The following abbreviations shall have the designated
meanings:
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ANSI
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American National Standards Institute
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ASTM
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American Society for Testing and Materials
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AWWA
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American Water Works Association
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BOD
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Biochemical oxygen demand
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CFR
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Code of Federal Regulations
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CPLR
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Code of Public Law and Rules
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COD
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Chemical oxygen demand
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EPA
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Environmental Protection Agency
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gpd
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Gallons per day
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l
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Liter
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mg
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Milligram
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mg/l
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Milligrams per liter
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NCPI
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National Clay Pipe Institute
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NPDES
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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
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NYSDEC
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New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
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NYSDOH
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New York State Department of Health
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NYSDOT
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New York State Department of Transportation
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P
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Total phosphorus
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POTW
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Publicly owned treatment works
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ppm
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Parts per million, weight basis
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psi
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Pounds per square inch
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RCRA
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
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SIC
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Standard industrial classification
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SPDES
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State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
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SWDA
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Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 W.S.C. 690 L et
seq.
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TSS
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Total suspended solids
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USC
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United States Code of Laws
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USEPA
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United States Environmental Agency
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Unless otherwise stated in the section where
the term is used in this chapter, the meanings of terms used in this
chapter shall be as stated below. When not inconsistent with the context,
the present tense shall include the future, and words used in the
plural shall include the singular and vice versa. Furthermore, a masculine
pronoun shall include the feminine. Shall is mandatory; may is permissive.
Sewage whose concentration of one or more characteristics
of normal sewage exceeds the maximum concentrations of the characteristics
of normal sewage. See "normal sewage."
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., as amended.
The Regional Administrator of the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (USEPA), Region 2.
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the quantity of ammonia in a sample, expressed as milligrams
of nitrogen per liter.
That person who makes application for any permit. The applicant
may be an owner, new or old, or his agent.
The USEPA, or the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation (NYSDEC) in the event that the NYSDEC is delegated approval
authority responsibility by the USEPA. The USEPA Administrator will
be the approval authority until such time that the State of New York
has an approved pretreatment program.
The procedures defined as standard methods in this article,
or other procedures approved by the Executive Director for flow measurement
or determination of the concentration of pollutants or their surrogates
in waters, wastewater and/or sludges. All laboratory analysis procedures
must be performed by a laboratory certified by New York State for
the procedure used to test for that pollutant. Laboratories which
are approved federally for analyzing that pollutant may also be used.
The latest edition of any ASTM specification, when stipulated
in this chapter.
An authorized representative of the industrial user may be:
If the user is a corporation:
The president, secretary, treasurer or vice
president of the corporation in charge of a principal business function,
or any other person who performs similar policy or decision-making
functions for the corporation; or
The manager of one or more manufacturing, production
or operation facilities employing more than 250 persons or having
gross annual sales or expenditures exceeding $25,000,000 (in second-quarter
1980 dollars), if authority to sign documents has been assigned or
delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures.
If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship:
a general partner or proprietor, respectively.
If the user is a federal, state, or local governmental
facility: a director or the highest official appointed or designated
to oversee the operation and performance of the activities of the
government facility, or his designee.
The individuals described in Subsections A through C above may designate another authorized representative if the authorization is in writing, the authorization specifies the individual or position responsible for the overall operation of the facility from which the discharge originates or having overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company, and the written authorization is submitted to the district.
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine the quantity of oxygen utilized in the aerobic biochemical
oxidation of organic matter or in a sample, for five days at 20°
C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
The governing body of Rockland County Sewer District No.
1 and/or any successor body, agency, commission or authority charged
with the duty of the operation and maintenance of the Rockland County
Sewer District No. 1 and/or any other additional sewer disposal districts
or facilities subject to the approval of the Legislature of the County
of Rockland and/or body designated pursuant to the laws of the State
of New York.
Any person who undertakes to construct a building or any
part of a building, either under contract or for resale
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage
system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage
pipes inside the building walls and conveys it to the building lateral.
See "lateral, building."
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Sections 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1317) which apply to a specific category of users
and which appear in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405-471.
