As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
Detailed drawing(s) prepared on completion of the collection
system, sealed by the design engineer, which show actual construction
and field dimensions, elevations, details, changes made to the construction
drawings by modification, details which were not included on the construction
drawings, horizontal and vertical locations of all underground utilities
which have been impacted by the sewer installation.
The president, vice president, secretary and treasurer of the
corporation of a principal business functions, or another appropriate
person(s) as they may designate in writing.
If the user is a partnership or a sole proprietorship, a general
partner or proprietor, respectively, or another appropriate person(s)
as he may designate in writing.
If the user is a federal, state or local governmental facility,
a director or highest appointed official designated to oversee the
operation and performance of the activities of the governmental facility
or his designee.
If the user is an individual property owner; the owner of record
as shown on the most recent Grand List of the Town, or another appropriate
person(s) as he may designate in writing.
The amount of oxygen necessary for bacteria while bacteria
are stabilizing decomposable organic matter under aerobic conditions
for five days. The determination of BOD shall be performed in accordance
with the procedures prescribed in the latest edition of "Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater."
The combined area of a site covered by the roof area or outside
dimensions of all structures on the lot, which includes eaves and
other similar projections. Coverage shall include dwellings, garages,
accessory buildings, commercial structures, porches, decks and covered
walkways.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building's
plumbing which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage
pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building
sewer.
The tight sewer pipe extension from the building drain to
the public sewer or other place of disposal; it may also be called
a "house connection."
Normal Marlborough Town Hall Office operating hours.
National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or Pretreatment
Standards.
The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection for
the State of Connecticut.
Biological oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal
coliform bacteria; plus any additional pollutants identified in the
water pollution control facility's NPDES permit, where the water
pollution control facility is designed to treat such pollutants and,
in fact, does treat such pollutants to the degree required by the
NPDES permit.
The process water in general used for cooling purposes to
which the only pollutant added is heat and which has such characteristics
that it may be discharged to a natural outlet in accordance with federal
and state laws and regulations.
Any person or entity that extends the public sewer other
than the MWPCA.
The Director of Health for the Town.
The sewage that consists of water and human excretions or
other waterborne waste incidental to the occupancy of a residential
building or nonresidential building, but not including wastewater
from water softening equipment, commercial laundry wastewater, and
blow-down from heating and cooling equipment, water from cellar or
floor drains, or surface water from roofs, paved surfaces, or yard
drains.
An individual, partnership or corporation to whom the State
of Connecticut has issued a license to install and repair sewers,
sewer connections, subsurface disposal fields and septic tank systems,
during the period when such license is valid, and the proper agents
and representatives of such drainlayer.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its duly authorized
agents.
Units used to allocate the individual betterments and use
assessment to property owners.
Animal- and plant-derived substances that may solidify or
become viscous between the temperatures of 32° F. and 150°
F. (0° C. to 65° C.), and that separate from sewage by gravity.
Any edible substance identified as grease per the most current EPA
method as listed in 40 CFR 136.3.
A passive tank installed outside a building or designed to
remove fats, oils and grease from flowing sewage while allowing sewage
to flow through it, and as defined herein.
All active indoor mechanical systems designed to remove fats,
oil and grease by physical separation from flowing sewage, as further
defined herein.
Class III and Class IV food service establishments and any
other facility determined by the MWPCA that may discharge FOG above
the set limits in Section 5(b)(2) of the DEEP's general permit
for the discharge of sewage associated with food preparation establishments.
These facilities shall include but not be limited to restaurants,
hotel kitchens, hospital kitchens, school kitchens, bars, cafeteria,
and clubs. Class III and Class IV food services establishments shall
be as defined under Section 19-13-B42 of the State of Connecticut
Public Health Code, as amended from time to time.
Animal or vegetable waste matter generated as a result of
the handling, preparation, cooking or serving of foods.
A sample of sewage taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the existing flow in the waste stream and
without consideration of the time.
