This Wastewater Discharge Law sets uniform requirements
for discharges into the wastewater collection and treatment system
and enables the agency to comply with the administrative provisions
of the Grant Regulations, the water quality requirements set by the
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the applicable
effluent limitations, national standards of performance, toxic and
pretreatment effluent standards, and any other discharge criteria
which are required or authorized by state or federal law, and to derive
the maximum public benefit by regulating the quality and quantity
of wastewater discharged into the agency sewer system. This Part 2
provides a means for determining wastewater volumes, constituents,
and characteristics, the setting of charges and fees, and the issuance
of permits to certain users. Revenues derived from the application
of this Part 2 shall be used to defray the agency's cost of operating
and maintaining adequate wastewater collection and treatment systems
and to provide sufficient funds for capital outlay, bond service costs,
capital improvements and depreciation.
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"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
B.
ADMINISTRATOR
AGENCY
BENEFICIAL USES
BUILDING SEWER
COMMUNITY SEWER
COOLING WATER
FEDERAL ACT
GARBAGE
HOLDING TANK WASTE
INDUSTRIAL USER
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
INDUSTRY
INFILTRATION
INFLOW
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
MASS EMISSION RATE
PERSON
POLLUTANTS
PREMISES
PRETREATMENT
PRIORITY POLLUTANTS
PRIVATE SEWER
SANITARY SEWER
SANITARY WASTE
SHREDDED GARBAGE
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRY
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
STORM SEWER
SUBSTANCES OF CONCERN
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
TREATMENT WORKS
UNPOLLUTED WATER
USER
USER CLASSIFICATION
WASTE
WASTEWATER
WASTEWATER CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
WATERS OF THE STATE
Unless otherwise defined herein, terms shall be as
adopted in the most current edition of Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association,
the American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control
Federation. Waste constituents and characteristics shall be measured
by standard methods unless expressly stated, or as established by
federal or state regulatory agencies.
The Cortlandville Town Supervisor or his designated representative.
The Town of Cortlandville Water and Sewer Department.
Uses of the waters of the state that may be protected against
quality degradation, including domestic, municipal, agricultural and
industrial supply, power generation, recreation, aesthetic enjoyment,
navigation and the preservation and enhancement of fish, wildlife
and other aquatic resources or reserves, and other uses, both tangible
or intangible, as specified by federal and state law.
A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user
to a community sewer.
A sewer owned and operated by the agency tributary to a treatment
facility operated by the agency.
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, cooling refrigeration or other sources. It shall contain
no polluting substances which would produce BOD5 or suspended solids each in excess of 10 milligrams per liter, or of toxic substances as limited in Article III.
The Federal Water Pollution Act, P.L. 92-500,[1] and any amendments thereto; as well as any guidelines,
limitations and standards promulgated by the United States Environmental
Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
Animal and vegetable wastes from the preparation, cooking
and disposing of food; and from the handling, processing, storage
and sale of food.
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum pump tank trucks.
Any nongovernmental user of publicly owned treatment works
identified in any of the following divisions of the Standard Industrial
Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget:
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Division A
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Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
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Division B
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Mining
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Division D
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Manufacturing
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Division E
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Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas
and Sanitary Services
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Division I
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Services
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Any liquid, gaseous or solid substances, or a combination
thereof, resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade
or business, or from development or recovery of natural resources.
Any establishment which uses water in a product or generates
a wastewater during any period of production.
The water entering a sewer system, including sewer service
connections, from the ground, through such means as, but not limited
to, defective pipes, pipe joints, connections or manhole walls. Infiltration
does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.
The water discharged into a sewer system, including service
connections from such sources as but not limited to roof leaders,
cellar, yard, and area drains, cooling water discharges, drains from
springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections from storm
sewers, catch basins, stormwaters, surface runoff, street wash waters
and drainage. Inflow does not include and is distinguished from infiltration.
Any wastewater contributor identified in the Standard Industrial
Classification (SIC) Manual in any of Divisions A, B, D, E and I that:
Has a discharge flow of 50,000 gallons or more
per average work day (if seasonal, the average shall be computed on
the period of use);
Has a flow or pollutant loading greater than
5% of the design capacity of the agency's treatment works;
Has in its wastes toxic pollutants in toxic
amounts as defined in the standards issued under § 307(a)
of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972; or
Is found by the agency's authorized representative
to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other
contributing industries, on the treatment works or upon the quality
of effluent from the treatment works.
