TOWN OF
SEWER USE LAW
LOCAL LAW #2
FOR 2000
ADOPTED
11/06/2000
AMENDED
08/01/2005
(WHICH INCORPORATES FEDERAL
PRETREATMENT LANGUAGE)
1
SHORT TITLE AND PURPOSE 1-1
2
DEFINITIONS 2-1
3
USE OF PUBLIC SEWERS REQUIRED
3-1
4
PRIVATE WASTEWATER DISPOSAL
4-1
5
NEW SEWERS or SEWER EXTENSIONS 5-1
6
BUILDING LATERALS, STREET LATERALS, CONNECTIONS, and
FEES 6-1
7
INFLOW 7-1
8
TRUCKED AND HAULED WASTES
8-1
9
DISCHARGE RESTRICTIONS 9-1
10
DISCHARGE PERMITS and PRETREATMENT
REQUIREMENTS 10-1
11 ENFORCEMENT and
PENALTIES 11-1
12
CHARGES 12-1
13
PUBLIC DISCLOSURE of POTW OPERATION
13-1
14
CONFLICTS, SEVERABILITY, EFFECTIVE DATE AND
APPLICABILITY 14-1
APPENDIX TABLE OF PARAMETERS OF CONCERN A-1
ARTICLE 1 - Short Title and
Purpose
Section 101 - Short
Title
Section 102 - General
Purpose
Section 103 - Specific
Purposes
Section 104 -
Replacement of Previous Sewer Use Law
ARTICLE 2 - Definitions
Section 201 - Defined
Terms
Section 202 -
Abbreviations
Section 203 - Undefined Terms
ARTICLE 3 - Use of Public
Sewers Required
Section 301 - Waste
Disposal Unlawful
Section 302 -
Connecting Private Sewage System to Storm Sewer Unlawful
Section 303 - Discharge
of Sewage into Well Prohibited
Section 304 -
Wastewater Discharge Unlawful
Section 305 - Building
Permit Allowed Only When Approved Wastewater Disposal Available
Section 306 - Private
Wastewater Disposal Unlawful
Section 307 -
Connection to Public Sewer Required
Section 308 - Limitation on Use of
Public Sewers
Section 309 -
Wastewater from Outside the POTW Service Area
-
Inter-municipal Agreements
Section 310 -
Moratorium
Section 311 - Basis of
Sewer Use Requirement
ARTICLE 4 - Private Wastewater
Disposal
Section 401 - Public
Sewer Unavailable - Private Wastewater Disposal Required
Section 402 -
Connection of Two Buildings to the Same
Septic Tank Prohibited
Section 403 -
Construction Permit Application
Section 404 -
Construction Permit
Section
405 - Preventing Nuisances - Rehabilitation Required
Section 406 - Sanitary
Operation Required
Section 407 - Septage Removal
Section 408 - Direct
Connection to New Public Sewers Required
Section 409 - Additional
Requirements
ARTICLE 5 - New Sewers or Sewer
Extensions
Section 501 - Proper Design
Section 502 A - New
Sewers Subject to Approval, Fees, Inspection, Testing, and Reporting
Section 502 B - Plans,
Specification, and Pipe Test Results Required
Section 503 A - Sewer Pipe
Section 503 B - Safety
and Load Factors
Section 503 C - Sewer
Pipe installation
Section 503 D -
Cleanout Installation
Section 504 - Manholes and Manhole Installation
Section 505 A -
Infiltration/Exfiltration Testing
Section 505 B - Test
Section
Section 505 C - Test
Period
Section 505 D - Pipe
Lamping
Section 505 E - Deflection
Testing
Section 505 F - Air
Testing Alternative
Section 505 G - Vacuum
Testing Alternative
Section 506 A - Force
Mains
Section 506 B - Force
Main Testing
Section 507 - Final Acceptance and Warranty/Surety
Section 508 - Liability Insurance Coverage During
Construction Period
ARTICLE 6 - Building Laterals,
Street Laterals,
Connections, and Fees
Section 601 A - Permit Required for Sewer Connections
Section 601 B -
Inflow/Infiltration Prohibited
Section 602 - Sewer Lateral Permits
Section 603 A - New
Building Laterals
Section 603 B -
Laterals Serving Several Buildings
Section 603 C -
Laterals Serving Complexes
Section 603 D - Dry Sewers
