Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the following terms and phrases, as used in this Part 1, shall have
the meanings hereinafter designated:
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The amount of oxygen required by bacteria while stabilizing
decomposable organic matter under aerobic conditions for five days.
The determination of "BOD" shall be performed in accordance with the
procedures prescribed in the latest edition of Standard Methods for
the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building plumbing
which received 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 (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; it may also be called a "house connection."
CHLORINE DEMAND
The amount of chlorine which must be added to waters or wastes
to produce a residual chlorine in such water or wastes.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer intended to receive both sewage and storm- or surface
water.
COMMISSIONER
The Commissioner of Environmental Protection for the State
of Connecticut.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
Biological oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal
coliform bacteria; plus any additional pollutants identified in the
water pollution control facilities' NPDES permit, where the water
pollution control facility is designed to treat such pollutants to
the degree required by the NPDES permit.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
A mixture of aliquot samples obtained at regular intervals
over a time period. The volume of each aliquot is proportional to
the discharge flow rate for the sampling interval.
COOLING WATER
Process water in general used for cooling purpose to which
the only pollutant added is heat and which has such characteristics
that it may be discharged to a natural outlet in accordance with federal
and state laws and regulations.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE
Sewage that consists of water and human excretions or other
waterborne wastes incidental to the occupancy of a residential building
or nonresidential building but not wastewater from water softening
equipment, commercial laundry wastewater and blowdown from heating
and cooling equipment.
FLOATABLE OIL
Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from sewage by treatment in an approved pretreatment
facility.
GARBAGE
The animal or vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking or serving of foods.
GRAB SAMPLE
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration
of time.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers and septage hauling trucks.
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER
All wastewater from industrial processes, trade or business,
and is distinct from domestic sewage.
INTERFERENCE
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes
or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement
of the Town's NPDES permit. The term includes prevention of sewage
sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance with Section 405
of the Act, (33 U.S.C. § 1345) or any criteria, guidelines
or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act
(SWDA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act or more
stringent state criteria, including those contained in any state sludge
management plan prepared pursuant to title IV of SWDA, applicable
to the method of disposal or use employed by the POTW.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any discharge point, including but not limited to discharge
points such as storm and sanitary sewer overflows, into a watercourse,
pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity or any other legal entity or their legal representatives, agents
or as-signs. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, the
singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration.
The concentration is the weight of hydrogen-ions, in grams, per liter
of solution.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste
discharged into water.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial
user.
PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wash water to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a water pollution control
facility. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical,
chemical or biological processes, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
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 common sanitary sewer controlled by a governmental agency.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which collects and conveys domestic sewage from residences,
public buildings, commercial establishments, industries and institutions.
A "sanitary sewer" may also collect and convey permitted industrial
wastewater and unintentionally admitted ground-storm- and surface
waters.
SEPTAGE
The liquids and solids which are removed from a tank used
to treat domestic sewage.
SEWAGE
Human and animal excretions and all domestic and such manufacturing
wastes as may tend to be detrimental to the public health.
SEWAGE COLLECTION SYSTEM
The structures and equipment required to collect and convey
sewage to the water pollution control facility.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
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 or which adversely affects the sewage collection system
and/or the water pollution control facility.
SOLUBLE OIL
Oil which is of either mineral or vegetable origin and disperses
in water or sewage at temperatures between 0° and 65° C. For
the purposes of this Part 1 emulsified oil shall be considered as
"soluble oil."
STATE
The State of Connecticut.
STORM SEWER
A sewer which collects and conveys stormwater or groundwater.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of Public Works and/or his duly authorized
deputy, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The solid matter, measured in milligrams per liter which
may be in suspension, floatable or settleable and is removable by
laboratory filtering as prescribed in the latest edition of Standard
Methods for Examination of Water and Wastewater.
TOWN
The Town of Stratford.
TOXIC POLLUTANT
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provision of Section 307(a) of the Act
or other acts.
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria
in effect of water that would not cause violation of receiving water
quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary
sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of sewage into the Town's sewer system.
WASTEWATER
The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source,
it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may
be present.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES
The structures, equipment and processes required to collect,
carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of
the effluent.
WASTEWATER POLLUTION CONTROL FACILITY
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater,
industrial wastes and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "waste
treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "water pollution
control plant" or wastewater treatment work or publicly owned treatment
works (POTW).
WATERCOURSE
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water
either continuously or intermittently.