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine the difference between the amount of chlorine added to
a sample and the amount of chlorine remaining in the sample at the
end of a specified contact time at room temperature, expressed in
milligrams per liter.
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to measure the oxygen requirement of that portion of matter, in a
sample, that is susceptible to oxidation, by a specific chemical oxidant,
expressed in milligrams per liter.
The optical density at the visual wave length of maximum
absorption, relative to distilled water. One-hundred-percent transmittance
is equivalent to zero optical density.
A sewer receiving a mixture of stormwater and sanitary sewage,
with or without industrial wastes.
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.
Attachment of one user to a sewer. See "extension."
The one-time application fee by the district, Town or Village
to offset expenses to process an application for a connection of a
building/street lateral to the public sewer.
A proceeding, including but not restricted to rate making,
surcharging and issuance of licenses or permits, in which the legal
duties, rights or privileges of a party are required by law to be
determined by the Rockland County Sewer District No. 1 and/or the
Legislature of the County of Rockland with an opportunity for hearing.
The Executive Director.
A manhole accessible to the control authority in or upstream
of the street lateral, such that samples collected from the manhole
represent the discharge to the POTW.
A pollutant that the POTW treatment plan was designed to
treat, defined in accordance with the Act.
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air-conditioning,
refrigeration or other sources. It shall contain no polluting substances
which would produce COD or suspended solids in excess of five milligrams
per liter, or toxic substances, as limited elsewhere in this chapter.
Rockland County.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
The Rockland County Department of Health.
Any person who subdivides land for the purpose of constructing,
or causing to be constructed, buildings for which wastewater disposal
facilities are required.
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the State of New York. (For reference, see "indirect
discharge.")
See "sewer district."
See "Board of Commissioners."
Sewers which are owned and maintained by the district.
See "sewage, domestic."
The sanitary sewer installed in anticipation of future connection
to a POTW but which is not used, in the meantime, for transport of
storm or sanitary sewage.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
For the purpose of determining compliance with limitations prescribed by Article IX, the control manhole, provided that the samples collected from the control manhole are representative of the discharge to the POTW.
The concentration of a substance in a sample of wastewater
at end of pipe.
See "National Categorical Pretreatment Standard."
The agency of the federal government charged with the administration
and enforcement of federal environmental laws, rules and regulations;
also may be used as a designation for the administrator or other duly
authorized official of this Agency.
The Executive Director of Sewer Operations and Engineering
(SD No. 1) and/or any other successor body, agency, commission or
authority charged with the duty of the operation and maintenance of
the Rockland County Sewer District No. 1 and/or any other additional
sewer disposal districts or facilities subject to the approval of
the Legislature of the County of Rockland or any other body designated
pursuant to the laws of the State of New York, or his authorized agent
or representative.
[Amended 8-5-2020 by L.L. No. 4-2020]
Any source of discharge, the construction or operation of
which commenced prior to the publication by the EPA of proposed categorical
pretreatment standards, which will be applicable to such source if
the standard is thereafter promulgated in accordance with Section
307 of the Act.
Attachment of a sewer line, with more than one user, to an
existing sewer line.
Oil, grease or fat in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in a wastewater treatment
facility.
The quantity of liquid or waste that flows in a certain period
of time.
The solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food, from the handling, storage and sale of produce, and from
the packaging and canning of food.
A single sample of wastewater representing the physical,
chemical and biological characteristics of the wastewater at one point
and time to be taken from a waste stream without regard to flow in
the waste stream.
Any material which is extractable from an acidified sample
of waste by hexane or other designated solvent.
Water within the earth contained within a water-bearing stratum
or formation.
The governing municipal Highway Department.
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks and tank trucks.
The form used by the NYSDEC to survey industries to perform
and update the Industrial Chemical Survey.
The introduction of wastewater into a POTW for treatment
and ultimate discharge of the treated effluent to the state's waters
from a nondomestic source regulated under Section 307(b), (c) or (d)
of the Act. (For reference, see "Direct Discharge.")
Meaning or pertaining to industry, manufacturing, commerce,
trade, business or institution, and is distinguished from "domestic"
or "residential."
The survey of industries in New York State, initiated by
the NYSDEC, to determine chemical usage and storage by those industries.
