Unless otherwise stated in the section where the term is used in this chapter, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as stated below. When not inconsistent with the context, the present tense shall include the future, and words used in the plural shall include the singular and vice versa. Furthermore, a masculine pronoun shall include the feminine. Shall is mandatory; may is permissive.
ABNORMAL SEWAGE
Sewage whose concentration of one or more characteristics of normal sewage exceeds the maximum concentrations of these characteristics of normal sewage. See "normal sewage."
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., as may be amended.
ADMINISTRATIVE HEAD OR BODY
The Town of Cazenovia Sewer Advisory Committee, the members of which shall have been duly appointed by the Town of Cazenovia Town Board.
ADMINISTRATOR
The Regional Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), Region 2.
AGENT
A person requested, employed or contracted by an owner or owners, occupant or lessee.
ALTERNATIVE WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM (ALTERNATIVE SYSTEM)
Any domestic waste disposal system that modifies the design of a conventional disposal system, defined below, employing only a septic tank and a subsurface soil absorption field. Examples of alternative systems include, but are not limited to, mound systems, sand filtration systems, built-up or filled systems, evapotranspiration-absorption systems, aerobic digestion systems, non-water-borne systems and holding tanks.
AMMONIA NITROGEN
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure to determine the quantity of ammonia in a sample, expressed as milligrams per liter (mg/l) of ammonia nitrogen.
APPENDIX A
Refers to Appendix 75-A, Wastewater Treatment Standards - Individual Household Systems, as promulgated by the New York State Department of Health and as set forth at State of New York Title 10, Department of Health, Chapter II, Part 75 (as amended from time to time). The statutory authority for Appendix 75-A is set forth at Public Health Law § 201, Subdivision 1(1). Appendix A, which is incorporated herein by reference, is modified by certain provisions of Article XIV.
APPLICANT
That person who makes application for any permit. The applicant may be an owner, new or old, or his agent.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
The USEPA, or the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), in the event the NYSDEC is delegated approval authority responsibility by the USEPA.
APPROVED LABORATORY PROCEDURE
The procedures defined in the current approved edition of "Standard Methods," in this chapter or in other procedures approved by the NYSDEC, NYSDOH or USEPA for flow measurement or determination of the concentration of pollutants or their surrogates in waters, wastewaters and/or sludges.
ASTM, denoting AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING AND MATERIALS
The latest edition of any ASTM specification, when stipulated in this chapter.
BOD(5), denoting BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure to determine the quantity of oxygen utilized in five days at 20° C. in the aerobic biochemical oxidation of organic matter or in a sample, expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDER
Any person who undertakes to construct a building or any part of a building, either under contract or for resale.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the building walls and conveys it to the building lateral, which begins five feet outside the inner face of the building wall. A building drain is privately owned and maintained.
CAZENOVIA LAKE WATERSHED DISTRICT
All property and land within the Cazenovia Lake Watershed as indicated/depicted on the attached Cazenovia Lake Watershed District Map, including the Critical Water Quality Protection Zone and land within 500 feet of Cazenovia Lake. (See attached Cazenovia Lake Watershed District Map.)
CBOD, CARBONACEOUS BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure to determine the quantity of carbonaceous oxygen utilized in five days at 20° C. in the aerobic carbonaceous biochemical oxidation of organic matter or in a sample, expressed in milligrams per liter.
CHIEF OPERATOR
That individual or entity appointed by the Town of Cazenovia Town Board to operate the Town of Cazenovia Pollution Control Facility and corresponding system. Such an individual shall be licensed in the State of New York and qualified to oversee distribution and POTW operations. This definition shall also include his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
CHLORINE DEMAND
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure to determine the difference between the amount of chlorine added to a sample and the amount of chlorine remaining in the sample at the end of a specified contact time at room temperature, expressed in milligrams per liter.
COD, denoting CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure to measure the oxygen requirement of that portion of matter, in a sample, that is susceptible to oxidation, by a specific chemical oxidant, expressed in milligrams per liter.
