A.
Short title. For brevity and ease of communication,
this legislation may be cited as the "Town of Huntington Sewer Use
Management Ordinance."
B.
General purpose. The general purpose of this chapter
is to provide for the efficient, economic, environmentally safe and
legal operation of the Town of Huntington publicly owned treatment
works (POTW).
C.
Specific purpose. The specific purpose of this chapter
shall be as follows:
(1)
To prevent the introduction of substances into the
district that will:
(a)
Interfere with the efficient and proper operations
of the POTW in any way.
(b)
Pass through the POTW to the state's waters
and cause contravention of standards for those waters or cause violations
of the POTW's SPDES permit.
(c)
Increase the cost of operations of the POTW
or otherwise hamper the disposal of POTW sludge and/or residuals.
(d)
Endanger municipal employees.
(e)
Cause pollution of air, groundwater or surface
water, directly or indirectly.
(f)
Cause, directly or indirectly, any public nuisance
condition.
(2)
To prevent new sources of infiltration and inflow
and, as much as possible, eliminate existing sources of infiltration
and inflow.
(3)
To assure that new sewers and connections are properly
constructed.
(4)
To assure that existing sewers and connections are
properly maintained.
(5)
To provide for equitable distribution, to all users
of the POTW, of all costs associated with sewage transmission, treatment,
residuals disposal, and to provide for the equitable collection of
such costs.
D.
Effect on previous sewer ordinance. The provisions in the existing Town of Huntington Code entitled "Huntington Sewer District Rules and Regulations" are hereby repealed, and said provisions are replaced by the herein set forth § 164-1, Short title; purpose; effect on previous legislation, to § 164-22, Validity, repealer and severability, inclusive, and associated appendixes.
A.
ABNORMAL SEWAGE
ACT or THE ACT
ADMINISTRATOR
AMALGAM SEPARATOR
APPLICANT
APPROVED LABORATORY PROCEDURE
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING AND MATERIALS (ASTM)
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES PLAN (BMPP)
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
BUILDING DRAIN
CENTERPORT SEWER DISTRICT
CHEMICAL OXIDATION DEMAND (COD)
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
CONNECTION
CONVENTIONAL POLLUTANT
COOLING WATER
COUNTY
DENTAL AMALGAM
DENTAL AMALGAM WASTE
(1)
(2)
(3)
DENTAL FACILITY(IES)
DISTRICT
DOMESTIC WASTES
EASEMENT
EXTENSION
GARBAGE
GRAB SAMPLE
HUNTINGTON SEWER DISTRICT
IMPACT FEE
INDUSTRIAL
INDUSTRIAL USER
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
INFILTRATION
INFLOW
INTERFERENCE
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
LATERAL, BUILDING
LATERAL, STREET
LICENSEE
LIQUID WASTE(S) (SEWAGE)
MERCURY and/or MERCURY, ELEMENTAL
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or CATEGORICAL STANDARD
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT
NATIONAL PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD or PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE
STANDARD
NATURAL OUTLET
NORMAL SEWAGE
NUISANCE
NYSDEC
OIL and GREASE
OWNER
OTHER WASTES
PASS-THROUGH
PERMIT
PERSON
pH
POLLUTANT
POLLUTION
POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN
PRACTICE OF DENTISTRY
PRETREATMENT (TREATMENT)
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
PRETREATMENT STANDARD or NATIONAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD
PRIORITY POLLUTANTS
PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
POTW TREATMENT PLANT
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
RECEIVING WATERS
RECORDS
ROOF DRAIN
SCAVENGER WASTE FACILITY (SWF)
SEPTAGE
SEPTIC TANK
SERVICE AREA OF THE POTW
SEWAGE
SEWAGE, DOMESTIC (DOMESTIC WASTES)
SEWAGE, NORMAL
(1)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)
(2)
SEWAGE, SANITARY
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT (WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT)
SEWAGE, UNUSUAL STRENGTH OR CHARACTER
SEWER
SEWER, COMBINED
SEWER, PUBLIC
SEWER, SANITARY
SEWER, STORM (STORM DRAIN)
SEWERAGE SYSTEM (ALSO POTW)
SEWERAGE SURCHARGE
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
SILVER-RICH SOLUTIONS
SLUG
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
STANDARD METHODS
STATE
STATE'S WATERS
STORMWATER
SUBSTANCES OF CONCERN
SUMP PUMP
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOTAL SILVER HALIDE PROCESS WASTEWATER
TOWN
TOWN BOARD
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA or USEPA)
USER
USER, EXISTING
USER, INDUSTRIAL
USER, SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL (SIU)
(1)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(2)
VOLUME CHARGE (USER CHARGE)
WASTEWATER
WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT
WASTEWATER, UNUSUAL STRENGTH OR CHARACTER
WATERS OF THE STATE (STATE'S WATERS)
Definitions. Unless otherwise stated, the following
terms and phrases shall have the meanings stated:
[Amended 6-19-2001 by L.L. No. 10-2001; 10-16-2006 by L.L. No. 28-2006; 7-10-2007 by L.L. No.
