A.
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
BUILDING SANITARY DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER LATERAL
CROSS-CONNECTIONS
DRAINAGE OUTLET
GARBAGE
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
INTERCEPTOR
PERSON
pH
PLUMBING INSPECTOR
PRIVATE SEWER or INDIVIDUAL SANITARY DISPOSAL SYSTEM
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
SANITARY SEWER
SEWER
SEWAGE WORKS SYSTEM
SEWAGE
SLOPE
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
WATERCOURSE
Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates
otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this Part 1 shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic
or other unstable matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in parts per million by weight.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building sanitary
drainage system which receives the discharge from waste piping inside the
walls of the building and conveys such discharge to the building sewer lateral
beginning three feet outside the outer face of the building wall.
That part of the horizontal piping of a sanitary system which extends
from the end of the building sanitary drain and conveys sewage to a public
sewer, individual sanitary disposal system or other approved facility.
Any physical connection or arrangement between two otherwise separate
piping systems, one of which contains potable water and the other water of
unknown or questionable safety, whereby water may flow from one system to
the other, the direction of the flow depending on the pressure differential
between the two systems.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of
surface or ground water.
Solid wastes from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
The liquid wastes resulting from the processes employed in industrial
establishments and which are free of fecal matter.
A device designed and installed so as to separate and retain deleterious,
hazardous fecal matter or otherwise undesirable matter such as grease, oil
or sand from normal or industrial wastes and permit only normal sewage or
liquid wastes to discharge into the disposal terminal by gravity.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in
grams per liter of solution.
The person or persons duly authorized by the Town Board to inspect
and approve the installation of building sewer laterals and their connection
to the public sewer system.
A sewer privately owned and not directly serviced by public authority.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that
have been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely
under the water-flow conditions of the device and flow prevailing in public
sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
An approved sewer directly controlled by public authority.
A pipe which carries sewage and excludes storm-, surface and ground
water.
Any liquid waste containing animal or vegetable matter in suspension
or solution, and may include liquids containing chemicals in solution.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of
sanitary sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
The grade or pitch of a line of pipe in reference to a horizontal
plane. In drainage it is usually expressed as the fall in a fraction of an
inch per foot length of pipe.
A drain used for conveying rainwater, surface water, condensate,
cooling water or similar liquid wastes, exclusive of sewage and industrial
waste.
The Superintendent of Sewers for the Town of Boston as appointed
by the Town Board, or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
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.
Natural or man-made drainage channel in which a flow of water occurs,
either continuously or intermittently, other than a roadbed rain ditch within
the public right-of-way.
B.
Word usage. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.