Unless otherwise stated in the section where the term
is used in this chapter, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be
as stated below.
ABNORMAL SEWAGE
Sewage whose concentration of one or more characteristics of normal
sewage exceeds the maximum concentrations of the characteristics of normal
sewage. See "normal sewage."
AMMONIA
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure, to determine
the quantity of ammonia in a sample, expressed as milligrams of nitrogen per
liter.
APPLICANT
That person who makes application for any permit. The applicant may
be an owner, new or old, or his agent.
APPROVED LABORATORY PROCEDURE
The procedures defined as "standard methods" in this article, or
other procedures approved by the Superintendent, for flow measurement or determination
of the concentration of pollutants or their surrogates in waters, wastewaters,
and/or sludges.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INDUSTRIAL USER
An authorized representative of the industrial user may be:
(1)
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice president,
if the industrial user is a corporation;
(2)
A general partner or proprietor, if the industrial user is a partnership
or proprietorship, respectively;
(3)
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated above,
if such representative is responsible for the overall operation of the facilities
from which the indirect discharge originates.
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure to
determine the quantity of oxygen utilized in the aerobic biochemical oxidation
of organic matter or in a sample, expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDER
Any person who undertakes to construct a building or any part of
a building, either under contract or for resale.
BUILDING DRAIN
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 building walls, and conveys it to the building lateral, which begins
five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
CHLORINE DEMAND
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure to
determine the difference between the amount of chlorine added to a sample
and the amount of chlorine remaining in the sample at the end of a specified
contact time at room temperature, expressed in milligrams per liter.
COD (denoting "chemical oxygen demand")
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure to
measure the oxygen requirement of that portion of matter, in a sample, that
is susceptible to oxidation, by a specific chemical oxidant, expressed in
milligrams per liter.
COLOR
The optical density at the visual wave length of maximum absorption,
relative to distilled water. One hundred percent transmittance is equivalent
to 0.0 optical density.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
The sample resulting from the combination of individual samples of
wastewater taken at selected intervals, for a specified time period. The individual
samples may have equal volumes or the individual volumes may be proportioned
to the flow at the time of sampling.
CONNECTION
Attachment of one user to a sewer. (See "extension.")
CONNECTION CHARGE (TAP FEE)
The one-time application fee to offset Town expenses to process an
application for a connection of a building/street lateral to the public sewer.
The fee also covers plan review, permit issuance, street repair cost, and
inspection costs. The fee may be scaled to the amount of work involved, or
to the size of the public sewer involved, as set by the Town Board of the
Town.
CONTROL AUTHORITY
The term shall refer to approval authority, or to the Superintendent
when the Town has an approved pretreatment program under the provisions of
40 CFR 403.11.
CONTROL MANHOLE
A manhole accessible to the control authority in or upstream of the
street lateral, such that samples collected from the manhole represent the
discharge to the POTW.
CONVENTIONAL POLLUTANT
A pollutant that the POTW treatment plant was designed to treat,
defined in accordance with the Clean Water Act.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air conditioning,
refrigeration, or other sources. It shall contain no polluting substances
which would produce COD or suspended solids in excess of five milligrams per
liter, or toxic substances, as limited elsewhere in this chapter.
DEVELOPER
Any person who subdivides land for the purpose of constructing, or
causing to be constructed, buildings for which wastewater disposal facilities
are required.
DIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the
waters of the State of New York. (For reference, see "indirect discharge.")
DRY SEWERS
The sanitary sewer installed in anticipation of future connection
to a POTW but which is not used, in the meantime, for transport of storm or
sanitary sewage.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
END OF PIPE
For the purpose of determining compliance with limitations prescribed by Article
IX, end of pipe shall mean the control manhole, provided the samples collected from the control manhole are representative of the discharge to the POTW.
EXTENSION
Attachment of a sewer line, with more than one user, to an existing
sewer line.
FLOATABLE OIL
Oil, grease, or fat in a physical state such that it will separate
by gravity from wastewater by treatment in a wastewater treatment facility.
FLOW RATE
The quantity of liquid or waste that flows in a certain period of
time.
GARBAGE
The solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of
food, from the handling, storage, and sale of produce, and from the packaging
and canning of food.
GRAB SAMPLE
A single sample of wastewater representing the physical, chemical,
and biological characteristics of the wastewater at one point and time.