30-2007]
Includes sewage whose concentration of one or more characteristics
of normal sewage exceeds the maximum concentrations of the characteristics
of normal sewage. See "normal sewage."
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251, et seq.,
or as may be subsequently amended.
The Regional Administrator of the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (USEPA), Region 2.
Dental equipment designed to remove dental amalgam particles
from the wastewater of a dental facility and is certified to ISO 11143
Standards (Dental Equipment-Amalgam separators, ISO 11143, December
1999. International Organization for Standardization 1, rue de Varenbe,
Case postale 56-CH-1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland). The amalgam separator
shall achieve a minimum of 99 percent removal efficiency of dental
amalgam, by weight, in accordance with ISO 11143 test procedures.
That person who makes application for any permit. The applicant
may be an owner, new or old, or their agent.
Includes the procedures defined as "standard methods" in
this section, or other procedures approved by the Superintendent,
for flow measurement or determination of the concentration of pollutants
or their surrogates in waters, wastewaters and/or sludges.
The latest edition of any ASTM specification, when stipulated
in this chapter.
An operational methodology, including a schedule of activities,
prohibitions, maintenance policies and other management procedures,
prepared in accordance with the applicable requirements of this chapter,
to prevent or reduce the discharge of any substance regulated under
this chapter.
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine the quantity of oxygen utilized in the aerobic biochemical
oxidation of organic matter in five (5) days at twenty degrees centigrade
(20° C.) expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
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,
at five (5) feet [one and fifty-two hundredths (1.52) meters] outside
the inner face of the building wall or at the property line if less
than five (5) feet [one and fifty-two hundredths (1.52) meters].
The legally defined bounds of real property from which wastewater
is collected and pumped to the Northport Sewage Treatment Plant for
treatment pursuant to an intermunicipal agreement between the Town
of Huntington and the Incorporated Village of Northport, and comprising
of pipes, conduits, lines, pumps, devices, structures and appurtenances.
The Centerport Sewer District is owned by the Town of Huntington and
administered by the Huntington Town Board.
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to measure the oxygen requirement of that portion of matter, in a
sample, that is susceptible to oxidation, by a specific chemical oxidant,
expressed in milligrams per liter.
The sample resulting from the combination of individual samples
of wastewater taken at selected intervals, for a specified time period.
The individual samples may have equal volumes, or the individual volumes
may be proportioned to the flow at the time of sampling.
Attachment of one user to a sewer. (See "extension.")
Includes any pollutant that the POTW treatment plant was
designed to treat, defined in accordance with the Act.
Includes the water discharged from any system of condensation,
air conditioning, refrigeration or other sources. It shall contain
no polluting substances which would produce COD or suspended solids
in excess of five (5) milligrams per liter, or toxic substances, as
limited elsewhere in this chapter.
The County of Suffolk (SC), in which the Town of Huntington,
and therefore the Huntington and Centerport Sewer Districts, is located.
An alloy that contains mercury and other metals used in the
practice of dentistry.
Waste from a dental facility containing:
Dental amalgam that has been in contact with
the patient including, but not limited to, extracted teeth with dental
amalgam restorations, carving scrap collected at chair-side, dental
amalgam captured by chair-side traps, vacuum pump filters, amalgam
separators or other dental amalgam capture devices; and
Dental amalgam that has not been in contact
with the patient including, but not limited to, excess dental amalgam
mix and the used pre-encapsulated dental amalgam capsules remaining
at the end of a dental procedure; and
Dental amalgam that may have accumulated in
the plumbing system of a dental facility.
Any institution, clinic, office or other location where the
practice of density is performed.
The Huntington Sewer District and Centerport Sewer District
collectively.
