[Amended 1-7-1997 by Ord. No. 97-01]
Unless otherwise stated in the section where the term is used in this Part 3, the meaning of terms used in this Part 3 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.
Sewage whose concentration of one or more characteristics
of normal sewage exceeds the maximum concentrations of the characteristics
of normal sewage. See "normal sewage."
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.
The regional administrator of the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (USEPA), Region 2.
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the quantity of ammonia in a sample, expressed as milligrams
of nitrogen per liter.
That person who makes application for any permit. The applicant
may be an owner, new or old, or his agent.
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.
The procedures defined as "standard methods" in this article,
or other procedures approved by the City Engineer, for flow measurement
or determination of the concentration of pollutants or their surrogates
in waters, wastewaters, and/or sludges.
The latest edition of any ASTM specification, when stipulated in this Part 3.
An authorized representative of the industrial user may be:
A principal executive officer of at least the
level of vice president, if the industrial user is a corporation;
A general partner or proprietor, if the industrial
user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively;
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.
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.
Any person who undertakes to construct a building or any
part of a building, either under contract or for resale.
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.
See "user, categorical industrial."
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.
The City of Oneida, incorporated on March 28, 1901.
The Engineer for the City or his authorized agent or representative.
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.
The optical density at the visual wave length of maximum
absorption, relative to distilled water. One hundred percent transmittance
is equivalent to zero (0.0) optical density.
See "sewer, combined."
A wastewater containing surface water or stormwater.
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.
Attachment of one user to a sewer. See "extension."
The one-time application fee to offset City of Oneida 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.
The legally defined bounds of real property from which wastewater
may be discharged into the POTW. The bounds shall be established,
altered, changed, modified, reduced, enlarged, combined, or consolidated
by action of the City of Oneida Common Council.
The term shall refer to "approval authority", or to the City
Engineer when the City has an approved pretreatment program under
the provisions of 40 CFR 403.11.
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.
A pollutant that the POTW treatment plant was designed to
treat, defined in accordance with the Act.
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 Part 3.
Madison County, the county in which the City of Oneida is
located.
Any person who subdivides land for the purpose of constructing,
or causing to be constructed, buildings for which wastewater disposal
facilities are required.
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the State of New York. (For reference, see "indirect
discharge.")
See "sewage, domestic."
The sanitary sewer installed in anticipation of future connection
to a POTW but which is not used, in the meantime, for transport of
storm or sanitary sewage.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
Wastewater after some degree of treatment, flowing out of
any treatment device or facilities.
For the purpose of determining compliance with limitations prescribed by Article XIII, end of pipe shall mean the control manhole, provided the samples collected from the control manhole are representative of the discharge to the POTW.
The concentration of a substance in a sample of wastewater
at end of pipe.
See "National Categorical Pretreatment Standard."
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.
Attachment of a sewer line, with more than one user, to an
existing sewer line.
All buildings, other structures, grounds and contiguous property
at any locations related to or connected with a user at the user's
location.
Oil, grease, or fat in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in a wastewater treatment
facility.
The quantity of liquid or waste that flows in a certain period
of time.
A pipeline carrying flow under pressure.
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.
A single sample of wastewater representing the physical,
chemical, and biological characteristics of the wastewater at one
point and time. Sample duration must not exceed 15 minutes.
Any material which is measured by analytical methods as defined
and regulated by the New York State Department of Health Environmental
Laboratory Approval Program.
The form used by the NYSDEC to survey industries to perform
and update the Industrial Chemical Survey.
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.")
Pertaining to industry, manufacturing, commerce, trade, business,
or institution, and is distinguished from domestic or residential.
The survey of industries in New York State, initiated by
the NYSDEC, to determine chemical usage and storage by those industries.
See "user, industrial."
The liquid or liquid-carried solid, liquid and/or gaseous
waste from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, service, utility,
or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system
(including 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.
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.
Wastewater, raw or partly treated, flowing into any sewage
treatment device or facilities.
A sewer which receives dry weather flow sanitary sewers and/or
additional predetermined quantities of combined waste and conducts
such flow to a plant for treatment or disposal.
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with discharges
from other sources:
Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment
processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal;
and
Therefore is a cause of a violation of any requirement
of the City of Oneida POTW's 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 or local regulations):
Section 405 of the Clean Water Act;
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);
Clean Air Act;
Toxic Substance Control Act; and
Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act.
The sewer extension from the building drain to the street
lateral or other place of wastewater disposal.
The sewer extension from the public sewer to the property
line.
A septage waste hauler licensed by the NYSDEC in accordance
with 6 NYCRR Part 364 to transport septage and other wastes to POTW's
for disposal.
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").
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342).
Any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307(B)
of the Act, and 40 CFR, Section 403.5.
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
to state's waters.
That individual or entity who purchased property within the service area of the City after the effective date of this Part 3.
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.
A discharger to the POTW who commences discharge after the effective date of this Part 3.
See "sewage, normal."
The use or lack of use of the POTW 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.
That individual or entity who owns or owned a property, within the service area of the POTW, purchased prior to the effective date of this Part 3, 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.
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.
The discharge which exits the City of Oneida POTW 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'S SPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or
duration of a violation).
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 Part 3.
Any individual, public or private corporation, political
subdivision, federal, state, or local agency or entity, association,
trust, estate or any other legal entity whatsoever.
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.
See "total phosphorus."
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.
The manmade 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.
Any parcel of real property including land, improvements
or appurtenances, as buildings, grounds, etc.
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
process, process changes, or by other means, except as prohibited
by 40 CFR, Section 403.6(D).
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial
user.
Any categorical standard or prohibitive discharge standard.
The most recently revised or updated list, developed by the
EPA, in accordance with the Act.