CODES ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
The Town of Cazenovia Codes Enforcement Officer or any other person authorized by law to perform his duties.
COLOR
The optical density at the visual wavelength of maximum absorption, relative to distilled water. One hundred percent transmittance is equivalent to zero optical density.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
The sample resulting from the combination of individual samples of wastewater taken at selected intervals, for a specified time period. The individual samples may have equal volumes, or the individual volumes may be proportioned to the flow at the time of sampling.
CONNECTION CHARGE (TAP FEE)
The one-time application fee to offset expenses to process an application for a connection of a building/street lateral to the public sewer. The fee also covers plan review, permit issuance, street repair cost, and inspection costs. The fee may be scaled to the amount of work involved or to the size of the public sewer involved.
CONTAMINATION
An impairment of the quality of the state's waters by waste to a degree which creates a hazard to the public health through poisoning or through spread of disease.
CONTRACTOR
Any person, firm or corporation approved by the Town Board to do work on the sewerage system in the Town.
CONTROL AUTHORITY
The term shall refer to "approval authority," or to the Chief Operator when the Town of Cazenovia has an approved pretreatment program under the provisions of 40 CFR 403.11.
CONTROL MANHOLE
A manhole accessible to the control authority in or upstream of the street lateral, such that samples collected from the manhole represent the discharge to the POTW.
CONVENTIONAL POLLUTANT
A pollutant that the POTW treatment plant was designed to treat, defined in accordance with the Act.
CONVENTIONAL WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
An on-site domestic waste disposal system that uses a septic tank for treatment and a subsurface soil absorption field for final disposal exclusively into subsurface soil. "Subsurface soil" means soil in its natural condition and does not include fill.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air conditioning, refrigeration, or other sources. It shall contain no polluting substances which would produce COD or suspended solids in excess of five milligrams per liter, or toxic substances, as limited elsewhere in this chapter.
COUNTY
Madison County, the county in which the Town of Cazenovia Water Pollution Control Facility and corresponding system is located.
CRITICAL WATER QUALITY PROTECTION ZONE
All property and land labeled as the Critical Water Quality Protection Zone on the attached Cazenovia Lake Watershed District Map, which area includes any land within 500 feet of Cazenovia Lake. (See attached Cazenovia Lake Watershed District Map.)
DEVELOPER
Any person who subdivides land for the purpose of constructing, or causing to be constructed, buildings for which wastewater disposal facilities are required.
DIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the State of New York. (For reference, see "indirect discharge.")
DISTANCE
The shortest horizontal linear distance from the nearest point or structure or object to the high-water mark of the nearest watercourse or the edge, margin or top of the precipitous bank forming the mean high-water mark of a watercourse.
DISTRICT (SEWER DISTRICT)
The Town of Cazenovia Consolidated Sanitary Sewer District and its extensions.
DOMESTIC WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
Hereinafter referred to as a "waste disposal system" or "disposal system" or "system," any system which disposes of domestic waste not connected to the POTW and/or the sewerage system. (See "septic system.")
DOMESTIC WASTES
See "sewage, domestic."
DRY SEWER
The sanitary sewer installed in anticipation of future connection to a POTW but which is not used, in the meantime, for transport of sanitary sewage.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
END OF PIPE
The control manhole or other point provided for the collection of samples which are to be representative of a user's discharge to the POTW.
END-OF-PIPE CONCENTRATION
The concentration of a substance in a sample at the end of pipe.
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
The person appointed by the Town of Cazenovia as enforcement officer, or such other person as may be designated by the Town of Cazenovia to perform the duties herein conferred on the enforcement officer. The enforcement officer may also be the Chief Operator.
EPA, USEPA or UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
The agency of the federal government charged with the administration and enforcement of federal environmental laws, rules and regulations; also may be used as a designation for the Administrator or other duly authorized official of this Agency.
FAILED DOMESTIC WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
A system in which:
A. 
The discharge is rising to the surface of the soil;
B. 
The discharge is backing up into the residence; or
C. 