See "sewage, domestic."
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
The attachment of a sewer line, with more than one user,
to an existing sewer line.
Includes the solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and
dispensing of food; from the handling, storage and sale of produce;
and from the packaging and canning of food.
A single sample of wastewater representing the physical,
chemical and biological characteristics of the wastewater at one point
and time.
The legally defined bounds of real property from which wastewater
may be discharged to the Huntington Sewage Treatment Plant for treatment,
and comprising of facilities, systems and appurtenances used for collecting,
pumping, treating and disposing of sewage and other wastes. The Huntington
Sewer District is owned by the Town of Huntington and administered
by the Huntington Town Board.
A one-time fee imposed upon a parcel for the parcel’s
proportionate use of the district’s flow capacity beyond the
flow allowance designated for the parcel in the Section 201 Wastewater
Study. In the case of the Centerport Sewer District, a one-time fee
imposed for use of the sewage flow capacity reserved for the district
in the Northport Sewage Treatment Plant if the proposed flow for the
parcel exceeds Suffolk County Department of Health Services flow standards.
Includes anything pertaining to industry, manufacturing,
commerce, trade, business or institution, and is distinguished from
domestic or residential.
See "user, industrial."
Includes the liquid or liquid-carried solid, liquid and/or
gaseous wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, service,
utility or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Includes water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer
system (excluding building drains) from the ground through such means
as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections or manholes, which is
inadvertent (not purposely designed or built into the sewer or drain).
Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.
Includes water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer
system (including building drains) from sources such as, but not limited
to, roof leaders, cellar drains, area drains, drains from spring and
swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections between storm sewers
and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, stormwater, foundation
drains, swimming pools, surface runoff, street wash waters or drainage,
which is advertent (purposely designed and/or built into the sewer
or drain). Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.
Includes a discharge which, alone or in conjunction with
discharges by other sources, inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment
processes or operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal and
therefore is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the district's
POTW's SPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration
of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal
by the POTW in accordance with the following statutory provisions
and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent state
or local regulations):
Section 405 of the Clean Water Act.
The Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) (including
Title II, more commonly referred to as the "Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act," RCRA), and including state regulations contained
in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle
D or the SWDA.
Clean Air Act.
Toxic Substances Control Act.
Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries
Act.
Includes the sewer extension from the building drain to the
street lateral or other place of wastewater disposal.
Includes the sewer extension from the public sewer to the
property line.
Any person licensed by the town pursuant to Article III of this chapter.
Includes any combination of water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments and
such ground-, surface and stormwater as may be inadvertently present.
A heavy, silvery-white metal that is liquid at room temperature
and is represented by the chemical symbol “Hg” with an
atomic number of 80 and an atomic mass of 200.59.
Includes an regulation containing pollutant discharge limits
promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(B) and (C) of
the Act (22 U.S.C. § 1347), which applies to a specific
category of industrial users. These standards apply at the end of
the categorical process ("end of process").
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342).
Includes any regulation developed under the authority of
Section 307 (B) of the Act, and 40 CFR, § 403.5.
Includes any outlet, including storm sewers and combined
sewer overflows, to the waters of the state.
See "sewage, normal."
The use or lack of use of the POTW in such a manner so as
to endanger life or health, give offense to the senses or obstruct
or otherwise interfere with the reasonable use or maintenance of the
POTW.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation,
the state agency responsible for the administration and enforcement
of state environmental laws, rules and regulations.
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine quantity of fats, wax, grease and oil in a sample, expressed
in milligrams per liter.
That individual or entity who owns property within a service
area of the district.
Includes garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood,
egg shells, coffee grounds, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, ashes
and all other discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial
wastes.
Includes the discharge which exits the district POTW into
waters of the state in quantities, which alone or in conjunction with
discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement
of the POTW's SPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude
or duration of a violation).
A temporary revocable written document allowing use of the
POTW for specified wastes over a limited period of time. The permit
shall indicate sampling locations and reporting frequencies, and requiring
other actions as authorized by this chapter.
Includes any individual, public or private corporation, political
subdivision, federal, state or local agency or entity, association,
estate or any other legal entity whatsoever.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of
hydrogen ions, in gram moles per liter of solution. A pH value of
7.0, the pH scale midpoint, represents neutrality. Values above 7.0
represent alkaline conditions, while values below 7.0 represent acid
conditions.
