A.Â
ACT
BOD (biochemical oxygen demand)
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
COMBINED SEWER
DIRECTOR
GARBAGE
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
INFILTRATION
INFLOW
NATIONAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or STANDARD
NATURAL OUTLET
PERSON
pH
PRETREATMENT
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
SANITARY SEWER
SEPTAGE
SEPTIC TANK
SEWAGE
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
SEWAGE WORKS
SEWER
SLUG
STORM DRAIN (sometimes termed storm sewer)
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOWN MANAGER
WATERCOURSE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this Part 1 shall be as follows:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act as amended, Public
Law 95-217.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° Celsius, expressed in milligrams per liter.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from sanitary waste pipes inside the
walls 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.
The Director of Public Works of the Town or his authorized
deputy, agent, or representative. In any instance where there is no
duly appointed Director of Public Works of the Town, the Town Manager,
as defined herein this chapter, shall assume the authorities and duties
of this chapter.
[Amended 5-10-2021 by Ch. No. 2001]
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 processes, as distinct
from domestic or sanitary wastes.
Water other than wastewater that enters a sewer system (including
sewer service connections and foundation drains) from the ground through
means which include, but are not limited to, defective pipes, pipe
joints, connections, or manholes. Infiltration does not include, and
is distinguished from, inflow.
[Added 5-10-2021 by Ch.
No. 2001]
Water other than wastewater that enters a sewer system (including
sewer service connections) from sources which include, but are not
limited to, roof leaders, cellar drains, yard drains, area drains,
drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections
between storm sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers,
stormwaters, surface runoff, street washwaters, or drainage. Inflow
does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.
[Added 5-10-2021 by Ch.
No. 2001]
Any regulations concerning pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under Sections
307B and C of the Act which applies to industrial users.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other
body of surface or groundwater.
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, company, corporation,
association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity
or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents
or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine; the singular
shall include the plural when indicated by the context.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater, prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing
such pollutants into the Town sewerage system. Dilution shall not
be an acceptable form of pretreatment.
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 controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface,
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
The liquid, solid or gaseous contents of a septic tank or
cesspool.
A watertight receptacle designed to receive discharge of
sewage from a building sewer and is designed and constructed to permit
the disposition of settable solids, the digestion of the matter deposited,
and the discharge of the liquid portion into a leaching system.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together
with such ground, surface and storm waters 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.
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 sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling
water.
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.
At all times herein this chapter, any specific reference
to the Town Manager shall also be understood to include his or her
designee as the Town Manager may, from time to time, designate persons
to fulfill the administrative duties and/or hold an administrative
authority as set forth in this chapter.
[Added 5-10-2021 by Ch.
No. 2001]
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
B.Â
Word usage. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
[Amended 9-21-2020 by Ch. No. 1995; 1-20-2021 by Ch. No. 1999]
Except as provided in § 206-13 for violations of Article IV of this Part 1, the following penalties shall apply to violations of this Part 1:
A.Â
Any person found to be in violation of any provisions of this chapter except § 206-38 shall be served by the Town with written notice stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for the satisfactory correction thereof. Such time limit shall not exceed 45 days unless the violator shows cause, in writing, for any such delay and the Director of Public Works or Town Manager assents to an extension. The offender shall, within the period of time stated in such notice, permanently cease all violations to the satisfaction of the Director of the Department of Public Works. The Director may require a violator to uncover and fully expose any or all portions of any such work performed to establish that the violation has been cured.
B.Â
Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limits provided for in Subsection A shall be fined in the amount not exceeding $50 per day starting from the date of service of written notice of the violation.
C.Â
Any person found to be in violation of § 206-38, including, but not limited to, misrepresentations respecting the origin of dumped septage, shall be fined $100 for each violation and in addition shall be subject to revocation of his permit in the discretion of the Director of Public Works or Town Manager.
D.Â
Any person in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter
shall become liable to the Town for any direct or indirect expense,
loss, or damage occasioned the Town by proximate cause of such violation.
F.Â
No building permit may be issued to any party in violation of any
provisions of this chapter unless and until such violation is cured
to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works.
G.Â
No such violation or penalty may be issued contrary to the provisions
of Appendix B of this chapter.