There is a structural defect which may cause Subsection A or B to occur if it is not corrected.
FLOATABLE OIL
Oil, grease, or fat in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in a wastewater treatment facility.
FLOW RATE
The quantity of liquid or waste that flows in a certain period of time.
FORCE MAIN
A pipe or conduit used for carrying sewage under pressure.
GARBAGE
The solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, from the handling, storage, and sale of produce, and from the packaging and canning of food.
GRAB SAMPLE
A single sample of wastewater representing the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the wastewater at one point and time.
ICS FORM
The form used by the NYSDEC to survey industries to perform and update the Industrial Chemical Survey.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
The introduction of wastewater into a POTW for treatment and ultimate discharge of the treated effluent to the state's waters. (For reference, see "direct discharge.")
INDUSTRIAL
Meaning or pertaining to industry, manufacturing, commerce, trade, or business, and is distinguished from domestic or residential.
INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL SURVEY (ICS)
The survey of industries in New York State, initiated by the NYSDEC, to determine chemical usage and storage by those industries.
INDUSTRIAL USER
See "user, industrial."
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid or liquid-carried solid, liquid and/or gaseous wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, service, utility, or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INFILTRATION
Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system (excluding building drains) from the ground through such means as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manholes. Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow. Infiltration is inadvertent, that is, not purposely designed or built into the sewer or drain.
INFLOW
Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system (including building drains) from sources such as, but not limited to, roof leaders, cellar drains, area drains, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross-connections between storm sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, stormwaters, foundation drains, swimming pools, surface runoff, street wash waters, or drainage. Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration. Inflow is purposely designed and/or built into the sewer or drain.
INSTITUTIONAL USER
See "user, institutional."
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with discharges by other sources:
A. 
Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and/or
B. 
Is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES/SPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance with the following statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more-stringent state, county or local regulations):
(1) 
Section 405 of the Clean Water Act;
(2) 
SWDA) (including Title II, more commonly referred to as the "Resource Conservation and Recovery Actnservation and Recovery Act - RCRA"), and including state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the SWDA;
(3) 
The Clean Air Act;
(4) 
The Toxic Substances Control Act; and
(5) 
The Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act.
LATERAL, BUILDING
The sewer extension from the building drain to the street lateral or other place of wastewater disposal.
LATERAL, STREET
The sewer extension from the public sewer to the property line or right-of-way line, as the case may be.
MAJOR REPAIRS
Includes all repairs, replacements, expansions or modifications to an existing domestic waste disposal system other than those repairs that are defined as "minor repairs." Any repair to a failed domestic waste disposal system is a major repair.
MINOR REPAIRS
Includes repair work to domestic waste disposal systems, including, but not limited to, tank pumping, repair of broken pipes and other normal maintenance, but does not include replacement, expansion or modification of existing systems.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or CATEGORICAL STANDARD
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(B) and (C) of the Act (22 U.S.C. § 1347), as amended, which applies to a specific category of industrial users. These standards apply at the end of the categorical process ("end of process").
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1392), as amended.
NATIONAL PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD or PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD
Any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307(B) of the Act, and 40 CFR 403.5, as amended.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, to the state's waters.
NEW CONSTRUCTION
Any building constructed or placed on an undeveloped site and requiring a new wastewater system and currently not utilizing a wastewater system.
NEW OWNER
That individual or entity who purchased or acquired property within the service area of the Town of Cazenovia Water Pollution Control Facility after the effective date of this chapter.
NEW SOURCE
Any source, the construction of which is commenced after the publication of the proposed regulation prescribing a categorical standard which will be applicable to such source, if such standard is thereafter promulgated.
NEW USER
A discharger to the POTW who commences discharge after the effective date of this chapter.
NORMAL SEWAGE
See "sewage, normal."
NUISANCE
The use or lack of use of the POTW in such a manner so as to endanger life or health, or give offense to the senses, obstruct, or otherwise interfere with the reasonable use or maintenance of the POTW.
OCCUPIED STRUCTURE
Any structure occupied and used for residential, commercial, industrial, or institutional purposes.
