The purpose of this chapter is to regulate the use of public and private sewers and drains, the installation and connection of building sewers, the extension of the Village sewer system, the discharge of waters and wastes into the public sewer system, the quantity and quality of discharged wastes and the degree of pretreatment required; to control the discharge of industrial wastes, to provide for the distribution of the costs of the Village's wastewater treatment system; and to provide penalties for violations thereof in the Village of Akron, Erie County, New York. This chapter prohibits the disposal into the public sewer system of any pollutant or waste by any person that is in violation of the federal standards promulgated pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendment of 1972, and any amendments thereto, and any more stringent New York State, Erie County or Village of Akron local standards.
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Unless the context otherwise requires, words used in the present tense include the future, words in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter, the singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
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Unless the context otherwise requires, the meaning of terms used in the chapter shall be as follows:
ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act as amended.
ASTM
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
BOD (denotes "biochemical oxygen demand")
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.
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 (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sanitary sewer or other place of disposal.
CHLORINE DEMAND
The difference between the amount of chlorine added to water, wastewater or industrial wastes and the amount of residual chlorine remaining at the end of a fifteen-minute contact period.
COMMERCIAL USER
Any nonresidential user not within the definition of an industrial user.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), total suspended solids (TSS), pH, fecal coliform bacteria, chlorine demand, phosphorus and phosphorus compounds, fats, oils and greases of animal or vegetable origin, if the wastewater treatment system was designed to treat such pollutants and removes such pollutants to a substantial degree, except as prohibited herein or identified in the Village's SPDES permit.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
A sample consisting of several effluent portions collected during a specified time period and combined to make a representative sample.
CONNECTION
The physical tie-in of the building sewer or sewer extension to the public sanitary sewer.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, during which the only pollutant added to the water is heat.
DEC
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
DOMESTIC WASTES
The wastewater from the noncommercial preparation, cooking and handling of food, or waste containing human excrement and similar matter from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, commercial dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions.
EPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
FLOW RATE
The quantity of waste or liquid that flows in a certain period of time.
FLOW VOLUME
The quantity of wastes or liquid.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of food.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant.
INDUSTRIAL USER
Any nonresidential user of the publicly owned wastewater treatment system that:
(1) 
Is identified in Division A, B, D, E or I of the Federal Standard Industrial Classification Manual;
(2) 
Discharges toxic or poisonous substances or any substance(s) which, either singularly or in combination with other contributory users, cause(s) interference in the wastewater treatment system;
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Has in its wastewater any of the prohibited substances or characteristics described in Article IV, § 122-18, Prohibitions on wastewater discharges; or
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Has in its wastewater any concentrations or characteristics in excess of those stipulated in Article IV, § 122-19, Limitations on wastewater discharges.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The wastewater resulting from the processes employed in industrial, manufacturing, trade or business establishments, as distinct from domestic wastes.
INTERFERENCE
Inhibition or disruption of the performance or operation of the wastewater treatment system which contributes to a violation of the SPDES or the applicable discharge permits or conditions.
MASS EMISSION RATE
The weight of material discharged to the wastewater treatment system during a given time interval. Unless otherwise specified, the mass emission rate shall mean pounds per day of a particular constituent or combination of constituents.
mg/l
Milligrams per liter.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or any other body of surface or ground water.
OWNER
A person having legal title to real property.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, group or municipality.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
POLLUTANT
Any waste, impurity or other additive, such as heat or radioactivity, that changes the quality and character of water delivered by the user so that the discharged wastewater violates the standards as set in Article IV of this chapter.
PRETREATMENT
The application of physical, chemical or biological processes to reduce the amount of pollutants in or alter the nature of the pollutant properties in a wastewater prior to discharging such wastewater into the publicly owned wastewater treatment system.
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
All applicable federal rules and regulations implementing the Act, including any amendments hereto, as well as any nonconflicting state or local standards. In cases of conflicting standards or regulations, the more stringent thereof shall be applied. It is recognized that in some cases these pretreatment standards may not be sufficient to protect the operation of the wastewater treatment system or make it unable to comply with the terms of the SPDES permit. In such cases, the Superintendent shall have the right to impose more stringent pretreatment standards than those specified in the EPA regulations.
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 (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public utility. It may be a sanitary or storm sewer.
RESIDENTIAL USER
A user who introduces wastewater into the wastewater treatment system from premises used only for human residence.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater, stormwater or drainage water.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, wastewater 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 and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment system.
SPDES
The State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
STORM DRAIN or STORM SEWER
A drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source.
STORMWATER
Any flow originating from or resulting from any form of natural precipitation. This flow can occur during, immediately following or substantially after (such as snow melt) the precipitation event.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of Public Works responsible for the wastewater treatment system of the Village of Akron or any authorized representative of the Village of Akron designated by resolution of the Village Board. To the extent practicable, the Superintendent shall consult with the Board prior to initiating any actions related to this chapter that are nonroutine in nature. Any actions by the Superintendent relating to this chapter shall be subject to the review of the Village Board at the request of any member thereof. The Superintendent, where necessary to carry out this chapter, shall recommend to the Village Board the employment of outside assistance, such as engineering, laboratory or legal assistance.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater or other liquids and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in the most recent edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and referred to as "nonfilterable residue."
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
As defined in § 122-18B.
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water not containing any pollutants limited or prohibited by this chapter and/or the effluent standards in effect; or water whose discharge will not cause any violation of receiving water quality standards.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the introduction of wastewater into the wastewater treatment system.
VILLAGE
The Village of Akron, Erie County, New York.
VILLAGE BOARD
The Village Board of Trustees of the Village of Akron.
WASTE
Includes wastewater and any and all other impurities or waste substances: liquid, solid, gaseous or radioactive, associated with human habitation, or of human or animal origin, or from any producing, manufacture or processing operation of whatever nature, including such waste placed within containers of whatever nature prior to, and for purposes of, disposal.
WASTEWATER (sometimes referred to as "sewage")
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 discharged into or permitted to enter the Village wastewater treatment system.
WASTEWATER CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS
The individual chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological parameters, including volume and flow rate and such other parameters that serve to define, classify or measure the contents, quality, quantity and strength of wastewater.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Any existing and future devices, facilities, structures, equipment or works owned by the Village for the purpose of wastewater treatment, reuse or disposal, including facilities for the purpose of: transmission, storage, wastewater treatment, sludge disposal, recycling, reuse, reclamation of industrial and domestic wastes, or site acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
Any devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes and/or sludge; sometimes used as synonymous with "waste treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "water pollution control plant."
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
WPCF
The Water Pollution Control Federation.
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Terms not otherwise defined herein shall be as adopted in the latest edition of Glossary, Water and Wastewater Control Engineering, published by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.