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]
ABNORMAL SEWAGE
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."
ACT or THE ACT
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.
ADMINISTRATOR
The Regional Administrator of the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (USEPA), Region 2.
AMALGAM SEPARATOR
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.
APPLICANT
That person who makes application for any permit. The applicant
may be an owner, new or old, or their agent.
APPROVED LABORATORY PROCEDURE
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.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES PLAN (BMPP)
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.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
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).
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,
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].
CENTERPORT SEWER DISTRICT
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.
CHEMICAL OXIDATION DEMAND (COD)
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.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
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.
CONNECTION
Attachment of one user to a sewer. (See "extension.")
CONVENTIONAL POLLUTANT
Includes any pollutant that the POTW treatment plant was
designed to treat, defined in accordance with the Act.
COOLING WATER
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.
COUNTY
The County of Suffolk (SC), in which the Town of Huntington,
and therefore the Huntington and Centerport Sewer Districts, is located.
DENTAL AMALGAM
An alloy that contains mercury and other metals used in the
practice of dentistry.
DENTAL AMALGAM WASTE
Waste from a dental facility containing:
(1)
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
(2)
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
(3)
Dental amalgam that may have accumulated in
the plumbing system of a dental facility.
DENTAL FACILITY(IES)
Any institution, clinic, office or other location where the
practice of density is performed.
DISTRICT
The Huntington Sewer District and Centerport Sewer District
collectively.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
EXTENSION
The attachment of a sewer line, with more than one user,
to an existing sewer line.
GARBAGE
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.
GRAB SAMPLE
A single sample of wastewater representing the physical,
chemical and biological characteristics of the wastewater at one point
and time.
HUNTINGTON SEWER DISTRICT
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.
IMPACT FEE
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.
INDUSTRIAL
Includes anything pertaining to industry, manufacturing,
commerce, trade, business or institution, and is distinguished from
domestic or residential.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
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.
INFILTRATION
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.
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.
INTERFERENCE
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):
(1)
Section 405 of the Clean Water Act.
(2)
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.
(4)
Toxic Substances Control Act.
(5)
Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries
Act.
LATERAL, BUILDING
Includes the sewer extension from the building drain to the
street lateral or other place of wastewater disposal.
LATERAL, STREET
Includes the sewer extension from the public sewer to the
property line.
LICENSEE
Any person licensed by the town pursuant to Article
III of this chapter.
LIQUID WASTE(S) (SEWAGE)
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.
MERCURY and/or MERCURY, ELEMENTAL
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.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or CATEGORICAL STANDARD
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").
NATURAL OUTLET
Includes any outlet, including storm sewers and combined
sewer overflows, to the waters of the state.
NUISANCE
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.
NYSDEC
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation,
the state agency responsible for the administration and enforcement
of state environmental laws, rules and regulations.
OIL and GREASE
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.
OWNER
That individual or entity who owns property within a service
area of the district.
OTHER WASTES
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.
PASS-THROUGH
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).
PERMIT
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.
PERSON
Includes any individual, public or private corporation, political
subdivision, federal, state or local agency or entity, association,
estate or any other legal entity whatsoever.
pH
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.
POLLUTANT
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.
POLLUTION
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.
POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN
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.
PRACTICE OF DENTISTRY
The practice of dentistry as defined in Section 6601 of the
New York State Education Law.
PRETREATMENT (TREATMENT)
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).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Includes any substantive or procedural requirement related
to pretreatment, other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed
on an industrial user.
PRIORITY POLLUTANTS
Includes the most recently revised or updated list, developed
by the EPA, in accordance with the Act.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
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.
POTW TREATMENT PLANT
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater and to treat sludge and residuals derived from such treatment.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
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.
RECEIVING WATERS
Includes any natural watercourse or body of water (usually
waters of the state) into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
RECORDS
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.
ROOF DRAIN
A drain installed to receive water collecting on the surface
of a roof for disposal.
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.
SEPTIC TANK
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.
SERVICE AREA OF THE POTW
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.
SEWAGE
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.
SEWAGE, DOMESTIC (DOMESTIC WASTES)
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.")
SEWAGE, NORMAL
(1)
Includes sewage, industrial wastes or other
wastes, which show by analysis the following concentrations:
(a)
BOD (five-day): one thousand six hundred sixty-eight
(1,668) pounds per million gallons [two hundred (200) mg/l] or less.
(b)
Suspended solids: one thousand eight hundred
thirty-five (1,835) pounds per million gallons [two hundred twenty
(220) mg/l] or less.
(c)
Phosphorus: one hundred twenty-five (125) pounds
per million gallons [fifteen (15) mg/l] or less.
(d)
Ammonia: two hundred eight (208) pounds per
million gallons [twenty-five (25) mg/l] or less.
(e)
Total Kjeldahl nitrogen: three hundred thirty-four
(334) pounds per million gallons [forty (40) mg/l] or less.
(f)
Chlorine demand: two hundred nine (209) pounds
per million gallons [twenty-five (25) mg/l] or less.
(g)
Chemical oxygen demand: two thousand nine hundred
twenty (2,920) pounds per million gallons [three hundred fifty (350)
mg/l] or less.
(h)
Oil and grease: eight hundred thirty (830) pounds
per million gallons [one hundred (100) mg/l] or less.
(2)
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.
SEWAGE, SANITARY
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.")
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying or transporting sewage.
SEWER, COMBINED
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff
and sewage.
SEWER, PUBLIC
A sewer in which all abutting property owners have equal
rights and the use of which is controlled by the district.
SEWER, SANITARY
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM (ALSO POTW)
Includes all facilities for collecting, regulating, pumping
and transporting wastewater to and away from the POTW treatment plant.
SEWERAGE SURCHARGE
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.")
SILVER-RICH SOLUTIONS
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.
SLUG
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.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
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.
STANDARD METHODS
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.
STATE
The State of New York (NYS).
STORMWATER
Includes any flow resulting from or occurring during or following
any form of natural precipitation.
SUBSTANCES OF CONCERN
Includes those compounds which the New York State Department
of Environmental Conservation has determined may be harmful to man
or the environment.
SUMP PUMP
Includes any mechanism used for removing water from a sump
or wet well.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Director of the Department of Environmental Waste Management
of the Town of Huntington or their authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
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.
TOTAL SILVER HALIDE PROCESS WASTEWATER
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.
TOWN
The Town of Huntington (TOH).
TOWN BOARD
The Town Board of the Town of Huntington, or its designee,
acting in its role as administrator of the district.
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
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.
UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA or USEPA)
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.
USER
Includes any person who contributes, causes or permits the
contribution of wastewater into the POTW.
USER, EXISTING
Includes any discharger to the POTW who is discharging on
or before the effective date of this chapter.
USER, INDUSTRIAL
Includes any discharger to the POTW who discharges nondomestic
wastewaters.
USER, SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL (SIU)
(1)
Includes any industrial user of the District
who qualifies under one or more of the following:
(a)
Subject to National Categorical Pretreatment
Standards promulgated by the EPA.
(b)
Having substantial impact, either singly or
in combination with other industries, on the operations of the treatment
works.
(c)
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.
(d)
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.
(e)
For the Centerport Sewer District, discharging
more than one (1%) percent of the contracted allowable system flow
[fifty-six thousand (56,000) GPD].
(2)
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.
VOLUME CHARGE (USER CHARGE)
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.
WASTEWATER
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.
WATERS OF THE STATE (STATE'S WATERS)
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