Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise
or as otherwise specified in this article, the meanings of terms used
in this article shall be as follows:
BUILDING DRAIN
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.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
GARBAGE
Solid waste from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from an industrial manufacturing process,
trade or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of the hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
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, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
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.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWERAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
SLUG
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 flows during
normal operation.
SUPERINTENDENT
The official appointed by the Village Board of Trustees to
supervise the management of sewage collection and treatment facilities
in the Village, or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
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.
VILLAGE or TOWN
The municipality, any sewer districts or extensions thereunder,
the supervisor and any and all employees or agents designated to enforce
the provisions of this article.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage. Also referred to as a "sewage treatment plant."
It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge
to any natural outlet within the Village or in any area under the
jurisdiction of the Village any sewage or other polluted waters, except
where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with the
provisions of this article.
All costs and expenses incident to the installation
and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner.
The owner shall indemnify the Village from any loss or damage that
may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the
building sewer.
A separate and independent building sewer shall
be provided for every building, except that, where one building stands
at the rear of another on an interior lot and no sewer is available
or can be constructed to the rear of the building through an adjoining
alley, court, yard or driveway, the building sewer from the front
building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered
as one building sewer.
Old building sewers may be used in connection
with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test
by the Superintendent, to meet all requirements of this article.
The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction
of a building sewer and the methods to be used in excavating, placing
of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench shall all
conform to the requirements of the State Uniform Fire Prevention and
Building Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the Village.
In absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials
and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the American
Society for Testing and Materials and Water Pollution Control Federation
Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
Whenever possible, the building sewer shall
be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor.
In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit
gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such
building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged
to the building sewer.
It shall be unlawful for any person to make
connection of roof downspouts, exterior or interior foundation drains,
areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to
a building sewer or building drain which, in turn, is connected directly
or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
The connection of the building sewer into the
public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the State Uniform
Fire Prevention and Building Code or other applicable rules and regulations
of the Village or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications
of the American Society for Testing and Materials and the Water Pollution
Control Federation Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections
shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed
procedures and materials must be approved by the Superintendent before
installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permits
required by this article shall notify the Superintendent or other
delegated authority when the building sewer is ready for inspection
and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under
the supervision of the Superintendent or his representative.
All excavations for building sewer installation
shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect
the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways and other public
property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in
a manner satisfactory to the Village.
Grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be provided
when, in the opinion of the Superintendent, they are necessary for
the proper handling of liquid wastes containing grease in excessive
amounts or any flammable wastes, sand or other harmful ingredients,
except that such interceptors shall not be required for private living
quarters or dwelling units. All interceptors shall be of a type and
capacity approved by the Superintendent and shall be located as to
be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection.
Where preliminary treatment or flow-equalizing
facilities are provided for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained
continuously in satisfactory and effective operation by the owner
at his expense.
When required by the Superintendent, the owner
of any property serviced by a building sewer carrying industrial wastes
shall install a suitable control manhole together with such necessary
meters and other appurtenances in the building sewer to facilitate
observation, sampling and measurement of the wastes. Such manhole,
when required, shall be accessibly and safely located and shall be
constructed in accordance with plans approved by the Superintendent.
The manhole shall be installed by the owner at his expense and shall
be maintained by him so as to be safe and accessible at all times.
All measurements, tests and analyses of the
characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is made in
this article shall be determined in accordance with the latest edition
of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published
by the American Public Health Association, and shall be determined
at the control manhole provided or upon suitable samples taken at
such control manhole. In the event that no special manhole had been
required, the control manhole shall be considered to be the nearest
downstream manhole in the public sewer to the point at which the building
sewer is connected. Sampling shall be carried out by customarily accepted
methods to reflect the effect of constituents upon the sewerage works
and to determine the existence of hazards to life, limb and property.
The particular analysis involved will determine whether a twenty-four-hour
composite of all outfalls of a premises is appropriate or whether
a grab sample or samples should be taken. Normally, but not always,
BOD and suspended solids analyses are obtained from twenty-four-hour
composites of all outfalls, whereas pH's are determined from periodic
grab samples.
No statement contained in this article shall
be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between
the Village and any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste
of unusual strength or character may be accepted by the Village for
treatment, subject to payment therefor by the industrial concern.
It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person
to maliciously, willfully or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover,
deface or tamper with any structure, appurtenance or equipment which
is a part of the sewerage works. Any person violating this provision
shall be subject to the penalties set forth in the Penal Law.
This article shall be known as the "Sewer Rent
Ordinance" and is adopted pursuant to the provisions of Article 14-F
of the General Municipal Law of the state and any and all amendments
thereto.
For the purposes of this article, the following
definitions shall apply:
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Includes any liquid, gaseous, solid or other waste substance,
or a combination thereof, resulting from any process of industry,
manufacturing, trade or business, or from the development or recovery
of any natural resources.
OTHER WASTES
Includes garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings,
bark, sand, lime, cinders, ashes, offal, oil, tar, dyestuffs, acids,
chemicals and all other discarded matter in sewage or industrial waste.
PART
Includes all lateral sewers, branch sewers, interceptor sewers
or trunk sewers and any sewage treatment and disposal works, each
part with necessary appurtenances, including sewage pumping stations
and also including all channels, streams or watercourses into which
is introduced stormwater.
SEWAGE
Includes all water-carried human or animal wastes or body
wastes, normal culinary, laundry and washing wastes and the like from
residences, buildings, industrial establishments or other places,
together with water from roof leads or wall drains or other stormwater
connections and such groundwater infiltration and surface water as
may be present. The admixture, with sewage of industrial waste or
other wastes, also shall be considered "sewage" within the meaning
of this article.
SEWER SYSTEM
Includes all sewer pipes and other appurtenances which are
used or useful in whole or in part in connection with the collection,
treatment or disposal of sewage, industrial waste and other wastes
and which are owned, operated or maintained by the Village, including
sewage pumping stations and sewage treatment and disposal works.
Sewer rent shall constitute charges established
and imposed pursuant to this article and any and all amendments thereto
for the use of the sewer system operated and maintained by the Village
or any part or parts thereof.
The sewer rents established in this article
shall be imposed on the owners of all premises located within or without
the corporate limits of the Village connected with and served by the
Village sewer system. Such sewer rents shall be based upon the consumption
of water upon such premises.
[Amended 3-8-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994]
Sewer rents for the use of the sewer system
shall be paid semiannually in advance for sewer rent semiannual periods
commencing July 1 and January 1 in each year. Sewer rents shall be
due and payable on the first day of each of the two aforesaid periods
and shall be paid within 30 days after each such semiannual due date.
In the event that payment is not made within the thirty-day period,
then a penalty of 10% shall be added to the sewer rent.
Sewer rents, together with the amount of any penalty, which shall become due and owing as provided in this article shall constitute a lien upon the real property served by the sewer system or such part or parts thereof for which sewer rents shall have been established and imposed. Such rents and/or penalties due may be included in the Village tax levy, accounted for and collected pursuant to Article
14 of the Village Law of the state or such rents and/or penalties due may be collected pursuant to the provisions of Article 14-F of the General Municipal Law of the state.