For the purpose of this chapter, the terms used herein are defined as follows:
The Town Supervisor or the duly appointed Superintendent of Sewers, or their duly authorized deputy, agent or representative for Town-owned sewer systems. In the event of privately owned sewer systems, the owner of the private sewer system shall be the administrator.
Herein referred to as ASTM or federal specifications referred to in this chapter shall mean the latest published amendments or revisions applicable at any time.
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 parts per million (ppm) or milligrams per liter (mg/l).
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building sanitary sewer drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other sanitary drainage pipes inside the walls of any building and conveys such discharge to the building sewers, which begin four feet outside the outer face of the building wall.
That part of the horizontal piping of a sanitary 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 public sewer, private sewer, individual septic disposal system or other point of disposal, such as public septic tank.
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff and sewer.
A system serving more than one lot, constructed and installed after the effective date of this chapter, utilized for the collection and disposal of sewer or other wastes of a liquid nature, including the various devices for the treatment of such wastes and the discharges thereto
The water discharge from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other sources.
The Orange County and/or New York State Department of Health.
Solid wastes from the domestic or commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, or from handling, storage and sale of produce.
A single system of pipes, tanks, leaching fields or other facilities serving only a one or two-family dwelling unit and disposing of septic or other liquid wastes into the soil.
The fluid wastes from an industrial manufacturing process, trade or business as distinct from sewer.
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), including but not limited to refuse including disposable wipes, woods, coffee grounds, sawdust, shavings, eggshells, bark, sand, lime, cinders, ashes and all other discarded matter not normally present in sewer or industrial wastes.
Any person who obtains a permit for sewer connection.
Any person, firm, corporation, association, company, or partnership acting individually or jointly.
The intensity of the acid or alkaline reaction of a solution in terms of hydrogen concentration (but is not a measure of the total concentration of acid or alkali present). The pH is expressed as the common logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen concentration in moles per liter:
Any dredged spoil, solid or liquid waste, incinerator residue, sewer, garbage, sewer sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water.
Any privy, septic tank, cesspool, individual sewer system, communal sewer system, or other septic disposal facility owned and operated by a person, other than a municipal sewer system.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food 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 having a dimension greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
Any septic tank controlled by public authority within a sewer district which uses said tank as a solids collector in the treatment process.
A sanitary sewage collection/conveyance system controlled by public authority.
A natural watercourse, or any other body of surface or ground water, into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
A sewer which carries sewage, and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
The conditioned human waste matter collected from privies, septic tanks, cesspools and chemical toilets.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm water as may be inadvertently present. The admixture of sanitary sewage, as above defined, with industrial wastes or other wastes also shall be considered "sewage" within the meaning of this definition.
The demand payment for the use of the public sewer and/or sewer treatment plant for handling any sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes accepted for admission thereto in which the quantity or characteristics thereof exceed the maximum values as defined herein.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
All facilities, other than a private septic disposal system, within any sewer district for collecting, regulating, pumping and transporting sewage to any water pollution control facilities within the town or to Orange County Sewer District No. 1 Water Pollution Control Facilities, whichever is applicable.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage at any Town of Monroe water pollution control facility or at Orange County Sewer District No. 1 Water Pollution Control Facilities, whichever is applicable.
Any industrial user of any of the Town's wastewater disposal systems, including Orange County Sewer District No. 1 Water Pollution Control Facilities, where applicable, who has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average workday; has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in any of the Town's wastewater treatment systems, including Orange County Sewer District No. 1 Water Pollution Control Facilities, where applicable; has in its wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to Section 307 of the Act or state statutes and rules; or is found by the Town, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) or the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on any of the wastewater treatment systems, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality or air emissions generated by the system.
The grade or pitch of a line of pipe in reference to a horizontal plane. In drainage it is usually expressed as the fall in a fraction of an inch per foot 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.
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than cooling waters and other unpolluted waters.
A tract of land which is hereafter divided into two or more lots or parcels along an existing or proposed street, highway, easement or right-of-way for sale or for rent as residential lots or residential building plots, regardless of whether the lots or plots to be sold or offered for sale or leased for any period of time are described by metes and bounds or by reference to a map or survey of the property or by any other method of description.
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 Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.
The interceptor sewers, trunk sewers, lateral sewers, force mains, pumping stations, sewage regulators and other appurtenant structures owned and operated by any Town of Monroe sewer district.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.