Section 604 - Using Existing Building Laterals
Section 605 - Lateral Pipe Materials
Section 606 A - Street Lateral to Public Sewer Connection
Section 606 B - Future
Connection Locations; As-Built
Drawings
Section 606 C - Special
Manhole Requirements
Section 607 - Laterals At and Near Buildings
Section 608 - Sewage Lifting
Section 609 - Lateral Pipe Installation
Section 610 A -
Watertight Joints
Section 610 B - Cast
Iron Pipe Poured Joints
Section 610 C - Cast
Iron Push Joints
Section 610 D - PVC
Push Joints
Section 611 A -
Building Lateral/Street Lateral Connection
Section 611 B -
Cleanout Repair/Replacement
Section 611 C - Street
Lateral Replacement; Ownership
Section 612
- Testing
Section 613 A - Connection Inspection
Section 613 B - Trench
Inspections
Section 614 - Public Safety Provisions Required;
Restoration of Disturbed Areas
Section 615 - Interior Clean-Out
Section 616 - Costs Borne by Owner
ARTICLE 7 - Inflow
Section 701 - New
Inflow Sources Prohibited
Section 702 - Existing
Inflow Sources Disconnected
Section 703 - Existing
Inflow Sources Disconnected When
Property Sold
Section 704 - No Re-connection of Inflow
Source Allowed
Section 705 - Charges
for Inflow
ARTICLE 8 - Trucked or Hauled
Waste
Section 801 - Licenses
and Application
Section 802 -
Concurrent Requirements
Section 803 - Dumping
Location and Timing
Section 804 -
Notification of Dumping
ARTICLE 9 - Discharge
Restrictions
Section 901 -
Pretreatment Standards
Section 902 - General
Prohibitions
Section 903 -
Concentration Based Limitations
Section 904 - Mass
Discharge Based Limitations
Section 905 -
Modification of Limitations
Section 906 - Access to
User's Records
Section 907 - Dilution
Section 908 - Grease,
Oil, and Sand Interceptors
Section 909 - Solid
Waste Grinders
Section 910 - Rejection
of Wastewater
ARTICLE 10 - Discharge Permits
and Pretreatment Requirements
Section 1001 - Wastewater Discharge Reports
Section 1002
- Notification to Industrial Users
Section 1003 A -
Wastewater Discharges
Section 1003 B -
Wastewater Discharge Permits Required For Significant Industrial Users
Section 1003 C - Other
Industrial Users
Section 1003 D -
Discharge Permits to Storm Sewers Not Authorized
Section 1004 A - Application for Wastewater Discharge Permits
Section 1004 B - Permit
Modifications
Section 1004 C - Permit
Conditions
Section 1004 D - Permit
Duration
Section 1004 E - Permit
Reissuance
Section 1004 F - Permit
Transfer
Section 1004 G - Permit
Revocation
Section 1004 H - Public
Notification
Section 1005 - Reporting Requirements for Permittee
Section 1006 - Flow Equalization
Section 1007 - Monitoring Stations (Control Manholes)
Section 1008 -
Proper Design and Maintenance of
Facilities and Monitoring Stations
Section 1009 - Vandalism, Tampering with Measuring Devices
Section 1010 - Sampling and Analysis
Section 1011 - Accidental Discharges; SPCC Plan
Section 1012 - Posting Notices
Section 1013 - Sample Splitting
Section 1014 - Public Access to Information Maintained by
the District Operator
Section 1015 A - Access to Property and Records
Section 1015 B - Access
to Easements
Section 1015 C -
Liability of Property Owner
Section 1016 - Special Agreements
ARTICLE 11 - Enforcement and
Penalties
Section 1101 -
Enforcement Response Plan
ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES
Section 1102 -
