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.
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 from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the 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.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTORY INDUSTRY
An industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works
that has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average workday; has
a flow greater than 5% of the flow carried by the municipal system
receiving the waste; has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts
as defined in standards issued under § 307(a) of the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act Amendments (FWPCAA) of 1972; or is deemed
by the Town to have significant impact, either singularly or in combination
with other contributing industries, on the treatment works or upon
the quality of effluent from the treatment works.
MASS EMISSION RATE
The weight of material discharged to the sewer system during
a given time interval. Unless otherwise specified, the mass emission
rate shall mean pounds per day of a particular constituent or combination
of constituents.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
PERMIT OFFICER
Such individual as shall be appointed by the Town Board,
who shall issue permits for connections, construction and other work
in connection with sewers.
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
foods 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 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which has been dedicated to and accepted by the Town of
Wilson.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of water carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, 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
exceeds, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity
of flow, for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than
five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flow during
normal operation.
STORM DRAIN or STORM SEWER
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling
water.
SUPERINTENDENT OF HIGHWAYS
The person from time to time designated by the Town Board
to be in charge of supervision of the sewage works of the Town of
Wilson; 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.
TOWN
Shall be interchangeable with "District."
USER
Any person who discharges, causes or permits the discharge
of wastewater into a community sewer.
WASTE
Includes sewage and any and all other waste substances, liquid,
solid, gaseous or radioactive, associated with human habitation or
of human or animal origin or from any producing, manufacturing or
processing operation of whatever nature, including such waste placed
within containers of whatever nature prior to and for purposes of
disposal.
WASTEWATER
Waste and water, whether treated or untreated, discharged
into or permitted to enter a community sewer.
WASTEWATER CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS
The individual chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological
parameters, including volume and flow rate and such other parameters
that serve to define, classify or measure the contents, quality, quantity
and strength of wastewater.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.