Definitions. Unless the context specifically
indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in these regulations 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 20º C., expressed
in milligrams per liter by weight.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage
system that receives the discharge from the soil, waste and other drainage
pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer,
beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
CHLORINE DEMAND
The amount of chlorine which must be added to water or waste to produce
a residual chlorine content of at least 1/10 milligram per liter after a minimum
contact time of 10 minutes.
COOLING WATER
Includes the wastewater from air-conditioning, industrial cooling,
condensing and hydraulically powered equipment or similar apparatus.
DESIGNATED AGENT
A person appointed by the Sewer Authority to represent the Authority
in the field.
DRAIN LAYER or CERTIFIED DRAIN LAYER
Either an individual, partnership or corporation to whom the Sewer
Authority of the Town of Bethel has issued a certificate to install, alter
or repair sewers, sewer connections, house connections, etc., during the period
when such certificate is valid, and the proper agents and representatives
of such drain layer.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food
and from the handling, storage and sale of produce. "Properly shredded garbage"
shall mean garbage which has been shredded so that no garbage particles will
be greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of
surface or ground water.
PERSON
Any 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.
SEWAGE
Wastewater or water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings,
institutions and industrial establishments. "Sewage" shall be further classified
as follows:
(1)
DOMESTIC OR SANITARY SEWAGEThe solid and liquid wastes from toilet and lavatory fixtures, kitchens, laundries, bathtubs, shower baths or equivalent plumbing fixtures as discharged from dwellings, business and industrial buildings.
(2)
INDUSTRIAL SEWAGE OR WASTESThe water-carried wastes of any industrial process, as distinct from domestic or sanitary sewage. All substances carried in industrial wastes, whether dissolved, in suspension or mechanically carried by water, shall be considered as industrial wastes.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of
sewage or wastewater.
SEWER
The pipe, together with manholes and other structures or equipment
appurtenant thereto, provided to carry sewage. "Sewers" shall be further classified
as follows:
(1)
PUBLIC SEWERA trunk, main or lateral sewer up to and including the Y-branch or tee provided for connection thereto, and to which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and which is controlled by public authority. The public sewer does not include the building or house sewer, or the building connection lateral after it is connected with a building sewer.
(2)
SANITARY SEWERA sewer which carries only sanitary sewage and to which stormwater, subsoil drainage and cooling water are not intentionally admitted.
(4)
BUILDING OR HOUSE CONNECTION LATERALThe pipe laid incidental to the original construction of a public sewer from said public sewer up to some point at the side of the street, highway or similar location, and there capped, having been provided and intended for extension and for use at some time thereafter as part of a building or house sewer connection.
SEWER AUTHORITY
The Public Works Commission of the Town of Bethel.
[Amended 12-1-1979]
SEWER DISTRICT
That area within the Town of Bethel which is now or may in the future
be served by public sewers.
[Amended 12-1-1979]
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.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A pipeline carrying stormwater, subsoil drainage, acceptable cooling
water or other reasonably clean waters, but excluding sewage and polluted
industrial wastes.
STORMWATER
Includes the runoff or discharge of rain and melted snow or other
water from roofs, surfaces of public or private lands or elsewhere. "Stormwater"
shall also include subsoil drainage as defined herein.
SUBSOIL DRAINAGE
Includes water from the soil percolating into subsoil drains and
through foundation walls, basement floors or underground pipes.
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 filtering as
prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage and Industrial
Waste, American Public Health Association.
TOWN
The Town of Bethel, Connecticut.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or
intermittently.