This chapter shall be known as the "Sewer Use Ordinance."
[Amended 2-4-1997 by L.L. No. 1-1997]
It is the purpose of this chapter to protect the sewage collection and treatment facilities, to prevent danger to life or damage to property, to promote the health, safety and general welfare, to prohibit the introduction of storm, surface or subsurface waters into the sanitary sewers and to form a basis and policy for controlling the quantity and quality of wastes accepted into the sewage systems of the sewer districts now or hereafter created in the Town of Irondequoit, Monroe County, New York.
A. BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD) BUILDING DRAIN BUILDING SEWER COMMERCIAL-INDUSTRIAL WASTES GARBAGE INDUSTRIAL WASTES NATURAL OUTLET pH PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE PUBLIC SEWER SANITARY SEWER SEWAGE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT SEWAGE WORKS SEWER SEWER DISTRICT SLUG STORM DRAIN (sometimes termed "storm sewer") SUPERINTENDENT (Commissioner of Public Works) SUSPENDED SOLIDS WATERCOURSE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20º C. expressed in milligrams per liter.
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.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
Any and all other wastes not being domestic wastes but not limited to the wastes from commercial, laboratory and industrial processes, wastes from domestic operations or certain trade operations, such as sand, grit, waste petroleum products from automotive service stations and the like, animal wastes, straw and related items from dairy or other farming operations.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
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 1/4 inch in any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and is owned or controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface- and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground-, surface- and stormwaters as may be present.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Any of the sanitary sewer districts and their extension or extensions and/or any drainage district or districts now existing or subsequently created by the Town Board of the Town of Irondequoit.
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.
A sewer which carries storm and surface water and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
The person appointed by the Town Board in general charge of maintenance of all sanitary pump stations and sanitary sewers within the Town of Irondequoit.
[Amended 2-4-1997 by L.L. No. 1-1997]
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.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
B.
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.