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Town of LaGrange, NY
Dutchess County
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A. 
Word usage. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
B. 
Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms in this Part 1 of this chapter shall be as follows:
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure for five days at 20º C., expressed in parts per million by weight.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of the drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipe 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 to an existing extension from a public sewer when available.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other system, but which shall be free from odor and oil. It shall contain no polluting substances which would produce either BOD or suspended solids in excess of 10 parts per million by weight.
ENGINEER
The Engineer of the Town of LaGrange or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
NORMAL SEWAGE
Sewage shall be regarded as normal for the Town if analyses show, by weight, a daily average of not more than 300 parts per million of suspended solids, not more than 240 parts per million of BOD and not more than 50 parts per million of either grease or oil (soluble matter) each per million gallons of daily flow.
PERSON, ENTERPRISE, ESTABLISHMENT or OWNER
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group using the sewage works or sewage system.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution. It is used to indicate the concentration of free acid and free alkali.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
Garbage that has been shredded to such 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 which is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Sewage discharging from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings (including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, factories or institutions and free from storm and surface waters and industrial wastes.
SEWAGE
A combination of water-carried wastes from residences, buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground- , surface and storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS or SEWERAGE SYSTEM
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage and to which storm- , surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SLUG
Any water or waste exceeding a concentration greater than five times the normal sewage and which is discharged continually for a period longer than 15 minutes.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A pipe or conduit which carries storm- and surface water and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes. It may, however, carry cooling water or other unpolluted waters.
SUBDIVISION
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots, plots, sites or other division of land, with or without streets, for the purpose of immediate or future sale or building development, except that the division of land for agricultural purposes into parcels of more than 10 acres not involving any new street or easement of access shall be exempted from the application of this term.
[Amended 2-19-1986 by L.L. No. 1-1986]
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 filtration.
TOWN
The Town of LaGrange, County of Dutchess, New York.
UNPOLLUTED WATER OR WASTE
Any water or waste containing none of the following: free or emulsified grease or oil; acid or alkali; phenols or other substances imparting taste or odor in receiving waters; toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution; and noxious or odorous gases. It shall contain not more than 10,000 parts per million by weight of dissolved solids, of which not more than 2,500 parts per million shall be as chloride with permissible volumes subject to review by the Engineer, and not more than 10 parts per million each of suspended solids and BOD. The color shall not exceed 50 parts per million.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.