Includes any material placed into or onto the state's waters,
lands and/or airs, which interferes with beneficial use of that water,
land and/or air by any living thing at any time.
Includes the man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical,
physical, biological and/or radiological integrity of the state's
waters, lands and/or airs resulting from the introduction of a pollutant
into these media.
A plan required to be submitted to the Superintendent by
users identified as significant industrial users, which shall be subject
to the approval of the Superintendent, and at a minimum contains the
following: (1) an analysis of the pollutant(s) that the significant
industrial user discharges, a description of the sources of the pollutants,
and a comprehensive review of the processes used by the significant
industrial user which result in the generation and discharge of the
pollutant(s); (2) for each such pollutant, an analysis of the potential
for pollution prevention to reduce generation of the pollutant(s),
including the application of innovative and alternative technologies
and any adverse environmental impacts that may result from the use
of those methods; (3) a detailed description of the tasks and time
schedules required to investigate and implement various elements of
pollution prevention techniques; (4) a statement of the significant
industrial user’s pollution prevention goals and strategies,
including priorities for short-term and long-term action, and schedule
for the implementation of such goals and strategies; (5) a description
of the significant industrial user’s existing pollution prevention
methods, if any; (6) a statement that the significant industrial user’s
existing and planned pollution prevention strategies, if any, do not
cause an increase of and/or transfer to other pollutants. If such
an increase may occur, the significant industrial user shall include
an additional statement and supporting documentation explaining the
anticipated environmental benefits of such strategies to the satisfaction
of the Superintendent; (7) an analysis, to the extent feasible, of
the relative costs and benefits of the proposed pollution prevention
activities; and (8) a specification of, and rationale for, the technically
feasible and economically practicable pollution prevention measures
proposed by the significant industrial users for implementation.
The practice of dentistry as defined in Section 6601 of the
New York State Education Law.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater to a less harmful condition prior to or in lieu of discharging
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW, achieved by
physical, chemical or biological processes, process changes or by
other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR § 403.6(D).
Includes any substantive or procedural requirement related
to pretreatment, other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed
on an industrial user.
Includes any categorical standard or prohibitive discharge
standard.
Includes the most recently revised or updated list, developed
by the EPA, in accordance with the Act.
See "national prohibitive discharge standard."
Includes the wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles
will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing
in public sewers, and with no particle having a dimension greater
than one-half (1/2) inch in any dimension.
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater and to treat sludge and residuals derived from such treatment.
Includes any treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of
the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned, or utilized,
in this instance, by the District, and shall include any sewers and
appurtenances that transport wastewater to the POTW treatment plant,
but shall not include any pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected
directly or indirectly to a facility providing treatment.
Includes any natural watercourse or body of water (usually
waters of the state) into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
Includes, but is not limited to, any printed, typewritten,
handwritten or otherwise recorded matter of whatever character (including
paper or electronic media), including but not limited to letters,
files, memoranda, directives, notes and notebooks, correspondence,
descriptions, telephone call slips, photographs, permits, applications,
reports, compilations, films, graphs and inspection reports. For the
purposes of this chapter, "records" shall mean records of and relating
to waste generation, reuse or disposal and shall include records of
usage of raw materials.
A drain installed to receive water collecting on the surface
of a roof for disposal.
Includes that portion of the Huntington POTW that services
trucked or hauled waste containing septage.
Includes all liquids and solids in and removed from septic
tanks, holding tanks, cesspools or approved type of chemical toilets
(including but not limited to those serving private residences, commercial
establishments, institutions and industries), and sludge from small
sewage treatment plants. Septage shall not have been contaminated
with substances of concern or priority pollutants.
Includes a private domestic sewage treatment system consisting
of an underground tank (with suitable baffling), constructed in accordance
with any and/or all local, county and state requirements.
Includes the legally defined bounds of real property from
which wastewater may be discharged into the POTW, as established,
altered, changed, modified, reduced, enlarged, combined or consolidated
only by action of the Town Board.
Includes any combination of water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments and
such ground, surface and storm water as may be inadvertently present.
The admixture of sewage, as defined above, with industrial wastes
and other wastes shall also be considered "sewage'" within the meaning
of this definition.
