Unless otherwise stated in the section where the term is used
in this chapter, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be
as stated below. When not inconsistent with the context, the present
tense shall include the future, and words used in the plural shall
include the singular and vice versa. For the purposes of this chapter,
shall is mandatory; may is permissive.
ABNORMAL SEWAGE
Sewage whose concentration of one or more characteristics
of normal sewage exceeds the maximum concentrations of the characteristics
of normal sewage. See "sewage, normal."
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq., as may be amended.
ADMINISTRATOR
The Regional Administrator of the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (USEPA), Region 2.
AMMONIA
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the quantity of ammonia in a sample, expressed as milligrams
of nitrogen per liter.
APPLICANT
That person who makes application for any permit.
APPROPRIATE AGENCIES
For purposes of this chapter, with respect to the Inspector's
exercise of judgment in fulfilling his/her responsibilities and obligations
under this chapter, appropriate agencies shall include, in the discretion
of the Inspector on a case-by-case basis, any or all of the following:
Water and Sewer Public Works Superintendent, the Town Board, the Town
Engineer or consulting engineer, NYSDEC, NYSDOH, NYCDEP and USEPA.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
The USEPA, or the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation (NYSDEC), in the event the NYSDEC is delegated approval
authority responsibility by the USEPA.
APPROVED LABORATORY PROCEDURE
The procedures defined as "standard methods" in this article,
or other procedures approved by the NYCDEP for flow measurement or
determination of the concentration of pollutants or their surrogates
in waters, wastewater, or sludge.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INDUSTRIAL USER
An authorized representative of the industrial user may be:
A.
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice
president, if the industrial user is a corporation;
B.
A general partner or proprietor, if the industrial user is a
partnership or proprietorship, respectively;
C.
A managing member or manager, if the industrial user is a limited
liability company;
D.
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated
above, if such representative is responsible for the overall operation
of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
BOD, denoting BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine the quantity of oxygen utilized in the aerobic biochemical
oxidation of organic matter or in a sample, expressed in milligrams
per liter.
BUILDER
Any person who undertakes to construct a building or any
part of a building, either under contract or for resale.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage
system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage
pipes inside the building walls, and conveys it to the building lateral,
which begins five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING INSPECTOR
Individual (or their authorized representative) appointed
by the Town Board who is responsible for inspecting construction activities
in the Town and for issuing building permits and certificates of occupancy
in the Town. The Building Inspector is the person with the overall
responsibility for enforcing the Town of Neversink Sewer Use Law.
He/she is also responsible for receiving applications for the construction
of new laterals (and their sewer connections) and for submitting them
to NYCDEP for approval.
BUILDING LATERAL
The portion of a lateral that extends from the property line
(or theoretical curb cut) up to the foundation of the structure being
served by the sewer system, or the pipe or conduit that goes from
the septic tank up to the building drain.
CAPACITY OF GRAHAMSVILLE WWTP
The maximum amount of wastewater flow (in gallons per day)
that the Grahamsville WWTP can effectively treat. This is the same
as the Grahamsville WWTP's design flow permitted under its SPDES
permit.
CHLORINE DEMAND
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine the difference between the amount of chlorine added to
a sample and the amount of chlorine remaining in the sample at the
end of a specified contact time at room temperature, expressed in
milligrams per liter.
CITY OF NEW YORK'S WATER SUPPLY
The New York City public water supply system includes all
watercourses, wetlands, reservoirs, reservoir stems and controlled
lakes tributary thereto that are within the City's watershed
areas and which provide drinking water to New York City residents
and other specified communities along the water system's aqueducts.
COD, denoting CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to measure the oxygen requirement of that portion of matter, in a
sample, that is susceptible to oxidation, by a specific chemical oxidant,
expressed in milligrams per liter.
COLOR
The optical density at the visual wave length of maximum
absorption, relative to distilled water. One-hundred-percent transmittance
is equivalent to zero optical density.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
The sample resulting from the combination of individual samples
of wastewater taken at selected intervals, for a specified time period.
The individual samples may have equal volumes, or the individual volumes
may be proportioned to the flow at the time of sampling.