Notification of Violation
Section 1103 - Consent
Orders
Section 1104 - Administrative
or Compliance Orders
Section 1105 -
Administrative Fines
Section 1106 - Cease
and Desist Orders
Section 1107 -
Termination of Permit
Section 1108 - Water
Supply Severance
Section 1109 - Show
Cause Hearing
Section 1110 - Failure
of User to Petition the District Operator
Section 1111 - Notice
Section 1112 - Right to
Choose Multiple Remedies
JUDICIAL REMEDIES
Section 1113 - Civil
Actions for Penalties
Section 1114 - Court
Orders
Section 1115 - Criminal
Penalties
Section 1116 -
Injunctive Relief
Section 1117 - Summary
Abatement
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 1118 - Delinquent
Payments
Section 1119 -
Performance Bonds
Section 1120 -
Liability Insurance
Section 1121 -
Informant Rewards
Section 1122 - Public
Notification
Section 1123 - Contractor
Listings
ARTICLE 12 - Charges
Section 1201 - Normal
Sewage Service Charges
Section 1202 -
Surcharge for Abnormal Sewage
Section 1203 - Total
Sewer Service Charge
Section 1204 -
Segmenting the POTW
Section 1205 -
Measurement of Flow
Section 1206 - Billing
Period
Section 1207 - Pretreatment
Program Costs
Section 1208 - Charges
for Trucked or Hauled Waste
Section 1209 - Capital
Recovery
Section 1210 -
Collection of Charges
Section 1211 - Fiscal
Year for System
Section 1212 - Impact
Fees
Section 1213 - Use of
Revenues
Section 1214 - Records
and Accounts
ARTICLE 13 - Public Disclosure
of POTW Operations
Section 1301 - POTW
Operations Open to the Public
Section 1302 -
Procedural Requirements Available
Section 1303 - Validity
Through Public Inspection
ARTICLE 14 - Conflicts,
Severability, Effective Date and Applicability
Section 1401 -
Conflicts
Section 1402 -
Severability
Section 1403 -
Effective Date
Section 1404 - Applicability
APPENDIX - Parameters of
Concern
Class A - Halogenated Hydrocarbons
Class B - Halogenated
Organics (Other than Hydrocarbons)
Class C - Pesticides
(Includes Herbicides, Algaecides, Biocides, Slimicides
and Mildewcides)
Class D - Aromatic
Hydrocarbons
Class E - Tars
Class F - Subsituted Aromatics (Other than Hydrocarbons and
Non-Halogenated)
Class G - Miscellaneous
Class M - Metals and
their Compounds
END OF TABLE OF CONTENTS
SHORT TITLE AND PURPOSE
Section 101 - Short Title
Section 102 - General Purpose
Section 103 - Replacement of
Previous Sewer Use Law
Section
101 - Short Title
For brevity and ease of communication,
this Law may be cited as the Town of
Section
102 - General Purpose
The purpose of this Law is to provide
for the maximum possible beneficial public use of the Town wastewater
facilities and prevent public health problems through regulation of sewer
construction, sewer use and wastewater discharges. This Law shall also provide for procedures for
complying with the requirements contained herein and penalties for violation
thereof. The provisions of this Law
shall apply to the discharge of all wastewater facilities to the Town. This Law provides for use of the Town
wastewater facilities, regulation of sewer construction, control and assurance
that existing customers' capacity will not be preempted, approval of sewer
construction, construction plans, separate contracts for significant industrial
users, minimum sewer connection standards and conditions, and penalties and
other procedures in cases of violation of this Law.
