Board.
SEWAGE
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. The admixture of sewage, as defined above, with industrial
wastes and other wastes shall also be considered sewage within the
meaning of this definition.
SEWAGE, DOMESTIC (DOMESTIC WASTES)
Liquid wastes from the noncommercial preparation, 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. Therefore, domestic
sewage includes both "black water" (e.g., toilets) and "gray water"
(e.g., sinks and showers). (See "sewage, sanitary".)
SEWAGE, NORMAL
(1)
Sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes, which show, by analysis,
the following characteristics:
(a)
BOD (five-day): 2,090 pounds per million gallons (250 milligrams
per liter) or less.
(b)
Suspended solids: 2,500 pounds per million gallons (300 milligrams
per liter) or less.
(c)
Phosphorus: 125 pounds per million gallons (15 milligrams per
liter) or less.
(d)
Ammonia: 250 pounds per million gallons (30 milligrams per liter)
or less.
(e)
Total Kjeldahl nitrogen: 417 pounds per million (50 milligrams
per liter) or less.
(f)
Chlorine demand: 209 pounds per million gallons (25 milligrams
per liter) or less.
(g)
Chemical oxygen demand: 2,920 pounds per million gallons (350
milligrams per liter) or less.
(h)
Oil and grease: 830 pounds per million gallons (100 milligrams
per liter) or less.
(2)
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.
SEWAGE, SANITARY
Liquid wastes from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings
(including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, factories
or institutions, and free from stormwater, surface water, industrial
and other wastes. (See "domestic wastes.")
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying or transporting sewage.
SEWER, COMBINED
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff
and sewage.
SEWER, PRIVATE
A sewer either on private property or in public street which
has not been constructed by nor is controlled by a public agency.
SEWER, PUBLIC
A sewer in which all abutting property owners have equal
rights, and the use of which is controlled by the Town of Verona.
SEWER, SANITARY
A sewer which carries sewage, and to which storm, surface,
and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWER, STORM (STORM DRAIN)
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastewaters, other than cooling
waters and other unpolluted waters.
SEWERAGE SURCHARGE
The demand payment for the use of a public sewer and/or sewage
treatment plant for the handling of any sewage, industrial wastes,
or other wastes accepted for admission thereto in which the characteristics
thereof exceed the maximum values of such characteristics in normal
sewage. (See "volume charge".)
SEWERAGE SYSTEM (ALSO POTW)
All facilities for collecting, regulating, pumping and transporting
wastewater to and away from the POTW treatment plant.
SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE (SNC)
A user is in significant noncompliance if its violation(s)
meet(s) one or more of the following criteria:
(1)
Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here
as those, in 66% or more of all of the measurements taken during a
six-month period, which exceed (by any magnitude) the daily maximum
limit or average limit for the same pollutant parameter;
(2)
Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as
those in which 33% or more of all of the measurements for each pollutant
parameter taken during a six-month period, which equal or exceed the
product of the daily maximum limits multiplied by the applicable TRC
(TRC = 1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oil and grease; TRC = 1.2 for all other
pollutants);
(3)
Any other violation of a pretreatment effluent limit (daily
maximum or long-term average) that the Superintendent determines has
caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference
or pass-through (including endangering the health of POTW personnel
or the general public);
(4)
Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare or to the environment or has resulted in the Superintendent's exercise of his/her emergency authority under Article
XI of this Part
1;
(5)
Failure to meet, within 90 days after the schedule date, a compliance
schedule milestone contained in a local control mechanism or enforcement
order for starting construction, completing construction or attaining
final compliance;
(6)
Failure to provide, within 30 days after the due date, required
reports such as baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day compliance
reports, periodic self-monitoring reports and reports on compliance
with compliance schedules;
(7)
Failure to report accurately any noncompliance; and
(8)
Any other violation which the Superintendent determines will
adversely affect the implementation or operation of the local pretreatment
program.
SLUG
A substantial deviation from normal rates of discharge or
constituent concentration sufficient to cause interference. (See "normal
sewage."). In any event, a discharge which, in concentration of any
constituent or in quantity of flow, that exceeds, for any period of
duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five times the average
twenty-four-hour concentration or flow during normal user operations,
shall constitute a slug.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972, and subsequent revisions.
STANDARD METHODS
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 § 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 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 Superintendent, whichever is the most conservative.
STATE
The State of New York.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation; also the flow resulting therefrom.
SUBSTANCES OF CONCERN
Those compounds which the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation has determined may be harmful to man or the environment.
SUMP PUMP
A mechanism used for removing water from a sump or wet well.
SUPERINTENDENT
That individual(s) appointed by the Town of Verona Town Board
as the Superintendent(s) of Wastewater.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
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 settleable, and can
be removed from the sample by filtration, expressed in milligrams
per liter.
TOTAL KJELDAHL NITROGEN (TKN)
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.
TOTAL PHOSPHORUS
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 phosphorus per liter of sample.
TOWN
The Town of Verona, Oneida County, New York.
TOWN ENGINEER
The engineer for the Town or his authorized agent or representative.
TOWN POTW
That portion of the POTW within and/or under the control
of the Town of Verona.
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, that when
discharged to a public sewer in sufficient quantities may be hazardous
to POTW operation and maintenance personnel, tend to interfere with
any biological sewage treatment process or to 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
provisions of CWA 307(A), or other Acts.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the POTW.
USER, CATEGORICAL INDUSTRIAL (CIU)
An industrial user of the POTW that is subject to categorical
pretreatment standards under 40 CFR 403.6 and 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter
N.
USER, EXISTING
A discharger to the POTW who is discharging on or before
the effective date of this Part 1.
USER, INDUSTRIAL
A discharger to the POTW who discharges nondomestic wastewaters.
USER, NEW
A discharger to the POTW who initiates discharge after the
effective date of this Part 1.
USER, SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL (SIU)
An industrial user of the POTW who is:
(2)
Except as provided in 40 CFR 403.3(v)(2), any other industrial
user that discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more
of process wastewater (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling and
boiler blowdown wastewater) to the POTW;
(3)
Except as provided in 40 CFR 403.3(v)(2), any other industrial
user that contributes a process waste stream which makes up 5% or
more average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW
treatment plant;
(4)
Any other industrial user that the permittee designates as having
a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation
or for violating a pretreatment standard or requirement.
VOLUME CHARGE (USER CHARGE)
The demand sewer use charge which is based, in part or wholly, on the volume of normal sewage discharged into the POTW (there may be surcharges, as provided for in Article
XII). The volume charge shall be based on a specific cost per 100 cubic feet or per 1,000 gallons. The specific charge shall be established and modified from time to time by resolution of the Town of Verona Town Board. The moneys so obtained shall be used for current operation and maintenance, for retirement of bonded indebtedness, and for funding of capital projects, of the POTW. The basis of volume charge calculations shall be made available to the public, on demand, as provided in Article
XII. The volume charge, as well as the surcharge rates, shall be recalculated and modified from time to time.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial 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.
WATERS OF THE STATE (STATE'S WATERS)
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, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through or border upon the state or any portion thereof.