[Amended 1-14-1981]
It is the purpose of this chapter to protect
the sewage collection and treatment facilities, to prevent danger
to life or damage to property, to promote the health, safety and general
welfare, to prohibit the introduction of storm- , surface or subsurface
waters into the sanitary sewers and to provide for the fair distribution
of treatment costs to form a basis and policy for controlling the
quantity and quality of wastes accepted into the sewage systems of
the sewer district now or hereafter created in the Town of Brighton,
Monroe County, New York.
A.
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER (sometimes called "house lateral")
COMMERCIAL-INDUSTRIAL WASTES
DOMESTIC WASTES
GARBAGE
NATURAL OUTLET
OWNER
PERSON
pH
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
SANITARY SEWER
SEWAGE
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
SEWAGE WORKS
SEWER COMMISSION
SEWER DISTRICT
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
STORMWATER
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
WATERCOURSE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
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.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
carrying sewage which receives discharge from soil, waste and other
drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to
the building's sewer.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
Any and all other wastes not being domestic wastes but not
limited to the wastes from commercial, laboratory and industrial processes,
wastes from domestic operations or certain trade operations.
[Amended 9-26-1968]
Waterborne human or animal excreta or body wastes and normal
culinary, laundry and washing wastes originating in residences.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
Any person in title to or having any interest in real property
in the sanitary sewer district and its extension or extensions and/or
any drainage district or districts now existing or subsequently created
by the Town Board of the Town of Brighton, New York.
[Amended 1-14-1981]
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
The waste 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 greater than one-fourth (1/4) inch
in any dimension.
A sewer which is controlled by the Sewer Commission of the
Town of Brighton, New York.
A pipe or conduit which carries sewage and to which storm-
, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
The water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings,
institutions and industrial establishments and other places.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used from public
sewers in the Town of Brighton, New York.
[Amended 1-14-1981; 1-24-1996 by L.L. No. 1-1996]
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
The Town Board of the Town of Brighton, acting for and on
behalf of the sewer district in the Town of Brighton.
[Amended 1-14-1981]
The sanitary sewer district and its extension or extensions
and/or any drainage district or districts now existing or subsequently
created by the Town Board of the Town of Brighton.
[Amended 1-14-1981]
A sewer which carries storm- and surface water drainage but
excludes sewage, commercial-industrial and domestic wastes.
The excess water running off from the surface of a drainage
area or building during or immediately following a period of rain
or snowmelt, excluding water contaminated by silt.
[Added 1-24-1996 by L.L. No. 1-1996]
The Commissioner of Public Works of the Town of Brighton.
[Amended 1-14-1981; 12-12-1990; 1-24-1996 by L.L. No. 1-1996]
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filterings.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously
or intermittently.
B.
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
