For the purposes of this article, the terms used herein are
defined as follows:
Sewage whose concentration of one or more characteristics
of normal sewage exceeds the maximum concentrations of the characteristics
of normal sewage.
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.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 200° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Sea Cliff or such
other persons or board as may be appointed by the Board of Trustees.
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 the building and conveys it to the building
sewer, which begins five feet 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" or "building
lateral."
A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and stormwater
or surface water.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
The Building Inspector of the Village of Sea Cliff, or such
other person designated by the Board of Trustees of the Village of
Sea Cliff, or the authorized deputy, agent, or representative of either.
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 solid wastes, including animal and vegetable waste, resulting
from the handling, preparation, cooking, and serving of foods.
Any industrial or commercial establishment with a classification
as designated in the "Standard Industrial Classification Manual,"
in the most current edition, as published by the Executive Office
of the President and who utilizes the services of the Village's
sewer system.
The wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or business
as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes or sewage.
The sewer extension from the building drain to the street
lateral or other place of wastewater disposal.
The sewer extension from the public sewer to the property
line.
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface water
or groundwater.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
or other duly authorized official of said Department.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration.
The concentration is the weight of hydrogen-ions, in grams, per liter
of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of 7 and a
hydrogen-ion concentration of 10-7.
That portion of a municipal system which is designed to provide
treatment (including recycling and reclamation) wastes received by
the municipal system.
The reduction of the amount 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 processes, process
changes or by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403, General
Pretreatment Regulations for Existing and New Sources of Pollution.
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 having a dimension greater than 1/2
inch in any dimension.
A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public
utility.
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292). Includes any sewers that convey wastewater
to the POTW but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances
not connected to a facility providing treatment.
A drain installed to receive water collecting on the surface
of a roof for disposal.
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
wastes and other wastes.
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions,
together with minor quantities of groundwater, stormwaters, and surface
waters that are not admitted intentionally.
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 mixture of sewage, as defined above, with industrial
wastes and other wastes shall also be considered sewage within the
meaning of this definition.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
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.
Sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes, which show, by analysis,
the following characteristics:
BOD (five-day): 250 milligrams per liter or less.
Suspended solids: 240 milligrams per liter or less.
Phosphorus: 50 milligrams per liter or less.
Ammonia: 30 milligrams per liter or less.
Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen: 50 milligrams per liter or less.
Total Nitrogen: 40 milligrams per liter or less.
Chlorine demand: 15 milligrams per liter or less.
Chemical oxygen demand: 350 milligrams per liter or less.
Oil and grease: 100 milligrams per liter or less.
Despite satisfying one or more of these characteristics, if
the sewage also contains substances of concern, it may not be considered
normal sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying or transporting sewage.
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastewaters, other than cooling
waters and other unpolluted waters.
All facilities for collecting, regulating, pumping and transporting
wastewater to and away from the POTW treatment plant.
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 flows 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.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation; also the flow resulting therefrom.
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 as prescribed in "Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" and referred
to as nonfilterable residue.
Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria
in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water
quality standards and would not be benefitted by discharge to the
sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source,
it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water, and stormwater that
may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed
into or permitted to enter the POTW.
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water
either continuously or intermittently.
A.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater,
surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, uncontaminated
cooling waters, or unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary
sewer.
B.
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged
to such sewers as are specifically designated as storm sewers, drywells,
other stormwater drainage systems or to a natural outlet as approved
by the Enforcement Officer. Industrial cooling waters or unpolluted
process waters may be discharged, on approval of the Enforcement Officer,
to a storm sewer or natural outlet. Cooling water dischargers to waters
of the state must apply for SPDES permits and are subject to state
and federal regulations.
A.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following
described waters or wastes to any public sewers:
(1)
Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable or explosive
liquid, solid, or gas which by reason of their nature or quantity
are, or may be, sufficient either alone or by interaction with other
substances to cause fire or explosion or be injurious in any other
way to the POTW or to the operation of the POTW.
(2)
Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous solids, liquids
or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with
other wastes, to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process,
constitute a hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance,
or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the POTW treatment
plant.
(3)
Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 5.5, or having any other
corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures,
equipment and personnel of the sewerage works.
(4)
Solid or viscous substances in such quantities or of such size as
to be capable of causing an interference or obstruction to the flow
in sewers, or other interference with the proper operation of the
sewerage works such as, but not limited to, ashes, cinders, sand,
mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics,
wood, unground garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings,
entrails, and paper or plastic dishes, cups, milk containers, either
whole or ground by garbage grinders.
(5)
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150° F.
(65° C.) or 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 of the sewage at the sewage treatment
plant exceeds 104° F. (40° C.).