ICS FORM
The form used by the NYSDEC to survey industries to perform and update
the Industrial Chemical Survey.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
The introduction of wastewater into a POTW for treatment and ultimate
discharge of the treated effluent to the state's waters. (For reference,
see "direct discharge.")
INDUSTRIAL
Meaning or pertaining to industry, manufacturing, commerce, trade,
business, or institution, and is distinguished from domestic or residential.
INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL SURVEY (ICS)
The survey of industries in New York State, initiated by the NYSDEC,
to determine chemical usage and storage by those industries.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid or liquid-carried solid, liquid and/or gaseous wastes
from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, service, utility, or business,
as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INFILTRATION
Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system (excluding
building drains) from the ground through such means as defective pipes, pipe
joints, connections, or manholes. Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished
from, inflow. Infiltration is inadvertent, that is, not purposely designed
or built into the sewer or drain.
INFLOW
Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system (including
building drains) from sources such as, but not limited to, roof leaders, cellar
drains, area drains, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers,
cross connections between storm sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins,
cooling towers, stormwaters, foundation drains, swimming pools, surface runoff,
street wash waters, or drainage. Inflow does not include, and is distinguished
from, infiltration. Inflow is purposely designed and/or built into the sewer
or drain.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with discharges by other
sources, inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations,
or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and therefore is a cause of a violation
of any requirement of the Town POTW's SPDES permit (including an increase
in the magnitude or duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage
sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance with the following statutory
provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent
state or local regulations):
(1)
Section 405 of the Clean Water Act.
(2)
The Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) (including Title II, more commonly
referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, RCRA), and including
state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant
to Subtitle D or the SWDA.
(4)
The Toxic Substance Control Act.
LATERAL, BUILDING
The sewer extension from the building drain to the street lateral
or other place of wastewater disposal.
LATERAL, STREET
The sewer extension from the public sewer to the property line.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or CATEGORICAL STANDARD
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307 (B) and (C) of the Clean Water Act
(22 U.S.C. § 1347), which applies to a specific category of industrial
users. These standards apply at the end of the categorical process ("end of
process").
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
to state's waters.
NEW OWNER
That individual or entity who purchased property within the service
area of the Town of Carmel after the effective date of this chapter.
NEW SOURCE
Any source, the construction of which is commenced after the publication
of the proposed regulation prescribing a Section 307 (C) (33 U.S.C. § 1317)
Categorical Pretreatment Standard which will be applicable to such source,
if such standard is thereafter promulgated.
NEW USER
A discharger to the POTW who commences discharge after the effective
date of this chapter.
NUISANCE
The use or lack of use of the POTW in such a manner so as to endanger
life or health, give offense to the senses, or obstruct or otherwise interfere
with the reasonable use or maintenance of the POTW.
OIL AND GREASE
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure to
determine the quantity of fats, wax, grease, and oil, in a sample, expressed
in milligrams per liter.
OLD OWNER
That individual or entity who owns or owned a property, within the
service area of the POTW, purchased prior to the effective date of this chapter,
or who inherited the property at any time and intends to sell the property,
or has sold the property to a new owner; also the agent of the old owner.
OTHER WASTES
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, egg shells, coffee
grounds, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, ashes, and all other discarded
matter not normally present in sewage or industrial wastes. Also, the discarded
matter not normally present in sewage or industrial waste.
PASS THROUGH
The discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the state in quantities,
which, alone or in conjunction with discharges from other sources, is a cause
of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's SPDES permit (including
an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
PERMIT
A temporary revocable written document allowing use of the POTW for
specified wastes over a limited period of time, containing sampling locations
and reporting frequencies, and requiring other actions as authorized by this
chapter.
PERSON
Any individual, public or private corporation, political subdivision,
federal, state, or local agency or entity, association, trust, estate or any
other legal entity whatsoever.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions, in gram moles per liter of solution. A pH value of 7.0, the pH scale
midpoint, represents neutrality. Values above 7.0 represent alkaline conditions.
Values below 7.0 represent acid conditions.
POLLUTANT
Any material placed into or onto the state's waters, lands and/or
airs, which interferes with the beneficial use of that water, land and/or
air by any living thing at any time.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological, and/or radiological integrity of the state's waters, lands
and/or airs resulting from the introduction of a pollutant into these media.
POTW TREATMENT PLANT
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to wastewater,
and to treat sludge and residuals derived from such treatment.
PRETREATMENT (TREATMENT)
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants,
or the alteration of the nature 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 process, process changes, or by other means,
except as prohibited by 40 CFR, Section 403.6 (D).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial user.
