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.
A.
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.
B.
ACT
ASTM
BOD (denotes "biochemical oxygen demand")
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
CHLORINE DEMAND
COMMERCIAL USER
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
CONNECTION
COOLING WATER
DEC
DOMESTIC WASTES
EPA
FLOW RATE
FLOW VOLUME
GARBAGE
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
INDUSTRIAL USER
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
INTERFERENCE
MASS EMISSION RATE
mg/l
NATURAL OUTLET
OWNER
PERSON
pH
POLLUTANT
PRETREATMENT
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
RESIDENTIAL USER
SANITARY SEWER
SEWER
SLUG
SPDES
STORM DRAIN or STORM SEWER
STORMWATER
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
UNPOLLUTED WATER
USER
VILLAGE
VILLAGE BOARD
WASTE
WASTEWATER (sometimes referred to as "sewage")
WASTEWATER CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS
WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
WATERCOURSE
WPCF
Unless the context otherwise requires, the meaning
of terms used in the chapter shall be as follows:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act as amended.
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
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,
beginning five feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building
wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sanitary
sewer or other place of disposal.
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.
Any nonresidential user not within the definition of an industrial
user.
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.
A sample consisting of several effluent portions collected
during a specified time period and combined to make a representative
sample.
The physical tie-in of the building sewer or sewer extension
to the public sanitary sewer.
The water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, during which the only pollutant added to
the water is heat.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
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.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
The quantity of waste or liquid that flows in a certain period
of time.
The quantity of wastes or liquid.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of food.
Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant.
Any nonresidential user of the publicly owned wastewater
treatment system that:
Is identified in Division A, B, D, E or I of
the Federal Standard Industrial Classification Manual;
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;
The wastewater resulting from the processes employed in industrial,
manufacturing, trade or business establishments, as distinct from
domestic wastes.
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.
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.
Milligrams per liter.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or any other
body of surface or ground water.
A person having legal title to real property.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
group or municipality.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public
utility. It may be a sanitary or storm sewer.
A user who introduces wastewater into the wastewater treatment
system from premises used only for human residence.
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions.
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater, stormwater or
drainage water.
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.
The State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
A drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface
water or unpolluted water from any source.
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.
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.
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."
As defined in § 122-18B.
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.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the introduction
of wastewater into the wastewater treatment system.
The Village of Akron, Erie County, New York.
The Village Board of Trustees of the Village of Akron.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
The Water Pollution Control Federation.
C.
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.