OIL AND GREASE
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure to determine the quantity of fats, wax, grease, and oil, in a sample, expressed in fats, oil and grease (FOG) milligrams per liter.
OLD OWNER
That individual or entity who owns or owned a property, within the service area of the POTW, purchased or acquired prior to the effective date of this chapter, or inherited the property at any time and who intends to sell or transfer the property, or has sold or transferred the property to a new owner, also the agent of the old owner.
OTHER WASTES
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, eggshells, coffee grounds, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lyme, ashes, and all other discarded matter not normally present in sewage; also, the discarded matter not normally present in sewage.
OWNER
Any individual, firm, company, association, corporation, society, person or group having title to real property.
PASS THROUGH
The discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the state in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's SPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
PERCOLATION TESTING AND TEST PITS
These tests are defined as follows:
A. 
Test pits are test holes used to determine subsurface conditions. Test pits or test holes are to be conducted as set forth in Appendix A, and they are not used to conduct percolation tests.
B. 
Percolation tests determine the movement of water downward and radially through the interstitial spaces (or pores) between particles in natural subsurface soil. Such a test is to be conducted in the manner set forth in Appendix A.
PERMIT
A temporary, revocable, written document allowing use of the POTW for specified wastes over a limited period of time, containing sampling locations and reporting frequencies, and requiring other actions as authorized by this chapter.
PERSON
Any individual, public or private corporation, political subdivision, federal, state, or local agency or entity, association, trust, estate or any other legal entity whatsoever.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions, in gram moles per liter of solution. A pH value of 7.0, the pH scale midpoint, represents neutrality. Values above 7.0 represent alkaline conditions. Values below 7.0 represent acid conditions.
PHOSPHORUS, TOTAL
See "total phosphorus"; expressed as milligrams per liter, mg/l (TP).
POLLUTANT
Any material placed into or onto the state's waters, lands and/or airs, which interferes with the beneficial use of that water, land and/or air by any living thing at any time.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological and/or radiological integrity of the state's waters, lands and/or airs resulting from the introduction of a pollutant into these media.
POTW TREATMENT PLANT
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to wastewater and to treat sludge and residuals derived from such treatment; in this instance, the Town of Cazenovia Water Pollution Control Facility.
PRETREATMENT (TREATMENT)
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less-harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction or alteration can be achieved by physical, chemical or biological processes, process changes or by other means.
PRIORITY POLLUTANTS
The most recently revised or updated list, developed by the EPA, in accordance with the Act.
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 and with no particle having a dimension greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PROPERTY LINE
The boundary line of a public highway, street, alley or easement controlled by the village, Town or county.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sanitary sewer within the highway limits, easement limits or other rights-of-way, including street laterals.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292), as amended, which is owned in part, in this instance, by the Town of Cazenovia. This definition includes any sewers and appurtenances that transport wastewater to the POTW treatment plant, but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected directly or indirectly to a facility providing treatment.
RECEIVING WATERS
A natural watercourse or body of water (usually waters of the state) into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
REPLACEMENT WASTEWATER SYSTEM
Any construction or modification of a domestic waste disposal system for an existing building which already has a system. Complete replacement of a system for an existing property with a system shall be considered a replacement wastewater system.
ROOF DRAIN
A drain installed to receive water collecting on the surface of a roof for disposal.
SALE OF BUILDING, STRUCTURE OR RESIDENCE
The transfer of ownership to another person or entity for consideration, and does not include a transfer of ownership through inheritance.
SEPTAGE
All liquids and solids in and removed from septic tanks, holding tanks, cesspools or approved types of chemical toilets, including, but not limited to, those serving private residences, commercial establishments, institutions and industries. Septage shall not have been contaminated with substances of concern or priority pollutants.
SEPTIC TANK
A private domestic sewage treatment system consisting of an underground tank (with suitable baffling), constructed in accordance with any and/or all local and state requirements.
