A. ASTM BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand") BUILDER BUILDING DRAIN BUILDING SEWER COMBINED SEWER COMMERCIAL SERVICE COMMISSIONER CONTRACTOR DEVELOPER DISTRICT DISTRICT BOUNDARIES ENGINEER GARBAGE INDUSTRIAL SERVICE INDUSTRIAL WASTES NATURAL OUTLET OWNER PERMIT PERSON pH PRETREATMENT PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE PROPERTY LINE PUBLIC SEWER RESIDENTIAL SERVICE SANITARY SEWER SEWAGE SEWAGE WORKS SEWER SPDES STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN SUSPENDED SOLIDS TOWN TOWN BOARD WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT WATERCOURSE
Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
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 by weight.
Any person, persons or corporation who undertakes to construct, either under contract or for resale within two years, any habitable building.
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 outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff and sewage.
Any service from business buildings or institutions from which the wastes are not predominately industrial.
The Commissioner of Public Works in the Town of East Greenbush or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
Any person, firm or corporation doing work in the Town.
Any person, persons, (either individually, jointly, in partnership or under an assumed business name) or corporation who undertakes to construct, simultaneously or consecutively, within one year more than one house unit on a given tract or land subdivision or street.
Any regularly established sewer district or sewer improvement and extensions thereof in the Town of East Greenbush, New York.
The physical boundaries of districts or improvements as presently established or as may be extended from time to time as duly enacted by law.
The professional engineer retained as engineer in connection with the sewage works or the Town Engineer, as designated by the Town Board.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
Any service from which the wastes are predominantly industrial.
The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, person or group having title to real property.
A license issued by the Commissioner of Public Works, within the Town, allowing and/or authorizing work to be done under this chapter by any plumber, contractor or excavator, builder, developer, owner or any other person, firm or corporation.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions in gram-ionic weights per liter of solution.
The reduction in the amount of pollution in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollution into a publicly owned treatment works (POTW). The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, process changes or by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6, 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 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 in any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and is controlled by public authority.
Any service from which the wastes are of a domestic nature only.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface, and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, excluding such ground-, surface, and stormwaters as may be present.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Denotes the State Pollutant 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 sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
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.
The Town of East Greenbush, Rensselaer County, New York.
The duly elected Town Board of the Town of East Greenbush or its authorized deputy or representative.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
B.
Word usage. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.