Town of Mamaroneck, NY Definitions

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; or

BOD (DENOTING "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND")

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 or is duly authorized to bind his principal.

The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C. expressed in terms of concentration in parts per million (ppm) or in terms of weight in milligrams per liter (mg/l).

BUILDING SEWER

A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user to the publicly owned treatment works.

CATEGORICAL STANDARDS

The national pretreatment standards specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged to the publicly owned treatment works.

CHLORINE DEMAND

The difference between the amount of chlorine added to water, sewage or industrial wastes and the amount of residual chlorine remaining at the end of a twenty-minute contact period at room temperature.

COMBINED SEWER

A sewer which receives both surface runoff and sewage.

COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT

Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus any additional pollutants identified in the publicly owned treatment works' SPDES permit, where the publicly owned treatment works is designed to treat such pollutants and, in fact, does treat such pollutants to the degree required by the publicly owned treatment works' SPDES permit.

CONTROL AUTHORITY

The approval authority, defined hereinabove.

COOLING WATER

The water discharged from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or any other sources to which the only pollutant added is heat.

COUNTY

The County of Westchester.

COUNTY SEWER

Any sewer owned and operated by the County of Westchester.

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION OR DEC OR NYSDEC

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, or, where appropriate, the term may also be used as a designation for the Commissioner or other duly authorized official of said agency.

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACILITIES

The Westchester County Department of Environmental Facilities.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

The Westchester County Department of Health.

DIRECT DISCHARGE

The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the State of New York.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY OR EPA

The United States Environmental Protection Agency, or, where appropriate, the term may also be used as a designation for the administrator or other duly authorized official of said agency.

GARBAGE

Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.

GRAB SAMPLE

A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis without regard to the flow in the waste stream or the time the sample is taken.

HOLDING TANK WASTE

Any waste discharged directly or indirectly into a publicly owned treatment works from temporary or permanent, mobile or fixed storage devices, including but not limited to those utilized in vessels, chemical toilets, campers, septic tanks, cesspools, trailers and vacuum-pump tank trucks.

INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT

All pollutants other than compatible pollutants, as defined in this section.

INDIRECT DISCHARGE

The introduction of pollutants into any publicly owned treatment works from any source, including holding tank wastes and scavenger wastes.

INDUSTRIAL USER

A source of indirect discharge from any industry identified in the SIC Manual, as amended and supplemented, under the category Division D, Manufacturing, and such other classes of significant waste products as, by regulation, the approval authority may deem appropriate.

INDUSTRIAL WASTES

The liquid wastes from the industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.

INTERFERENCE

An inhibition or disruption of any publicly owned treatment works, its treatment or operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal. An industrial user interferes with a publicly owned treatment works whenever such user:

Discharges a daily pollutant, loading in excess of that allowed in its permit issued pursuant to Article VIII hereof by its contract with the publicly owned treatment works or by federal, state or local law.

Discharges wastewater which substantially differs in nature or constituents from the user's average discharge.

NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS OR PRETREATMENT STANDARD

Knows or has reason to know that its discharge, alone or in conjunction with discharges from other sources, would result in a violation of the applicable SPDES permit or prevent sewage sludge use or disposal according to the publicly owned treatment works' selected method of sludge management.

Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1347), which applies to a specific category of industrial users.

NATIONAL PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD OR PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD

Any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307(b) of the Act.

NORMAL SEWAGE

Sewage or other wastes, exclusive of sewage from industrial users and significant industrial users, which when analyzed show by weight the following characteristics:

BOD of 2,000 pounds per million gallons (240 milligrams per liter) or less.

Chlorine demand of 208 pounds per million gallons (25 milligrams per liter) or less.

Suspended solids of 2,500 pounds per million gallons (300 milligrams per liter) or less.

OTHER WASTES

Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, eggshells, coffee grounds, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime cinder, ashes and all other discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial wastes.

PASS THROUGH

The discharge of pollutants through any publicly owned treatment works into its receiving waters in quantities or concentrations which are a cause of or which significantly contribute to a violation of any requirements of any Town publicly owned treatment works' SPDES permits, including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation. An industrial user significantly contributes to such permit violation where it:

Discharges a daily pollutant, loading in excess of that allowed by its permit issued under Article VIII hereof, by contract with the publicly owned treatment works or by federal, state or local law.

Discharges wastewater which substantially differs in nature and constituents from the user's average discharge.

PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS

Knows or has reason to know that its discharge, alone or in conjunction with discharge from other sources, would result in a permit violation.

(4)

Knows or has reason to know that any publicly owned treatment works is, for any reason, violating its final effluent limitations in the permit and that such user's discharge, either alone or in conjunction with discharges from other sources, increases the magnitude or duration of the publicly owned treatment works' violation.

PERSON

Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, partnership, copartnership, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any other legal entity or their legal representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine and the singular shall include the plural, where indicated by context.

The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution. It indicates the intensity of acidity and alkalinity of the pH scale running from zero point zero (0.0) to fourteen point zero (14.0). A pH value of seven point zero (7.0), the midpoint of the scale, represents neutrality; values above 7.0 represent acidic conditions.

POLLUTANT

Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water.

POLLUTION

The man-made or man-induced alteration of chemical, physical, biological and radiological integrity of water.

POTW TREATMENT PLANT

That portion of the publicly owned treatment works which is designated to provide treatment, including recycling and reclamation, of municipal sewage and industrial wastewater.

Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment, other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial user.

PRETREATMENT OR TREATMENT

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 publicly owned treatment works. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, process changes or other means. No industrial user shall ever increase the use of process water or in any other way attempt to dilute or discharge as a partial or complete substitute for adequate treatment to achieve compliance with a categorical pretreatment standard or regulation except where expressly authorized to do so by such pretreatment standard or regulation.

PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE

The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has 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 having a dimension greater than one-half (1/2) inch in any dimension.

PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS OR POTW

A treatment works, as herein defined, which is owned and/or operated by the Town.

PUBLIC SEWER

A sewer controlled by public authority.

RECEIVING WATERS

A natural watercourse or body of water into which treatment or untreated sewage is discharged.

SANITARY SEWAGE

Sewage discharging from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, including apartment houses and hotels, office buildings, factories or institutions and free from stormwater, surface water, industrial wastes and other wastes.

SANITARY SEWER

A sewer intended to carry only sanitary or sanitary and industrial wastewaters from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions and to which stormwaters, surface waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.

SEWAGE

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 inadvertently present. The mixture of sewage, as above defined, with industrial wastes or other wastes also shall be considered "sewage" within the meaning of this definition.

SEWAGE SYSTEM

All facilities for collecting, regulating, pumping and transporting sewage to and away from the publicly owned treatment works treatment plant.

SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT (WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT)

A publicly owned treatment works treatment plant, as herein defined.

SEWER

A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.

SEWERAGE SURCHARGE

The demanded payment for the use of a publicly owned treatment works for handling any sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes accepted for admission thereto in which the characteristics thereof exceed the maximum values for limits of such characteristics in normal sewage.

SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER

Any industrial user of the county publicly owned treatment works who:

Is subject to a national categorical pretreatment standard, based on his operation;

Is a manufacturing industry and uses priority pollutants or substances of concern and discharges either in detectable quantities;