CONNECTION
Attachment of a structure with plumbing to a lateral.
CONTROL AUTHORITY
The term shall refer to "approval authority," or to the Inspector
when the Town has an approved pretreatment program under the provisions
of 40 CFR 403.11.
CONTROL MANHOLE
A manhole accessible to wastewater treatment plant or sewer
system personnel such that samples collected from the manhole represent
the flow to the Grahamsville WWTP from a specific source.
CONVENTIONAL POLLUTANT
A pollutant that the Grahamsville WWTP was designed to treat,
defined in accordance with the Act.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, refrigeration, or other sources. It shall contain no
polluting substances which would produce COD or suspended solids in
excess of five milligrams per liter, or toxic substances, as limited
elsewhere in this chapter.
CWC
Catskill Watershed Corporation, the entity responsible for
administering the Community Wastewater Management Program that is
funded by the City.
DEVELOPER
Any person who subdivides or acquires land for the purpose
of constructing, or causing to be constructed, buildings for which
wastewater disposal facilities are required.
DIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the state. (For reference, see "indirect discharge.")
DISTRICT ENGINEER
Employee(s) of the New York City Department of Environmental
Protection (NYCDEP) responsible for the overall operation and maintenance
of City-owned wastewater treatment plants and sewage collection systems
in the New York City Watershed.
DRY SEWERS
The sanitary sewer installed in anticipation of future connection
to a Grahamsville WWTP but which is not used, in the meantime, for
transport of storm or sanitary sewage.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
END OF PIPE
For the purpose of determining compliance with limitations prescribed by Article
VII (Discharge Restrictions), end of pipe shall mean the control manhole, provided the samples collected from the control manhole are representative of the discharge to the Grahamsville WWTP.
EPA, USEPA, or UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
The agency of the federal government charged with the administration
and enforcement of federal environmental laws, rules, and regulations.
Also may be used as a designation for the Administrator or other duly
authorized official of this agency.
EXISTING SEPTIC SYSTEM
A septic system existing as of the date of adoption of Local Law No. 1 of 2019 located within the Septic Maintenance District. A septic system constructed or expanded in compliance with all applicable laws after the date of adoption of Local Law No. 1 of 2019 located within the Septic Maintenance District and which is approved by the Town Board pursuant, if applicable, to Article
IX herein is deemed an "existing septic system" hereunder.
EXISTING USER
Any property owner located within the Septic Maintenance
District that has a septic system on or before the date of adoption
of Local Law No. 1 of 2019.
EXTENSION
Attachment of a new sewer line, with more than one user,
to an existing sewer line.
EXTENSION SERVICE AREA LATERAL
Any lateral, within the service area of Grahamsville WWTP,
installed pursuant to the Agreement Between The City of New York and
the Town of Neversink for Sewer Extensions to the Grahamsville Wastewater
Treatment Plant, dated March 23, 2004.
FACILITY
All buildings, other structures, grounds and contiguous property
at any locations related to or connected with a user at the user's
location.
FLOATABLE OIL
Oil, grease, or fat in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in a wastewater treatment
facility.
FLOW RATE
The quantity of liquid or waste that flows in a certain period
of time.
FUND or SEPTIC MAINTENANCE FUND
All funds collected by the District for the maintenance,
repair, replacement and inspections of systems within the District.
GARBAGE
The solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food, from the handling, storage, and sale of produce, and from
the packaging and canning of food.
GRAB SAMPLE
A single sample of wastewater representing the physical,
chemical, and biological characteristics of the wastewater at one
point and time.
GRAHAMSVILLE WASTEWATER SYSTEM
A City-owned wastewater treatment plant that, with its sewage
collection system, services the Hamlet of Grahamsville and areas proximate
thereto. For purposes of this chapter, all references to discharges
to the Grahamsville WWTP shall include discharges to its sewage collection
system as well, except where specifically stated otherwise.
GREASE TRAP
A device designed and installed so as to separate and retain
deleterious, hazardous, or undesirable matter from normal wastes while
permitting normal sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into the drainage
system by gravity.
