B.
ASTM
BOD (denotes "biochemical oxygen demand")
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
COD (denotes "chemical oxygen demand")
COLLECTION SYSTEM
COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES
COMPATIBLE INDUSTRIAL WASTES
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
COOLING WATER
COUNTY
DISCHARGE
DISPOSAL SYSTEM
DISTRICT
DRAINAGE DISCHARGES
EASEMENT
EXTENSION
FLOW EQUALIZATION
FOOD ESTABLISHMENT
GARBAGE
GRAB SAMPLE
GREASE
GREASE TRAP
HOUSE CONNECTIONS
INDUSTRIAL PROCESS WATERS or PROCESS WATERS
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
INSURANCE POLICY
INTERCEPTOR
MUNICIPALITY
NATURAL OUTLET
NYSDEC
OBJECTIONABLE, PROHIBITED OR LIMITED WASTES
(1)
(2)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)
(i)
(j)
(k)
(l)
(m)
(n)
(3)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
OTHER WASTES
PASS-THROUGH
PERMIT
PERSON
pH
POLLUTED
PRETREATMENT
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
PRETREATMENT STANDARD or NATIONAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD
PRIORITY POLLUTANTS
PRIVATE
PRIVATE SEWAGE WORKS
PRIVATE SEWER
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC
PUBLIC SEWER
PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
RECEIVING WATERS
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES
SANITARY SEWER
SCDHS
SCDPW
SEWAGE
SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
SEWAGE WORKS
SEWAGE, DOMESTIC (DOMESTIC WASTES)
SEWAGE, NORMAL
(1)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)
(i)
(2)
(3)
SEWER
SEWER SYSTEM or SEWER DISTRICT
SEWERAGE SURCHARGE
SLOPE
SLUG
SPDES (State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System)
STORM SEWER
SURETY BOND
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOXIC SUBSTANCE
TREATMENT PLANT or SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
UNREASONABLE ADVERSE EFFECT
USEPA
WAREWASH SINK
WASTE
WATERCOURSE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings
of the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The American Society for Testing and Materials, refer to
the latest version of any standards referred to in this chapter.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter, under standard laboratory procedure, in five days
at 20° C. (68° F.), expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
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 walls of any building and conveys such discharge
to the building sewers beginning three feet outside of the outer face
of the building wall.
That part of the horizontal piping of a drainage system which
extends from the end of the building drain and which receives the
discharge of the building drain and conveys it to a sewer. The materials
used to connect the building sewer to the District's sewage collection
system shall be deemed part of the building sewer.
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.
A system of pipes, normally found in streets, into which
the building sewer connects.
All properties located within the existing Sewer District,
as expanded and as may be expanded from time to time in the future,
that are not herein defined as being residential properties.
Liquid wastes from industry, commercial, trade or business
processes, whether the same are from manufacturing or otherwise, as
distinct from sewage, which contain no objectionable wastes and are
amenable to adequate treatment and removal by the waste treatment
processes existing at the Town's sewage treatment plant.
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.
The water discharge from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, and carrying no contamination
other than abnormal heat.
The County of Suffolk in the State of New York.
An effluent or substance, or the act of unloading or emitting
an effluent or substance directly or indirectly into all or part of
a sewage works, as the sense demands.
The entire system of sewers, treatment facilities and their
appurtenances for collecting and treating sewage, industrial waste
and other wastes.
The Town of Brookhaven Sewer District Number Two.
Stormwater surface runoff, groundwater, roof runoff and the
like.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
The attachment of a sewer line, with more than one user,
to an existing sewer line.
The damping of sanitary diurnal flow variation to achieve
a constant flow rate to the sewage treatment works.
A retail establishment serving prepared food or drink within
an enclosed building for consumption within the building or off the
premises, including, but not limited to, restaurants, bars, lunch
counters, cafes, diners, fast-food establishments, food take-out establishments,
pizza parlors and luncheonettes.
Solid wastes from the domestic or commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food or from the handling, storage and sale
of produce.
A single sample of wastewater representing the physical,
chemical and biological characteristics of the wastewater at one point
and time.
