Words defined.
ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended.
B-1 SEWER DISTRICT
The perimeter of the 35 parcel area of the Village of Kinderhook
wastewater collection system approved by the New York State Department
of Environmental Conservation on April 5, 2013, See B-1 Sewer District
Map.
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
which receives the discharge from 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.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal, also called a "house connection" or "lateral."
CONTAMINATION
An impairment to or 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.
DOMESTIC WATER
Water which is provided to the building for use within the
building for drinking, bathing, toilet facilities or other human consumption.
ENGINEER
The professional engineer retained by the municipality.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business, as distinct from domestic or sanitary sewage.
MUNICIPALITY
The Village of Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of
the hydrogen ions in gram moles per liter of solution.
POLLUTION
The human-made or human-induced alteration of the chemical,
physical, biological and radiological integrity of water.
PRETREATMENT
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 change or by other means, except as prohibited by
40 CFR 403.6(d).
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, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch (1.27 centimeters)
in any dimension.
PROPERTY LINE
(a)
The curbline if the building sewer is to connect with the public
sewer located in a public street.
(b)
The edge of a sewer right-of-way at such times where the building
sewer connects to the public sewer located in a right-of-way.
(c)
The edge of the street right-of-way at such times where the
building sewer connects to a public sewer located off the paved portion
of the street.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer pipe or conveyance in which all owners of abutting
properties have equal rights and which is controlled by public authority.
Also referred to as a "sewer main."
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned in this instance by the Village.
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.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water, groundwater and other water are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of 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.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
See "publicly owned treatment works (POTW)."
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
SEWER
A pipe or conduit used for carrying sewage.
SEWER, COMBINED
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff
and sewage.
SEWER, PUBLIC
See "public sewer."
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
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.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM
See "publicly owned treatment works (POTW)."
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage 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 flow during
normal operation and which shall adversely affect the collection system
and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries stormwaters and surface waters and
drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastewaters, other than
cooling waters and other unpolluted waters.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of the municipal sewer system, or the
Superintendent's authorized deputy, agent or representative, as appointed
or contracted by the Village of Kinderhook.
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
filtering.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.