HYDRAULIC CAPACITY
The maximum flow, expressed in millions of gallons per day,
at which the Grahamsville WWTP is expected to consistently provide
the required treatment or at which it is expected to properly function
without creating a backup, surcharge or overflow.
ICS FORM
The form used by the NYSDEC to survey industries to perform
and update the Industrial Chemical Survey.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
The introduction of wastewater into a Grahamsville WWTP for
treatment and ultimate discharge of the treated effluent to the state's
waters. (For reference, see "direct discharge.")
INDUSTRIAL
Meaning or pertaining to industry, manufacturing, commerce,
trade, business, or institution, and is distinguished from domestic
or residential.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid or liquid-carried solid, liquid or gaseous wastes
from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, service, utility,
or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INFILTRATION
Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system
or septic system (excluding building drains) from the ground through
such means as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manholes.
Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.
Infiltration is inadvertent, that is, not purposely designed or built
into the sewer, drain or septic system.
INFLOW
Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system
or septic system (including building drains) from sources such as,
but not limited to, roof leaders, cellar drains, area drains, drains
from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, catch basins, cooling
towers, stormwaters, foundation drains, swimming pools, surface runoff,
street wash waters, or drainage. Inflow does not include, and is distinguished
from, infiltration.
INSPECTOR
The Building Inspector or such other person or agency as
shall be authorized by the Town Board to implement and enforce this
chapter. When such person or agency has been so authorized by the
Town Board, the authorized person or agency shall have the same authority
as the Building Inspector under this chapter.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with discharges
by other sources:
A.
Inhibits or disrupts the Grahamsville WWTP, its treatment processes
or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and
B.
Therefore is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the
Grahamsville WWTP's SPDES permit (including an increase in the
magnitude or duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage
sludge use or disposal by the Grahamsville WWTP in accordance with
the following statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued
thereunder (or more stringent state or local regulations):
(1)
Section 405 of the Clean Water Act;
(4)
Toxic Substances Control Act; and
(5)
Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act.
LATERAL
Pipe or conduit that goes from the sewer main or septic system
up to the foundation of a structure with plumbing that is used to
transmit sewage from the structure to the sewer collection system.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or CATEGORICAL STANDARD
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307 (B) and (C) of the Act (22
U.S.C. § 1347), which applies to a specific category of
industrial users. These standards apply at the end of the categorical
process ("end of process").
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
to state's waters.
NEW OWNER
That individual or entity who purchased property within the
Septic Maintenance District after the date of adoption of Local Law
No. 1 of 2019.
NEW SOURCE
Any source, the construction of which is commenced after
the publication of the proposed regulation prescribing a Section 307
(C) (33 U.S.C. § 1317) categorical pretreatment standard
which will be applicable to such source, if such standard is thereafter
promulgated.
NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (NYCDEP)
An agency of the City that is involved principally with water
supply and environmental protection activities, including watershed
protection activities, in both the City proper and the City's
East and West of Hudson Watershed areas. NYCDEP owns and operates
the Grahamsville WWTP and certain parts of the sewer system serving
that plant in the Town.
NUISANCE
The use or lack of use of the Grahamsville WWTP or septic
system in such a manner so as to endanger life or health, give offense
to the senses, or obstruct or otherwise interfere with the reasonable
use or maintenance of the wastewater treatment and sewage collection
system, or septic system.
NYC RULES AND REGULATIONS
Rules and Regulations For the Protection from Contamination,
Degradation and Pollution of the New York City Water Supply and its
Sources, 10 NYCRR Part 128, 18 RCNY Chapter 18, as the same may be
amended from time to time.
OCCUPANT
The occupants of any real property that is served by a septic
system and is located within the Septic Maintenance District.
OIL AND GREASE
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine the quantity of fats, wax, grease, and oil, in a sample,
expressed in milligrams per liter.
ORIGINAL SERVICE AREA LATERAL
Any lateral, within the service area of Grahamsville WWTP,
installed prior to January 1, 1997. A list of parcels on which original
service area laterals have been installed is attached as Appendix
A.
OTHER WASTES
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, egg shells,
coffee grounds, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, ashes, and all
other discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial
wastes. Also, the discarded matter not normally present in sewage
or industrial waste.
