The purposes of this chapter are to:
A.
Operate and maintain the equipment and facilities
of the Sewer Department and regulate domestic, commercial and industrial
users of the Village's sewage treatment facilities so as to protect
the public health and prevent nuisances.
B.
Prevent the introduction into the Village's sewage
treatment system of pollutants which will interfere with the structural,
biological or other operation of the system.
C.
Prevent the introduction into the Village's sewerage
system of pollutants which will pass through the system inadequately
treated, resulting in the discharge of liquid, gases or solid discharge
from the City of Glens Falls' sewage treatment facility in violation
of any applicable federal, state or local standards.
D.
Improve opportunities to recycle and reclaim the wastewater
and sludge of users of the city's sewage treatment facility.
E.
Provide for the equitable distribution of the costs
of the Village's sewerage system among the users of the system.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
An unintentional discharge to the Village's sewer system
by a user in violation of the terms of the user's permit.
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
The Regional Administrator of Region 2 of the United States
Environmental Protection Agency.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure five days at
20° C. expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams
per liter).
The Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners of the City of
Glens Falls, New York.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of the 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 outside the interface of the building wall.
That part of the piping of a drainage system which extends
from the end of the building drain to the public sewer or other place
of disposal and which receives the discharge of the building drain
and conveys it to said public sewer or other place of disposal.
The City of Glens Falls, New York.
Wastewater produced by commercial establishments.
The Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation or his authorized (pursuant to internal DEC procedures)
agent.
Wastewater produced by domestic or residential establishments.
An industrial user which is contributing wastewater to the
Village's sewer system as of the effective date of this chapter.
Solid waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
A sample taken from a point within the Village's sewer system
on a one-time basis, with no regard to the flow in the sewer system
and without consideration of time.
An establishment producing industrial wastes which are contributed
to the Village's sewer system.
The fluid wastes from industrial or manufacturing processes,
trades or businesses.
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes
or operations or that which contributes to a violation of any term
of the city's SPDES permit. The term includes but is not limited to
damage to or disruption of the structural integrity of the city's
and Village's sewerage system (sewage treatment facility plus appurtenant
facilities and sewer lines) or the biological processes involved within
the sewage treatment facility proper and the prevention of sewage
sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance with Section 405
of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1345) or any criteria, guidelines
or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act,
the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act or more-stringent
state or local criteria, including those contained in any state sludge
management plan pursuant to Title IV of the SWDA, applicable to the
method of disposal or use employed by the POTW.
The Village of South Glens Falls local laws.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1347) which applies to a specific category of industrial
users.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of ground- or surface water.
Any industrial user which begins contribution to the Village's
sewer system subsequent to the effective date of this chapter.
That portion of the total oxygen demand of raw sanitary wastes
exerted by the autotrophic bacteria Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter to
oxidize ammonia to nitrate, as measured by the 15th Edition of Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
Any wastewater which would result in interference to the
city's or Village's sewerage system.
Any person who has been granted a domestic/commercial permit
or an industrial wastewater discharge permit.
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity or any other legal entity or its legal representatives, agents
or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, and the
singular shall include the plural, where indicated by the context.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and/or radiological integrity of water.
The reduction in the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to discharge to the POTW,
in accordance with applicable federal, state or local pretreatment
standards and/or the terms of the user's industrial wastewater discharge
permit. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical
or biological processes or process changes by other means, except
by dilution where dilution would be prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
Any substance included in the list, as amended, of priority
pollutants promulgated by the United States EPA pursuant to the Clean
Water Act of 1977 and the Consent Decree of N.R.D.C. vs. Train, 8
E.R.C. 2120 (D.D.C., 1976).
Any privy, septic tank, cesspool or other sewage disposal
facility owned and operated by a person, other than the Village's
sewage system.
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 in any dimension.
The sewage treatment facility and appurtenant facilities
and sewer lines of the City of Glens Falls, overseen by the Board
of Water and Sewer Commissioners. Where the context so indicates,
"POTW" shall also refer to the administrative network which oversees
the physical plant of the city's sewer system, presided over by the
Board.
A combination of water-carried wastes from domestic residences,
business buildings, commercial establishments and industrial establishments,
together with such ground-, surface or storm waters as may be present.
The physical plant, located on Shermantown Road in the City
of Glens Falls, at which wastes discharged into the Village's sewerage
system by all users of that system are received and treated prior
to discharge into the Hudson River as liquid waste or into the sludge
produced by said plant as solid waste.
Any industrial user that is subject to a National Categorical
Pretreatment Standard or is having substantial impact, either singly
or in combination with other industrial users, on the operation of
the POTW or is using, on an annual basis, more than 10,000 pounds
or one thousand gallons of raw material containing a priority pollutant
and is discharging a measurable amount of a priority pollutant to
the POTW or is discharging more than 5% of the wastewater entering
the sewage treatment facility.
Any discharge of wastewater in which the concentration of
any given constituent or the quantity of total flow exceeds, for period
of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five times the average
twenty-four-hour concentration or flow during normal operation.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972.
The State of New York.
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342) and New York State Environmental Conservation Law
Article 17, Title 8.
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of
or is suspended in the wastewater contributed to the Village's sewerage
system by the users thereof and which is removable by laboratory filtering.
Any person contributing wastewater to the Village's sewerage
system.
The Village of South Glens Falls, New York.
The Village of South Glens Falls Board of Trustees.
The liquid and water-carried domestic, commercial or industrial
wastes discharged into the Village sewerage system by the users thereof,
together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may
be present.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
As used in this chapter, the following abbreviations
shall have the meanings indicated:
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BOD — Biochemical oxygen demand.
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CFR — Code of Federal Regulations.
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DEC — The New York State Department
of Environmental Conservation.
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EPA — The United States Environmental
Protection Agency.
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l — Liters.
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Mg — Milligrams.
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NOD — Nitrogenous oxygen demand.
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O&M — Operation and maintenance.
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POTW — Publicly owned treatment
works.
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SIC — Standard industrial classification.
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SIU — Significant industrial
user.
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SPDES — State Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System.
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SS — Suspended solids.
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SWDA — Solid Waste Disposal
Act.
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