A device installed on waste lines leading from sinks, drains
or other fixtures to remove excessive quantities of grease or fat.
The pumps located on properties that convey sanitary waste
from users' properties to the public sewer.
Water located in the subsurface that occupies a saturation
zone from which wells and springs are fed.
The introduction of pollutants into the public sewer from
any nondomestic source regulated under Section 307(b), (c), or (d)
of the Act.
Wastewater from industrial processes, trade or business and
is distinct from domestic sewage.
An agent or employee assigned by the MWPCA to examine and
test material of the work furnished by a contractor for the construction
of a building sewer or any appurtenances thereof. Inspectors have
no authority to waive any portion of these regulations or the MWPCA
specifications unless explicitly authorized by these regulations.
A discharge, which alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges from other sources, inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its
treatment processes or operations, or sludge processes, use or disposal;
and therefore, is a cause of a violation of the Joint Facilities'
and/or the MWPCA NPDES permit or of the prevention of sewage sludge
use or disposal in compliance with any of the following statutory/regulatory
provisions or permits issued thereunder or any more stringent state
or local regulations: Section 405 of the Act; the Solid Waste Disposal
Act, including Title II commonly referred to as the "Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act (RCRA)"; any state regulations contained in any state
sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the Solid
Waste Disposal Act; the Clean Air Act; the Toxic Substances Control
Act; and the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act.
"Joint facilities" consists of representatives of the East
Hampton WPCA and the Colchester Sewer and Water Commission.
Treatment facility located in East Hampton, Connecticut.
Properties that discharge more than 2,500 gallons per day.
A structure, excavation or other facility designed to allow
settled sewage to percolate into the underlying soil without overflow.
The duly appointed committee of the Town charged with the
responsibility, among other things, of ensuring compliance with these
regulations.
"May" is permissive (see "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 permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342).
Rivers, streams, brooks, waterways, lakes, ponds, marshes,
swamps, bogs and other bodies of water, natural or artificial, public
or private, which are contained within, flow through or border on
the boundaries of the Town.
Nonrenderable fats, oils and grease are food-grade grease
that has become contaminated with sewage, detergents or other constituents
that make it unacceptable for rendering.
Any commercial, industrial, institutional, public or other
building not occupied as a dwelling. Apartments, boardinghouses, hotels
and motels and alike are nonresidential buildings.
Written notification from the MWPCA for authorization to
install and/or operate an alternate FOG pretreatment system.
Any individual, partnership, firm, company, corporation,
association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity
or any other legal entity, or its legal representatives, agents or
assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, and the
singular shall include the plural except where otherwise indicated
by the context.
A measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, expressed
in standard units, based on the logarithm of the reciprocal of the
hydrogen-ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
Any documents which may include layout, topography, construction
specifications, site testing information, and seepage analysis which
have been prepared by a professional engineer.
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, and municipal, agricultural,
and industrial wastes.
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 water pollution control
facility. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical,
chemical or biological processes, except as prohibited by Title 40,
Code of Federal Regulations, Section 403.6(d).
A wastewater discharge which comes into contact with industrial
or commercial processes causing water quality deterioration.
An engineer licensed by the State of Connecticut to practice
engineering for the public.
Absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances; these prohibitions appear in § 410-37 of these regulations.
"Property owner" or "owner of property" or "owner" shall
include the owner in fee of any real estate as well as tenants, lessees
or others in control or possession and use of the property in question
or those having any interest therein, and their agents or representatives
as the interest, duties, powers or liabilities of each may be.
Collects and conveys domestic sewage to an appropriate treatment
facility through a common sanitary sewer system.
A "treatment works," as defined by Section 212 of the Act,
which is owned by the MWPCA or the Joint Facilities or its designated
agent. POTW includes any devices or systems used in the collection,
storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of sewage or industrial
wastes of a liquid nature and any conveyances which convey wastewater
to a treatment plant.