END OF ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
Section 201 - Defined Terms
Section 202 - Abbreviations
Section 203 - Undefined Terms
Section
201 - Defined Terms
Unless otherwise stated in the section
where the term is used in this Law, the meaning of terms used in this Law 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.
Abnormal
Sewage - Sewage whose concentration of one or more characteristics of normal
sewage exceeds the maximum concentrations of the characteristics of normal
sewage. See normal sewage.
Act
or "The Act" - The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as
the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251, et seq., as may be amended.
Administrator - The Regional Administrator of the
Ammonia
- The result obtained, using an approved laboratory procedure, to determine the
quantity of ammonia in a sample, expressed as milligrams of nitrogen per liter.
Applicant
- That person who makes application for any permit. The applicant may be an owner, new or old, or
his agent.
Approval
Authority - The USEPA, or the New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), in the event the NYSDEC is
delegated approval authority responsibility by the USEPA.
Approved
Laboratory Procedure - The procedures defined as 'Standard Methods' in this
article, or other procedures approved by the District Operator, for flow
measurement or determination of the concentration of pollutants or their
surrogates in waters, wastewaters, and/or sludges.
ASTM,
denoting American Society for Testing and Materials -
The latest edition of any ASTM specification, when stipulated in this
Law.
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) A 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 originates.
BOD,
denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand - 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, expressed in
milligrams per liter.
Builder
- Any person who undertakes to construct a building
or
any part of a building, either under contract or for
resale.
Building Drain - 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, which begins five (5) feet
outside the inner face of the building wall.
Chlorine
Demand - 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.
COD,
denoting Chemical Oxygen Demand - 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.
Color
- The optical density at the visual wave length of maximum absorption, relative
to distilled water. One hundred percent (100%) transmittance is equivalent to
zero (0.0) optical density.
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.
Connection
- Attachment of one user to a sewer. (See Extension).
Connection
Charge (Tap Fee) - The one time application fee to offset Town expenses to
process an application for a connection of a building/street lateral to the
public sewer. The fee also covers plan
review, permit issuance, street repair cost, and inspection costs. The fee may be scaled to the amount of work
involved, or to the size of the public sewer involved.
Control
Authority - The term shall refer to "Approval Authority",
or to the District Operator when Town has an approved pretreatment program
under the provisions of 40 CFR 403.11.
Control
Manhole - 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.
Conventional
Pollutant - A pollutant that the POTW treatment plant was designed to treat,
defined in accordance with the Act.
Cooling
Water - 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 (5) milligrams per liter, or toxic substances, as limited elsewhere in
this Law.
County
- The county in which the Town is located.
CVT
- A symbol used in this model law to designate the municipality as the City,
Town, or Town, whichever is appropriate.
Developer
- Any person who subdivides land for the purpose of constructing, or causing to
be constructed, buildings for which wastewater disposal facilities are
required.
Direct
Discharge - The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the
Waters of the State of
Domestic
Wastes - see Sewage, Domestic.
Dry
Sewers - 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.
End
of Pipe - For the purpose of determining compliance with limitations prescribed by Article 9, end of
pipe shall mean the control manhole, provided the samples collected from the
control manhole are representative of the discharge to the POTW.
End
of Pipe Concentration - The concentration of a substance in a sample of
wastewater at end of pipe.
End
of Process Concentration - see National Categorical Pretreatment Standard.
Easement
- An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
EPA,
USEPA, or U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - 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.
Extension
- Attachment of a sewer line, with more than one user, to an existing sewer
line.
Facility
- All buildings, other structures, grounds and contiguous property at any
locations related to or connected with a user at the user's location.
Floatable
Oil - Oil, grease, or fat in a physical state such that it will separate by
gravity from wastewater by treatment in a wastewater treatment facility.
Flow
Rate - The quantity of liquid or waste that flows in a certain period of time.
Garbage
- 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.
Grab
Sample - A single sample of wastewater representing the physical, chemical, and
biological characteristics of the wastewater at one point and time.