OWNER
The person who owns real property with a septic system within
the Septic Maintenance District.
PASS THROUGH
The discharge which exits the Grahamsville WWTP into waters
of the state in quantities which, alone or in conjunction with discharges
from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of
the Grahamsville WWTP's SPDES permit(s) (including an increase
in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
PERMIT
A temporary revocable written document allowing use of Grahamsville
WWTP for specified wastes over a limited period of time, containing
sampling locations and reporting frequencies, and requiring other
actions as authorized by this chapter.
PERSON
Any individual, public or private corporation, political
subdivision, federal, state, or local agency or entity, association,
trust, estate or any other legal entity whatsoever.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of
hydrogen ions, in gram moles per liter of solution. A pH value of
7.0, the pH scale midpoint, represents neutrality. Values above 7.0
represent alkaline conditions. Values below 7.0 represent acid conditions.
PLUMBING
The pipes and accessory parts and equipment starting at the
foundation and extending into the building for the management of wastewater
(includes building drain).
POLLUTANT
Any material placed into or onto the state's waters,
lands or airs, which interferes with the beneficial use of that water,
land or air by any living thing at any time.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological, or radiological integrity of the state's waters,
lands or airs resulting from the introduction of a pollutant into
these media.
POST-EXTENSION-PROJECT LATERAL
Any lateral, within the service area of Grahamsville WWTP,
installed on or after March 14, 2007, except for an extension service
area lateral.
PRETREATMENT (TREATMENT)
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 wastewater treatment
and sewage collection system. The reduction or alteration can be achieved
by physical, chemical, or biological process, process changes, or
by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(D).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial
user.
PRIORITY POLLUTANTS
The most recently revised or updated list, developed by the
EPA, in accordance with the Act.
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, and with no particle having a dimension greater
than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PROPERTY LINE
To the extent it can be reasonably ascertained, the line
separating a public street from privately owned real property, and
to the extent it cannot be reasonably ascertained or in cases where
private ownership runs to the center line of a use and maintenance
highway, the theoretical curb cut.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS
A treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. 1292). This definition includes any sewers and appurtenances
that transport wastewater to the Grahamsville WWTP, but does not include
pipes, sewers, or other conveyances not connected directly or Indirectly
to a facility providing treatment. For the purposes of this chapter,
the Grahamsville WWTP and its sewage collection system, owned and
operated by the City, is considered the Grahamsville WWTP.
RECEIVING WATERS
A natural watercourse or body of water (usually waters of
the state) into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
RECORDS
Includes, but is not limited to, any printed, typewritten,
handwritten or otherwise recorded matter of whatever character (including
paper or electronic media), including, but not limited to, letters,
files, memoranda, directives, notes and notebooks, correspondence,
descriptions, telephone call slips, photographs, permits, applications,
reports, compilations, films, graphs and inspection reports. For the
purposes of this chapter, records shall mean records of and relating
to waste generation, reuse and disposal, and shall include records
of usage of raw materials.
REPAIR CHARGE
The charge to a property owner for the costs incurred by the Septic Maintenance District in repairing, replacing or maintaining a septic system that are chargeable to the owner pursuant to §
36-1004 hereof.
ROOF DRAIN
A drain installed to receive water collecting on the surface
of a roof for disposal.
SEPTAGE
All liquids and solids in and removed from septic tanks,
holding tanks, cesspools, or approved type of chemical toilets, including
but not limited to those serving private residences, commercial establishments,
institutions, and industries. Also sludge from small sewage treatment
plants. Septage shall not have been contaminated with substances of
concern or priority pollutants.
SEPTIC SYSTEM
A sewage treatment system of a user treating domestic sewage
from a facility is within the service area of the Claryville-Neversink
Septic Maintenance District which includes, but is not limited to,
an underground tank and a subsurface exfiltration system.
SEPTIC TANK
A private domestic sewage treatment system consisting of
an underground tank (with suitable baffling), constructed in accordance
with any local, state, and City requirements.
