A.Â
Words used in the present tense include the future, words in the
masculine gender include the feminine and neuter, the singular number
includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
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ACT or THE ACT
ASTM
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWERS
CHLORINE DEMAND
COMBINED SEWER
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
CONNECTION
COOLING WATER
DEC
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
DOMESTIC WASTES
EASEMENT
EPA
FLOATABLE OIL
FLOW RATE
FLOW VOLUME
GARBAGE
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
INDUSTRIAL USER
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
MASS EMISSION RATE
MAY
NATURAL OUTLET
PERSON
pH
POLLUTANT
PRETREATMENT
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
SPDES
SANITARY SEWER
SEWAGE or WASTEWATER
SEWER
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
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(2)Â
(3)Â
(4)Â
(5)Â
(6)Â
SLUG
STORM DRAIN or STORM SEWER
STORMWATER
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
UNPOLLUTED WATER
USER
VILLAGE
WEF
WASTE
WASTEWATER
WASTEWATER CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS
WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
WATERCOURSE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act[1] and amendments to it.
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
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 (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building
wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal, also called "house connection."
The difference between the amount of chlorine added to water,
wastewater or industrial wastes and the amount of residual chlorine
remaining at the end of a fifteen-minute contact period.
A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and stormwater
or surface water.
A sample consisting of several effluent portions collected
during a specific time period and combined to make a representative
sample.
The physical tie-in of the building sewer or sewer extension
to the public sanitary sewer.
The water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, during which the only pollutant added to
the water is heat.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Any authorized representative of the Village of Oakfield
Department of Public Works and/or the Village Engineer acting on their
behalf. It shall be designated as "Department" throughout the remainder
of this chapter.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The wastewater from noncommercial preparation, cooking and
handling of food or containing human excrement and similar matter
from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, commercial dwellings,
commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment
facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if
it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with
the collection system.
The quantity of waste or liquid that flows in a certain period
of time.
The quantity of wastes or liquid.
The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking, and serving of foods.
Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant.
Any industrial or commercial establishment with a classification
as designated in the "Standard Industrial Classification Manual,"
1972 Edition, as published by the Executive Office of the President,
and who utilizes the wastewater treatment system.
The wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or business,
as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
The weight of material discharged to the wastewater treatment
system during a given time interval. Unless otherwise specified, the
"mass emission rate" shall mean pounds per day of a particular constituent
or combination of constituents.
Is permissive; "shall" is mandatory.
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
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 of the hydrogen ions in grams
per liter of solution.
Any waste, impurity, or other additive, such as heat or radioactivity,
that changes the quality and character of water delivered to the user
so that the discharged wastewater violates standards as set forth
in this chapter.
The application of physical, chemical and biological processes
to reduce the amount of pollutants in or alter the nature of the pollutant
properties in a wastewater prior to discharging such wastewater into
the publicly owned wastewater treatment system.
All applicable federal rules and regulations implementing
Section 307 of the Act,[2] including any amendments hereto, as well as any nonconflicting
state or local standards. In cases of conflicting standards or regulations,
the more stringent thereof shall be applied. The Superintendent recognizes
that in some cases these pretreatment standards may not be sufficient
to protect the operation of the wastewater treatment system, or make
it unable to comply with the terms of the SPDES permit. In such cases,
the Department reserves the right to impose more stringent pretreatment
standards than those specified in the EPA regulations.
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 (1.27 centimeters)
in any direction.
A common sewer directly controlled by a public authority.
The State Pollution Discharge Elimination System.
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions,
but excludes stormwater, surface water and groundwater.
A combination of water-carried wastes from residences, commercial
buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with
such groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be inadvertently
present.
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
Any user of the publicly owned wastewater treatment system
that:
Has a flow of 50,000 gallons per day or more per average workday;
or
Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow carried by the wastewater
treatment system receiving the waste; or
Has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined
in standards issued under Section 307(a) of the Act;[3] or
Is found by the Department, in connection with the issuance
of a State Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit at the publicly
owned treatment works receiving waste, to have a significant impact,
either singly or in combination with other contributing industries,
on the wastewater treatment system or upon the quality of effluent
from the treatment works; or
Has in its wastewater any of the prohibited substances or characteristics in § 208-14; or
Any discharge of water, wastewater, 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 and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or
performance of wastewater treatment system.
A drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface
water, or unpolluted water from any source.
Any flow originating from or resulting from any form of natural
precipitation. This flow can occur during, immediately following or
substantially after (such as snow melt) the precipitation event.
The Superintendent of wastewater facilities and/or of wastewater
treatment works, and/or of water pollution control of the Village
of Oakfield, or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface
of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids and
that is removable by laboratory filtering.
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, which constitutes
a hazard to human beings or animal or plant life or inhibits aquatic
life or creates a hazard to recreation in the receiving waters of
the effluent from a wastewater treatment plant.
Water not containing any pollutants limited or prohibited
by this chapter and/or the effluent standards in effect, or water
whose discharge will not cause any violation of receiving water quality
standards.
Any person that discharges, causes, or permits the discharge
of wastewater into the wastewater treatment system.
The Village of Oakfield.
The Water Environment Federation.
Includes wastewater and any and all other impurities or waste
substances: liquid, solid, gaseous or radioactive, associated with
human habitation, or of human or animal origin, or from any producing,
manufacture or processing operation of whatever nature, including
such waste placed within containers of whatever nature prior to, and
for purposes of, disposal.
Sometimes referred to as "sewage," the liquid and water-carried
industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings,
industrial facilities, and institutions, together with any groundwater,
surface water, and stormwater that may be present, whether treated
or untreated, which is discharged into or permitted to enter the Village
wastewater treatment system.
The individual chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological
parameters, including volume and flow rate and such other parameters
that serve to define, classify or measure the contents, quality, quantity,
and strength of wastewater.
Any devices, facilities, structures, equipment or works owned
by the Village of Oakfield for the purpose of the transmission, storage,
treatment, recycling, and reclamation of industrial and domestic wastes,
or necessary to recycle or reuse water at the most economical cost
over the estimated life of the system, including intercepting sewers,
outfall sewers, wastewater collection systems, pumping, power, and
other equipment, and their appurtenances; extensions, improvements,
remodeling, additions, and alterations thereof; elements essential
to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units
and clear well facilities; and any works, including site acquisition
of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process
or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment.
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater,
industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "waste
treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "water pollution
control plant" or "wastewater facility."
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
C.Â
Terms not otherwise defined herein shall be as adopted in the latest
edition of Glossary - Water and Wastewater Control Engineering, published
by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works
Association and the Water Environment Federation.