See "user, industrial."
The liquid or liquid-carried solid, liquid and/or gaseous
wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, service, utility
or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage. This shall also include
but not be limited to grease, fats and oils from commercial kitchens
and repair stations, backwash from water filters and leachate from
polluted groundwater and landfills.
Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system
(excluding building drains) from the ground through such means as
detective pipes, pipe joints, connections or manholes. Infiltration
does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow. Infiltration
is inadvertent, that is, not purposely designed or built into the
sewer or drain.
Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system
(including building drains) from sources such as, but not limited
to, roof leaders, cellar drains, area drains, drains from springs
and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections between storm
sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, stormwaters,
foundation drains, swimming pools, surface runoff, street wash waters
or drainage. Inflow does not include and is distinguished from infiltration.
The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged
at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete or composited
sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the
duration of the sampling event.
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with discharges
by other sources, inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes
or operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and, therefore,
is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's SPDES permit
(including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation)
or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW
in accordance with the following statutory provisions and regulations
or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent state or local regulations):
Section 405 of the Clean Water Act.
SWDA) (including Title II, more commonly referred to as the "Resource Conservation and Recovery Actnservation and Recovery Act - RCRA"), and including state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D or the SWDA).
Clean Air Act.
Toxic Substance Control Act.
Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act.
40 CFR 503, "Standards for use and disposal
of sewage sludge."
NYCRR, Part 360 and Part 700-705, Regulations.
The sewer extension from the building drain to the street
lateral or other place of wastewater disposal, beginning five feet
outside the inner face of the building wall.
The sewer extension from the public sewer to the property
line, or to the limits of a sanitary sewer easement.
Includes the whole part of any permit, certificate, approval,
registration, or similar form or permission required by law.
Includes the process respecting the grant, denial, revocation,
suspension, annulment, withdrawal or amendment of a license.
The word "may" is permissive. (See definition of "shall.")
Isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood
products, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding,
surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory wastes and dialysis
wastes.
A County, Village, Town or other public body created by or
pursuant to state law.
Sewers owned and operated by a municipality.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(B) of the Act (33 U.S.C.
1317), which applies to a specific category of industrial users. These
standards apply at the end of the categorical process ("end of process").
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
1342).
Any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307(B)
of the Act and 40 CFR 403.5.
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
into the state's waters.
That individual or entity who purchased property within the
service area of the district after the effective date of this chapter.
Any building, structure, facility or installation
from which there is (or may be) a discharge of pollutants, the construction
of which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment
standards under Section 307(c) of the Act, which will be applicable
to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance
with that section, provided that:
The building, structure, facility or installation
is constructed at a site at which no other source is located; or
The building, structure, facility or installation
totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the
discharge of pollutants at an existing source; or
The production or wastewater-generating processes
of the building, structure, facility or installation are substantially
independent of an existing source at the same site. In determining
whether these are substantially independent, factors such as the extent
to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity
as the existing source should be considered.
Construction on a site at which an existing
source is located results in a modification rather than a new source
if the construction does not create a new building, structure, facility
or installation meeting the criteria of Subsection A(2) or (3) above
but otherwise alters, replaces or adds to existing process or production
equipment.
Construction of a new source, as defined under
this subsection, has commenced if the owner or operator has:
Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous
on-site construction program:
Any placement, assembly or installation of facilities
or equipment; or
Significant site preparation work, including
clearing, excavation or removal of existing buildings, structures
or facilities, which is necessary for the placement, assembly or installation
of new source facilities or equipment; or
Entered into a binding contractual obligation
for the purchase of facilities or equipment which are intended to
be used in its operation within a reasonable time. Options to purchase
or contracts which can be terminated or modified without substantial
loss, and contracts for feasibility, engineering and design studies,
do not constitute a contractual obligation under this subsection.
A discharger to the POTW who commences discharge after the
effective date of this chapter.
Water used for cooling which does not come into direct contact
with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product or finished
product.
See "sewage, normal."
The use or lack of use of the POTW in such a manner so as
to endanger life or health or give offense to the senses or obstruct
or otherwise interfere with the reasonable use or maintenance of the
POTW.
