Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this chapter shall be as set out in this article.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I (part))
means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments
of 1972, Public Law 92-500, and as the same is amended from time to
time.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 1))
means the quantity of oxygen utilized in five days at twenty
degrees Celsius, expressed in milligrams per liter, in biochemical
oxidation of wastewater as determined by a procedure described in
the Standard Methods.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 2))
means the sanitary sewer connection beginning ten feet from
a building and extending to the public sewer, a private sewer or other
place of disposal. Also called "house connection."
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 3))
means the quantity of oxygen utilized in chemical oxidation
of organic matter with a strong chemical oxidant, expressed in milligrams
per liter as determined by a procedure described in the Standard Methods.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 4))
means the city engineer of the city or his or her authorized
agent, deputy or representative.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 5))
means a substance that is amenable to removal in substantial
amounts by the wastewater treatment plant at the MDC Deer Island facility.
Compatible pollutants include, but are not limited to, coliform bacteria,
suspended solids and those that exert BOD.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 7))
means a combination of individual samples of water or wastewater
taken at selected intervals (generally hourly) for a specified time
period, to minimize the effect of the variability of the individual
sample. Individual samples may have equal volume or may be proportioned
to the flow at the time of sampling.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 8))
means the department of public works of the city.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 9))
means (A) unpolluted surface water which has been collected
by a storm drainage system and discharged into a natural outlet, and
(B) unpolluted water flowing in a storm drain, derived from groundwater,
surface water or stormwater.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 10))
means wastewater or other liquid flowing out of a treatment
plant, or industrial treatment system, or part thereof.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 11))
means the internal parts of animals such as the bowels, guts
and viscera.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 12))
means an averaging of variations in flow and composition
of wastewaters from particular sources by an equalizing basin or other
means, to provide a flow or reasonably uniform volume and composition
prior to discharge into a public sewer.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 13))
means more than the limits established in this chapter and/or
the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority District, Massachusetts
Water Resources Authority Sewerage System regulations or of such magnitude
that, in the judgment of the department of public works or the Massachusetts
Water Resources Authority District, Massachusetts Water Resources
Authority Sewerage System may cause damage to any facility, be harmful
to the wastewater treatment process or reduce its efficiency, cannot
be removed in the wastewater treatment plant to the degree required
to meet the Act, creates any hazard in the receiving waters, exceeds
the capacity of the Metropolitan Sewerage System, or otherwise endangers
life, limb or public property, or constitutes a public nuisance.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 14); C.O. 86-23 § 8 (part))
means oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it
will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved
pretreatment facility.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 15))
means any building wherein is kept or stored one or more
motor vehicles, including among others a public or private garage,
carport, motor vehicle repair shop or paint shop, service station,
lubritorium, car wash or any building used for similar purposes.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 16))
means wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 17))
means a single sample of sewage.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 18))
means a subsurface water occupying the saturation zone, from
which wells and springs are fed.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 19))
means the health inspector of the city or his or her authorized
agent, deputy or representative.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 20))
means a substance that is not amenable to removal in substantial
amounts by the wastewater treatment plant at the MDC Deer Island facility.
Incompatible pollutants include, but are not limited to, toxic metals
and persistent organics.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 21))
means any user identified in the Standard Classification
Manual of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, as amended and
supplemented under the following divisions:
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 22))
means any solid, liquid or gaseous wastes resulting from
industrial processes.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 23))
means the water entering a sewerage system, including sewer
service connections, from the ground or water body, through such means
as, but not limited to, defective pipes, pipe joints, connections
or manhole walls.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 24))
means the water discharged into a sewerage system, including
sewer service connections, from such sources as, but not limited to,
roof leaders, cellar, yard and area drains, foundation drains, cooling
water discharges, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers,
cross-connections from storm sewers and combined sewers, catchbasins,
stormwaters, surface runoff, street washwaters, or drainage.
(C.O. 85-52 § 60 (Art. I § 25))
means a structure built over a sanitary sewer or a storm
drain providing access to the sanitary sewer or storm drain by a person.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 26))
means an independent agency of the commonwealth or its authorized
representative created under Chapter 372 of The Acts of 1984. All
of the powers and duties relative to water and sewer formerly of the
Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), Metropolitan Sewerage District
and Metropolitan Sewerage System are under the jurisdiction and authority
of the MWRA, as of the passage date of Council Order 86-23.
