Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
ASTM
The latest edition of American Society for Testing and Materials.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INDUSTRIAL USER
An authorized representative of the industrial user may be:
A. 
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice president, if the industrial user is a corporation.
B. 
general partner or proprietor, if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively.
C. 
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 originate
BOD (DENOTING BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five days at 20° C. expressed in parts per million by weight.
BUILDER
Any person, persons or corporation who undertake to construct, either under contract or for resale, any habitable building.
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 five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension of pipe or conduit from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal. One portion of the building sewer extends from the building drain to the public street right-of-way and a second portion extends from the public street right-of-way to the public sewer.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer receiving both surface water runoff and sewage.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
The sample resulting from the combination of individual samples of wastewater taken at selected intervals for a specified time period. The individual samples may have equal volumes or the individual volumes may be proportioned to the flow at the time of sampling.
CONTRACTOR
Any person, firm or corporation approved by the Village Board to do work in the Village.
DEVELOPER
Any person, persons or corporation who undertake to construct simultaneously more than one housing unit on a given tract or land subdivision.
ENGINEER
The consulting professional engineer retained as Village Engineer for the Village of Canastota.
FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ACT (FWPCA)
Also known as the "Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251, et seq., as may be amended.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL SURVEY (ICS)
The survey of industries in New York State, initiated by the NYSDEC, to determine chemical usage and storage by those industries.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The wastewater from industrial processes, trade or business, as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
MAY
Is permissive.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
OWNER
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, person or group having title to real property.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
PH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions in grams-ionic weights per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half-inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and is controlled by public authority.
PUBLIC STREET RIGHT-OF-WAY
The boundary line of the easement for a public street controlled by Public Authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carried sewage 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 groundwaters, surface waters and stormwaters as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITIES
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage and sewage conveyances systems.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit used for carrying sewage.
SEWER DISTRICT
Any sewer service area outside the Village limits which is connected to the Village sewer system.
SHALL
Is mandatory.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER (SIU)
An industrial user of the Village sewage treatment plant who is:
A. 
Subject to National Categorical Pretreatment Standards promulgated by the EPA;
B. 
Having substantial impact, either singly or in combination with other industries, on the operation of the treatment works;
C. 
Using, on an annual basis, more than 10,000 pounds or 1,000 gallons of raw material containing priority pollutants and/or substances of concern and discharging a measurable quantity of these pollutants to the sewer system; or
D. 
Discharging more than 5% of the flow or load of conventional pollutants received by the sewage treatment plant.
Note: A user discharging a measurable quantity of a pollutant may be classified as nonsignificant if, at the influent to the sewage treatment plant, the pollutant is not detectable.
SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE (SNC)
A user is in significant noncompliance if its violation(s) meets(s) one or more of the following criteria:
A. 
Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here as those, in 66% or more of all of the measurements taken during a six-month period, which exceed (by any magnitude) the daily maximum limit or average limit for the same pollutant parameter.
B. 
Technical Review Criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as those, in which 33% or more of all of the measurements for each pollutant parameter taken during a six-month period, which equal or exceed the product of the daily maximum limits multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC = 1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oil and grease; TRC = 1.2 for all other pollutants).
C. 
Any other violation of a pretreatment effluent limit (daily maximum or long-term average) that the Village determines has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass through (including endangering the health of sewage treatment plant personnel or the general public).
D. 
Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare, or to the environment, or has resulted in the Village's exercise of its emergency authority under Article 11 of this Code.
E. 
Failure to meet, within 90 days after the scheduled date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in a local control mechanism or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction or attaining final compliance.
F. 
Failure to provide, within 30 days after the due date, required reports such as baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day compliance reports, periodic self-monitoring reports, and reports on compliance with compliance schedules.
G. 
Failure to report accurately any noncompliance.
H. 
Any other violation which the Village determines will adversely affect the implementation or operation of the local pretreatment program.
STORM SEWER OR STORM DRAIN
A pipe or conduit which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of Public Works or the Superintendent of the Water and Sewer Department of the Village of Canastota, 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.
TOTAL KJELDAHL NITROGEN
The quantity of nitrogen released as ammonia during the digestion of ammonium and organic compounds by the Kjeldahl method and standard laboratory procedures, expressed as milligrams per liter of nitrogen.
TOTAL PHOSPHORUS
The quantity of orthophosphate measured by standard laboratory procedures following hydrolysis of phosphorus compounds, expressed as milligrams per liter of phosphorus.
VILLAGE
The Village of Canastota, New York.
VILLAGE BOARD OR BOARD OF TRUSTEES
The duly elected Board of Trustees of the Village of Canastota, or its authorized deputy or representative.
WASTEWATER
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such groundwaters, surface waters and stormwaters as may be present.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.