A material composed of fatty matter from animal or vegetable
sources or hydrocarbons of petroleum origins. The terms "oil and grease"
or "oil and grease substances" shall be deemed grease.
A water-tight device constructed to separate and trap or
hold grease from the wastewater discharged from a food establishment
in order to prevent grease from entering the sanitary sewer system,
also referred to as a "grease interceptor" or "grease recovery device."
The grease trap may be an internal grease trap located within the
facility, an external grease trap located outside the food establishment,
or both.
Synonymous with "building connection" or "sewer stub" and
shall mean the branch of pipe leading from the public sewer in the
street toward the property line of the user.
The waters which are ordinarily a constituent part of and
are polluted by industrial wastes.
Any liquid, gaseous, solid or other waste substance, or a
combination thereof, resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing,
trade or business or from the development or recovery of any natural
resources.
Shall have the meaning assigned to it by the Insurance Law
of the State of New York.
A device designated and installed to separate and retain
deleterious, hazardous or otherwise undesirable matter, such as grease,
oil or sand, from wastes.
The Town of Brookhaven.
Any watercourse, lake, pond, ditch or other body of surface
or groundwater, or cesspools, storm sewers or combined sewers which
overflow into a watercourse, lake, pond, ditch or other body of surface
or groundwater. It shall be synonymous with a "discharge point."
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Any waste which is or is deemed to be toxic to or incompatible
with a treatment process or to receiving waters or is not amenable
to treatment in Town facilities or which causes the Town sewage treatment
plant (POTW) to be in violation of its SPDES permit through interference
or pass-through of any waste received at the POTW treatment plant.
Prohibited wastes:
Pollutants which create a fire or explosion hazard in the POTW,
including, but not limited to, waste streams with a closed-cup flashpoint
of less than 140° F. or 60° C. using test methods specified
in 40 CFR 261.21.
Pollutants which will cause corrosive structural damage to the
POTW, but in no case discharges with pH lower than 5.5.
Wastes containing solids which will precipitate greater than
300 parts per million upon acidification or alkalization or oxidation
or reduction. Or solids in amounts which will cause obstruction to
the flow in the POTW resulting in interference.
Wastes having a viscosity exceeding 1.10 poises (absolute viscosity)
upon discharge or after acidification or alkalization.
Any pollutant, including oxygen-demanding pollutants (BOD, etc.),
released in a discharge at a flow rate and/or pollutant concentration
which will cause interference with the POTW.
Waste having a temperature upon discharge outside of the range
of 32° F. to 100° F.
Heat in amounts which will inhibit biological activity in the
POTW resulting in interference, but in no case heat in such quantities
that the temperature at the POTW treatment plant exceeds 95° F.
or 35° C.
Petroleum oil, nonbiodegradable cutting oil, or products of
mineral oil origin in amounts that will cause interference or pass-through.
Any chemical, chemical compound or radioactive material which
may pose a hazard or danger to Town personnel or sewage works and
any chemicals or chemical compound having the following nature or
characteristics or having similar objectionable characteristics, such
as alcohols, arsenic and arsenicals, cyanide, heavy metals and other
metal finishing process wastes or wastewaters, acid pickling wastes,
mercury and mercury compounds, silver and silver compounds, sulfonamides,
toxic dyes (organic or mineral), zinc, all strong oxidizing agents
such as chromates, compounds producing hydrogen sulfide, methane,
or any other toxic, inflammable or explosive gases either upon acidification,
alkalization, oxidation or reduction, strong reducing agents such
as nitrites, sulfides, sulfites and the like, and inflammable or explosive
liquids or solids.
Any trucked or hauled pollutants.
Garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand,
lime, cinders, ashes, offal, oil, tar, dyestuffs, grit, abrasives,
metal filings or trimmings and the like.
Any wastes which contains viable pathogenic bacteria in quantities
larger than normally encountered in raw domestic sewage, or any matter
which can reasonably be expected to contain such viable pathogenic
bacteria in such quantities.
