Definitions.
APPENDIX A
The Town of Easton Standard Details for Laying Public Sewers
and Building Sewers.
APPENDIX B
The Town of Easton Fee/Penalty Schedules.
BOARD
The Sewer Commission of the Town of Easton or any agent or
officer duly authorized to act in its place.
BOARD OF HEALTH
The Board of Health of the Town of Easton or any agent or
officer duly authorized to act in its place.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from sanitary or approved waste inside
the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, ending
10 feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal, also called house connection.
CONTRACT DRAWINGS
The construction drawings which have been approved by the
Department of Public Works appointed representative signed "approved"
and on file in his office.
CONTRACTOR
The party doing the construction: either a private contractor
or Town of Easton Employees, as the case may be.
DIRECTOR
The Director of Public Works or appointed representative,
deputy, or agent.
DRAIN LAYER
A contractor licensed in the Town of Easton to perform sewer
connection construction.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
FLOATABLE OIL
Oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pre-treatment
facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable oil if
it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with
the collection system.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or business
as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
INFILTRATION
Water other than wastewater that enters a sewer system from
the ground from sources including, but not limited to, defective pipes,
pipe joints, pipe connections, and manholes.
INFLOW
Water other than sanitary flow that enters a sewer system
from sources including, but not limited to, roof leaders, sump pumps,
yard, drains, areas drains, catch basins, and storm sewers.
INSPECTOR
Shall be understood to be a qualified construction inspector
of the Town of Easton appointed by the Department of Public Works.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
or group.
POTW
Publically Owned Treatment Works, owned and operated by the
Town of Easton.
PRIVATE SEWER
A gravity or low pressure collection system operated on private
property that ultimately connects into the public sewer.
PUBLIC SEWER
A common sewer controlled by the Town of Easton.
SANITARY SEWER
A public or private sewer that carries liquid and water-carried
wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and
institutions together with minor quantities of ground, storm, and
surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
SEPTAGE
Liquid and solid wastes from holding tanks, chemical toilets,
septic tanks, cesspools, or other similar recepticles.
SEWER
A main, pipe, lateral, or other conduit located in a street,
highway, alley, right-of-way or easement that carries wastewater from
residences; commercial buildings; industrial plants, and institutions;
equivalent to "Sanitary Sewer."
SEWER SYSTEM
All pipelines, conduits, pumping stations, force mains, and
all other structures, devices, appurtenances, and facilities used
for collecting, conveying, treating, and disposing of wastewater.
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 a duration longer than 15 minutes, more than
five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration of flows during
normal operation.
TOWN
The Town of Easton, Massachusetts or any duly authorized
officer, agent or representative of the Town of Easton.
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria
in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water
quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sewers
and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES
The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect,
transport, carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and
dispose of the effluent.
WASTEWATER or SEWAGE
The spent or used water of the community. From the standpoint
of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried
wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and
institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and stormwater
that may be present.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater,
industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "Wastewater
treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment facility" or "Water Pollution
Control Plant" or "sewage works."