As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
ABNORMAL SEWAGE
Sewage whose concentration of one or more characteristics
of normal sewage exceeds the maximum concentrations of the 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.
ADMINISTRATOR
The Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (USEPA), Region 2.
AMMONIA
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the quantity of ammonia in a sample, expressed as milligrams
of nitrogen per liter.
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 as "standard methods" in this article,
or other procedures approved by the Town, for flow measurement or
determination of the concentration of pollutants or their surrogates
in waters, wastewaters, and/or sludge.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INDUSTRIAL USER
A.
A principal executive officer of at least the
level of vice president, if the industrial user is a corporation;
B.
A general partner or proprietor, if the industrial
user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively;
C.
A duly authorized representative of the individual
designated above, if such representative is responsible for the overall
operation of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
BOD (DENOTING "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND")
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine the quantity of oxygen utilized 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.
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.
COLOR
The optical density at the visual wave length of maximum
absorption, relative to distilled water. One-hundred-percent transmittance
is equivalent to 0.0 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
Attachment of one user to a sewer. (See "extension.")
CONNECTION CHARGE (TAP FEE)
The one-time application fee to offset Town 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, and
inspection costs. The fee may be scaled to the amount of work involved,
or to the size of the public sewer involved.
CONTROL AUTHORITY
The term shall refer to approval authority, or to the SCSD
No. 1 when addressing the pretreatment program under the provisions
of 40 CFR 403.11. If specific to Town of Malta sewers that are in
Town of Malta, the term shall refer to the Town.
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 tributary to the POTW treatment plant.
CONVENTIONAL POLLUTANT
A pollutant that the POTW treatment plant was designed to
treat, defined in accordance with the Act.
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.
DEVELOPER
Any person who constructs or causes 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.")
DRY SEWERS
The sanitary sewer installed in anticipation of future connection
to a collection system but which is not used, in the meantime, for
transport of storm or sanitary sewage.
END OF PIPE
For the purpose of determining compliance with limitations prescribed by Article
VIII, shall mean the control manhole, provided the samples collected from the control manhole are representative of the discharge to the sewers tributary to the POTW treatment plant.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
EPA, USEPA or U.S. 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.
EXTENSION
Attachment of a sewer line, with more than one user, to an
existing sewer line.
FACILITY
All buildings, other structures, grounds and contiguous property
at any locations related to or connected with a user at the user's
location.
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.
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 treatment plant
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, business, or institution, 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 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.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with discharges
by other sources:
A.
Inhibits or disrupts the POTW treatment plant,
its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use
or disposal; and
B.
Therefore is a cause of a violation of any requirement
of SCSD No. 1 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 treatment plant in accordance with the
following statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder
(or more stringent state or local regulations):
(1)
Section 405 of the Clean Water Act;
(2)
The Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) (including
Title II, more commonly referred to as the "Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act," RCRA), and including state regulations contained
in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle
D or the SWDA);
(4)
Toxic Substance Control Act; and
(5)
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.
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), which applies to a specific category of
industrial users. These standards apply at the end of the categorical
process (end of process).
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
to state's waters.
NEW OWNER
That individual or entity who purchased property within the
service area of the Town 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 Section 307(C)
(33 U.S.C. § 1317) categorical pretreatment standard which
will be applicable to such source, if such standard is thereafter
promulgated.
NEW USER
A discharger to the POTW treatment plant who commences discharge
after the effective date of this chapter.
NUISANCE
The use or lack of use of the POTW treatment plant in such
a manner so as to endanger life or health, give offense to the senses,
or obstruct or otherwise interfere with the reasonable use or maintenance
of the POTW.
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 milligrams per liter.
OLD OWNER
That individual or entity who owns or owned a property, within
the service area of the POTW treatment plant, purchased prior to the
effective date of this chapter, or who inherited the property at any
time and intends to sell the property, or has sold the property to
a new owner; also the agent of the old owner.
OTHER WASTES
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, egg shells,
coffee grounds, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, ashes, and all
other discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial
wastes. Also, the discarded matter not normally present in sewage
or industrial waste.
PASS-THROUGH
The discharge which exits the SCSD No. 1 POTW treatment plant
into waters of the state in quantities which, alone or in conjunction
with discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any
requirement of the POTW treatment plant SPDES permit (including an
increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
PERMIT
A temporary revocable written document allowing use of the
POTW treatment plant 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.
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.
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 treatment plant.
The reduction or alteration can be achieved by physical, chemical,
or biological process, process changes, or by other means, except
as prohibited by 40 CFR, Section 403.6(D).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial
user.
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.
POTW TREATMENT PLANT
Publicly owned treatment works treatment plant owned by Saratoga
County Sewer District No. 1 designed to provide treatment to wastewater,
and to treat sludge and residuals derived from such treatment.
RECEIVING WATERS
A natural watercourse or body of water (usually waters of
the state) into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
RECORDS
Shall include, but not be limited to, any printed, typewritten,
handwritten or otherwise recorded matter of whatever character (including
paper or electronic media), including but not limited to letters,
files, memoranda, directives, notes and notebooks, correspondence,
descriptions, telephone call slips, photographs, permits, applications,
reports, compilations, films, graphs and inspection reports. For the
purposes of this chapter, "records" shall mean records of and relating
to waste generation, reuse and disposal, and shall include records
of usage of raw materials.
ROOF DRAIN
A drain installed to receive water collecting on the surface
of a roof for disposal.