PRIORITY POLLUTANTS
The most recently revised or updated list, developed by the EPA,
in accordance with the Act.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
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, and
with no particle having a dimension greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works, which is owned, in this instance, by the Town
of Carmel Sewer District or the City of New York. This definition includes
any sewers and appurtenances that transport wastewater to the POTW treatment
plant, but does not include pipes, sewers, or other conveyances not connected
directly or indirectly to a facility providing treatment.
RECEIVING WATERS
A natural watercourse or body of water (usually waters of the state)
into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
ROOF DRAIN
A drain installed to receive water collecting on the surface of a
roof for disposal.
SEPTAGE
All liquids and solids in and removed from septic tanks, holding
tanks, cesspools, or approved type of chemical toilets, including but not
limited to those serving private residences, commercial establishments, institutions,
and industries. Also sludge from small sewage treatment plants. Septage shall
not have been contaminated with substances of concern or priority pollutants.
SEPTIC TANK
A private domestic sewage treatment system consisting of an underground
tank (with suitable baffling), constructed in accordance with any and/or all
local and state requirements.
SERVICE AREA OF THE POTW
The legally defined bounds of real property from which wastewater
may be discharged into the POTW. The bounds shall be established, altered,
changed, modified, reduced, enlarged, combined, or consolidated by action
of the Town Board.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, and such groundwaters,
surface waters, and stormwater as may be inadvertently present. The admixture
of sewage, as defined above, with industrial wastes and other wastes shall
also be considered "sewage," within the meaning of this definition.
SEWAGE, DOMESTIC (DOMESTIC WASTES)
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. Therefore, domestic sewage includes both black water and grey water.
(See "sewage, sanitary.")
SEWAGE, NORMAL
(1)
Sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes, which show, by analysis,
the following characteristics:
(a)
BOD (FIVE DAY)2,090 pounds per million gallons (250 milligrams per liter) or less.
(c)
PHOSPHORUS125 pounds per million gallons (15 milligrams per liter) or less.
(d)
AMMONIA250 pounds per million gallons (30 milligrams per liter) or less.
(2)
In spite of satisfying one or more of these characteristics, if the
sewage also contains substances of concern, it may not be considered normal
sewage.
SEWAGE, SANITARY
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, and other wastes. (See
"domestic wastes.")
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying or transporting sewage.
SEWERAGE SURCHARGE
The demand payment for the use of a public sewer and/or sewage treatment
plant for the handling of any sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes accepted
for admission thereto in which the characteristics thereof exceed the maximum
values of such characteristics in normal sewage. (See "volume charge.")
SEWERAGE SYSTEM (also POTW)
All facilities for collecting, regulating, pumping, and transporting
wastewater to and away from the POTW treatment plant.
SEWER, COMBINED
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff and
sewage.
SEWER, PUBLIC
A sewer in which all abutting property owners have equal rights,
and the use of which is controlled by the Town.
SEWER, SANITARY
A sewer which carries sewage, and to which stormwater, surface water,
and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SEWER, STORM (STORM DRAIN)
A sewer which carries stormwaters and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastewaters, other than cooling waters
and other unpolluted waters.
SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE (SNC)
A user is in significant noncompliance if its violation(s) meet(s)
one or more of the following criteria:
(1)
Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here as those,
in 66% or more of all of the measurements taken during a six-month period,
which exceed (by any magnitude) the daily maximum limit or average limit for
the same pollutant parameter;
(2)
Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as those, in
which 33% or more of all of the measurements for each pollutant parameter
taken during a six-month period, which equal or exceed the product of the
daily maximum limits multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC = 1.4 for BOD,
TSS, fats, oil and grease; TRC = 1.2 for all other pollutants);
(3)
Any other violation of a pretreatment effluent limit (daily maximum
or long-term average) that the Superintendent determines has caused, alone
or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass through (including
endangering the health of POTW personnel or the general public);
(4)
Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare or to the environment or has resulted in the Superintendent's exercise of its emergency authority under Article
XI of this chapter;
(5)
Failure to meet, within 90 days after the scheduled date, a compliance
schedule milestone contained in a local control mechanism or enforcement order
for starting construction, completing construction, or attaining final compliance;
(6)
Failure to provide, within 30 days after the due date, required reports,
such as baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day compliance reports, periodic
self-monitoring reports, and reports on compliance with compliance schedules;
(7)
Failure to report accurately any noncompliance;
(8)
Any other violation which the Superintendent determines will adversely
affect the implementation or operation of the local pretreatment program.
