A.
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
CITY ENGINEER
CITY MANAGER
CODE
COMBINED SEWER
GARBAGE
HEALTH OFFICER
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
NATURAL OUTLET
PERSON
pH
PLUMBING AND SANITARY INSPECTOR
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
SANITARY SEWER
SANITARY WASTE
SEWAGE
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
SEWAGE WORKS
SEWER
SEWER SERVICE CHARGE
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
SUPERINTENDENT
SURCHARGE
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TRUCKED OR HAULED POLLUTANTS (also known as "hauled waste")
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
WATERCOURSE
Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates
otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as
follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20º C., expressed in parts per million by weight.
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.
The extension or lateral from the building drain to the public
sewer or other place of disposal.
The professional engineer retained as City Engineer for the
City of Watertown or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
The individual duly appointed to the office of that name
in the City of Watertown.
The City’s Municipal Code at Chapter 253, entitled “Sewers.”
[Added 1-5-2009 by L.L. No. 1-2009]
A sewer which carries both sanitary sewage and storm and
surface water.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
The physician employed by the City of Watertown in the Health
Department.
The wastes from industrial processes and commercial establishments
which are distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
An individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group and all government entities (local, state and federal).
[Amended 3-20-1995 by L.L. No. 2-1995]
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
The Plumbing and Sanitary Inspector of the City of Watertown
or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (1/2) inch in
any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and is controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm- , surface,
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
Nonprocess washwater, culinary wastes, the liquid waste containing
only human excreta and similar matter flowing in or from a building
drainage system or sewer originating in a dwelling, business building,
factory or institution.
[Added 1-5-2009 by L.L. No. 1-2009]
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.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Sewer rent as described in Article 14-F of the General Municipal
Law.
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
The Superintendent of Public Works of the City of Watertown
or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
A charge for any wastes that exceed the maximum strength
and concentration standards for normal sanitary sewage, which surcharge
shall be in addition to the sewage service charge.
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.
Any water and/or waste which has been removed and transported
from any pit, sump, holding tank, septic tank, wastewater treatment
facility or industrial facility. A person seeking to discharge hauled
waste that originates at a facility that it owns or operates shall
be referred to as a “generator,” and a person that transports
the hauled waste to the City wastewater treatment plant for discharge
shall be referred to as a “hauler.”
[Added 1-5-2009 by L.L. No. 1-2009]
The City wastewater pollution control plant located at 700
William T. Field Drive, Watertown, New York.
[Added 1-5-2009 by L.L. No. 1-2009]
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
B.
Word usage. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
