A. 
Usage. Words used in the present tense include the future; the singular number includes the plural, and the masculine shall include the feminine. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
B. 
Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Part 1 shall be as follows:
ADMINISTRATOR
The Superintendent of Sewage or his deputy, agent or representative, as appointed by the Town Board of the Town of Crawford.
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. (68° F.) expressed in parts per million (ppm) or milligrams per liter (mg/l).
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building sanitary drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other sanitary drainage pipes inside the walls of any building and which conveys such discharge to the building sewers, beginning four feet outside the outer face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
That part of the horizontal piping of a sanitary drainage system which extends from the end of the building drain and which receives the discharge of the building drain and conveys it to a public sewer or other point of disposal, such as a public septic tank.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff and sewage.
COOLING WATER
The water discharge from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration or other sources.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
The Orange County and/or New York State Department of Health.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic or commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food or from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The fluid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trades or businesses as distinct from sanitary sewage.
OTHER WASTES
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, coffee grounds, sawdust, shavings, eggshells, bark, sand, lime, cinders, ashes and all other discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial wastes.
PERMITTEE
Any person who obtains a permit for sewer connection.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
pH
The intensity of the acid or alkaline reaction of a solution in terms of hydrogen concentration but is not a measure of the total concentration of acid or alkali present. The pH is expressed as the common logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen concentration in moles per liter: pH = 1/(h)+
POLLUTANT
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water.
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
Any privy, septic tank, cesspool or other sewage disposal facility owned and operated by a person other than a municipal sewage system.
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 particle having a dimension greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEPTIC TANK
Any septic tank within the Town of Crawford Sewer District No. 1 whose effluent is discharged to the public sewer.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer controlled by the Town of Crawford Sewer District No. 1.
RECEIVING WATERS
A natural watercourse or any other body of surface or ground water, into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm- , surface and ground waters shall not be admitted.
SCAVENGER WASTES
The conditioned human waste matter collected from privies, septic tanks, cesspools, swimming pool water and chemical toilets.
SEWAGE
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 wastes or other wastes also shall be considered sewage within the meaning of this definition.
SEWAGE SURCHARGE
The demand payment for the use of the public sewers and/or sewage treatment plant for handling any sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes accepted for admission thereto in which the quantity or characteristics thereof exceed the maximum values as defined herein.
SEWAGE SYSTEM
All facilities within any sewer district for collecting, regulating, pumping and transporting sewage to the Town of Crawford Sewer District No. 1 sewage treatment facility within the Town.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT (TOWN OF CRAWFORD SEWER DISTRICT NO. 1 SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITY)
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage at any Town of Crawford Sewer District No. 1 sewage treatment facility.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWER DISTRICT
The Town of Crawford Sanitary Sewer District as created, altered, modified or extended by action of the Town Board of the Town of Crawford.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Any industrial user of any of the Town's wastewater disposal systems who:
(1) 
Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average workday;
(2) 
Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in any of the Town's wastewater treatment systems;
(3) 
Has in his wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to § 307 of the Act or New York State statutes and rules; or
(4) 
Is found by the Town, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Department of Health or the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on any of the wastewater treatment systems, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality or air emissions generated by the system.
SLOPE
The grade or pitch of a line of pipe in reference to a horizontal plane. In drainage, it is usually expressed as the fall in a fraction of an inch per foot length of pipe.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste 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.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage (excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than cooling waters and other unpolluted waters).
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.
THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the "Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
TOWN OF CRAWFORD or TOWN
Includes Sewer District No. 1 within the Town and includes the Town Board of the Town of Crawford.
TOWN SEWER SYSTEM
The interceptor sewers, trunk sewers, lateral sewers, force mains, pumping stations, sewage regulators and other appurtenant structures owned and operated by the Town of Crawford Sewer District No. 1.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
C. 
Town of Crawford Sewer District No. 1 Plans and Specifications Addendum No. 1, dated June 1982, prepared by Phillip J. Clark Engineers and Consultants, P.C., is on file with the Town Clerk of the Town of Crawford.