Industrial waste having a color of an intensity in excess of
500 platinum-cobalt standard units, as determined under Part 204A
of the 15th Edition of Standard Method for the Examination of Water
and Wastewater. In testing such intensity, samples shall be diluted
with distilled water to bring the range within 10 units to 50 units
and shall be judged on a basis of intensity or transmission of light
rather than true color (platinum cobalt standard).
Any water or waste containing free-floating fats, wax, grease
or oils in excess of 100 milligrams per liter or containing substances
which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between 32°
F. and 100° F.
Industrial or domestic wastes having chemical characteristics
in excess of the following limits:
Five-day twenty-degree-Celsius BOD 350 parts per million maximum.
Total suspended solids (TSS): 300 parts per million maximum.
Chlorine demand: 25 parts per million maximum.
Settleable solids (Imhoff Cone test), one hour: 15 milliliters
per liter maximum.
Hydrogen ion concentration (pH): 5.5 to 9.5.
Oil and grease: 100 mg/l.
Materials which exert or cause unusual volume of flow or concentration
of wastes constituting slugs as defined herein.
Any garbage that has not been properly shredded to a degree
that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions
normally prevailing in sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch
in any dimension.
Any waste, including business, commercial or industrial wastes,
which exceeds allowable discharge levels as promulgated by the United
States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to Section 307(b)
and (c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and amendments,
entitled "Industrial Pretreatment Requirements," and such other liquids,
substances or materials that may be enumerated by the District to
be objectionable or toxic in accordance with 40 CFR 403.5(a), (b)
and (c).
Any material defined by the District to have toxic or otherwise
deleterious effect upon or to be incompatible with the sewage works,
processes, equipment, groundwaters or watercourses.
Any material which creates or constitutes a public nuisance.
Any waste which does not conform to 40 CFR 403.5(b), National
Pretreatment Standards.
Garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand,
lime, cinders, ashes, offal, oil, tar, dyestuffs, acids, chemicals
and all other discarded matter not sewage or industrial waste.
Includes the discharge which exits the district POTW 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 POTW's SPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude
or duration of a violation).
A temporary revocable written document allowing use of the
POTW for specified wastes over a limited period of time. The permit
shall indicate sampling locations and reporting frequencies and requiring
other actions as authorized by this chapter.
Any individual, partnership, firm, company, association,
society, corporation or other entity.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
The alteration of the biological, chemical, radiological
or aesthetic integrity of water from the presence of sewage, industrial
waste or other waste.
Any treatment process or processes required to produce a
discharge compatible with the Town's sewage works and which will conform
to both qualitative and quantitative requirements of this chapter.
Includes any substantive or procedural requirement related
to pretreatment, other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed
on an industrial user.
Includes any categorical standard or prohibitive discharge
standard.
Includes the most recently revised or updated list, developed
by the EPA, in accordance with the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act, also known as the "Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251,
et seq., or as may be subsequently amended.
When used as a modifier, those facilities not owned by the
Town or a public entity.
Any non-Town sewage works.
Any sewer other than a public sewer.
Garbage that has been shredded to such degree that all particles
will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing
in the sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
Those facilities owned or operated by a sewage works corporation
under the Transportation Corporations Law or by a governmental entity
other than the municipality.
A sewer in which all the owners of abutting properties and
others within a district or area have equal rights and which is controlled
by public authority.
Synonymous with "sewage works."
Includes any treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of
the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned,
or utilized, in this instance, by the Town, and shall include any
sewers and appurtenances that transport wastewater to the POTW treatment
plant, but shall not include any pipes, sewers or other conveyances
not connected directly or indirectly to a facility providing treatment.
Watercourse, natural outlet or groundwaters.
All single-family, two-family and three-family dwellings
located within the existing Sewer District, as expanded and as may
be expanded from time to time in the future.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
The Suffolk County Department of Health Services.
The Suffolk County Department of Public Works.
Water-carried wastes from residences, institutions, businesses,
commercial and industrial buildings and establishments, or a combination
thereof, together with such ground-, surface and stormwater as may
be inadvertently present. The admixture of sewage with industrial
waste or other wastes shall also be considered "sewage" within the
meaning of this definition.
