A. 
The purpose of this chapter is to ensure that the Town complies with all applicable state and federal laws regulating wastewater disposal and to address ongoing operational and maintenance problems faced by the Town’s sewer districts. This is particularly crucial in Sewer District 6, which is located in an environmentally sensitive area and is served by a rudimentary treatment plant and technology that requires significant resources to operate properly.
B. 
Included in this purpose are the following:
(1) 
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the wastewater systems, which will interfere with the operation of the systems or contaminate the resulting sludge, particularly by industrial users.
(2) 
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the wastewater systems which will pass through the system inadequately treated into receiving waters or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible with the systems, particularly by industrial users.
(3) 
To regulate excess flows that strain existing treatment plants’ pollutant removal capabilities and efficiencies.
(4) 
To eliminate grit, oils and grease from the sewer discharge because of its damaging effects on the sewer collection system piping, requiring greater than normal maintenance, and because of its detrimental effect on the treatment plants’ primary treatment units, which substances are primarily released by industrial users.
(5) 
To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewaters and sludges from the systems.
(6) 
To provide for a more equitable distribution of the cost of the wastewater systems.
(7) 
To protect both wastewater system personnel who may be affected by wastewater and sludge in the course of their employment and also to protect the general health and safety of the public and the environment.
(8) 
To protect the wastewater system in District 6 where nonresidential and industrial uses impact the system in terms of quantity and quality of sewage. Their waste includes inorganic materials, organic materials, chemicals, pollutants and other substances not typically discharged from residences into the sewer system, which discharges have a greater impact on the treatment facility.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
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 parts per million by weight.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer which carries both sanitary sewage and storm- and surface water.
DISTRICT
Sewer District Nos. 1, 5 and 6 of the Town of New Paltz, Ulster County, New York.
DISTRICT BOUNDARIES
The physical boundaries as presently established or as may be extended from time to time as duly provided by Town law for Sewer District Nos. 1, 5 and 6.
ENGINEER
The professional engineer retained as Engineer for the Town of New Paltz or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL USER
Any nonresidential user of the Town’s sanitary sewer system which user is identified in the 1997 NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) United States Structure, as amended and supplemented, under one of the following divisions:
11
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting
21
Mining
31-33
Manufacturing
56
Waste Management and Remediation Services
72
Accommodation and Food Services
81
Other Services (except Public Administration)
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any discarded matter, including any liquid, gaseous or solid substance, or combination thereof, resulting from any industrial user, excluding natural gas and oil production by-products.
[Amended 11-15-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
NATURAL GAS AND OIL EXPLORATION
The use of land for geological or geophysical activities related to the search for natural gas, oil or other subsurface hydrocarbons, including prospecting, geophysical and geological seismic surveying and sampling techniques, which include but are not limited to core or rotary drilling or making an excavation in the search and evaluation of natural gas, oil or other subsurface hydrocarbon deposits.
[Added 11-15-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
NATURAL GAS AND OIL EXTRACTION
The use of land for the purpose of extracting, developing and producing natural gas, oil or other subsurface hydrocarbons from subsurface deposits. Natural gas and oil extraction includes storage or construction staging yards associated with an oil or gas extraction operation, and gas pipelines, water lines and other gathering systems and components, including but not limited to drip stations, vent stations, injection stations and valve boxes associated with a natural gas or oil extraction operation.
[Added 11-15-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
NATURAL GAS AND OIL PRODUCTION BY-PRODUCTS
Any refuse, sludge or other waste materials, whether or not recycled or reused or intended to be recycled or reused, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material that results from, is associated with or is produced as a by-product of natural gas and oil exploration or extraction, including, without limitation, production brine, produced waters, flowback, flowback fluids and hydraulic fracturing fluids.
[Added 11-15-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
PERSON
An individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
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.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the “Clean Water Act,” as amended, (33 USC § 1292), which is owned by the Town. This shall include any sewers and appurtenances that transport wastewater to the POTW treatment plant but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected directly or indirectly to a facility providing treatment.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and which is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground-, surface and storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
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 or flows during normal operation.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
A classification pursuant to the latest edition and amendments of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the US Office of Management and Budget.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
SUPERINTENDENT
Water and Sewer Supervisor as appointed by the Town of New Paltz to supervise the operation of the sewer and water systems of the Town.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
TOWN
The Town of New Paltz, Ulster County, New York.
TOWN BOARD
The duly elected Town Board of the Town of New Paltz or its authorized deputy or representative.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.