A. BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD5) BOARD BUILDING DRAIN BUILDING SEWER COMBINED SEWER COMPOSITE SAMPLE CONTAMINATION COOLING WATER EASEMENT EFFLUENT FEDERAL ACT or ACT FLOATABLE OIL FLOW RATE GARBAGE GRAB SAMPLE HOLDING TANK WASTE INDUSTRIAL USER INDUSTRIAL WASTE INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER INFLUENT INTERFERENCE MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY NATURAL OUTLET NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION or NYSDEC NORMAL SEWAGE OWNERS PERSON pH POLLUTION POTW or PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS PREMISES PRETREATMENT PRIVATE SEWER PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE PUBLIC SEWER RCRA SANITARY SEWER SANITARY WASTE SEWAGE SEWER SEWER SYSTEM SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USERS(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) SLUG SPDES STORM DRAIN SUPERINTENDENT SUSPENDED SOLIDS TOXIC SUBSTANCES UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or USEPA UNPOLLUTED WATER USER VILLAGE WASTEWATER WASTEWATER CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS WATERCOURSE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
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.
The duly elected Board of Trustees of the Village of Walton or its authorized deputy, agent or representative.
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."
A sewer designed to receive both wastewater and stormwater or surface water.
A combination of individual samples of wastewater taken at selected intervals, generally hourly, for a specified period.
An impairment of the quality of the waters of the state by waste to a degree which creates a hazard to the public health through poisoning or through the spread of disease.
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other sources. It shall contain no polluting substances which would produce BOD or suspended solids, each in excess of 10 milligrams per liter.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
Treated wastewater flowing from any treatment device of a facility.
The 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments, Public Law 92-500, 1977 Clean Water Act, Public Law 95-217 and any amendments thereof, as well as any guidelines, limitations and standards promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility. 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.
Animal and vegetable wastes from the preparation, cooking and disposing of food and from the handling, processing, storage and sale of food products and produce.
A single sample of wastewater taken at neither a set time nor flow rate.
Any sanitary waste from holding tanks, such as marine vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum pump tank trucks.
Any nonresidential user served by the POTW, which user is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under one of the following divisions:
Any discarded matter, including any liquid, gaseous or solid substance or a combination thereof, resulting from any process of industry or manufacturing, trade or business or from development or recovery of natural resources. The term shall not include garbage.
Wastewater in which industrial wastes are carried.
Wastewater, raw or partly treated, flowing into any sewage treatment device of sewage treatment facilities.
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes or operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal. The term includes any action which contributes to a violation of any requirement of the Village of Walton SPDES permit or which results in the prevention of sewage sludge reuse, reclamation or disposal by the POTW in accordance with Section 405 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1345) or any criteria, guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act or any more stringent state criteria applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the POTW.
All significant industrial users and any other industries having a wet process discharge to the sewer system.
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation or other duly authorized official of said Department.
Sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes having pollutant concentrations which do not exceed 200 mg/l of BODs, 200 mg/l of TSS or 50 mg/l of oil and grease and which are otherwise acceptable for discharge into the POTW under the terms of these rules and regulations. The numbers and values of characteristics are subject to revision by the Village Board when, in the opinion of the Board, a revision is necessary in order to maintain the physical integrity of the POTW or to maintain the treatment works capability of providing treatment in compliance with federal, state or local standards.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
The Village of Walton, New York.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological or radiological integrity of water.
The Village of Walton sewage treatment plant. This term also includes any devices or systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of liquid nature by the Village of Walton Consolidated Sewer District. This includes intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage 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 or residues resulting from such treatment; or any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating or disposing of municipal waste, including stormwater runoff or industrial waste, including waste in combined stormwater and sanitary sewer systems.
Any parcel of real property, including land, improvements, appurtenance or buildings, grounds, etc.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to discharge to the POTW.
A sewer which is not owned or controlled by a public agency.
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 one-half inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
A sewer which is owned or controlled by a governmental agency. This term includes any devices or systems used by the governmental agency in the storage, transmission, treatment or reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes.
The Solid Waste Disposal Act as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended (RCRA), P.L. 95-580, as amended by P.L. 95-609 and by P.L. 96-482; 42 U.S.C. § 6091.
A sewer intended to carry only sanitary or sanitary and industrial wastewater from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions.
Wash water, culinary wastes, the liquid waste containing only human excreta and similar matter flowing in or from a building drainage system or sewer originating in a dwelling, business building, factory or institution.
The spent water of a community. The preferred term is "wastewater."
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
All sewers, laterals, pump stations, treatment plant or other conveyances which connect with or pertain to a connection with the sewers, plant or public works.
Those industries meeting one or more of the following criteria:
All industrial facilities subject to promulgated federal categorical pretreatment standards.
Industrial facilities having a substantial impact, either singly or in combination with other industrial facilities, on the operation of the treatment works.
A single industrial facility using, on an annual basis, more than 10,000 pounds or 1,000 gallons of substance constituting a priority pollutant (designated pursuant to the Act) and discharging a measurable amount of that substance to the sewer system from the process using that substance.
Those industries discharging more than 1% of the average daily flow or more than 1% of the load of conventional pollutants tributary to the treatment plant receiving the waste.
All industries discharging heavy metals in any quantity or priority pollutants in any amount where the Board determines that the discharge of such materials into the sewer system may have a significant impact on or may interfere with the POTW.
Any discharge of water or wastewater 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 flow during normal operation and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
The State Pollution Discharge Elimination System established by Article 17 of the Environmental Conservation Law of the State of New York for issuance of permits authorizing discharges to the waters of the state.
A drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source. Sometimes referred to as a "storm sewer."
The Superintendent of Public Works of the Village of Walton or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
The total suspended matter in water or wastewater, as determined by the Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
Any substances, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, which, when discharged to the sewer system in sufficient amounts, may tend to interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to the receiving waters of the effluent from the sewage treatment plant, pose a hazard to animal life or inhibit aquatic life. This definition includes, but is not limited to, EPA priority pollutants.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate, a designation for the administrator or other duly authorized official of said Agency.
Water to which no constituent has been added, either intentionally or accidentally, which would render such water unacceptable to the agency having jurisdiction thereof for disposal to storm or natural drainages or directly to surface waters.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater into the POTW, including the Walton sewer and sewage treatment plant.
The Village of Walton, New York.
The water-carried domestic, human or animal waste from residences, buildings, industrial establishments or other places, together with such ground infiltration and industrial and commercial wastes as may be present.
The individual chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological parameters, including volume, flow rate and such other parameters, that serve to define, classify and measure the contents, quality, quantity and strength of wastewater.
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water either continuously or intermittently.
B.
Word usage.
(1)
Unless otherwise defined herein, technical terms shall be as defined in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Environment Federation.
(2)
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.