Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms in these rules and regulations shall be as follows:
Any waste having a suspended solid, BOD, chlorine demand
or total phosphate concentration in excess of that found in normal
strength sewage, but which is otherwise acceptable into a public sewer
under the terms of these regulations.
The director in a SPDES state with an approved state pretreatment
program and the Administrator of the EPA in a non-SPDES state without
an approved state pretreatment program.
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice
president, if the industrial user is a corporation;
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a
partnership or proprietorship, respectively;
A duly authorized representative responsible for the overall
operation of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C. 68° F. expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
Measurement shall be as set forth in the latest edition of "Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Waste Water."
The pipe laid incidental to the original construction of
a public sewer from the public sewer up to some point at the side
of the street, highway or similar location, and there capped, having
been provided and intended for extension and for use at some time
thereafter as part of a building or house sewer connection.
That part of the horizontal piping of a building drainage
system which receives the discharge of all soil, waste and other drainage
from inside the walls of any building and conveys the same to the
building service sewer five feet outside the foundation wall of each
building.
That part of the horizontal piping of a building drainage
system beginning five feet from the foundation wall and terminating
at its connection with the main sewer, cesspool, septic tank or other
disposal terminal.
Degree Centigrade.
The National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or Pretreatment
Standards.
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff
and sewage.
Includes any property occupied by a nonresidential establishment
not within the definition of "industrial user" and which is connected
to the publicly owned treatment works (POTW).
A sample consisting of several effluent portions collected
during a specific time period and combined to make a representative
sample.
Sewage consisting of several effluent portions collected
from various discharge lines at a common point.
The water discharged from any system or condensation, air
conditioning, cooling refrigeration or other sources. It shall contain
no polluting substances which would produce BOD, or suspended soils,
in excess of 10 parts per million by weight, or toxic substances as
limited elsewhere herein.
The County of Washington.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to
the waters of the State of New York.
The Director, duly appointed by the Town Board of the Town
of Kingsbury, shall be the Town Board's authorized agent in matters
falling under these rules and regulations issued pursuant hereto and
shall exercise the powers stipulated in these rules and regulations
and which are subject to the approval and ratification of the Town
Board. The Director shall report to the Town Board upon applications
for sewer connections, shall inspect the construction of such sewer
connections and shall report to the Town Board upon any transgression
of these rules and regulations issued pursuant hereto.
Kingsbury Sewer District No. 1.
The interceptor sewers, trunk sewers, collector sewers, force
mains, pumping station, sewage treatment plants and other appurtenant
structures owned and operated by the Kingsbury Sewer District No.
1.
The solid and liquid wastes from toilet and lavatory fixtures,
kitchens, laundries, bathtubs, shower baths, or equivalent plumbing
fixtures as discharged from dwellings, business and industrial buildings.
Wastewater, after some degree of treatment, flowing out of
any treatment device or facilities.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
The quantities of infiltration/inflow which can be economically
eliminated from a sewer system by rehabilitation, as determined by
a cost-effectiveness analysis that compares the costs for correcting
the infiltration/inflow conditions with the total costs for transportation
and treatment of infiltration/inflow.
Degree Fahrenheit.
The quantity of waste or liquid that flows in a certain period
of time.
The quantity of waste or liquid.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling and storage
and sale of produce.
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration
of time.
Any waste of domestic origin from holding tanks such as chemical
toilets, campers, trailers, human excrement and garbage (scavenger
waste). Also included is sewage sludge from small sewage treatment
plants.
The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants
from any source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1317), into the POTW (including holding tank waste
discharge into the system).
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 utilized the services of the District.
Includes the water-carried wastes from any industrial manufacturing
processes, trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
A permit to deposit or discharge industrial wastewater into
any sanitary sewer under jurisdiction of the District.
Water entering a sewer system, including sewer service connections
from the ground, through such means as, but not limited to, defective
pipes, pipe joints, connections or manhole walls. Infiltration does
not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.
The water discharged into a sewer system, including service
connection from such sources, but not limited to, roof leaders, cellar,
yard, and area drains, foundation drains, cooling water discharge,
drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections
from storm sewers and combined sewers, catch basins, stormwaters,
surface runoff, street wash waters or drainage. Inflow does not include,
and is distinguished from, infiltration.
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW, its treatment processes
or operations, or its sludge processes, use of disposal which is a
cause of or significantly contributes to either a violation of any
requirement of the District's SPDES permit. The term includes
prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance
with Section 405 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1345) or any criteria,
guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal
Act (SWDA), or more stringent state criteria (including those contained
in any New York State sludge management plan prepared pursuant to
Title IV of SWDA applicable to the method of disposal or use employed
by POTW).
The number of milligrams of dry solids, either dissolved
or undissolved, contained in one liter of water, including solids.