The weight of material discharged to the community sewer
system during a given time interval. Unless otherwise specified, a
mass emission rate shall mean pounds per day of a particular constituent
or combination of constituents.
Any individual, firm, company, partnership, association,
and private, public, and municipal corporations' responsible corporate
officer, the United States of America, the State of New York, districts
and all political subdivisions, governmental agencies and mandatories
thereof.
May be defined now or hereafter by appropriate local, state
or federal authorities, or by the Commissioner, as substances which
may be present in wastewater, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, the
amount which may contain soluble or insoluble solids of organic or
inorganic nature which may deplete the dissolved oxygen content of
natural waters, contribute solids, contain oil, grease or floating
solids which may cause unsightly appearance on the surface of such
waters, or contain material detrimental to aquatic life.
A parcel of real estate or portion thereof, including any
improvements thereon, which is determined by the agency to be a single
user for purposes of receiving, using and paying for service.
The treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction
into the sewage treatment works.
Any of the contaminants on the USEPA List of 126 Pollutants
which are defined as priority pollutants.
A sewer either on private property or in a public street
which has not yet been constructed by nor is controlled by a public
agency.
A sewer intended to carry only sanitary or sanitary and industrial
wastewater from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants
and institutions.
Wash water, culinary wastes and liquid waste containing only
human excreta and similar matter, flowing in or from a building drainage
system or sewer originating in a dwelling, business building, factory
or institution.
Garbage shredded to such a degree that all particles will
be carried freely under flow conditions normally prevailing in public
sewers, with no particle having a dimension greater than 1/2 inch
in any direction.
Any nongovernmental user as defined by the Environmental
Protection Agency using publicly owned treatment works.
[Added 7-9-2014 by L.L.
No. 1-2014]
Any wastewater contributor that:
Is subject to promulgated Federal Categorical
Pretreatment Standards;
Has substantial impact, either singularly or
in combination with other contributing industries, on the operation
of the treatment works;
Discharges greater than 50,000 gallons per day
(gpd) of wastewater to the community sewer; or
Uses more than 10,000 pounds or 1,000 gallons
per year of priority pollutants or substances of concern and discharges
measurable quantities of these pollutants to the sewer system which
can be shown to:
Industries which are major contributing industries
as previously defined.
A sewer intended to carry only stormwaters, surface runoff,
street wash water and drainage.
Those substances defined by the NYSDEC as substances of concern
in their Industrial Chemicals Survey (ICS) form.
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, which when
discharged to the sewer system in sufficient amounts may tend to interfere
with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to recreation
in the receiving waters of the effluent from the sewage treatment
plant, pose a hazard to men working in the sewer system, or constitute
a hazard to fish or animal life.
Any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling
and reclamation of municipal sewage and/or industrial wastes of a
liquid nature or necessary to recycle or reuse water at the most economical
cost over the useful life of the works, including interceptor sewers,
outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, pumping, power and other
equipment and appurtenances; extensions, improvements, remodeling,
additions and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a
reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear
well facilities; and any works, including site acquisition of the
land, that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is
used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment;
or any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing,
treating, separating, or disposing of municipal waste, including storm
runoff, or industrial waste, including waste in combined stormwater
and sanitary sewer systems.
Water to which no constituent has been added, either intentionally
or accidentally, which would render such water unacceptable to the
agency having jurisdiction thereof for disposal to storm or natural
drainages or directly to surface waters.
Any person that discharges, causes or permits the discharge
of wastewater into a community sewer.
A classification of user based on flow and chemical constituents.
Any substance which contains sewage and any and all other
waste materials from habitation, of human or animal origin, or from
any producing, manufacturing or processing operations of whatever
nature, including such wastes placed within containers of whatever
nature prior to, and for purposes of, disposal.
Waste and water, whether treated or untreated, discharged
into or permitted to enter a community sewer.
The individual chemical, physical, bacteriological, and radiological
quality (parameters), including volume and flow rate and such other
parameters that serve to define, classify, or measure the contents,
quality, quantity and strength of wastewater.
Any arrangement of devices and structures or methods used
for treating sewage.
Any water, surface or underground, within the boundaries
of the State of New York.
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Editor's Note: See 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