SLUG
A substantial deviation from normal rates of discharge or constituent
concentration (see "normal sewage") sufficient to cause interference. In any
event, a discharge which, in concentration of any constituent or in quantity
of flow, that exceeds, for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes,
more than five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flow during
normal user operations, shall constitute a slug.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management
and Budget, 1972, and subsequent revisions.
STANDARD METHODS
Procedures contained in the latest edition of Standard Methods for
the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public
Health Association, procedures established by the Administrator, pursuant
to Section 304 (G) of the Act and contained in 40 CFR, Part 136, and amendments
thereto (If 40 CFR, Part 136 does not include a sampling or analytical technique
for the pollutant in question, then procedures set forth in EPA publication
Sampling and Analysis Procedures for Screening of Industrial Effluents for
Priority Pollutants, April 1977, and amendments thereto, shall be used.),
any other procedure approved by the Administrator, or any other procedure
approved by the Superintendent, whichever is the most conservative.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation;
also the flow resulting therefrom.
SUBSTANCES OF CONCERN
Those compounds which the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation has determined may be harmful to man or the environment.
SUMP PUMP
A mechanism used for removing water from a sump or wet well.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Town Engineer. Such an individual shall be licensed to practice
engineering in the state, and otherwise qualified to oversee water treatment
and distribution and POTW operations. This definition shall also include his
authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure, to determine
the dry weight of solids, in a sample, that either float on the surface of,
or are in suspension, or are settleable, and can be removed from the sample
by filtration, expressed in milligrams per liter.
TOTAL KJELDAHL NITROGEN (TKN)
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure, to determine
the quantity of ammonia in a sample and released during the acid digestion
of organic nitrogen compounds, expressed as milligrams of nitrogen per liter.
TOTAL PHOSPHORUS
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure, to determine
the total quantity of orthophosphate in a sample of wastewater, following
the hydrolysis of phosphorus compounds, expressed as milligrams of phosphorus
per liter of sample.
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid, or solid, that when discharged
to a public sewer in sufficient quantities may be hazardous to POTW operation
and maintenance personnel, tend to interfere with any biological sewage treatment
process, or to constitute a hazard to recreation in the receiving waters,
due to the effluent from a sewage treatment plant or overflow point. Any pollutant
or combination of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by
the EPA under provisions of CWA 307 (A), or other Acts.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes, or permits the contribution of
wastewater into the POTW.
USER, EXISTING
A discharger to the POTW who is discharging on or before the effective
date of this chapter.
USER, INDUSTRIAL
A discharger to the POTW who discharges nondomestic wastewaters.
USER, NEW
A discharger to the POTW who initiates discharge after the effective
date of this chapter.
USER, SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL (SIU)
(1)
An industrial user of the Town POTW who is:
(a)
Subject to National Categorical Pretreatment Standards promulgated by
the EPA;
(b)
Having substantial impact, either singly or in combination with other
industries, on the operation of the treatment works;
(c)
Using, on an annual basis, more than 10,000 pounds or 1,000 gallons
of raw material containing priority pollutants and/or substances of concern
and discharging a measurable quantity of these pollutants to the sewer system;
(d)
Discharging more than 5% of the flow or load of conventional pollutants
received by the POTW treatment plant.
(2)
Note: A user discharging a measurable quantity of a pollutant may be
classified as nonsignificant if, at the influent to the POTW treatment plant,
the pollutant is not detectable.
VOLUME CHARGE (USER CHARGE)
The demand sewer use charge which is based, in part or wholly, on the volume of normal sewage discharged into the POTW (there may be surcharges, as provided for in Article
XIV). The volume charge shall be based on a specific cost per 100 cubic feet or per 1,000 gallons. The specific charge shall be subject to approval by the Town Board. The moneys so obtained shall be used for current operation and maintenance, for retirement of bonded indebtedness, and for funding of capital projects of the POTW. The basis of volume charge calculations shall be made available to the public, on demand, as provided in Article
XV. The volume charge shall be recalculated annually, as well as the surcharge rates.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastewaters from
dwellings, commercial establishments, industrial facilities, 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.
WATERS OF THE STATE (STATE'S WATERS)
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells,
springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all
other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or
artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through, or
border upon the state or any portion thereof.