This chapter shall be known as the "Sewer Use Local Law."
It is the purpose of this chapter to protect the sewage collection
and treatment facilities, to prevent danger to life or damage to property,
to promote the health, safety and general welfare, to prohibit the
introduction of storm-, surface or subsurface waters into the sanitary
sewers, to provide background for the fair distribution of treatment
costs, to provide for the collection of the same, to form a basis
and policy for the controlling of wastes accepted into the Joint Manchester-Shortsville
Joint Sewerage System and to provide for the administration of said
system.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings
of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows. "Shall" is mandatory;
"may" is permissive.
BOD (denoting 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.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
carrying sewage which receives discharge from soil, waste and other
drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to
the building's sewer, beginning five feet (1.5 meters) outside the
inner face of the building wall.
COMMERCIAL-INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any and all other wastes not being domestic wastes but limited
to the wastes from commercial, laboratory and industrial processes,
wastes from domestic operations or certain trade operations such as
sand grit, waste petroleum products from automotive service stations,
and the like, animal wastes, straw and related items from dairy or
other farming operations.
DOMESTIC WASTES
Waterborne human or animal excreta or body wastes and normal
culinary, laundry and washing wastes originating in residences.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or groundwater.
OWNER
Any person in title to or having any interest in real property
in any sewer service area, and shall include waste contributor.
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 solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that has 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 [1.27 centimeters]
in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by a Sewer Commission.
SANITARY SEWER
A pipe or conduit which carries sewage and to which storm-,
surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
commercial buildings, institutions and industrial establishments and
other places.
SEWER COMMISSION
The duly elected or appointed governing body of the Village
of Manchester and the Village of Shortsville, acting in concert under
Article 5G of the General Municipal Law of the State of New York.
SEWER SERVICE AREA
The Village of Shortsville and Village of Manchester (or
any sanitary sewer district or districts and their extension or extensions
now existing or subsequently created by the Village Board of the Village
of Shortsville and/or the Village of Manchester).
SEWER WORKS
All facilities for collecting, transmission, pumping, treating
and disposing of sewage.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial wastes which,
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow,
exceeds, for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than
three times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during
normal operation.
[Added 5-6-1985 by L.L.
No. 2-1985]
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries storm- and surface water drainage and/or
other unpolluted cooling waters, but excludes sanitary sewage, commercial-industrial
and domestic wastes.
SUPERINTENDENT
Waste Operation, Chief Waste Operator, Contract WW Operation,
or Village DPW Supervisor.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
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 laboratory
filterings.
SYSTEM
The sewer works.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
VILLAGE
The Village of Shortsville and the Village of Manchester,
and shall, where appropriate, include the sewer service area.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously
or intermittently.