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BOD (DENOTING "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND")
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
CHLORINE DEMAND
CITY
COMBINED SEWER
COMMISSION
COOLING WATER
COUNTY
COUNTY SEWERAGE SYSTEM
COUNTY SEWER DISTRICT
DIRECTOR
GARBAGE
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
NATURAL OUTLET
NORMAL SEWAGE
OTHER WASTES
PERSON
pH
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
SANITARY SEWAGE
SANITARY SEWER
SEWAGE
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
SEWAGE WORKS
SEWER
SLUG
STORM DRAIN (SOMETIMES TERMED "STORM SEWER")
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
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 soil, waste and other drainage pipes
inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer,
beginning five feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building
wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
The difference between the amount of chlorine added to water,
sewage or industrial wastes, and the amount of residual chlorine remaining
at the end of a twenty-minute contact period at room temperature.
The City of Rensselaer and the lands contained therein.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
The Board of Commissioners appointed by the County Legislature
to the Rensselaer County Sewer District No. 1.
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other sources. It shall contain
no polluting substances which would produce BOD or suspended solids
in excess of 10 parts per million by weight or toxic substances as
limited elsewhere herein.
The County of Rensselaer.
The trunk sewers, force mains, pumping stations, sewage regulators,
water pollution control plants (sewage treatment plants) and other
appurtenant structures owned and operated by the Rensselaer County
Sewer District No. 1.
Rensselaer County Sewer District No. 1, as created, altered
or modified by action of the Rensselaer County Legislature.
The administrative executive of the Rensselaer County Sewer
District No. 1.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
Sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes which, when analyzed,
show, by weight, the following characteristics:
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, eggshells,
coffee grounds, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, cinder, ashes
and all other discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial
wastes.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration
in moles per liter. It indicates the intensity of acidity and alkalinity
of the pH scale running from 0.0 to 14.0. A pH value of 7.0, the midpoint
of the scale, represents neutrality. Values above 7.0 represent alkaline
conditions, and those below 7.0 represent acid conditions.
Garbage that has 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 1/2 inch
(1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and is controlled by public authority.
Sewage discharging from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings
(including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, factories
or institutions and free from stormwater, surface water, industrial
wastes and other wastes.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such ground-, surface 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.
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.
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.
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling
water.
The Commissioner of Public Works of the City of Rensselaer
or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by flotation,
skimming and sedimentation.
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, which, when
discharged to a public sewer in sufficient quantities, may be hazardous
to sewer maintenance personnel or tend to interfere with any biological
sewage treatment process or to constitute a hazard to human beings
or animals or to inhibit aquatic life or to create a hazard to recreation
in the receiving waters of the effluent from a sewage treatment plant.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
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"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.