ICS
Form - The form used by the NYSDEC to survey industries to perform and update the Industrial
Chemical Survey.
Indirect Discharge - The introduction of wastewater into a POTW for
treatment and ultimate discharge of the treated effluent to the State's Waters.
(For
reference, see Direct Discharge)
Industrial
- Meaning or pertaining to industry, manufacturing, commerce, trade, business,
or institution, and is distinguished from domestic or residential.
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
User - See User, Industrial
Industrial Wastes - 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.
Infiltration
- Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer
system (excluding building drains) from the ground through such means as
defective 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.
Inflow
- 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, storm waters, foundation drains, swimming pools,
surface runoff, street wash waters, or drainage. Inflow does not include, and
is distinguished from,
infiltration. Inflow is purposely designed and/or built into the
sewer or drain.
Interference
- A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with discharges by other sources,
(a) inhibits or
disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge
processes, use or disposal; and
(b) therefore is a cause of a violation of any
requirement of the Town 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):
i-Section
405 of the Clean Water Act,ii-the Solid Waste
Disposal Act (SWDA) (including Title II, more commonly referred to as the
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act - RCRA), and including State regulations
contained in any State sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D
or the SWDA),iii-Clean Air Act,iv-Toxic Substance
Control Act, andv-Marine Protection Research and
Sanctuaries Act.
Lateral,
Building - The sewer extension from the building drain to the Street Lateral or
other place of wastewater
disposal.
Lateral, Street - The sewer extension from the public sewer to the
property line.
National
Categorical Pretreatment Standard, or Categorical Standard - Any regulation
containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with
Section 307 (B) and (C) of the Act (22 U.S.C. 1347), which applies to a
specific category of industrial users. These standards apply
at
the end of the categorical process ("end of process").
National
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit- A permit issued pursuant to
Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1342).
National
Prohibitive Discharge Standard, or Prohibitive Discharge Standard - Any
regulation developed under the authority of Section 307 (B) of the Act, and 40
CFR, Section 403.5.
Natural
Outlet - Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, to
State's Waters.
New
Owner - That individual or entity who purchased
property within the Service Area of the Town after the effective date of this
law.
New
Source - Any source, the construction of which is commenced after the
publication of the proposed regulation prescribing a Section 307 (C) (33 U.S.C
1317) Categorical
Pretreatment
Standard which will be applicable to such source, if such standard is thereafter
promulgated.
New
User - A discharger to the POTW who commences discharge after the effective date of this Law.
Normal
Sewage - see Sewage,
Nuisance
- The use or lack of use of the POTW in such a manner so as to endanger life or
health, give offense to the senses, or obstruct or otherwise interfere with the
reasonable use or maintenance of the POTW.
Oil
and Grease - 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.
Old
Owner - 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 Law,
who or inherited the property at any time and intends to sell the property, or
has sold the property to a new owner, also the agent of the old owner.
Other
Wastes - 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. Also, the discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial
waste.
Pass
Through - The discharge which exits the Town POTW into waters of the State in
quantities, 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 of a
violation).
Permit
- 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 Law.
Person
- Any individual, public or private corporation, political subdivision,
Federal, State, or local agency or entity, association, trust, estate or any
other legal entity whatsoever.
pH
- The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight
of
hydrogen ions, in gram moles per liter of solution. 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.
Phosphorus,
total - See total phosphorus.
Pollutant
- 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.
Pollution
- 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.
Pretreatment
(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 as prohibited by 40 CFR, Section 403.6 (D).
Pretreatment
Requirements - Any substantive or procedural
requirement related to pretreatment, other than a National
Pretreatment
Standard imposed on an industrial user.
Pretreatment
Standard or National Pretreatment Standard -
Any Categorical Standard or Prohibitive Discharge Standard.
Priority
Pollutants - The most recently revised or updated
list, developed by the EPA, in accordance with the Act.
