Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in Part
1 of this chapter shall be as follows:
ASTM
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
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.
CONTAMINATION
An impairment of the quality of the waters of the state by
waste to a degree which creates a hazard to the public health through
poisoning or through the spread of disease.
DISTRICT
Any or all of the established sewer districts in the Town
of Oneonta.
[Amended 2-14-1996 by L.L. No. 3-1996]
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL USER
Any industrial or commercial establishment with a classification
as designated in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972
Edition, as published by the Executive Office of the President, and
which utilizes the services of the town's sewer system.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
PH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
PRETREATMENT
The reduction of the amount 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 obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, process
changes or by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6, General
Pretreatment Regulations for Existing and New Sources of Pollution.
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, with no particles greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLICLY OWNER TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292), including any sewers that convey wastewater
to the POTW, but not including pipes, sewers or other conveyances
not connected to a facility providing treatment.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is owned or controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such ground-, surface and storm waters as may be present.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Any user who has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more
per average workday, or has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in
the municipality's wastewater system, or has in his wastes toxic pollutants
as defined pursuant to Section 307 of the Act, or has been identified as one of the 21 industrial categories
pursuant to Section 307 of the Act, or is found by the Town to have
significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing
industries, on the treatment or collection system.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial wastes which
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds
for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times
the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during normal
operation.
SPDES
The State Pollution Discharge Elimination System established
by Article 17 of the Environmental Conservation Law of the State of
New York for issuance of permits authorizing discharges to the waters
of the state.
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
The Town of Oneonta.
TOWN ENGINEER
The Town Engineer of the the Town of Oneonta or his duly
authorized deputy, agent or representative, or other official designated
by the Town Board.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously
or intermittently.
WPCF
The Water Pollution Control Federation.