SERVICE AREA OF THE GRAHAMSVILLE WWTP
Area within which sewer mains are constructed terminating
at the Grahamsville WWTP and within which area structures with plumbing
are required to discharge wastewater into the sewer system of the
Grahamsville WWTP.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, and
such groundwater, surface water, and stormwater as may be inadvertently
present. The admixture of sewage, as defined above, with industrial
wastes and other wastes shall also be considered sewage, within the
meaning of this definition.
SEWAGE COLLECTION SYSTEM
All facilities used for collecting, regulating, pumping,
and transporting sewage to a wastewater treatment plant, in this case
the Grahamsville WWTP.
SEWAGE WATER
Carried wastes from residences, and such groundwater, surface
water and stormwater as may be inadvertently present.
SEWAGE, DOMESTIC (DOMESTIC WASTES)
Liquid wastes from the noncommercial preparation, cooking,
and handling of food, liquid wastes containing human excrement and
similar matter from the sanitary conveniences in dwellings, commercial
buildings, industrial buildings, and institutions, or liquid wastes
from clothes washing or floor/wall washing. Therefore, domestic sewage
includes both black water and grey water. (See "sewage, sanitary.")
SEWAGE, NORMAL
A.
Sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes, which show, by analysis,
the following characteristics:
(1)
BOD (five day): 2,090 pounds per million gallons (250 milligrams
per liter), or less.
(2)
Suspended solids: 2,500 pounds per million gallons (300 milligrams
per liter), or less.
(3)
Phosphorus: 125 pounds per million gallons (15 milligrams per
liter), or less.
(4)
Ammonia: 250 pounds per million gallons (30 milligrams per liter),
or less.
(5)
Total Kjeldahl nitrogen: 417 pounds per million (50 milligrams
per liter), or less.
(6)
Chlorine demand: 209 pounds per million gallons (25 milligrams
per liter), or less.
(7)
Chemical oxygen demand: 2,920 pounds per million gallons (350
milligrams per liter), or less.
(8)
Oil and grease: 830 pounds per million gallons (100 milligrams
per liter), or less.
B.
In spite of satisfying one or more of these characteristics,
if the sewage also contains substances of concern, it may not be considered
normal 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. (See "domestic wastes.")
SEWER
A pipe or conduit used for carrying or transporting sewage
to a wastewater treatment plant.
SEWER, COMBINED
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff
and sewage.
SEWER, PUBLIC
A sewer in which all abutting property owners have equal
rights to its use.
SEWER, SANITARY
A sewer which carries sewage, and to which stormwater, surface
water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SEWER, STORM (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.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM
All facilities for collecting, regulating, pumping, and transporting
wastewater to and away from the Grahamsville WWTP.
SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food that have been shredded by a garbage disposal.
SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE (SNC)
A user is in significant noncompliance if its violation(s)
meet(s) one or more of the following criteria:
A.
Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here
as those, in 66% or more of all of the measurements taken during a
six-month period, which exceed (by any magnitude) the daily maximum
limit or average limit for the same pollutant parameter;
B.
Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as
those, in which 33% or more of all of the measurements for each pollutant
parameter taken during a six-month period, equal or exceed the product
of the daily maximum limits multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC
= 1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oil and grease; TRC = 1.2 for all other
pollutants);
C.
Any other violation of a pretreatment effluent limit (daily
maximum or long-term average) that the NYCDEP determines has caused,
alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass
through (including endangering the health of Grahamsville WWTP personnel
or the general public);
D.
Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare or to the environment or has resulted in the Inspector's exercise of his emergency authority under Article
XII, Enforcement and Penalties, of this chapter;
E.
Failure to meet, within 90 days after the schedule date, a compliance
schedule milestone contained in a local control mechanism or enforcement
order for starting construction, completing construction, or attaining
final compliance;
F.
Failure to provide, within 30 days after the due date, required
reports such as baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day compliance
reports, periodic self-monitoring reports, and reports on compliance
with compliance schedules;
G.
Failure to report accurately any noncompliance;
H.
Any discharge of stormwater into house laterals or directly
into sewer mains; and
I.
Any other violation which the Inspector (or NYCDEP in cases
where the Town Board has delegated enforcement authority to the City)
determines will adversely affect the implementation or operation of
the local pretreatment program.
