Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following
terms and phrases, as used in this chapter, shall have the meanings
hereinafter designated:
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in terms of weight and concentration [milligrams
per liter (mg/l)].
BUILDING INSPECTOR
The inspector employed by the Town of Beekman or its authorized
representative.
BUILDING SANITARY DRAIN
That part of a wastewater drainage system which receives
the discharge of wastewater inside the walls of the building and conveys
such discharge to the building sewer.
BUILDING SEWER
A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user
to a POTW.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
DIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the water of the State of New York.
DRAIN LAYER
A plumber or other person licensed by the county for the
purpose of laying building sewers or connecting the same to public
sewers.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency, or where
appropriate, the term may also be used as a designation for the Administrator
or other duly authorized official of said Agency.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants
from any source regulated under the Act into the POTW, including holding
tank waste discharged into the system.
INTERFERENCE
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes
or operations or contribution to a violation of any requirements of
the Town's SPDES permit. The term includes prevention of sewage
sludge use or disposal by a POTW in accordance with the Act or any
criteria, guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid
Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances
Control Act or more stringent state criteria (including those contained
in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV
of SWDA) applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the
POTW.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity or any other legal entity or their legal representatives, agents
or assigns.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage 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.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
PRETREATMENT or 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 obtained by physical, chemical or biological
processes.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works, as defined by the Act which is owned by
the Town or a Town sanitary sewer district. This definition includes
any sewers that convey wastewater to a POTW treatment plant but does
not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected to a
facility providing treatment.
PUBLIC SEWER or PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM
That part of a POTW that conveys wastewater to a POTW treatment
plant, including all lateral connections constructed as part of the
public sewer system.
SEWER INSPECTOR
An employee of the Town of Beekman designated and authorized
by the Town to inspect and approve of the installation of building
sewers and connection of the building sewers to the public sewer system.
STATE
The State of New York.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUPERVISOR
The Supervisor of the Town of Beekman or her duly authorized
representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of
or is suspended in water, wastewater or other liquids and which is
removable by laboratory filtering.
TOWN
The Town of Beekman or the Town Board of Beekman.
TOXIC POLLUTANT
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provisions of the Act.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into a POTW.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial buildings, 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 a POTW.
WATER OF THE STATE
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.