SERVICE AREA OF THE POTW
The legally defined bounds of real property from which wastewater may be discharged into the POTW. The service area of the POTW includes parts of the Town of Cazenovia, Village of Cazenovia and the Town of Nelson. The bounds shall be established, altered, changed, modified, reduced, enlarged, combined or consolidated by action of the Town of Cazenovia Town Board.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments and such groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be inadvertently present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT (WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT)
See "POTW treatment plant."
SEWAGE, DOMESTIC (DOMESTIC WASTES)
Liquid wastes from the cooking and handling of food, liquid wastes containing human excrement and similar matter from the sanitary conveniences in dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial buildings and institutions, or liquid wastes from clothes washing and/or floor/wall washing. (See "sewage, sanitary.")
SEWAGE, NORMAL
A. 
Sewage or other wastes which show, by analysis, the following characteristics:
(1) 
B.O.D. (five-day): less than 250 milligrams per liter.
(2) 
Suspended solids: less than 300 milligrams per liter.
(3) 
Phosphorus: less than 15 milligrams per liter.
(4) 
Ammonia: less than 30 milligrams per liter.
(5) 
Total Kjeldahl nitrogen: less than 50 milligrams per liter.
(6) 
CBOD: less than 300 milligrams.
(7) 
Chlorine demand: less than 25 milligrams per liter.
(8) 
Chemical oxygen demand: less than 350 milligrams per liter.
(9) 
Oil and grease: less than 100 milligrams per liter.
B. 
In spite of satisfying one or more of these characteristics, if the sewage also contains substances of concern, it may not be considered normal sewage.
SEWAGE, SANITARY
Liquid wastes from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings (including apartment houses, restaurants and hotels), office buildings, factories or institutions and free from stormwater, surface water, industrial and other wastes. (See "domestic wastes.")
SEWAGE, UNUSUAL STRENGTH OR CHARACTER
Sewage which has characteristics greater than those of normal sewage and/or which contains substances of concern.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying or transporting sewage.
SEWER (TRUNK)
A sewer owned and maintained by the Town of Cazenovia and/or the Town of Nelson and/or the Village of Cazenovia, generally intended to convey sewage from the Towns and Village to the POTW/POTW treatment plant.
SEWER, COMBINED
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff and sewage.
SEWER, PUBLIC
A sewer in which all abutting property owners have equal rights and the use of which is controlled by the Town of Cazenovia and/or the Town of Nelson and/or the Village of Cazenovia.
SEWER, SANITARY
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwaters, surface waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWER, STORM (STORM DRAIN)
A sewer which carries stormwaters and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastewaters, other than cooling waters and other unpolluted waters.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM (also POTW)
All facilities for collecting, regulating, pumping and transporting wastewater to and away from the POTW treatment plant.
SLUG
A substantial deviation from normal rates of discharge or constituent concentration (see "normal sewage") sufficient to cause interference. In any event, a discharge which, in concentration of any constituent or in quantity of flow and BOD loading, exceeds, for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flow and BOD loading during normal user operations shall constitute a slug.
STANDARD METHODS
Procedures contained in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater," published by the American Public Health Association, procedures established by the Administrator, pursuant to Section 304(G) of the Act and contained in 40 CFR, Part 136, and amendments thereto (if 40 CFR, Part 136, does not include a sampling or analytical technique for the pollutant in question, then procedures set forth in the EPA publication, "Sampling and Analysis Procedures for Screening of Industrial Effluents for Priority Pollutants," April 1977, and amendments thereto, shall be used), any other procedure approved by the Administrator or any other procedure approved by the Chief Operator, whichever is the most conservative.
STATE
State of New York.
STATE POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (SPDES) PERMIT
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1392).
STATE'S WATERS
See "waters of the state."
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation; also the flow resulting therefrom.
STRUCTURE
Any structure occupied and used for residential, commercial, industrial, or institutional purposes.
SUBSTANCES OF CONCERN
Those compounds which the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has determined may be harmful to humans or the environment.
