The following words and phrases used in this chapter shall have the
following meanings unless the context requires otherwise:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the "Clean
Water Act,“ as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
The amount of oxygen required by bacteria while stabilizing decomposable
organic matter under aerobic conditions for five days. The determination of
BOD shall be performed in accordance with the procedures prescribed in the
latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater."
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building plumbing
which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside
the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, which begins
five feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other
place of disposal. It may also be called a "house connection." The building
sewer, when used in that sense, shall include not only the pipe extending
directly from the main sewer to a point five feet from the house, building
or structure, but also pipe or pipes connecting directly or indirectly thereto,
or intended to so connect or discharge. Building sewers shall be maintained
by the owners of the property served.
The National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or pretreatment standards.
The amount of chlorine which must be added to waters or wastes to
produce a residual chlorine in such waters or wastes.
The biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform
bacteria; plus any additional pollutants identified in the water pollution
control facility's NPDES permit, where the water pollution control facility
is designed to treat such pollutants and, in fact, does treat such pollutants
to the degree required by the NPDES permit.
A mixture of aliquot samples obtained at regular intervals over a
time period. The volume of each aliquot is proportional to the discharge flow
rate for the sampling interval. The minimum time period for composite sampling
shall be four hours.
Process water in general used for cooling purposes to which the only
pollutant added is heat and which has such characteristics that it may be
discharged to a natural outlet in accordance with federal and state laws and
regulations.
The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection.
An individual, partnership, or corporation to whom the WPCA shall
have issued a permit as such to install and repair sewers and building sewers
during the period when such permit is valid, and the proper agents and representatives
of said drain layer. The term "drain layer" may also be applied to the Town
and State Highway Division employees, employees of public utilities, when
they are engaged in installing, altering and repairing sewers or connections
and appurtenances thereto under permit from the WPCA or its agents.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
Oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will separate
by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if it is properly pretreated
and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food
and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis with
no regard to the flow of the waste stream and without consideration of time.
The Health Officer of the Town of East Hampton.
Waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers,
trailers and septage hauling trucks.
All pollutants other than compatible pollutants as defined in the
definition of "compatible pollutant" above.
Includes the liquid or water-carried wastes of any industrial process
not clearly included within the definitions of "sanitary sewage," "stormwater,"
"cooling water" and "subsoil drainage" herein. In general, wastewaters carrying
any quantity of oils, grease, fats, abrasives, chemicals, residues of manufacturing
processes, wastes from commercial food preserving or canning, from slaughterhouses
or meat processing plants, and similar substances, whether dissolved, in suspension,
or mechanically carried by water, shall be considered industrial waste.
The person or persons duly authorized by the WPCA to inspect and
approve the installation of sewer connections to a point five feet outside
the inner face of the building wall and its connection to the building drain.
Is permissive (see "shall").
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1341).
Rivers, streams, brooks, waterways, lakes, ponds, marshes, swamps,
bogs, and other bodies of water, natural or artificial, public or private,
which are contained within, flow through or border upon the boundaries of
the Town of East Hampton.
Kitchen facilities situated in a commercial restaurant open to the
public where the food prepared therein is consumed on the premises.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentrations.
The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution.
Any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation,
association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any
other legal entity, or their legal representatives or agents. The masculine
gender shall include the feminine; the singular shall include the plural where
indicated by the context.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food,
which have been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried
freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with
no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
Includes the main pipe, manholes, and other structures and equipment
appurtenant thereto, controlled and maintained by the Town for the conveyance
of sanitary sewage and permitted industrial waste and shall not be understood
to include building sewers or connections between the main sewer and individual
properties. In the situation where a private connection enters the system
at a manhole, the limit of public ownership shall be the inside face of the
manhole at the point of connection.
Includes all properties within the Town, within which a public sewer
is located, or abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there
is located a public sewer.
The common waste and water-carried wastes from human dwellings and
from toilet and lavatory fixtures, kitchens, laundries and similar facilities
of business and industrial buildings. Except as specifically authorized, sanitary
sewage shall not include stormwater from roofs, yards, streets or open spaces,
water from land surfaces, or brooks, clean waste of overflows from springs,
wells, or subsoil drainage, large volumes of clean water from air conditioning
or other cooling or condensing facilities, clean wastewater from hydraulically
operated contrivances and those wastes included within the definition of "industrial
wastes" defined above.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of
sewage.
Is mandatory (see "may").
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 flows during normal operation.
Oil which is of either mineral or vegetable origin and disperses
in water or sewage at temperatures between 0° C. and 65° C. For the
purpose of this chapter, emulsified oil shall be considered as soluble oil.
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but
excludes sanitary sewage, and industrial wastes.
Includes the run off 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 in this section.
Includes water from the soil percolating into subsoil drains and
through foundation walls, basement floors, or from underground pipes or from
similar sources.
The solid matter, measured in mg/liter, which may be in suspension,
floatable, or settleable and is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed
in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and
Wastewater.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations
promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under
the provisions of Section 307(a) of the Act or other acts.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of
sewage into the Town sewer system.
The East Hampton Water Pollution Control Authority as defined in
Chapter 103 of the Connecticut General Statutes, as amended.
An arrangement of devices for the treatment of sewage and sludge.
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water either continuously
or intermittently.