See "national prohibitive discharge standard."
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.
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater, and to treat sludge and residuals derived from such treatment.
A treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C § 1292), which is owned, in this instance, by the
City of Oneida. 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.
See "sewer, private."
A natural watercourse or body of water (usually waters of
the state) into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
Includes, but is not 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, memorandum, directives, notes and notebooks, correspondence, descriptions, telephone call slips, photographs, permits, applications, reports, compilations, films, graphs and inspection reports. For the purposes of this Part 3, "records" shall mean records of and relating to waste generation, reuse and disposal, and shall include records of usage of raw materials.
A drain installed to receive water collecting on the surface
of a roof for disposal.
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.
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.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, and
such ground, surface, and stormwater 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.
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 (e.g., toilets) and gray water (e.g.,
sinks and showers). (See "sewage, sanitary.")
Sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes,
which show, by analysis, the following characteristics:
B.O.D. (five-day): 2,090 pounds per million
gallons (250 milligrams per liter), or less.
Suspended solids: 2,500 pounds per million gallons,
(300 milligrams per liter), or less.
Phosphorus: 42 pounds per million gallons (five
milligrams per liter), or less.
Ammonia: 83 pounds per million gallons (10 milligrams
per liter), or less.
Total Kjeldahl nitrogen: 83 pounds per million
(10 milligrams per liter), or less.
Chlorine demand: 209 pounds per million gallons
(25 milligrams per liter), or less.
Chemical oxygen demand: 2,920 pounds per million
gallons (350 milligrams per liter), or less.
Oil and grease: 830 pounds per million gallons
(100 milligrams per liter), or less.
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.
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."
See "POTW treatment plant."
Sewage which has characteristics greater than those of normal
sewage and /or which contains substances of concern.
A pipe or conduit for carrying or transporting sewage.
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff
and sewage.
A sewer either on private property or in a public street
which has not been constructed by nor is controlled by a public agency.
A sewer in which all abutting property owners have equal
rights, and the use of which is controlled by the City.
A sewer which carries sewage, and to which stormwater, surface
water, and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastewaters, other than cooling
waters and other unpolluted waters.
All facilities for collecting, regulating, pumping, and transporting
wastewater to and away from the POTW treatment plant.
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.")
See "user, significant industrial."
A user is in significant noncompliance if its violation(s)
meet(s) one or more of the following criteria:
Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits,
defined here as those, in which 66% or more of all of the measurements
taken during a six-month period exceed (by any magnitude) the daily
maximum limit or average limit for the same pollutant parameter;
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 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);
Any other violation of a pretreatment effluent
limit (daily maximum or long-term average) that the Superintendent
determines has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges,
interference or pass-through (including endangering the health of
POTW personnel or the general public);
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;
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;
Failure to report accurately any noncompliance;
and
Any other violation which the Superintendent
determines will adversely affect the implementation or operation of
the local pretreatment program.
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, 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.
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.
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 City Engineer, whichever is the most conservative.
State of New York.
See "waters of the state."
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation; also the flow resulting therefrom.
Those compounds which the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation has determined may be harmful to man or the environment.
A mechanism used for removing water from a sump or wet well.
The result obtained, using approved laboratory procedures
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.
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.
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.
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid, or solid, that when
discharged to a public sewer in sufficient quantities may be hazardous
to POTW operation and maintenance 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.
Any person who contributes, causes, or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the POTW.
An industrial user of the POTW that is subject to Categorical
Pretreatment standards under 40 CFR 403.6 and 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter
N.
A discharger to the POTW who is discharging on or before the effective date of this Part 3.
A discharger to the POTW who discharges nondomestic wastewaters.
A discharger to the POTW who initiates discharge after the effective date of this Part 3.
An industrial user of the City of Oneida POTW who is:
CIU;
Except as provided in 40 CFR 403.3(t)(2), any
other industrial user that discharges an average of 25,000 gallons
per day or more of process wastewater (excluding sanitary, noncontact
cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater) to the POTW;
Except as provided in 40 CPR 403.3(t)(2), any
other industrial user that contributes a process waste stream which
makes up 5% or more average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity
of the POTW treatment plant;
Any other industrial user that the permittee
designates as having a reasonable potential for adversely affecting
the POTW's operation or for violating a pretreatment standard or requirement.
The demand sewer use charge which is based, in part or wholly, on the volume of normal sewage discharged into the POTW (there may be surcharges, as provided for in Article XII). The volume charge shall be based on a specific cost per 100 cubic feet or per 1,000 gallons. The specific charge shall be subject to approval by the City of Oneida Common Council. The moneys so obtained shall be used for current operation and maintenance, for retirement of bonded indebtedness, and for finding of capital projects of the POTW. The basis of volume charge calculations shall be made available to the public, on demand, as provided in Article XIV. The volume charge shall be recalculated annually, as well as the surcharge rates.
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.
See "sewage, unusual strength or character."
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.
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
|
|
CFR
|
Code of Federal Regulations
|
|
CPLR
|
Code of Public Law and Rules
|
|
COD
|
Chemical oxygen demand
|
|
CWA
|
Clean Water Act
|
|
EPA
|
Environmental Protection Agency
|
|
ELAP
|
Environmental Laboratory Approval Program
|
|
L
|
Liter
|
|
mg
|
Milligram
|
|
mg/l
|
Milligrams per liter
|
|
NCPI
|
National Clay Pipe Institute
|
|
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 Phosphorous
|
|
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. § 690
L et seq.
|
|
TSS
|
Total suspended solids
|
|
U.S.C.
|
United State Code of Laws
|
|
USEPA
|
United State Environmental Protection Agency
|
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.
