Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(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.
Shall have the same meaning as "house drain (building drain)"
as defined in Plumbing Code, § 83-25.[1]
Shall have the same meaning as "house sewer" as defined in
Plumbing Code, § 83-25.[2]
The City of Rochester.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
The Commissioner of Environmental Services of the city.
[Amended 11-10-1992 by Ord. No. 92-403]
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking, packaging, canning and dispensing of food and from the handling,
storage and sale of produce.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking, packaging, canning
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, with no particle greater than one-fourth
(Â 1/4) inch in any dimension.
A main sewer operated by the City in a street, alley or other
premises.
Sewage discharging from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings
(including apartment houses and hotels but not commercial kitchens
therein), office buildings, factories or institutions.
A main sewer which carries sewage and to which storm- , surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be present.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
All facilities for collection, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Is mandatory; MAY is permissive.
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which
in concentration of any given constituent or in volume of flow exceeds
for any period of duration longer than five minutes more than five
times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during normal
operation.
Shall mean a sewer which carries storm and surface waters
and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than
unpolluted cooling water.
Shall mean solids that either float on the surface of or
are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids, and which are
removable by laboratory filtering.
Shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either
continuously or intermittently.
