When reference is made to incorporate any statutes,
codes, specifications, standards or manuals of practice, said reference
shall be to the latest additions and revisions thereof.
The design, material and construction methods
shall conform to the applicable sections of the current editions and
subsequent revisions of the following documents. These documents may
be reviewed at the Department.
A.Â
Recommended Standards for Wastewater Facilities, Great
Lakes — Upper Mississippi River Board of State and Provincial
Public Health and Environmental Managers.
B.Â
Rural Sewage Disposal, Rensselaer County Department
of Health.
D.Â
Parts 74 and 75, New York State Department of Health
Regulations, 10 NYCRR.
E.Â
Design Standards for Wastewater Treatment Works, Intermediate
Sized Sewerage Facilities, New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation.
F.Â
Individual Residential Wastewater Treatment Systems
Design Handbook, New York State Department of Health.
G.Â
Design and Construction of Sanitary and Storm Sewers,
Manual of Practice No. 8, Water Pollution Control Federation.
H.Â
Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and
Sewage, Published by the American Public Health Association.
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APPLICANT
APPURTENANCE
ASTM
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
BUILDING DRAIN
BUSINESS
CAPITAL COSTS
COMMERCIAL SERVICE
DEPARTMENT
DISTRICT
DISTRICT BOUNDARIES
ENGINEER
GARBAGE
INDUSTRIAL SERVICE
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
METERED USAGE
NATURAL OUTLET
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS
PERMIT
PERSON
PRETREATMENT
PROPERTY LINE
PUBLIC SEWER
RESIDENTIAL SERVICE
SANITARY SEWER
SERVICE LINE
SEWAGE
SEWERAGE WORKS
SEWER
SEWER RATES AND CHARGES
SPDES
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
STUDIO APARTMENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOWN
TOWN BOARD
UNIT
WATERCOURSE
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT
Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates
otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as
follows:
Any individual, firm, company, association, builder, developer,
society, person, group or municipality having title to real property
in the Town of Schodack and either applying for a permit or holding
a valid permit.
Accessories and equipment used in the sewer works.
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
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 by weight.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives storm and surface water drainage, but excludes sewage
and polluted industrial wastes inside the walls of the structure.
Any activity conducted for profit, whether or not it is open
to the public.
Those fixed costs which must yearly be borne by the district
in making annual payments on indebtedness, which shall include land
acquisition, required reserves for repairing or replacement and any
other cost which is fixed, recurring and not includable for operation
and maintenance.
Any service from nonresidential buildings from which the
wastes are not predominately industrial.
A department or departments which the Town Board shall designate.
Any regularly established sewer district governed by the
Town of Schodack, New York.
The physical boundaries of districts or improvements as currently
established or as may be extended or newly formed from time to time
as duly enacted by law.
The professional engineer retained in connection with the
sewage works or the town engineer, as designated by the Town Board.
Solid wastes from dye preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce; also the
wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food which
has 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 1/2 inch in any dimension.
Any service from which the wastes are predominantly industrial.
Any liquid, gaseous, solid or waste substance or a combination
thereof resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade
or business or from the development or recovery of any natural resources,
which may cause or might be reasonably expected to cause pollution
of the waters in the state in contravention of the standards adopted
as provided herein.
The amount of water passing through the water meter.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
Those variable charges which the district each year incurs
for the operation and maintenance of the sewerage works. This charge
shall include all those costs authorized by the State of New York
and is to be yearly approved by the Town Board.
A license issued by the town, allowing and/or authorizing
work to be done under this chapter by any plumber, contractor or excavator,
builder, developer, applicant or any other person, firm or corporation.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The reduction in the amount of pollution in wastewater to
a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise
introducing such pollution into a publicly owned treatment works (POTW).
The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical
or biological processes, process changes or by other means, except
as provided by EPA Regulations (40 CFR 403.6, General Pretreatment
Regulations for Existing and New Sources of Pollution, Part 400 et
seq.).
A sewer in which all applicants of abutting properties have
equal rights and which is controlled by public authority.
Any service from which the wastes are of a domestic nature
only.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
That portion of pipe located between the sewer and the applicant's
structure.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, excluding
such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
The cost chargeable to each applicant for capital and operation
and maintenance costs.
Denotes the State Pollutant 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.
A sewer which carries storm and surface water drainage, but
excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
A dwelling area within another structure which contains cooking,
sanitary facilities and an area for sleeping and consisting of no
more than two rooms, excluding bathrooms and closets.
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 Town of Schodack, Rensselaer County, New York.
The duly elected Town Board of the Town of Schodack or its
authorized agent or representative.
The lowest single measure of consumption which is attributable to any applicant in the district. The unit is roughly equivalent to consumption of 240 gallons of water per day. This definition will be applied to all applicants which are not included in § 174-68.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
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Word usage. "Shall" is mandatory, "may" is permissive.