(Added during 11/90 supplement)
means a unit of the concentration of substances in water
or sewage. One milligram per liter is 0.001 gram of the constituent
in one thousand milliliters of water and is approximately equal to
one part per million (ppm), which unit has been commonly used for
reporting concentration in water and wastewater analyses.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 31))
means any watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of
unpolluted surface water or groundwater.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 32))
means the condition of a solution existing after the reaction
of an acid with a base when the concentration of hydrogen and hydroxyl
ions in the solution are approximately equal.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 33))
is synonymous with "by-law," as applied to the city.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 34))
means a sanitary sewer leading to the ultimate disposal area
normally owned, operated and maintained by the Massachusetts Water
Resources Authority District, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
Sewerage System.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 35); C.O. 86-23 § 8 (part))
means the waste products of animals found in the belly upon
slaughtering.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 36))
means any individual, firm, company, partnership, association,
society, corporation, group or any political subdivision of the commonwealth.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 37))
means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion
concentration, expressed in moles per liter of solution. Neutral water,
for example, has a pH value of 7 and a hydrogen ion concentration
of 10 -7 . The electrometric method of
measurement is preferred. The colorimetric method of measurement may
be substituted upon approval by the superintendent of public works,
subject to concurrence by the MDC.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 38))
means the wastewater from the cleaning of iron, usually containing
high amounts of iron and chloride ions in hydrochloric acid.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 39))
means a solution of the salts of metals used in metal plating
and electrotyping.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 40))
means any treatment of sewage to an acceptable condition
for discharge to a sanitary sewer.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 41))
means a sanitary sewer, other than a building sewer, owned
and operated and maintained by some person other than the city or
the MDC.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 42))
means garbage that has 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 or 1.27 centimeters in any dimension.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 43))
means a wrongful act which destroys or deteriorates the property,
real or personal, of an indefinite number of persons, or interferes
with their lawful use or enjoyment thereof.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 44))
means a sanitary sewer owned, operated and maintained by
the city.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 45))
means any device, equipment or sewerage works owned, operated
and maintained by the city, used in the transportation, pumping, storage,
treatment, recycling and reclamation of sewage and industrial wastes.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 46))
means any watercourse, river, pond, ditch, lake, aquifer,
ocean or other body of surface water or groundwater receiving discharge
of wastewater or effluent.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 47))
means liquid and water-carried human and domestic wastes
from residences, public buildings, commercial buildings, industrial
plants and institutions, exclusive of groundwater, stormwater and
surface water and exclusive of industrial wastes.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 48))
means a pipe or conduit intended to carry only liquid and
water-carried wastes from residences, public buildings, commercial
buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with minor
quantities of groundwaters, stormwaters and surface waters that are
not admitted intentionally.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 49))
means the liquid and solid wastes of sanitary sewage origin
that are removed from a cesspool, septic tank or similar receptacle.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 50))
means wastewater from residences, public buildings, commercial
or industrial establishments, or any combination thereof.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 51))
means an arrangement of devices and structures for treating
wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge. This term is used as a
synonym for "waste treatment plant," "wastewater treatment plant"
or "water pollution control plant." The sewage treatment plant at
Deer Island is under the jurisdiction of the MDC.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 52))
See 12.18.010.
(C.O. 83-52, § 60 (Att. 1, § 53); C.O. 22-057, § 1, 4/11/2022)
means a system of piping, with appurtenances, for collecting
and conveying sewage from the source to the point of discharge.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 54))
means waste containing amounts of solid contaminants removed
from water, sanitary sewage, wastewater or industrial wastes by physical,
chemical or biological treatment.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 56))
means any discharge of water, sewage, wastewater or industrial
waste which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity
of flow, exceeds, for any period of duration longer than fifteen minutes,
more than five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or
flow during normal operation which may adversely affect the sewerage
system.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 57))
means the current edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater" as published by the American Public Health
Association, American Water Works Association and Water Pollution
Control Federation.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 58))
means a conduit or channel constructed to carry off, by gravity,
unpolluted water, including surplus groundwater, stormwater or surface
water. It may be an open ditch, lined or unlined, or a buried pipe.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 59))
refers to the head of the public works department of the
city or his or her authorized agent, deputy or representative.
(C.O. 83-52, § 60 (Att. 1, § 60); C.O. 22-057, § 3, 4/11/2022)
means (1) solids that either float on the surface of, or
are in suspension in, water, wastewater or other liquids, and which
are largely removable by laboratory filtering procedures described
in the Standard Methods; (2) the quantity of material removed from
wastewater in a laboratory test, as prescribed in Standard Methods,
and referred to as nonfilterable residue.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 61))
means 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 sewage treatment
plants, and those wastes so specified in this chapter and in the Act.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 62))
means any device, equipment of works used in the pumping,
storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of sewage and industrial
wastes. The treatment system may be publicly owned or privately owned.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 63))
means a sanitary sewer that receives many tributary branches
and serves a large area. A "trunk sewer" may be owned, operated and
maintained by the city or the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
District, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority Sewerage System.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 64); C.O. 86-23 § 8 (part))
means waters that require no treatment to meet the standards
of water quality for discharge into natural outlets as determined
by the Act.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 65))
means any municipality, governmental agency, public authority,
person or permittee discharging sewage or industrial wastes directly
or indirectly into the public sewerage system or the Massachusetts
Water Resources Authority District, Massachusetts Water Resources
Authority Sewerage System.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 66); C.O. 86-23 § 8 (part))
means substances in liquid, solid or gaseous form that can
be carried in water.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 67))
means the spent water of a community, a combination of the
liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, public buildings,
commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together
with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may be present.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 68))
means a natural or man-made channel in which a flow of unpolluted
water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 69))
has the same definition as "person."
(C.O. 83-52 § 60 (Art. I § 70))
