Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
ACT OR THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
May be:
(1)
A principal executive officer of at least the
level of vice president, if the industrial user is a corporation;
(2)
A general partner or proprietor, if the industrial
user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively; or
(3)
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.
BOD (DENOTING "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND")
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
(1)
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.
(2)
Discharges wastewater which substantially differs
in nature or constituents from the user's average discharge.
(3)
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.
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:
(1)
BOD of 2,000 pounds per million gallons (240
milligrams per liter) or less.
(2)
Chlorine demand of 208 pounds per million gallons
(25 milligrams per liter) or less.
(3)
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:
(1)
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.
(2)
Discharges wastewater which substantially differs
in nature and constituents from the user's average discharge.
(3)
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.
pH
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.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
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.
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.
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:
(1)
Is subject to a national categorical pretreatment
standard, based on his operation;
(2)
Is a manufacturing industry and uses priority
pollutants or substances of concern and discharges either in detectable
quantities;
(3)
Has a discharge which represents 5% or more
of the flow or load to the publicly owned treatment works; or
(4)
Is found by the Superintendent, NYSDEC or EPA
to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other
contributing industries, on the operation of the publicly owned treatment
works.
SLUG
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, quantities
or flow during normal operation.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION OR SIC
A classification pursuant to the latest edition and amendments
of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive
Office of the President, Office Management and Budget.
STATE
The State of New York.
STORM SEWER OR STORM DRAIN
A sewer intended to carry only stormwaters, surface runoff,
street wash waters and drainage but excluding industrial wastewaters
other than cooling waters and unpolluted waters.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of Highways of the Town of Mamaroneck.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Total suspended matter that floats on the surface of or is
suspended in water, wash water, sewage or other liquid and which is
removable by laboratory filtering or flotation, skimming and sedimentation.
Measurement shall be as set forth in the latest edition of Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
TOWN
The Town of Mamaroneck.
TOWN BOARD
The Town Board of the Town of Mamaroneck.
TOWN SEWER
Any sewer owned and operated by the Town of Mamaroneck.
TOWN SEWER DISTRICT
The Town sanitary sewer district as created, altered or modified
by action of the Mamaroneck Town Board.
TOWN TRUNK SEWER SYSTEM
The trunk sewers, force mains, pumping stations, sewage regulators,
publicly owned treatment works and other appurtenant structures owned
and operated by the Town of Mamaroneck.
TOXIC POLLUTION
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in Section 307(a) of the Act or as promulgated by USEPA, NYSDEC or
the approval authority.
TREATMENT WORKS
Any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling
and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial waste of a liquid
nature or necessary to recycle or reuse water at the most economical
cost over the estimated life of the works, including intercepting
sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection system, pumping power and
other equipment and their appurtenances, extensions, improvements,
remodeling, additions and alterations thereof; elements essential
to provide a reliable recycled supply, such as stand-by treatment
units and clear well facilities; any work, including site acquisitions
of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process
(including land used for the storage of treated wastewater in land
treatment systems prior to land application) or is used for ultimate
disposal of residues resulting from treatment; and any other method
or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating
or disposing of municipal waste, including stormwater runoff, industrial
waste or waste in combined storm sewer and sanitary sewer systems.
"Treatment works" shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters
to any county publicly owned treatment works from persons outside
the Town sewer districts who are, by contract or agreement with the
Town, users of a Town publicly owned treatment works.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into a county publicly owned treatment works.
USER CHARGE
A charge levied on a user of a publicly owned treatment works
or that portion of the ad valorem taxes paid by a user for the user's
proportionate share of the cost of operation and maintenance, including
replacement, of such works under Section 204(b)(1)(a) and 201(a)(2)
of the Act.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, business dwellings, industrial facilities and institution,
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 publicly owned treatment works.
WATERS OF THE STATE
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.