[Code of Bylaws, App. C, Art. I, §§ 1 - 25; Addendum No. 1, 9-26-1974; Addendum No. 3, 5-18-1982]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in these rules and regulations shall be as follows:
Shall mean any elected official or appointed official which has jurisdiction over the sewerage treatment plant and/or sewer lines.
Shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20 degrees Celsius, expressed in milligrams per liter.
Shall mean 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 10 feet (three meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
Shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal. The words "building sewer" and "house connection" are synonymous.
Shall mean a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Shall mean a person licensed to install drains for sewerage under supervision of the superintendent of sewers or his appointed representative.
Shall mean solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
Shall mean the liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
Shall mean a written permit granted by the superintendent of the sewer department to a licensed drainlayer to connect a building sewer to a public sewer.
Shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
Shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogenous in grams per liter of solution.
Shall mean 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 one-half inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
Shall mean a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
Shall mean a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface, and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
Shall mean a combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface, and storm waters as may be present.
Shall mean any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
Shall mean all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
Shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage. The words "sewer," "sewer main," and "laterals" are synonymous.
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
Shall mean 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 24-hour concentration of flows during normal operation.
Shall mean a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
Shall mean the superintendent of the Millbury sewerage system of the town of Millbury, or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
Shall mean 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.
Shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.