Collects the wastewater from the public sewer and pumps the
wastewater to a sewage treatment plant.
A facility for the collection and disposal of nonrenderable
FOG approved by the DEEP.
Renderable fats, oils and grease are material that can be
recovered and sent to renderers for recycling into various usable
products. Renderable grease is created from spent products collected
at the source, such as frying oils and grease from restaurants. This
material is also called "yellow grease."
A closed container that is leakproof for the collection and
storage of food-grade fats, oil and grease.
Any house, apartment, trailer or mobile home, or other structure
occupied by individuals permanently or temporarily as a dwelling place.
The duly appointed representative of the Health District
authorized to act for the official and the authority as defined in
these regulations and the State Public Health Code.
Domestic wastewaters and water-carried wastes incidental
to the occupancy of residential buildings or a nonresidential buildings
from its toilets, lavatory fixtures, kitchens, laundries and other
similar facilities.
Determination through mathematical or physical analysis of
the soil composition for the movement of water through soil.
The liquids and solids which are removed from a tank used
to treat domestic sewage.
A watertight receptacle which is used for the treatment of
sewage and is designed and constructed so as to permit the settling
of solids, the digestion of organic matter by detention, and the discharge
of the liquid portion to a leaching system.
Wastewater, water-carried wastes, or a combination of them
being the spent water from residential or nonresidential buildings.
The structures and equipment required to collect and convey
sewage to the joint facilities treatment plant.
The area of Marlborough located outside the primary and secondary
sewer districts as shown on the Sanitary Waste Management Plan.
"Shall" is mandatory (see "may").
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste that exceeds
the concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow
exceeds the permitted discharge for any period of duration longer
than 15 minutes more than five times the average twenty-four-hour
concentration or flow during normal operation that could be harmful
to the POTW.
Oil, either mineral or vegetable in origin, which disperses
in water or sewage at temperatures between 32° F. and 150°
F. (0° C. to 65° C.). For the purposes of this regulation,
emulsified oil shall be considered as soluble oil.
The classification system of industry pursuant to the Standard
Industrial Classification Manual issued by the United States Office
of Management and Budget.
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the
most recent edition of "Standards Methods for the Examination of Water
and Wastewater," published jointly by the American Public Health Association,
the American Water Works Association and the WEF.
The State of Connecticut.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation that includes snowmelt runoff, discharge of rain or
other clean water from roofs and other impervious surfaces or elsewhere.
Any perforated or open joint pipe or other constructed subsurface
conveyance to which groundwater discharges or in which groundwater
is collected and transported.
The solid matter, measured in milligrams per liter (mg/l),
which may be in suspension, floatable or settleable and is removable
by laboratory filtering as prescribed in the latest edition of "Standard
Methods for Examination of Water and Wastewater."
The Town of Marlborough.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the EPA under the
provisions of Section 307(a) of the Act or other acts.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of sewage into the public sewer system.
Sewage from residential dwellings, commercial buildings,
industrial and manufacturing facilities, and institutional facilities,
whether treated or untreated, which flows to the public sewer.
A permit issued by the MWPCA in accordance with Article III of these regulations to connect and discharge to the existing public sewer.
An arrangement of devices for the treatment of sewage and
sludge.
A natural or artificial channel that continuously or intermittently
passes water.
The following abbreviations shall have the designated meaning:
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ASTM
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American Society for Testing Materials
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BOD
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biological oxygen demand
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CFR
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Code of Federal Regulations
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C.G.S.
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Connecticut General Statutes
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DEEP
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Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
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EPA
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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FOG
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fats, oil and grease
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GPD
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gallons per day
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MG/L
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milligrams per liter
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MWPCA
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Marlborough Water Pollution Control Authority
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NPDES
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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
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POTW
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publicly owned treatment works
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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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TSS
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total suspended solids
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U.S.C.
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United States Code
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WEF
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Water Environment Foundation
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