The result obtained when using an approved laboratory procedure
to determine the quantity of fats, wax, grease and oil, in a sample,
expressed in milligrams per liter.
That individual or entity who owns or owned a property, within
the service area of the POTW, purchased prior to the effective date
of this chapter, or inherited the property at any time and who intends
to sell the property or has sold the property to a new owner; also,
the agent of the old owner.
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, egg shells,
coffee grounds, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, ashes and all
other discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial
wastes.
A person or persons who legally own, lease or occupy a private
property with wastewater facilities that discharge or will discharge
wastewater.
The concentration of phosphate as phosphorous, expressed
in milligrams per liter.
The discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the state
in quantities or concentrations, which, alone or in conjunction with
discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement
of the POTW's SPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude
or duration or a violation.
A temporary revocable written document allowing use of the
POTW for specified wastes over a limited period of time, containing
sampling locations and reporting frequencies, and requiring other
actions as authorized by this chapter.
Any individual, firm, company, society, partnership, copartnership,
public or private corporation, political subdivision, federal, state
or local governmental agency or entity, association, trust, estate,
joint-stock company or any other legal entity whatsoever, or their
legal representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall
include the feminine and the singular shall include the plural where
indicated by the context.
That portion of the total extractable grease and fats which
is not retained as activated alluma or silica gel adsorption column
after elutriating with hexane.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of
hydrogen ions, in gram moles per liter of solution, as determined
by standard methods. A pH value of 7.0, the pH scale midpoint, represents
neutrality. Values above 7.0 represent alkaline conditions. Values
below 7.0 represent acid conditions.
See "total phosphorus."
Any material placed into or onto the state's waters, lands
and/or airs, which interferes with the beneficial use of that water,
land and/or air by any living thing at any time. This includes but
is not limited to dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue,
filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, medical
wastes, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials,
heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, municipal,
agricultural and industrial wastes, and certain characteristics of
wastewater (e.g., pH, temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD,
toxicity or odor.)
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and/or radiological integrity of the state's waters, lands
and/or airs resulting from the introduction of a pollutant into these
media.
See "publicly owned treatment works."
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater and to treat sludge and residuals derived from such treatment.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction
or alteration can be achieved by physical, chemical or biological
process, process changes, or by other means, except by diluting the
concentration of pollutants unless allowed by an applicable pretreatment
standard such as 40 CFR 403.6(D).
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial
user.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act, which
applies to industrial users. This term includes prohibitive discharge
limits established pursuant to Section 403.5 or local limits.
[Amended 11-8-2006 by L.L. No. 13-2006]
The most recently revised or updated list, developed by the
EPA, in accordance with the Act.
Absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances; these prohibitions appear in § 345-73 of this chapter.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such a decree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
public sewers, and with no particle having a dimension greater than
1/2 inch in any dimension.
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. 1292) which is owned in this instance by the sewer district
or the municipalities within the district. It also includes sewers,
pipes and other conveyances only if they convey wastewater to a POTW
treatment plant. For the purposes of this chapter, "POTW" shall also
include any sewers that convey wastewaters to the POTW from persons
outside the district who are, by contract or agreement with the district,
users of the district POTW.
[Amended 11-8-2006 by L.L. No. 13-2006]
Sewers, manholes, intercepting sewers, sewage pumping station,
treatment and disposal works and any other plant, works or equipment
and accessories under the jurisdiction of any municipality, any public
agency or the sewer district that discharges its sewage and liquid
into the sewer district's sewer system.
A natural watercourse or body of water (usually waters of
the state) into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
See "sewer district."
A drain installed to receive water collecting on the surface
of a roof for disposal.
Each statement of general applicability that implements,
interprets or prescribes law or policy or describes the organization,
procedures, practices or requirements of the sewer district. The term
includes the amendment or repeal of a prior rule but does not include:
See "sewage, sanitary."
See "sewer, sanitary."
See "sewage, sanitary."
See "septage."
All liquids and solids in and removed from septic tanks,
holding tanks, cesspools or approved type of chemical toilets, including
but not limited to those serving private residences, commercial establishments,
institutions and industries; also, sludge from small sewage treatment
plants. Septage shall not have been contaminated with substances of
concern or priority pollutants.
