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Ordinance No. 151 contained the following
title and purpose:
Title and Legislative Purpose
This ordinance shall be known and may be cited
as the "Sewer Use Ordinance of the Village of Briarcliff Manor, New
York."
"This ordinance recognizes among the matters
with which it is concerned, that as a legislative determination, it
is deemed necessary to the safety, health and general welfare of the
inhabitants of the Village of Briarcliff Manor to adopt the following
ordinance in order to assure the proper disposal of sewage and waste
waters and the proper operation and maintenance of the public sewers,
sewage treatment plants and other sewage works within the Village
of Briarcliff Manor, New York."
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20º C. expressed in milligrams per liter.
That part of the lowest piping of a drainage system that
receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside
and that extends 30 inches (762 mm) in developed length of pipe beyond
the exterior walls of the buildings and conveys the drainage to the
building sewer.
[Amended 7-15-2015 by L.L. No. 4-2015]
That part of the drainage system that extends from the end
of the building drain and conveys the discharge to a public sewer,
private sewer, individual sewage disposal system or other place of
disposal.
[Amended 7-15-2015 by L.L. No. 4-2015]
The Village Engineer of Briarcliff Manor or his authorized
representative.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
A plumbing appurtenance that is installed in a sanitary drainage
system to intercept oily and greasy wastes from a wastewater discharge.
Such device has the ability to intercept free-floating fats and oils.
[Added 7-15-2015 by L.L.
No. 4-2015]
A plumbing appurtenance that is installed in the sanitary
drainage system to intercept free-floating fats, oils and grease from
wastewater discharge. Such a device operates on a time- or event-controlled
basis and has the ability to remove free-floating fats, oils and grease
automatically without intervention from the user except for maintenance.
[Added 7-15-2015 by L.L.
No. 4-2015]
Any point of discharge into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake
or other body of surface or groundwater.
The owner of a building and the operator of a commercial
use within such building. The owner/operator need not be the same
person.
[Added 7-15-2015 by L.L.
No. 4-2015]
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution. It is used to indicate the concentration
of "free acid" and "free alkali."
The duly appointed Plumbing Inspector of the Village of Briarcliff
Manor or his authorized representative. All drainage, plumbing, ventilation
or sewer work, whether connected with public or private sewers, shall
be subject to the inspection and approval of the Plumbing Inspector.
The waste 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, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
A sewer which is controlled by public authority and to which
all owners of abutting properties have equal rights.
A sewer which carries sanitary sewage and to which stormwaters,
surface waters, groundwaters, cooling waters and industrial wastes
are not intentionally admitted.
Waste or water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings,
institutions and industrial establishments, and shall be further classified
as follows:
SANITARY SEWAGEThe water-carried wastes discharging from the sanitary conveniences of buildings and structures, including but not limited to dwellings, apartment houses, hotels, office buildings, factories or institutions.
NORMAL SEWAGEShall be regarded as normal for the Village if analyses show by weight a daily average of not more than 2,500 pounds of suspended solids per million gallons of waste (300 parts per million), not more than 2,000 pounds (240 parts per million) on BOD, and not more than 417 pounds (50 parts per million) of ether-soluble matter (grease or oil), each, per million gallons of daily flow.
UNPOLLUTED WATER or WASTEAny water or waste containing none of the following: free or emulsified grease or oil; acid or alkali; phenols or other substances imparting taste or odor in receiving waters; toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution; and noxious or odorous gases. It shall contain not more than 10,000 parts per million by weight of dissolved solids, of which not more than 2,500 parts per million shall be as chloride with permissible volume subject to review by the Superintendent, and not more than 10 parts per million each of suspended solids and BOD. The color shall not exceed 50 parts per million.
COOLING WATERThe water discharged from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other, but shall be free from odor and oil. It shall contain no polluting substances which would produce BOD or suspended solids each in excess of 10 parts per million by weight.
INDUSTRIAL WASTESThe liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
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.
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 flows during normal
operation.
A pipe or conduit which carries storm and surface waters
and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes. It may, however,
carry unpolluted waters.
The Superintendent of Public Works of the Village of Briarcliff
Manor or his authorized 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.