One milligram per liter may be expressed as 8.345 pounds of dry solids
per 1,000,000 United States' gallons of water, including solids.
Milligrams per liter may be expressed as parts per million, designated
as "ppm," meaning the number of pounds of dry solids contained in
1,000,000 pounds of water, including dry solids, by using the following
formula:
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mg/l = ppm-specific gravity of the solution
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Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1347), which applies to a specific category of
industrial user.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or groundwater.
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(b) of the Act, which will be applicable to such
source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance
with that section.
Sewage, industrial wastewater or other wastes, which when
analyzed show by weight the following characteristics:
Any wastes that can harm either the sewers, sewer treatment
process, or equipment, have an adverse effect on the receiving stream,
or otherwise endanger life, health or property or constitute a nuisance.
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, egg shells,
coffee grounds, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, cinder, ashes
and all other discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial
wastewater.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
or group contributing directly or indirectly to the District sewage
system.
The negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration
in moles per liter. It indicates the intensity of acidity and alkalinity
of the pH scale running from 0.0 to 14.0. A pH value of 7.0, the midpoint
of the scale, represents neutrality. Values below 7.0 represent acidic
conditions.
Any water, liquid or gaseous waste containing any of the
following: soluble or unsoluble substances of organic or inorganic
nature which may deplete the dissolved oxygen content of the receiving
stream; settleable solids that may form sludge deposits; grease and
oils, floating solids which may cause unsightly appearance; color;
phenols and other substances to an extent which would impart any taste
or odor to the receiving stream; and toxic or poisonous substances
in suspension, colloidal state, solution or gases.
That portion of the District's system which is designated
to provide treatment (including recycling and reclamation) to wastes
received by the District's system.
Parts per million.
The reduction of the amount of, or alteration of, pollutant
properties in wastewater 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, production
process changes or by other means, except as prohibited by General
Pretreatment Regulations for Existing and New Sources of Pollution
(40 CFR 403.6).
Garbage that has been shredded to such a degree that all
particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally
prevailing in the public sewer to which it is discharged, 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 Town.
This definition includes any sewers that convey wastewater to the
POTW treatment plant, but does not include pipes, sewers or other
conveyances not connected to a facility providing treatment. For the
purposes of these rules and regulations, "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's POTW.
A trunk, main or lateral sewer up to and including the "Y"
branch or tee provided for connection thereto and to which all owners
of abutting properties have equal rights, and which is controlled
by a public body. The public sewer does not include the building or
the house sewer, or the building connection lateral after it is connected
with a building sewer.
A natural watercourse or body of water into which treated
or untreated sewage is discharged.
Any user not covered under the definition of "Industrial
User" or "Commercial User."
Sewage discharging from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings
(including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, factories
or institutions, and free from stormwater, surface water, industrial
wastewater and other wastes.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwaters, surface
waters, and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
The matter collected from privies, septic tanks, cesspools
and chemical toilets and sludge from small sewage treatment plants
(25,000 gallons per day or less).
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be inadvertently
present. The admixture of sewage, as above defined, with industrial
wastewater or other wastes also shall be considered sewage within
the meaning of this definition.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
Any industrial user of the District's POTW who:
Is subject to promulgated categorical pretreatment standards;
Has substantial impact, either singly or in combination with
other contributing industries, on the operation of the treatment works;
Uses, on an annual basis, more than 10,000 pounds or 1,000 gallons
of raw material containing priority pollutants/substances of concern
and discharges a measurable amount of these pollutants to the sewer
system from the process using these pollutants; or
Discharges more than 5% of the flow or load carried by the treatment
plant receiving the waste.
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial wastewater 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 flow during normal operation.
The State Pollution Discharge Elimination System.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972, or its most recent edition.
"Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater"
prepared and published jointly by the American Public Health Association,
American Waterworks Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation,
latest edition.
A sewer which carries storm surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastewater other than cooling waters
and other unpolluted waters.
Includes the runoff or discharge of rain and melted snow
or other water from roofs, surfaces of public or private lands, or
elsewhere. Stormwater also shall include subsoil drainage as defined
in this section.
Includes water from the soil percolating into subsoil drains
and through foundation walls, basement floors or underground pipes.
The source of water which occurs when the rate of precipitation
exceeds the rate at which water may infiltrate into the soil.
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension
in, water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by flotation,
skimming and sedimentation. Measurement shall be set forth in the
latest edition of Standard Methods.
Public Law 92-500, as amended.
The Town of Kingsbury.
The Kingsbury Town Board as the administrative body of the
Kingsbury Sewer District No. 1.
Any Town sanitary sewer district as created, altered or modified
by action of the Kingsbury Town Board.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provisions of Federal Water Pollution
Control Act Amendments of 1972, Section 307(a) or other acts.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into district POTW.
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions,
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.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