A private domestic sewage treatment system consisting of
an underground tank (with suitable baffling), constructed in accordance
with any and/or all local and state requirements.
The legally defined bounds of real property from which wastewater
may be discharged into the POTW, including all tributary sewers to
district-owned sewers. The bounds shall be established, altered, changed,
modified, reduced, enlarged, combined or consolidated by action of
the Legislature of Rockland County, or any successor body charged
with the duty of the operation and maintenance of Rockland County
Sewer District No. 1.
See "wastewater."
Liquid wastes from the noncommercial preparation, cooking
and handling of food, liquid wastes containing human excrement and
similar matter from the sanitary conveniences in dwellings, commercial
buildings, industrial buildings and institutions, or liquid wastes
from clothes washing and/or floor/wall washing. Therefore, domestic
sewage includes both black water and grey water.
Sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes, which
show, by analysis, the following characteristics:
BOD five-day: 2,090 pounds per million gallons
(250 milligrams per liter), or less.
Suspended solids: 2,500 pounds per million gallons
(300 milligrams per liter), or less.
Phosphorus: 125 pounds per million gallons (15
milligrams per liter), or less.
Ammonia: 250 pounds per million gallons (30
milligrams per liter), or less.
Total Kjeldahl nitrogen: 417 pounds per million
gallons (50 milligrams per liter), or less.
Chlorine demand: 209 pounds per million gallons
(25 milligrams per liter), or less.
Chemical oxygen demand: 2,920 pounds per million
gallons (350 milligrams per liter), or less.
Polar oil and grease: 830 pounds per million
gallons (100 milligrams per liter), or less.
[Amended 11-8-2006 by L.L. No. 13-2006]
In spite of satisfying all of these characteristics,
if the sewage also contains other substances of concern, it may not
be considered normal sewage.
See "sewage, domestic."
Sewage flowing in storm sewers (see "sewer, storm"), excluding
sanitary sewage and industrial wastewaters, other than cooling waters
and other unpolluted water.
See "POTW Treatment Plant."
Sewage which has characteristics greater than those of normal
sewage and/or which contains substances of concern.
A pipe or conduit for carrying or transporting sewage.
The demand payment for the use of a public sewer and/or sewage
treatment plant for the handling of any sewage, industrial wastes
or other wastes accepted for admission thereto in which the characteristics
thereof exceed the maximum values of such characteristics in normal
sewage. (See "volume charge.")
All facilities for collecting, regulating, pumping and transporting
wastewater and POTW treatment plant effluent to and away from the
POTW treatment plant.
The Rockland County Sewer District No. 1 is established and
amended pursuant to Article 5 of the County Law and/or any other additional
or successor County sewer disposal district(s) created pursuant to
Article 5-G of the General Municipal Law for the removal and/or disposal
of sewage. It shall include all properties within the service area
of the POTW.
A sewer in which all abutting property owners have equal
rights, and the use of which is controlled by the district and/or
the municipality owning that sewer.
A scale of annual charges established by the Board of Commissioners
and imposed by the Rockland County Legislature for the use of public
sewers.
A sewer which carries wastewater, and to which stormwaters,
surface waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
A sewer which carries stormwaters, surface waters and subsurface
waters but excludes sanitary sewage and industrial wastewaters other
than cooling waters and other unpolluted waters.
The word "shall" is mandatory. (See definition of "may.")
See "user, significant industrial."
A user is in significant noncompliance if its violation(s)
meet(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 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 Executive Director
determines has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges,
interference or pass through (including endangering the health of
POTW 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 Executive Director's exercise of its emergency authority under Article XI of this chapter.
Failure to meet, within 90 days after the schedule
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, 90-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 Executive Director
determines will adversely affect the implementation or operation of
the local pretreatment program.
A slug discharge is any discharge of a nonroutine, episodic
nature, including but not limited to an accidental spill or a noncustomary
batch discharge.
[Amended 11-8-2006 by L.L. No. 13-2006]
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972, and subsequent revisions.