SLUG
A substantial deviation from normal rates of discharge or
constituent concentration (see "normal sewage") sufficient to cause
interference. In any event, a discharge which, in concentration of
any constituent or in quantity of flow, that exceeds, for any period
of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five times the average
twenty-four-hour concentration or flow during normal user operations,
shall constitute a slug.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972, and subsequent revisions.
STANDARD METHODS
Procedures contained in the latest edition of "standard methods
for the Examination of Water and Wastewater," published by the American
Public Health Association, procedures established by the Administrator,
pursuant to Section 304 (G) of the Act and contained in 40 CFR, Part
136, and amendments thereto. (If 40 CFR, Part 136, does not include
a sampling or analytical technique for the pollutant in question,
then procedures set forth in the EPA publication, "Sampling and Analysis
Procedures for Screening of Industrial Effluents for Priority Pollutants,"
April 1977, and amendments thereto, shall be used.) Any other procedure
approved by the NYCDEP, whichever is the most conservative.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation; also the flow resulting therefrom.
STREET LATERAL
The portion of a lateral that extends from the sewer main
to the property line.
SUBSTANCES OF CONCERN
Those compounds which the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation has determined may be harmful to people or the environment.
SUMP PUMP
A machine used for removing standing water from one location
and disposing it elsewhere.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the dry weight of solids, in a sample, that either float
on the surface of, or are in suspension, or are settleable, and can
be removed from the sample by filtration, expressed in milligrams
per liter.
TOTAL KJELDAHL NITROGEN (TKN)
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the quantity of ammonia in a sample and released during
the acid digestion of organic nitrogen compounds, expressed as milligrams
of nitrogen per liter.
TOTAL PHOSPHORUS
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the total quantity of orthophosphate, in a sample of
wastewater, following the hydrolysis of phosphorus compounds, expressed
as milligrams of phosphorus per liter of sample.
TOWN
The Town of Neversink, an incorporated municipality of the
state.
TOWN ENGINEER
Individual (or their authorized representative) appointed
by the Town Board as the Town Engineer.
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid, or solid, that when
discharged to a public sewer in sufficient quantities may be hazardous
to the Grahamsville WWTP operation and maintenance personnel, tend
to interfere with any biological sewage treatment process, or to constitute
a hazard to recreation in the receiving waters, due to the effluent
from a sewage treatment plant or overflow point. Toxic substances
shall include, without limitation, any pollutant or combination of
pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the EPA under
provisions of CWA 307(A), or other Acts.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes, or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the Grahamsville WWTP, or any property owner located
within the Septic Maintenance District that has a septic system.
USER, CATEGORICAL INDUSTRIAL (CIU)
An industrial user of the Grahamsville WWTP that is subject
to categorical pretreatment standards under 40 CFR 403.6 and 40 CFR
Chapter I, Subchapter N.
USER, INDUSTRIAL
A discharger to the Grahamsville WWTP who discharges nondomestic
wastewater.
USER, NEW
Any property owner located within the Septic Maintenance
District that constructs a new facility requiring wastewater disposal
services after the effective date of adoption of Local Law No. 1 of
2019.
USER, SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL (SIU)
An industrial user of the Grahamsville WWTP who is:
B.
Except as provided in 40 CFR 403.3(t)(2), any other industrial
user that discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more
of process wastewater (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling and
boiler blowdown wastewater) to the Grahamsville WWTP; or
C.
Except as provided in 40 CFR 403.3(t)(2), any other industrial
user that contributes a process wastestream which makes up 5% or more
average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the Grahamsville
WWTP; or
D.
Any other industrial user that the permittee designates as having
a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the Grahamsville WWTP's
operation or for violating a pretreatment standard or requirement.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastewater
from dwellings, commercial establishments, industrial facilities,
and institutions, which is permitted to enter the Grahamsville WWTP.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT (WWTP)
That portion of a wastewater treatment and sewage collection
system, in this case, the Grahamsville WWTP owned and operated by
the City, designed to provide treatment to wastewater, and to treat
sludge and residuals derived from such treatment.
WATERS OF THE STATE (STATE'S WATERS)
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways,
wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage
systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or
underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through, or border upon the state or any portion thereof.