Includes liquid wastes from the noncommercial preparation,
cooking and handling of food, liquid wastes containing human excrement
and similar matter from the sanitary conveniences in dwellings, commercial
buildings, industrial buildings and institutions or liquid wastes
from clothes washing and/or floor/wall washing. Domestic sewage includes
both black water and grey water. (See "sewage, sanitary.")
Includes sewage, industrial wastes or other
wastes, which show by analysis the following concentrations:
BOD (five-day): one thousand six hundred sixty-eight
(1,668) pounds per million gallons [two hundred (200) mg/l] or less.
Suspended solids: one thousand eight hundred
thirty-five (1,835) pounds per million gallons [two hundred twenty
(220) mg/l] or less.
Phosphorus: one hundred twenty-five (125) pounds
per million gallons [fifteen (15) mg/l] or less.
Ammonia: two hundred eight (208) pounds per
million gallons [twenty-five (25) mg/l] or less.
Total Kjeldahl nitrogen: three hundred thirty-four
(334) pounds per million gallons [forty (40) mg/l] or less.
Chlorine demand: two hundred nine (209) pounds
per million gallons [twenty-five (25) mg/l] or less.
Chemical oxygen demand: two thousand nine hundred
twenty (2,920) pounds per million gallons [three hundred fifty (350)
mg/l] or less.
Oil and grease: eight hundred thirty (830) pounds
per million gallons [one hundred (100) mg/l] or less.
In spite of satisfying one or more of these
characteristics, if the sewage also contains substances of concern,
it may not be considered normal sewage.
Includes liquid wastes from the sanitary conveniences of
dwellings (including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings,
factories or institutions and free from stormwater, surface water,
industrial and other wastes. (See "domestic wastes.")
See "POTW treatment plant."
Includes sewage which has characteristics greater than those
of normal sewage and/or which contains substances of concern.
A pipe or conduit for carrying or transporting sewage.
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff
and sewage.
A sewer in which all abutting property owners have equal
rights and the use of which is controlled by the district.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
Includes all facilities for collecting, regulating, pumping
and transporting wastewater to and away from the POTW treatment plant.
The demand payment for the use of a public sewer and/or sewage
treatment plant for the handling of any sewage, industrial waste or
other wastes accepted for admission thereto in which the characteristics
thereof exceed the maximum values of such characteristics in normal
sewage. (See "volume charge.")
See "user, significant industrial."
Includes, but is not limited to, fixers, bleach-fixes, stabilizers
(e.g., plumbless stabilizers and chemical washes), low-flow washes
and all functionally similar solutions.
A substantial deviation from normal rates of discharge or
constituent concentration (see "normal sewage") sufficient to cause
interference; a discharge which, in concentration of any constituent
or in quantity of flow, exceeds, for any period of duration longer
than fifteen (15) minutes, more than five (5) times the average twenty-four-hour
concentration or flow during normal user operations.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972, and subsequent revisions.
Includes any procedures contained in the latest edition of
Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published
by the American Public Health Association, procedures established
by the Administrator, pursuant to Section 304 (G) of the Act and contained
in 40 CFR 136, and amendments thereto; if 40 CFR 136 does not include
a sampling or analytical technique for the pollutant in question,
then procedures set forth in the EPA publication Sampling and Analysis
Procedures for Screening of Industrial Effluents for Priority Pollutants,
April 1977, and amendments thereto, shall be used; or any other procedure
approved by the Administrator or by the Superintendent, whichever
is the most conservative.
The State of New York (NYS).
See "waters of the state."
Includes any flow resulting from or occurring during or following
any form of natural precipitation.
Includes those compounds which the New York State Department
of Environmental Conservation has determined may be harmful to man
or the environment.
Includes any mechanism used for removing water from a sump
or wet well.
The Director of the Department of Environmental Waste Management
of the Town of Huntington or their authorized deputy, agent or representative.
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine dry weight of solids, in a sample, that either float
on the surface, are in suspension or are settleable, and can be removed
from the sample by filtration; expressed in milligrams per liter.
Includes the sum of all aqueous solutions used in any silver
halide imaging process, including but not limited to photography film
developers, fixers, bleach-fix, stabilizers, low-flow washes, rinse
waters, other washes and all functionally similar solutions.
The Town of Huntington (TOH).
The Town Board of the Town of Huntington, or its designee,
acting in its role as administrator of the district.
