Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The latest edition of American Society for Testing and Materials.
An authorized representative of the industrial user may be:
A principal executive officer of at least the
level of vice president, if the industrial user is a corporation.
general partner or proprietor, if the industrial
user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively.
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
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.
Any person, persons or corporation who undertake to construct,
either under contract or for resale, any habitable building.
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.
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.
A sewer receiving both surface water runoff and sewage.
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.
Any person, firm or corporation approved by the Village Board
to do work in the Village.
Any person, persons or corporation who undertake to construct
simultaneously more than one housing unit on a given tract or land
subdivision.
The consulting professional engineer retained as Village
Engineer for the Village of Canastota.
Also known as the "Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C.
§ 1251, et seq., as may be amended.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
The survey of industries in New York State, initiated by
the NYSDEC, to determine chemical usage and storage by those industries.
The wastewater from industrial processes, trade or business,
as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
Is permissive.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, person
or group having title to real property.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions in grams-ionic weights per liter of solution.
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.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and is controlled by public authority.
The boundary line of the easement for a public street controlled
by Public Authority.
A sewer which carried sewage and to which stormwaters, surface
waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
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.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage and sewage conveyances systems.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
A pipe or conduit used for carrying sewage.
Any sewer service area outside the Village limits which is
connected to the Village sewer system.
Is mandatory.
An industrial user of the Village sewage treatment plant
who is:
Subject to National Categorical Pretreatment
Standards promulgated by the EPA;
Having substantial impact, either singly or
in combination with other industries, on the operation of the treatment
works;
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
Discharging more than 5% of the flow or load
of conventional pollutants received by the sewage treatment plant.
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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.
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A user is in significant noncompliance if its violation(s)
meets(s) one or more of the following criteria:
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.
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
Failure to report accurately any noncompliance.
Any other violation which the Village determines
will adversely affect the implementation or operation of the local
pretreatment program.
A pipe or conduit which carries storm and surface waters
and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
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.
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.
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.
The quantity of orthophosphate measured by standard laboratory
procedures following hydrolysis of phosphorus compounds, expressed
as milligrams per liter of phosphorus.
The Village of Canastota, New York.
The duly elected Board of Trustees of the Village of Canastota,
or its authorized deputy or representative.
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.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