The entire system of sewers, treatment facilities and their
appurtenances for collecting and treating sewage.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
All facilities and appurtenances for collecting, pumping,
treating and disposing of sewage, and shall be synonymous with "sewer
system."
Includes 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 and/or floor/wall washing. Domestic sewage includes
both black water and grey water.
Includes sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes, which show
by analysis the following concentrations:
BOD (five-day): 350 mg/l or less.
Suspended solids: 300 mg/l or less.
Phosphorus (P): 15 mg/l or less.
Ammonia: 85 mg/l or less.
Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (TKN): 85 mg/l or less.
Chlorine demand: 25 mg/l or less.
Chemical oxygen demand: 700 mg/l or less.
Oil and grease: 100 mg/l or less.
Discharge temperature: not to exceed 100° F.
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 having characteristics that adversely impacts sewage
works will not be considered normal sewage.
A pipe, conduit or pump for carrying sewage, and shall include
interceptor, trunk and street lateral pipes and their related facilities
and appurtenances.
The entire system of sewers and their appurtenances for collecting
sewage, industrial waste and other wastes.
The demand payment for the use of a public sewer and/or sewage
treatment plant for the handling of any sewage, industrial waste or
other wastes accepted for admission thereto in which the characteristics
thereof exceed the maximum values of such characteristics in normal
sewage.
The grade or pitch of a line of pipe in reference to a horizontal
plane. In a drainage context it shall express the fall on a fraction
of an inch per foot's length of pipe.
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.
The system established pursuant to Article 17 of the Environmental
Conservation Law for the issuance of permits authorizing discharges
to the waters of New York State.
A pipe or device which carries storm- and surface waters
and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than
unpolluted cooling water.
Shall have the meaning assigned to it by the Insurance Law
of the State of New York.
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.
Any substance or combination of substances, including disease-causing
agents, which, when discharged and exposed, ingested, inhaled or assimilated
into any organism, either directly from the environment or indirectly
through food chains, will, on the basis of information available to
the NYSDEC, cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer,
genetic mutations, physiological malfunction, including malfunction
in reproduction, or physical deformations in such organisms or their
offspring.
Any arrangement of devices, structures and facilities used
to treat or pump sewage, industrial wastes and/or other wastes.
Any unreasonable risk of harm.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Any sink, compartment sinks, containers, buckets, or other
device or vessel in a food establishment where utensils, dishware
equipment and other items coming into contact with food are cleaned.
Any discarded substance.
A stream, river, creek, channel, harbor, bay or ocean of
any kind in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
C.
When used in this chapter, "shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
A.
General purpose. The general purpose of this chapter is to provide
for the efficient, economic, environmentally safe and legal operation
of the Town of Brookhaven publicly owned treatment works (POTW).
B.
Specific purpose. The specific purpose of this chapter shall be as
follows:
(1)
To prevent the introduction of substances into the District that
will:
(a)
Interfere with the efficient and proper operations of the POTW
in any way.
(b)
Pass through the POTW to the state's waters and cause contravention
of standards for those waters or cause violations of the POTW's SPDES
permit.
(c)
Increase the cost of operations of the POTW or otherwise hamper
the disposal of POTW sludge and/or residuals.
(d)
Endanger municipal employees.
(e)
Cause pollution of air, groundwater or surface water, directly
or indirectly.
(f)
Cause, directly or indirectly, any public nuisance condition.
(2)
To prevent new sources of infiltration and inflow and, as much as
possible, eliminate existing sources of infiltration and inflow.
(3)
To assure that new sewers and connections are properly constructed.
(4)
To assure that existing sewers and connections are properly maintained.
(5)
To provide for equitable distribution, to all users of the POTW,
of all costs associated with sewage transmission, treatment, residuals
disposal, and to provide for the equitable collection of such costs.
(6)
Requiring treatment, prior to introduction into the sewer system
and other sewers tributary thereto, of such wastes as may be harmful
to the physical structure of the system or disruptive of the normal
treatment process.