Includes any substance (whether gaseous, liquid or solid)
that, when discharged into a public sewer in sufficient quantities,
may be hazardous to POTW operation and maintenance personnel; tend
to interfere with any biological sewage process; constitute a hazard
to recreation in the receiving waters, due to the effluent from a
sewage treatment plant or point of overflow; or any pollutant or combination
of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the EPA
under provisions of CWA 307 (A) or other acts.
The agency of the federal government charged with the administration
and enforcement of federal environmental laws, rules and regulations;
also may be used as a designation for the administrator or or other
duly authorized official of this agency.
Includes any person who contributes, causes or permits the
contribution of wastewater into the POTW.
Includes any discharger to the POTW who is discharging on
or before the effective date of this chapter.
Includes any discharger to the POTW who discharges nondomestic
wastewaters.
Includes any industrial user of the District
who qualifies under one or more of the following:
Subject to National Categorical Pretreatment
Standards promulgated by the EPA.
Having substantial impact, either singly or
in combination with other industries, on the operations of the treatment
works.
Using, on an annual basis, more than ten thousand
(10,000) pounds or one thousand (1,000) gallons of raw material containing
priority pollutants, or substances of concern and discharging a measurable
quantity of these pollutants into the sewer system.
For the Huntington Sewer District, discharging
more than one (1%) percent of the flow or load of conventional pollutants
received by the POTW treatment plant.
For the Centerport Sewer District, discharging
more than one (1%) percent of the contracted allowable system flow
[fifty-six thousand (56,000) GPD].
A user discharging a measurable quantity of
a pollutant may be classified as a non-significant industrial user
if, at the influent point to the POTW treatment plant, the pollutant
is not detectable.
The demand sewer use charge which is based on the volume
of normal sewage discharged into the SWF by scavenger waste haulers,
based on a specific cost per one thousand (1,000) gallons. The specific
charge shall be subject to approval of the Town Board, and revenues
therefrom shall be used for current operation and maintenance, retirement
of bonded indebtedness and funding of SWF capital projects. The basis
of volume charge calculations shall be made available to the public.
Includes the liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic
wastewaters from dwellings, commercial establishments, industrial
facilities and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface
water and stormwater that may be present, whether treated or untreated,
which is contributed into or permitted to enter the POTW.
Includes any permit as set forth in § 164-8 of this chapter.
See "sewage, unusual strength or character."
Includes all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses,
waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems,
drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface
or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, contained
within, flowing through or bordering upon the state or any portion
thereof
B.
Abbreviations. The following abbreviations shall have
the designated meanings:
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American National Standards Institute
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ASTM
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American Society for Testing and Materials.
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AWWA
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American Water Works Association.
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BMPP
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Best management practices plan.
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BOD
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Biochemical oxygen demand.
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CFR
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Code of Federal Regulations.
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COD
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Chemical oxygen demand.
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CPLR
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Code of Public Law and Rules.
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EPA
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Environmental Protection Agency.
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ISO
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International Organization for Standardization.
[Added 10-16-2006 by L.L. No. 28-2006] | |
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L or l
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Liter.
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Mg
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Milligram.
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Mg/l
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Milligrams per liter.
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NCPI
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National Clay Pipe Institute.
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NPDES
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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
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NYS
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New York State.
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NYSDEC
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New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
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NYSDOH
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New York State Department of Health.
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NYSDOT
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New York State Department of Transportation.
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P
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—
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Total phosphorus.
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POTW
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Publicly owned treatment works.
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PPM
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Parts per million, weight basis.
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PSI
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—
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Pounds per square inch.
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SC
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Suffolk County.
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SCDH
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Suffolk County Department of Health Services.
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SCDPW
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Suffolk County Department of Public Works.
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SIC
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Standard Industrial Classification.
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SPDES
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State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
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SWDA
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Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. § 690
L et seq.
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SWF
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Scavenger Waste Facility.
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TOH
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Town of Huntington.
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TSS
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Total suspended solid.
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U.S.C.
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—
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United State Code of Laws.
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USEPA
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—
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United States Environmental Protection Agency.
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C.
Word usage. When not inconsistent with the context,
the present tense shall include the future, and words used in the
plural shall include the singular and vice versa. Furthermore, a masculine
pronoun shall include the feminine. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is
permissive.
D.
Ambiguity. Terms not defined in this article, or terms
found to be ambiguous or improperly defined in this section. shall
be defined by the Act, or appropriate rules and regulations, pursuant
thereto.
