The purposes of these rules and regulations
are specifically stated as follows:
A.
To prohibit excessive volumes and/or inordinate rates
of flow of wastewater into the City and/or county sewerage system.
B.
To prohibit the contribution of sewage, industrial
wastes and other wastes of a flammable nature or which create in any
way a poisonous or hazardous environment for sewerage maintenance,
operation and personnel.
C.
To prohibit the contribution of sewage, industrial
wastes or other wastes which may cause maintenance difficulties in
the lateral and trunk sewers, force mains, pumping stations, sewage
regulators and the structures and appurtenances of the City and/or
county sewerage system.
D.
To prohibit the contribution of sewage, industrial
waste or other wastes which may create operating difficulties at the
water pollution control plants as they exist or may be constructed,
modified or improved in the future.
E.
To prohibit and/or regulate the contribution of sewage,
industrial wastes or other wastes which require greater expenditures
for treatment at the plants than are required for equal volumes of
normal sewage, as hereinafter defined.
F.
To require the pretreatment, before introduction into
the City sewers, of such wastes as may otherwise impair the strength,
durability and/or purpose of the structures and/or appurtenances of
the sewer system or interfere with the normal treatment processes.
G.
To provide cooperation with the Albany County Sewer
District, the Albany County Department of Health and any other agencies
which have requirements or jurisdiction for the protection of the
physical, chemical and bacteriological quality of watercourses within
or bounding the county.
H.
To protect the public health and to prevent nuisances.
I.
To establish penalties for violations of the provisions
of this chapter.
J.
To impose sewer rents.
A.
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER (HOUSE CONNECTION)
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD)
CHLORINE DEMAND
CITY
CITY COUNCIL
CITY ENGINEER
COMBINED SEWER
COMMISSION
COOLING WATER
COUNTY
COUNTY SEWERAGE SYSTEM
COUNTY SEWER DISTRICT
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
DIRECTOR
GARBAGE
HEALTH OFFICER
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
NATURAL OUTLET
NORMAL SEWAGE
(1)
(2)
(3)
OTHER WASTES
PERSON
pH
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
RECEIVING WATERS
SANITARY SEWAGE
SANITARY SEWER
SEWAGE
SEWAGE SURCHARGE
SEWAGE WORKS
SEWER
SEWER SYSTEM
SLUG
STORM SEWER (STORM DRAIN)
SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS)
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT (SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT)
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in these rules and regulations shall be
as follows:
The quantity of oxygen used in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at twenty degrees centigrade (20º C.) [sixty-eight degrees
Fahrenheit (68º F.)] expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
Measurement shall be as set forth in the latest edition of Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by
the American Public Health Association, Inc.
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,
which begins five (5) feet outside the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
A measure of the oxygen equivalent of that portion of organic
matter in a wastewater sample that is susceptible to oxidation by
a strong chemical oxidant.
Expressed in milligrams per liter, shall mean the difference
between the amount of chlorine added to water, sewage or industrial
wastes and the amount of residual chlorine remaining at the end of
a twenty-minute contact period at room temperature.
The City of Albany and the lands contained therein.
The legally constituted Common Council of the City of Albany.
The duly designated City Engineer of the City of Albany,
or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff
and sewage.
The Board of Commissioners appointed by the County Legislature
to the Albany County Sewer District.
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, cooling, refrigeration, or other sources. It shall contain
no polluting substances which would produce BOD or suspended solids
in excess of ten (10) milligrams per liter, or toxic substances as
limited elsewhere herein.
The County of Albany.
The trunk sewers, force mains, pumping stations, sewage regulators,
water pollution control plants (sewage treatment plants) and other
appurtenant structures owned and/or operated by the Albany County
Sewer District.
Any county sanitary sewer district as created, altered or
modified by action of the Albany County Legislature.
The Albany County Department of Health.
The Executive Director of the Albany County Sewer District.
Food wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
The duly appointed Commissioner of Health of Albany County.
Any liquid, gaseous, solid or other waste substance, or combination
thereof, resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade
or business or from the development or recovery of any natural resources.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
Sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes which, when analyzed,
show by weight the following characteristics:
BOD: Two thousand (2,000) pounds per million
gallons [two hundred forty (240) milligrams per liter] or less.
Chlorine demand: two hundred eight (208) pounds
per million gallons [twenty-five (25) milligrams per liter] or less.
Suspended solids: two thousand five hundred
(2,500) pounds per million gallons [three hundred (300) milligrams
per liter] or less.
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, egg shells,
coffee grounds, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, cinder, ashes
and all other discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial
wastes.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group contributing directly or indirectly to the City sewer system.
The negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration
in moles per liter. It indicates the intensity of acidity and alkalinity
of the "pH" scale running from zero point zero (0.0) to fourteen point
zero (14.0). A "pH" value of seven point zero (7.0), the midpoint
of the scale, represents neutrality. Values above seven point zero
(7.0) represent alkaline conditions, and those below seven point zero
(7.0) represent acid conditions.
Garbage that has been shredded to such a degree that all
particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally
prevailing in the public sewer to which it is discharged, with no
particle having a dimension greater than one-half (1/2) inch in any
dimension.
A sewer controlled by a public body.
A natural watercourse or body of water into which treated
or untreated sewage is discharged.
Sewage discharging from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings
(including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, factories
or institutions and free from stormwater, surface water, industrial
wastes and other wastes.
A sewer which carries sanitary sewage and to which storm-
, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such ground- , surface and storm water as may be inadvertently
present. The admixture of sewage as above-defined with industrial
wastes or other wastes also shall be considered "sewage" within the
meaning of this definition.
The demand payment for the use of the City sewerage system
for handling any sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes accepted
for admission thereto in which the characteristics thereof exceed
the maximum values of such characteristics in normal sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
All sewer pipes and other appurtenances which are used or
useful in whole or part in connection with the collection, treatment
or disposal of sewage, industrial waste and other wastes and which
are owned, operated and maintained by the City, including sewage pumping
stations and sewage treatment and disposal works.
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 fifteen (15) minutes more than
five (5) times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flow
during normal operation.
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than cooling waters
and other unpolluted waters.
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension
in, water, sewage or other liquids, and which are removable by flotation,
skimming and sedimentation. Measurement shall be as set forth in the
latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Waters and
Wastewater.
Any substances, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, which,
when discharged to a public sewer in sufficient quantities, may be
hazardous to sewer district personnel or tend to interfere with any
biological sewage or wastewater treatment processes or to constitute
a hazard to human beings or animals or to inhibit aquatic life or
to create a hazard to recreation in the receiving waters of the effluent
from a sewage treatment plant.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treatment
of sewage or wastewater.
