For the purpose of this ordinance, the terms used herein are defined
as follows:
BOARD
The Board of Commissioners of said district.
BOD (denoting biochemical oxygen demand)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic
matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees
centigrade (20º C.) expressed in milligrams per liter.
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 building sewer, beginning (5)
feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other
place of disposal.
DISTRICT
Port Washington Sewer District in the Town of North Hempstead, Nassau
County, New York.
FACILITIES OF THE DISTRICT
All works constructed and/or installed by or for the district for
the collection, treatment and disposal of sanitary sewage.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and
dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade
or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of
surface or groundwater.
PERSON
Any 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 one-half (1/2) inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights
and is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and groundwaters
are not intentionally admitted.
SERVICES OF THE DISTRICT
The organization of personnel established by the district for the
operation, maintenance and administration of the facilities of the district.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions and industrial establishment, together with such ground,
surface, and stormwaters as may be present.
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 fifteen (15) minutes, more than five (5) times the average
twenty-four-hour concentration of flow during normal operation.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of the Port Washington Sewer District or his authorized
deputy, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
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.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or
intermittently.
The following detrimental wastes and substances shall not be discharged
into any building sewer or any portion of the sewerage system of the District:
A. Stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff,
subsurface drainage, uncontaminated cooling water or unpolluted industrial
process water.
B. Unusual volume of flow or concentration of wastes constituting slugs as heretofore defined in §
47-1.
C. Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life
or concentration as may exceed limits established by the Superintendent in
compliance with applicable state or federal regulations.
D. Any garbage that is not properly shredded.
E. Any solids, liquids or gases which alone or by reaction
with other substances shall cause a fire and/or an explosion, or in any way
be injurious to persons, property or the facilities of the District, or to
the operation and/or processes of the District treatment plant.
F. Any noxious and/or malodorous solids, liquids or gases
which alone or by reaction with other substances will create a public nuisance
or hazard to persons or prevent entry to either the sewerage system and/or
treatment facilities of the District by District personnel or personnel of
public emergency forces.
G. Any solids, greases, slurries or viscous material that
is capable of obstructing flow in either the sewerage system or treatment
facilities of the District, or interfere with the operation and/or processes
at the District treatment plant. This includes but is not limited to ashes,
cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, wood, sawdust, decayed wood, metal, glass,
bones, feathers, rubber, plastics, paunch manure and butcher's offal.
H. Any toxic materials or chemicals having a capability
of impairment of the operational efficiency of the District treatment plant
or cause the effluent from such plant not to meet state, interstate or federal
requirements for the receiving waters.
I. Any liquids having a pH lower than five point five (5.5)
or higher than eight point five (8.5), or having a corrosive ability of causing
damage to any District sewerage or treatment facility.
J. Any liquid or vapor having a temperature greater than
one hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit (150º F.).
K. Any wastes containing more than one hundred (100) parts
per million by weight of fats, oils or greases.
L. Any wastes from gasoline or diesel engine cleaning operations.
M. Paints, paint solvents or paint wastes.
N. Any plating bath wastes, sulfides, formaldehyde and carbide
wastes.
O. Wastes containing over ten (10) parts per million hydrogen
sulfide, sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide or any halogen.
P. Substances having a flash point lower than one hundred
eighty-seven degrees Fahrenheit (187º F.).
Q. Materials having characteristics in excess of the following
limits:
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Substance
|
Limit
(milligrams per liter)
|
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|
5-day BOD (maximum)
|
300.0
|
|
Suspended solids
|
400.0
|
|
Chlorine demand (30 minutes)
|
10.0
|
|
Cadmium
|
0.8
|
|
Chromium (trivalent)
|
4.2
|
|
Chromium (hexavalent)
|
1.0
|
|
Copper
|
1.0
|
|
Nickel
|
3.0
|
|
Zinc
|
1.2
|
|
Cyanide
|
1.0
|
|
Fluoride
|
5.0
|
|
Phenolics
|
0.8
|
In the event that a building that is connected to the Port Washington
Sewer District sanitary sewers is to be abandoned or demolished, or the certificate
of occupancy is withdrawn, the connection to the sewer is to be disconnected
at the original point of connection to the district sewer and the district
sewer is to be plugged in a manner and with a plug that is satisfactory to
the District. The sewer is to be disconnected, plugged and inspected prior
to the start of any other work on the site.
A. No person shall make or cause to be made any disconnection
to the sewer without having first notified the District in writing on printed
forms furnished by the District.
B. The permit fee, in the amount stated on the application
form, shall accompany such application.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.
The invalidity of any section, clause, sentence or provision of this
ordinance shall not affect the validity of any other part of this ordinance,
which can be given effect without such invalid part or parts.
The District reserves the right to change or amend this ordinance in
accordance with the provisions provided therefor in the Town Law of the State
of New York.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect after its passage,
approval, recording and publication as provided by the Town Law of the State
of New York.