A.
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
ENGINEER
GARBAGE
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
NATURAL OUTLET
OTHER PUBLIC AUTHORITY
PERSON
PH
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
SANITARY SEWER
SEWAGE
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
SEWAGE WORKS
SEWER
SEWER DISTRICT
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
WATERCOURSE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of the organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five
days at 20° 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 from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
The Town Engineer of the Town of New Castle.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from
sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or groundwater.
Any department or agency by law having control of the disposal
of sewage or control of parkways, streets, sidewalks or other public
property outside the jurisdiction of the town.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
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 1/2 inch in any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
The water-carried human and animal wastes from residences,
buildings, industrial establishments or other places, together with
the minimum of such groundwater infiltration as may be permitted by
regulation. The admixture with "sewage," as above defined, of wastes
or other wastes as hereinbefore defined shall also be considered and
may be termed "sewage."
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 or industrial wastes.
Any district designated by the Town Board as a sewer district.
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage
but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
The Superintendent of Water and Sewer of the Town of New
Castle 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 laboratory
filtering.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously
or intermittently.
B.
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
