A.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD
COMBINED SEWER
CONTAMINATION
CONTRACTOR
DISTRICT
DISTRICT BOUNDARIES
EASEMENT
ENGINEER
FLOATABLE OIL
GARBAGE
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
NATURAL OUTLET
NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION or NYSDEC
OWNER
PERSON
pH
POLLUTION
PRETREATMENT
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PROPERTY LINE
PUBLIC SEWER
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
SANITARY SEWER
SEWAGE
SEWER
SEWER DISTRICT
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
SLUG
SPDES
STORM DRAIN (sometimes termed storm sewer)
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOWN ENGINEER and/or DESIGNATED ENGINEER
TOWN SEWER INSPECTOR
UNPOLLUTED WATER
WASTEWATER
WASTEWATER FACILITIES
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
WATERCOURSE
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 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from 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 "building sewer" is defined as extending from the public
sewer main to the start of the building drain. The building drain
is considered to begin at a point five feet outside the foundation
wall.
Any regulation containing discharge limits promulgated by
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in accordance with Section
307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1347), which applies
to a specific category of industrial users.
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff
and sewage.
An impairment of the quality of the waters of the state by
waste to a degree which creates a hazard to the public health through
poisoning or through the spread of disease.
Any person or corporation doing work in the Town.
Any regularly established sewer district or sewer improvement
and extensions thereof in the Town of North Greenbush.
The physical boundaries of districts or improvements as presently
established or as may be extended from time to time as duly enacted
by law.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
A person registered as a professional engineer by the State
of New York.
Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment
facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if
it is properly pretreated, and the wastewater does not interfere with
the collection system.
The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and serving of foods.
The wastewater from industrial processes, trade or business
as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water
or groundwater.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
or other duly authorized official of said department.
An individual, firm, company, association, society, person
or group having title to real property.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration.
The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter
of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of seven and
a hydrogen ion concentration of 10-7.
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
The reduction of the amount of pollutant properties in wastewater
to a less harmful state 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, process
changes or by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6, General
Pretreatment Regulations for Existing and New Sources of Pollution.
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 greater than one-half inch in any
dimension.
The edge of a sewer right-of-way in those instances where
the building sewer connects to the public sewer not located on a street
right-of-way, and the owner's property line in those instances where
the building sewer connects to a public sewer located in the street
right-of-way.
A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public
utility.
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292). Includes any sewers that convey wastewater
to the POTW but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances
not connected to a facility providing treatment.
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions,
together with minor quantities of ground- , storm- and surface waters
that are not admitted intentionally.
The spent water of a community. The preferred term is “wastewater.”
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
Any sewer district owned, maintained and operated by the
Town of North Greenbush.
Any user who has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more
per average work day or has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in
the municipality's wastewater system or has in his wastes toxic pollutants
as defined pursuant to Section 307 of the Act or has been identified
as one of the 21 industrial categories pursuant to Section 307 of
the Act or is found by the municipality to have significant impact,
either singly or in combination with other contributing industries,
on the treatment or collection system.
Any discharge of water or 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 flows during normal operation
and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance
of the wastewater treatment works.
The state pollution discharge elimination system established
by Article 17 of the Environmental Conservation Law of the State of
New York for issuance of permits authorizing discharge to the waters
of the state.
A drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface
water or unpolluted water from any source.
Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface
of or is in suspension in water, wastewater or other liquids that
is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and referred to as nonfilterable
residue.
The legally appointed Engineer by the Town of North Greenbush
for reviewing and inspection purposes for the Town.
The legally appointed Sewer Inspector of the Town of North
Greenbush or his authorized deputy or representative.
Water of a quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria
in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water
quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary
sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source,
it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may
be present.
The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect,
carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of
the effluent.
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater,
industrial wastes and sludge and is sometimes used synonymously with
waste treatment plant or wastewater treatment plant or water pollution
control plant. In this case, the sewage treatment plant of Rensselaer
County Sewer District No. 1.
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water
either continuously or intermittently.
B.
Word usage. “Shall” is mandatory; "may"
is permissive.