SEPTAGE
All liquids and solids in and removed from septic tanks,
holding tanks, cesspools, or approved type of chemical toilets, including
but not limited to those serving private residences, commercial establishments,
institutions, and industries. Also sludge from small sewage treatment
plants. 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 TREATMENT PLANT
The legally defined bounds of real property from which wastewater
may be discharged into the POTW treatment plant. The bounds shall
be established, altered, changed, modified, reduced, enlarged, combined,
or consolidated by action of the SCSD No. 1.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, and
such ground-, surface, and storm-water as may be inadvertently present.
The admixture of sewage, as defined above, with industrial wastes
and other wastes shall also be considered "sewage," within the meaning
of this definition.
SEWAGE, DOMESTIC (DOMESTIC WASTES)
Liquid wastes from the noncommercial preparation, 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. Therefore, domestic
sewage includes both black water and grey water. (See "sewage, sanitary.")
SEWAGE, NORMAL
Sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes, which show, by
analysis, the characteristics consistent with SCSD No. 1 Sewer Use
Ordinance. In spite of satisfying SCSD No. 1 Sewer Use Ordinance,
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 and hotels), office buildings, factories,
or institutions, and free from stormwater, surface water, industrial,
and other wastes. (See “domestic wastes.”)
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying or transporting sewage.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM
All facilities for collecting, regulating, pumping, and transporting
wastewater to and away from the POTW treatment plant.
SEWERAGE SURCHARGE
The demand payment for the use of a public sewer and/or sewage
treatment plant for the handling of any sewage, industrial wastes,
or other wastes accepted for admission thereto in which the characteristics
thereof exceed the maximum values of such characteristics in normal
sewage. (See "volume charge.")
SEWER, COMBINED
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff
and sewage.
SEWER DISTRICTS
Town of Malta Sewer Districts Nos. 1 and 2, and any sewer
district which may hereinafter be established or approved by the Town.
SEWER, PUBLIC
A sewer in which all abutting property owners have equal
rights, and the use of which is controlled by SCSD No. 1 or the Town.
SEWER, SANITARY
A sewer which carries sewage, and to which storm-, surface,
and ground-waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWER, STORM (STORM DRAIN)
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastewaters, other than cooling
waters and other unpolluted waters.
SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE (SNC)
A user is in significant noncompliance if its violation(s)
meet(s) one or more of the following criteria:
A.
Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits,
defined here as those, in 66% or more of all of the measurements taken
during a six-month period, which exceed (by any magnitude) the daily
maximum limit or average limit for the same pollutant parameter.
B.
Technical Review criteria (TRC) violations,
defined here as those, in which 33% or more of all of the measurements
for each pollutant parameter taken during a six-month period, which
equal or exceed the product of the daily maximum limits multiplied
by the applicable TRC (TRC = 1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oil and grease;
TRC = 1.2 for all other pollutants);
(1)
Any other violation of a pretreatment effluent
limit (daily maximum or long-term average) that SCSD No. 1 or the
Town determines has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges,
interference or pass-through (including endangering the health of
POTW treatment plant personnel or Town personnel or the general public);
(2)
Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare or to the environment or has caused SCSD No. 1 or the Town to exercise its emergency authority under Article
XI of this chapter;
(3)
Failure to meet, within 90 days after the schedule
date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in a local control
mechanism or enforcement order for starting construction, completing
construction, or attaining final compliance;
(4)
Failure to provide, within 30 days after the
due date, required reports such as baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day
compliance reports, periodic self-monitoring reports, and reports
on compliance with compliance schedules:
(5)
Failure to report accurately any noncompliance;
(6)
Any other violation which SCSD No. 1 or the
Town determines will adversely affect the implementation or operation
of the local pretreatment program.
SLUG
A substantial deviation from normal rates of discharge or
constituent concentration (See "normal sewage.") sufficient to cause
interference. In any event, a discharge that, in concentration of
any 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 user operations,
shall constitute a slug.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972, and subsequent revisions.
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 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 Town, whichever is the most conservative.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation; also the flow resulting therefrom.
SUBSTANCES OF CONCERN
Those compounds which the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation has determined may be harmful to man 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 settleable, and can
be removed from the sample by filtration, expressed in milligrams
per liter.
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 phosphorus per liter of sample.
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid, or solid, that when
discharged to a public sewer in sufficient quantities may be hazardous
to POTW treatment plant operation and maintenance personnel or Town
personnel, tend to interfere with any biological sewage treatment
process, or to 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 provisions of CWA 307(A),
or other acts.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes, or permits the contribution
of wastewater to reach the POTW treatment plant.
USER, EXISTING
A discharger to the POTW treatment plant who is discharging
on or before the effective date of this chapter.
USER, INDUSTRIAL
A discharger to the POTW treatment plant who discharges nondomestic
wastewaters.
USER, NEW
A discharger to the POTW treatment plant who initiates discharge
after the effective date of this chapter.
USER, SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL (SIU)
A.
An industrial user of the POTW treatment plant
who is:
(1)
Subject to national categorical pretreatment
standards promulgated by the EPA.
(2)
Having substantial impact, either singly or
in combination with other industries, on the operation of the treatment
works.
(3)
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.
(4)
Discharging more than 5% of the flow or load
of conventional pollutants received by the POTW treatment plant.
B.
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.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial 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 treatment plant.
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, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through, or border upon the state or any portion thereof.