Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
APPLICANT
The owner or person requesting a sewer permit or requesting
permission to enter the Town sewer system.
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter in five days at 20º C., expressed in milligrams
per liter, as determined by test methods defined in Standard Methods.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a sewer system
which receives the discharge from waste pipes inside the walls of
the building or structure and conveys it to the building sewer. The
physical limit of the building drain shall be a point eight feet outside
the exterior face of the structure's wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The pipe(s) extending from the structure's building drain
to its connection to the public sanitary sewer.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer receiving both natural surface runoff and sewage.
DWELLING UNIT
Any part of a structure which, through sale or lease, is
intended for human habitation, including single-family and multifamily
housing, condominiums, apartments and time-share units.
[Added 6-13-2012]
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage, and
sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER
The liquid wastes, including any types of solids, from industrial
or commercial manufacturing processes as distinct from sanitary wastewater.
Industrial wastewaters may or may not be discharged separately from
sanitary wastewaters. For a combined discharge, the Select Board shall
determine if the discharge meets the definition of "industrial wastewater."
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
OWNER
The person who is the vested holder of title for any real
estate, or it may mean all tenants, lessees or others in control or
use of the property in question, when applicable. Excluded from this
definition is a mortgagee of the property in question unless the mortgagee
exercises his mortgage rights and becomes an owner.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
group, or applicant.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution. It is a method of expressing
the acidic or basic strength of a solution and the tendency or ability
of that solution to react with other acidic or basic solutions. The
pH value may range from one (strong acid) to 14 (strong base). Pure
water is neutral and has a pH of seven.
PRIVATE SEWER SYSTEM
Any sewer that collects wastewater from two or more building
sewers on private property owned separately or jointly and discharges
to a public sanitary sewer. Private sewer systems are not permitted
except by approval by the Select Board.
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, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A common sanitary sewer serving the general public and owned
and controlled by the Town.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer pipe which carries domestic and/or industrial wastewater
and to which natural stormwater, surface water, and groundwater are
not intentionally admitted.
SANITARY WASTEWATER
The liquid waste discharged from a building's or structure's
sanitary conveniences, such as toilets, washrooms, urinals, sinks,
showers, and small laundries, and from kitchens and cafeterias, essentially
free of industrial wastes or toxic materials. Sanitary wastewater
may or may not be discharged separately from industrial wastewater.
For a combined discharge, the Select Board shall determine if a wastewater
discharge meets the definition "sanitary wastewater."
SEPTAGE
The mixture of liquids and solid matters removed from a septic
tank during normal cleaning.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together
with such natural groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may
be present. This term shall be interchangeable with the word "wastewater."
Until natural groundwater, surface water or stormwater is contaminated
by such wastes, it is not in and of itself sewage.
[Amended 6-11-2003]
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit, whether above or below the ground, for
carrying sewage.
SEWER EXTENSIONS
Additions to the existing public sewer system. Anything else
is a sewer connection. A public sewer extension is a wastewater facility
constructed on public property or within a road right-of-way and which
is physically connected to the rest of the public sewer system. A
private sewer extension is a wastewater facility constructed on private
property and connected to the public sewer system.
SLUG
Any discharge of water or wastewater in which the concentration
of any given constituent or the rate of flow exceeds, for any period
of duration no longer than 15 minutes, more than five times the average
twenty-four-hour concentration, or flow, during normal operation.
STANDARD METHODS
Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater,
latest edition, published by the American Public Health Association.
STORM DRAIN
A conduit which carries natural stormwater and surface water
and drainage, but not sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted
cooling water.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent.
[Amended 6-11-2003]
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage, or other liquids and which are defined as total
suspended solids and are determined in accordance with Standard Methods.
WATERCOURSE
A natural or improved channel is which a flow of water occurs,
either continuously or intermittently. The terms "watercourse" and
"swale" shall be considered interchangeable.
[Amended 6-12-2024 ATM
by Art. 12]