Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this article 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 milligrams per liter (mg/l).
BUNGALOW COLONY
A group of bungalow dwellings under one ownership, excluding
mobile homes, including rental office and recreational facilities
serving the residents of such colony.
BUNGALOW USER
Any dwelling suitable for human habitation designed for a
seasonal occupancy (i.e., unheated and uninsulated) which is occupied
for six months or less.
COMMERCIAL USER
All retail stores, restaurants, office buildings, laundries,
theaters and other private business and service establishments.
COST ALLOCATION FACTOR
The cost of treatment assigned to each of the following parameters
of wastewater discharges: flow; BOD; restricted discharges and suspended
solids and which will be utilized in the calculation of the sewer
service charge for industrial users.
[Amended 11-13-2013 by L.L. No. 3-2013]
DEBT SERVICE
The total principal and interest payments for a given period,
e.g., a year, on long-term debt issues.
EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT or EDU
A unit of measure equal to 300 gallons of normal domestic
wastewater, which is the estimated amount of normal domestic wastewater
discharged daily from one single-family residence.
[Added 11-13-2013 by L.L. No. 3-2013]
GOVERNMENTAL USER
Includes legislative, judicial, administrative and regulatory
activities of federal, state and local governments.
INDUSTRIAL USER
Includes any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of publicly
owned treatment works which is identified in the Standard Industrial
Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended,
and supplements, under the following divisions: Division A, Agriculture,
Forestry and Fishing: Division B, Mining; Division D, Manufacturing;
Division E, Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary;
Division I, Services.
INSTITUTIONAL USER
Includes social, charitable, religious and educational activities
such as schools, churches, hospitals, nursing homes, penal institutions
and similar institutional users.
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than 200 milligrams per liter, a suspended solids concentration of not more than 250 milligrams per liter, and a total Kjeldahl nitrogen concentration of not more than 25 milligrams per liter: Additional restrictions of pollutants in the wastewater stream can be noted in Article
I, Sewer Use.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
Those functions which result in expenditures during the useful
life of the collection system and the treatment works for materials,
labor, utilities and other items which are necessary for managing
and maintaining the sewage works to achieve the capacity and performance
for which such works were designed and constructed.
PERMIT
For the purposes of Article
III of this chapter, any permit issued by the Town Supervisor pursuant to §
257-41 hereof.
[Added 11-13-2013 by L.L. No. 3-2013]
REPLACEMENT
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories
or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the
treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which
such works were designed and constructed. The phrase "operation and
maintenance" includes "replacement."
RESIDENTIAL USER
Any contributor to the Town's treatment works whose building
is used or can be used for year-round domestic dwelling purposes only.
SEASONAL USER
A bungalow dwelling or bungalow colony dwelling unit which
is occupied for six months or less.
SECOND HOME
Includes all year-round dwellings with heating systems and
insulation suitable for twelve-month occupancy.
SEWER SERVICE CHARGE
The combination of all service charges for sewer services,
including user charges and debt service charges.
SS (denoting "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.
TOWN SUPERVISOR
The duly elected Town Supervisor of the Town of Bethel.
[Added 11-13-2013 by L.L. No. 3-2013]
TREATMENT WORKS
Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling
and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage or liquid industrial
wastes. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage
collection systems, pumping, power and other equipment and their appurtenances;
and extensions or improvements, including acquisition of the required
land.
TRUCKED WASTE
[Added 4-6-2006 by L.L. No. 3-2006; amended 11-13-2013 by L.L. No.
3-2013]
(1)
Normal domestic wastewater, or any other wastewater which meets the permit requirements of any permit issued pursuant to Article
III of this chapter, and which is discharged from a residential dwelling (including a second home) or by a residential user, bungalow user, seasonal user, institutional user, governmental user, or commercial user including wastewater removed from a septic tank utilized by any of the forgoing.
(2)
Trucked waste shall also mean i) wastewater removed from portable lavatories; and ii) leachate discharged from the closed landfill owned and operated by the Town of Bethel which wastewater or leachate meet the permit requirements of any permit issued pursuant to Article
III of this chapter.
(3)
Trucked waste shall not include any of the following:
(a)
Wastewater discharged from industrial users, any manufacturing use, as defined by Town Code §
345-5, or from any explicitly prohibited use, as defined by Town Code §
345-38;
(b)
Prohibited discharges set forth at Town Code §
257-18; or
(c)
Restricted discharges set forth at Town Code §
257-19, unless expressly allowed in any permit issued pursuant to Article
III of this chapter.
USEFUL LIFE
The estimated period during which a treatment works will
be operated.
USER CHARGE
That portion of the total wastewater service charge which
is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation,
maintenance and replacement of the wastewater treatment works.