In order to ensure the proper removal and disposal of sewage and wastewaters
within the Village of Glasgo discharging into the public sewer system of Griswold,
to ensure the proper operation and maintenance and protection of the sewage
works of the Town of Griswold at Glasgo and to provide for the keeping of
adequate records and for the reasonable and proper supervision of the use
and operation of such sewage works of the Town of Griswold, these rules and
regulations are enacted, regulating and controlling the substances which may
be discharged directly or indirectly into the public sewers and sewage works
of the Town of Griswold and regulating and providing for the construction
and maintenance of inspection, protective and treatment devices and facilities.
A.
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
CHLORINE REQUIREMENT
COD (denoting "chemical oxygen demand")
COMBINED SEWER
CONTRACTOR
DEP
EASEMENT
GARBAGE
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
INSPECTOR
NATURAL OUTLET
OWNER
PH
PUBLIC SEWER
SANITARY SEWER
SEWAGE (ALSO TERMED "SANITARY SEWAGE" AND "WASTEWATER")
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
SEWAGE WORKS (SOMETIMES TERMED "SEWERAGE")
SEWER
SHREDDED GARBAGE
SLUG
STANDARD METHODS
STORM DRAIN (SOMETIMES TERMED "STORM SEWER")
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOWN
UNCONTAMINATED COOLING WATER
WATERCOURSE
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL AUTHORITY or AUTHORITY
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT
Unless the content specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
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.
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.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other
place of disposal.
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.
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.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
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."
The State of Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection.
Acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
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 manufacturing processes, trade
or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
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.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of
surface or ground water.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in
moles per liter of solution.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights
and which is controlled by a water pollution control authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface and ground
waters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences and the
existing Post Office on 36 Water Street, 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.
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.
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.
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.
A pipe or conduit 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.
The Town of Griswold, County of New London, State of Connecticut.
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.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or
intermittently.
The Water Pollution Control Authority of the Town of Griswold or
its authorized agent or representative.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
B.
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