SUMP PUMP
A mechanism used for removing water from a sump or wet well.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure, to determine the dry weight of solids in a sample that either float on the surface of or are in suspension or are able to be settled and can be removed from the sample by filtration, expressed in milligrams per liter; total suspended solids.
TOTAL KJELDAHL NITROGEN (TKN)
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure, to determine the quantity of ammonia in a sample and released during the acid digestion of organic nitrogen compounds, expressed as milligrams of nitrogen per liter.
TOTAL PHOSPHORUS
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure, to determine the total quantity of orthophosphate in a sample of wastewater following the hydrolysis of phosphorus compounds, expressed as milligrams of total phosphorus (TP) per liter of sample.
TOWN BOARD
The duly elected Town Board of the Town of Cazenovia or its authorized deputy or representative.
TOWN(S)
The Town of Cazenovia and/or the Town of Nelson, as applicable.
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, that, when discharged to a public sewer in sufficient quantities, may be hazardous to sewer maintenance personnel, tend to interfere with any biological sewage treatment process or constitute a hazard to recreation in the receiving waters, due to the effluent from a sewage treatment plant or overflow point; any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the EPA under the provisions of CWA 307(A), or other acts.
TRUCKED OR HAULED WATER
See "septage" and "wastewater."
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater into the POTW.
USER, EXISTING
A discharger to the POTW who is discharging on or before the effective date of this chapter.
USER, INDUSTRIAL
A discharger to the POTW who discharges nondomestic wastewaters or wastewaters that may impact the POTW, as defined in 40 CFR 403, as amended.
USER, INSTITUTIONAL
A public, quasi-public or private entity formed for the purpose of and/or which provides educational, health care, social, financial, administrative or other similar services. Institutional users include, but are not limited to, hospitals, nursing homes, secondary schools, colleges, universities, and other similar entities.
USER, NEW
A discharger to the POTW who initiates discharge after the effective date of this chapter.
USER, SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL
An industrial user of the POTW who is:
A. 
Subject to National Categorical Pretreatment Standards promulgated by the EPA;
B. 
Having substantial impact, either singly or in combination with other industries, on the operation of the treatment works;
C. 
Using, on an annual basis, more than 10,000 pounds or 1,000 gallons of raw material containing priority pollutants and/or substances of concern and discharging a measurable quantity of these pollutants to the sewer system;
D. 
Discharging more than 5% of the flow or load of conventional pollutants received by the POTW treatment plant.
*Note: A user discharging a measurable quantity of a pollutant may be classified as nonsignificant if, at the influent to the POTW treatment plant, the pollutant is not detectable.
VILLAGE
The Village of Cazenovia.
WASTE
Waste generated from a residence or other building or structure, including, but not limited to, human body waste and household or domestic waste such as toilet, bath, sink, dishwashing or laundry waste.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried or domestic wastewaters from dwellings, commercial establishments, industrial facilities and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the POTW.
WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT
A permit as set forth in Article X of this chapter.
WASTEWATER, UNUSUAL STRENGTH OR CHARACTER
See "sewage, unusual strength or character."
WATERS OF THE STATE (STATE'S WATERS)
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, intermittent, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the state or any portion thereof.
The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
ASTM
American Society for Testing and Materials
AWWA
American Water Works Association
BOD
Biochemical oxygen demand
CBOD
Carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand
CFR
Code of Federal Regulations
COD
Chemical oxygen demand
EPA
Environmental Protection Agency
L
Liter
Mg
Milligrams
Mg/l
Milligrams per liter
NPDES
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NYSDEC
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
NYSDOH
New York State Department of Health
NYSDOT
New York State Department of Transportation
P
Total phosphorus
PSI
Pounds per square inch
POTW
Publicly owned treatment works
PPM
Parts per million, weight basis
SIC
Standard Industrial Classification
SPDES
State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
SWDA
Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901et seq.
U.S.C.
United States Code of Laws
USEPA
United States Environmental Protection Agency
TSS
Total suspended solids
Terms not defined in this article, or terms found to be ambiguous or improperly defined in this article, shall be defined by the Act or regulations pursuant thereto.