B.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged the following
described substances, materials, waters or wastes if it appears likely
in the opinion of the Enforcement Officer that such wastes can harm
either the sewer, POTW treatment process or equipment, have an adverse
effect on the receiving stream or can otherwise endanger life, limb,
public property or constitute a nuisance. In forming his or her opinion
as to the acceptability of these wastes, the Enforcement Officer will
give consideration to such factors as the quantities of subject wastes
in relation to flows and velocities in the sewers, materials or construction
of the sewers, nature of the sewage treatment process, capacity of
the POTW treatment plant, degree of treatability of wastes in the
POTW treatment plant and other pertinent factors. The substances prohibited
are:
(1)
Any waters or wastes containing floatable oil or wax, whether emulsified
or not, in excess of 100 mg/l or containing substances which may solidify
or become viscous at temperatures between 32° F. and 150°
F. (0° C. and 65° C.).
(2)
Any garbage, shredded or otherwise.
(3)
Any waters or wastes containing acid, pickling wastes or concentrated
plating solutions.
(4)
Any waters or wastes containing iron, chromium, lead, copper, zinc,
and similar objectionable or toxic substances to such degree that
any such material received in the composite wastewater at the wastewater
treatment works exceeds the limits established by the Enforcement
Officer for such materials as shown in Appendix A[1] or as set in a categorical pretreatment standard.
[1]
Editor's Note: Said appendix is on file in the Village
offices.
(5)
Any waters or wastes containing taste- or odor-producing substances
in such concentrations exceeding limits which may be established by
the Enforcement Officer as necessary, after treatment of the composite
sewage, to meet the requirements of the county, state, federal or
other public agencies having jurisdiction for such discharge to the
receiving waters.
(6)
Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life or concentration
as may exceed limits established by the Enforcement Officer in compliance
with applicable county, state or federal regulations.
(7)
Any waters or wastes having a pH in excess of 9.5.
(8)
Materials which exert or cause:
(a)
Unusual concentrations of inert suspended solids such as, but
not limited to, diatomaceous earth, fuller's earth, lime slurries
and lime residues; or of dissolved solids such as, but not limited
to, sodium chloride and sodium sulfate.
(b)
Excessive discoloration such as, but not limited to, dye wastes
and vegetable tanning solutions.
(9)
Waters or wastes containing substances which are not amenable to
treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment processes employed,
and would pass through to such degree that the POTW treatment plant
effluent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies having jurisdiction
over discharge to the receiving waters.
(10)
Any substances creating conditions which violate any statute,
rule or regulation of any public agency, including the EPA.
A.
If any waters or wastes are discharged or are proposed to be discharged to the public sewers, which waters contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated in § 103-29 of this chapter, and which in the judgment of the Enforcement Officer may have a deleterious effect upon the wastewater facilities, processes, equipment, or receiving waters, or which otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the Enforcement Officer may:
B.
When considering the above alternatives, the Enforcement Officer
shall give consideration to the economic impact of each alternative
on the discharger. If the Enforcement Officer permits the pretreatment
or equalization of waste flows, the design and installation of the
plants and equipment shall be subject to the review and approval of
the Superintendent.
Floatable oil and sand interceptors, including grease traps, shall be provided when, in the opinion of the Enforcement Officer, they are necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing floatable oil in excessive amounts, as specified in § 103-29B(1), or any flammable wastes, sand, or other harmful ingredients; except that such interceptors shall not be required for private living quarters or dwelling units. All interceptors and grease traps shall be of a type and capacity approved by the Enforcement Officer and shall be located as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection. In the maintaining of these interceptors and grease traps, the owner shall be responsible for the proper removal and disposal by appropriate means of the captured material and shall maintain records of the dates, and means of disposal which are subject to review by the Enforcement Officer. Any removal and hauling of the collected materials not performed by the owner's personnel must be performed by currently licensed waste disposal firms.
Where pretreatment or flow-equalizing facilities are provided
or required for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained continuously
in satisfactory and effective operation by the owner at the owner's
expense.
The Enforcement Officer may require a user of sewer services
to provide information needed to determine compliance with this chapter.
These requirements may include:
A.
Wastewater discharge peak rate and volume over a specified time period.
B.
Chemical analysis of wastewaters.
C.
Information on raw materials, processes, and products affecting wastewater
volume and quality.
D.
Quantity and disposition of specific liquid, sludge, oil, solvent
or other materials important to sewer use control.
E.
A plot plan of sewers of the user's property showing sewer and
pretreatment facility location.
F.
Details of wastewater pretreatment facilities.
G.
Details of systems to prevent and control the losses of materials
through spills to the municipal sewer.
All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics
of waters and wastes to which reference is made in this chapter shall
be determined in accordance with the standards and methods applied
by Nassau County. Sampling methods, locations, times, durations and
frequencies are to be determined on an individual basis subject to
approval by the Enforcement Officer.
