Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this article 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 parts per million by weight.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping or drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes
inside the walls of the building and conveys the same to the inner
face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer which carries both sanitary sewage and storm- and
surface water.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
IMPROVEMENT
The Port Ewen Sewer Improvement of the Town of Esopus, Ulster
County, New York.
IMPROVEMENT BOUNDARIES
The physical boundaries as presently established or as may
be extended from time to time as duly provided by town law.
INDUSTRIAL or COMMERCIAL
Classifications which bear upon applications, rates, fees
or other considerations and which shall be determined solely by the
Town Board of the town.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from
sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
PERSON
An individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such 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 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.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried waste from residences,
business buildings and institutions, together with such ground-, surface
and storm waters as may be present.
[Amended 3-12-1997 by L.L. No. 4-1997]
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
TOWN
The Town of Esopus, Ulster County, New York.
TOWN BOARD
The duly elected Town Board of the Town of Esopus or its
authorized deputy or representative.
TOWN ENGINEER
The professional engineer retained as Town Engineer for the
Town of Esopus or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.