Procedures contained in the latest edition of "Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Wastewater," published by the American
Public Health Association, procedures established by the Administrator
pursuant to Section 304(G) of the Act and contained in 40 CFR Part
136, and amendments thereto. (If 40 CFR Part 136 does not include
a sampling or analytical technique for the pollutant in question,
then procedures set forth in EPA publication, "Sampling and Analysis
Procedures for Screening of Industrial Effluents for Priority Pollutants,
April 1977," and amendments thereto, shall be used.), any other procedure
approved by the Administrator, or any other procedure approved by
the Executive Director, whichever is the most conservative.
The State of New York.
See "waters of the state."
See "sewer, storm."
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom, including snowmelt.
See "lateral, street."
Those compounds which the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation has determined may be harmful to man or the environment.
A mechanism used for removing water from a sump or wet well.
That individual appointed by a Village or Town to oversee
its POTW operations. That person shall be the Executive Director in
municipalities where the district oversees the POTW operations. This
definition shall also include his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the dry weight of solids, in a sample, that either float
on the surface of, or are in suspension, or are settleable, and can
be removed from the sample by filtration, expressed in milligrams
per liter.
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the quantity of ammonia in a sample and released during
the acid digestion of organic nitrogen compounds, expressed as milligrams
of nitrogen per liter.
The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure,
to determine the total quantity of orthophosphate, in a sample of
wastewater, following the hydrolysis of phosphorus compounds, expressed
as milligrams of phosphorus per liter of sample.
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, that when
discharged to a public sewer in sufficient quantities may be hazardous
to POTW operation and maintenance personnel, tend to interfere with
any biological sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard by contaminating
sludge, or to constitute a hazard to recreation in the receiving waters
due to the effluent from a sewage treatment plant or overflow point.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations
promulgated by the EPA under provisions of CWA 307(A), or other Acts.
The quantity of usage of the sewer system assigned to different
classifications of real property in the district.
Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria
in effect, or water that would not cause violation of receiving water
quality standards and would not be benefitted by discharge to the
sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater or is required to deposit wastewater either directly
or indirectly into the district's POTW.
See "sewer rent."
A user of property occupied by a nonresidential establishment,
and not discharging industrial wastes.
A user who is discharging on or before the effective date
of this chapter.
A user of the POTW who is an indirect discharger of nondomestic
wastewaters.
[Amended 11-8-2006 by L.L. No. 13-2006]
A user who initiates discharge after the effective date of
this chapter.
A user on premises used only for human residency who discharges
only domestic wastewaters.
An industrial user of the district's POTW who
is:
Discharging an average of 25,000 gpd or more
of process wastewater, leachate or contaminated water to the POTW
(excluding sanitary, non-contact cooling, and boiler blowdown wastewater);
Subject to national categorical pretreatment
standards promulgated by the EPA;
Having substantial impact (as determined by
the district, NYSDEC or the USEPA), either singly or in combination
with other industries, on the operation of the treatment works, the
quality of the sludge, the system's effluent quality, or air emissions
generated by the system;
Designated as such by the district on the basis
that it has a reasonable potential to adversely affect the POTW's
operation or to violate a pretreatment standard or requirement.
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
Contributing a process wastestream which makes
up 5% or more of the average dry weather organic capacity of the POTW
treatment plant.
Upon a finding that a user meeting the criteria
in Subsection A(1) through (6) has no reasonable potential for adversely
affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard
or requirement, the district may at any time, on its own initiative
or in response to a petition received from a user, and in accordance
with procedures in 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine that such user should
not be considered a significant industrial user.
See "sewage, domestic."
A permit as set forth in Article X of this chapter.
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial establishments, industrial facilities,
institutions and other permitted facilities, together with any groundwater,
surface water and stormwater that may be present, whether treated
or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the
POTW.
That portion of the POTW which is designed to provide treatment
of municipal sewage and industrial waste.
See "sewage, unusual strength or character."
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways,
wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage
systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or
underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through, or border upon the state or any portion thereof.
Terms not defined in this article, or terms
found to be ambiguous or improperly defined in this article, shall
be defined by the Act or regulations pursuant thereto.
