Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C. expressed in parts per million by weight.
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 not including subsurface soil drains 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 sewer
or other place of disposal.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
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 sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is owned or controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwaters, surface
waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwaters, surface waters and stormwaters as may be present.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
Any discharge of water, sewage, 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 quantity of flow during
normal operation.
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface water and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling
water.
The Superintendent of Public Works of the Village of New
Paltz or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
