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.
