Unless the content specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic
matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C., expressed
in milligrams per liter (mg/l). The determination of "BOD" shall be in accordance
with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
BUILDING DRAIN
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, beginning five
feet from the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other
place of disposal.
CHLORINE REQUIREMENT
The amount of chlorine, in milligrams per liter, which must be added
to sewage to produce a specified residual chlorine content or to meet the
requirements of some other objective, in accordance with procedures set forth
in Standard Methods.
COD (denoting "chemical oxygen demand")
The measure of the oxygen equivalent, expressed in milligrams per
liter (mg/l), of that portion of the organic matter in a sample that is susceptible
to oxidation in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
CONTRACTOR
An individual, partnership or corporation to whom or to which the
State of Connecticut or its authorized agent shall have issued a license as
such to install and repair sewers and building sewers during the period when
such license is valid, and the proper agents and representatives of such "contractor."
DEP
The State of Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection.
EASEMENT
Acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
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 manufacturing processes, trade
or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INSPECTOR
An agent or employee of the Town of Griswold assigned by the Water
Pollution Control Authority to examine and test material and work furnished
by a contractor and to observe the construction of a building sewer or any
part thereof. Inspectors shall have no power to waive any part of these rules
and regulations.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of
surface or ground water.
OWNER
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
PH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in
moles per liter of solution.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights
and which is controlled by a water pollution control authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface and ground
waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes 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.
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 flow during normal operation.
STANDARD METHODS
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the most recent
edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published
jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works
Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
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
The Town of Griswold, County of New London, State of Connecticut.
UNCONTAMINATED COOLING WATER
Process water in general used for cooling purposes which has such
characteristics that it may be discharged to natural receiving waters in accordance
with all Town, state and federal regulations.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or
intermittently.