Prohibitive
Discharge Standard - see National Prohibitive
Discharge
Standard.
Properly
Shredded Garbage - The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such a degree 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 one-half (1/2) inch in any
dimension.
POTW
Treatment Plant - That portion of the POTW designed to
provide treatment to wastewater, and to treat sludge and
residuals derived from such treatment.
Publicly
Owned Treatment Works (POTW) - A treatment works, as
defined by Section 212 of the Act, (33 U.S.C 1292), which is owned, in this
instance, by Town. This definition includes any sewers and appurtenances that
transport wastewater to the POTW treatment plant, but does not include pipes,
sewers, or other conveyances not connected directly or indirectly to a facility
providing treatment.
Receiving
Waters - A natural water course or body of water (usually Waters of the State)
into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
Records
- Shall include, but not be limited to, any printed, typewritten, handwritten
or otherwise recorded matter of whatever character (including paper or
electronic media), including but not limited to, letters, files, memoranda,
directives, notes and notebooks, correspondence, descriptions, telephone call
slips, photographs, permits, applications, reports, compilations, films, graphs
and inspection reports. For the purposes of this law, records shall mean
records of and relating to waste generation, reuse and disposal, and shall
include records of usage of raw materials.
Roof
Drain - A drain installed to receive water collecting on the surface of a roof
for disposal.
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.
Septic
Tank - 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.
Service
Area of the POTW - The legally defined bounds of real property from which
wastewater may be discharged into the POTW.
The bounds shall be established, altered, changed,
modified, reduced, enlarged, combined, or consolidated by
action of the Town Board.
Sewage
- A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, and such ground,
surface, and storm water as may be inadvertently present. The admixture of
sewage, as defined above, with industrial wastes and other wastes shall also be considered "sewage",
within the meaning of this definition.
Sewage,
Domestic (Domestic Wastes) - Liquid wastes from the non-commercial 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. (See Sewage, Sanitary)
Sewage,
(a) B.O.D. (Five Day) - 2090 lbs. per
million gallons (250 milligrams per
liter), or less.
(b) Suspended Solids - 2500 lbs. per
million gallons
(300 milligrams per liter), or less.
(c) Phosphorus - 125 lbs. per million gallons
(15 milligrams per
liter), or less.
(d) Ammonia - 250 lbs. per million gallons
(30 milligrams per
liter), or less.
(e) Total Kjeldahl
Nitrogen - 417 lbs. per million (50 milligrams per liter), or
less.
(f) Chlorine Demand - 209 lbs. per
million gallons (25
milligrams per liter), or less.
(g) Chemical Oxygen Demand - 2920 lbs. per
million gallons (350 milligrams per liter),
or less
(h) Oil and Grease - 830 lbs. per million
gallons (100 milligrams
per liter), or less.
In
spite of satisfying one or more of these characteristics, if the sewage also contains substances
of concern, it may not be considered
normal sewage.
Sewage,
Sanitary - Liquid wastes from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings (including
apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, factories, or institutions, and
free from storm water, surface water, industrial, and other wastes. (See
Domestic Wastes).
Sewage
Treatment Plant (Water Pollution Control Plant) - see POTW Treatment Plant.
Sewage, Unusual Strength or Character - Sewage which has
characteristics greater than those of Normal Sewage and /or which contains
Substances of Concern.
Sewer
- A pipe or conduit for carrying or transporting sewage.
Sewer Board
The management agency set up by an inter-municipal agreement for the NYS Route Sewer Project.
Sewer,
Combined - A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff and
sewage.
Sewer,
Public - A sewer in which all abutting property owners have equal rights, and the use of
which is controlled by the Town.
Sewer,
Sanitary - A sewer which carries sewage, and to which storm, surface, and groundwaters are not intentionally
admitted.
Sewer,
Storm (Storm Drain) - A sewer which carries storm and
surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and ind