Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Part
1 shall be as follows:
ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act as amended, Public
Law 95-217.
BOD (biochemical oxygen demand)
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.
BUILDING DRAIN
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.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
DIRECTOR
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]
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial processes, as distinct
from domestic or sanitary wastes.
INFILTRATION
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]
INFLOW
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]
NATIONAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or STANDARD
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.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other
body of surface or groundwater.
PERSON
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.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
PRETREATMENT
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.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
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.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface,
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEPTAGE
The liquid, solid or gaseous contents of a septic tank or
cesspool.
SEPTIC TANK
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.
SEWAGE
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.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SLUG
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.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
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.
TOWN MANAGER
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]
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.