This Part 3 shall be known as the "Village of
Johnson City Sewer Use Law."
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BOARD or JOINT SEWAGE BOARD
BOD5 (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
COMBINED SEWER
COOLING WATER
DEC
DIRECTOR OF SERVICES or DIRECTOR
EASEMENT
EPA
FEDERAL ACT or ACT
FLOW RATE
GARBAGE
HOLDING TANK WASTE
INDUSTRIAL USER
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT
INFILTRATION
INFILTRATION/INFLOW (I/I)
INFLOW
INFLUENT
INTERFERENCE
JOINT SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT or TREATMENT PLANT
NORMAL SEWAGE
PERSON
POLLUTANTS
PREMISES
PRIVATE SEWER
PUBLIC SEWER
RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE BOARD
SANITARY SEWER
SANITARY WASTE
SEWAGE
SEWER
SHREDDED GARBAGE
SPDES PERMIT
STORM SEWER
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOXIC SUBSTANCE
UNPOLLUTED WATER
USER
VILLAGE
VILLAGE PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM
WASTEWATER
WASTEWATER CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS
Unless otherwise defined herein, technical terms shall
be as defined in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Health Association,
the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control
Federation. Whenever used in this Part 3, unless otherwise expressly
stated or required by subject matter or context, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
The Binghamton-Johnson City Joint Sewage Board, established
under the agreement between the City of Binghamton and the Village
of Johnson City for the operation of a joint wastewater treatment
facility. The term includes any duly authorized designee, agent or
representative of the Board.
The quantity of oxygen used in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at two degrees Celsius (2º 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
which begins five (5) feet [one and five-tenths (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.
A sewer intended to receive storm and surface water as well
as wastewater.
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other sources. It shall contain
no polluting substances which would produce BOD5 or suspended solids each in excess of ten (10) milligrams per liter.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
The Director of Services of the Village of Johnson City,
New York, and his or her duly authorized deputies, agents and representatives.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
The 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments,
Public Law 92-500, and the 1977 Clean Water Act, Public Law 95-217,
and any amendments thereto; as well as any guidelines, limitations
and standards promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency pursuant to the Act.
The quantity of waste or liquid that flows in a certain period
of time.
Animal and vegetable wastes from the preparation, cooking
and disposing of food and from the handling, processing, storage and
sale of food products and produce.
Any sanitary waste from holding tanks such as marine vessels,
chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum pump
tank trucks.
Any nonresidential user of the village public sewer system,
which user is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented
under one (1) of the following divisions:
Any discarded matter including any liquid, gaseous or solid
substance, or a combination thereof, resulting from any process of
industry, manufacturing, trade or business or from development or
recovery of natural resources. The term shall not include garbage.
A permit issued by the Board, authorizing the permittee to
deposit or discharge industrial wastewater into the village public
sewer system.
Water, other than sewage, that enters a sewage collection
system (including sewer service connections) from the ground through
such means as defective pipes, pipe joints, connection, or manholes.
Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.
[Added 8-7-2012 by L.L. No. 6-2012]
The total quantity of water from both infiltration and inflow,
without distinguishing the source.
[Added 8-7-2012 by L.L. No. 6-2012]
Water, other than sewage, that enters a sewage collection
system (including sewer service connections) from sources such as
roof leaders, cellar drains, sump pumps, missing or defective cleanout
caps, swimming pools, yard drains, area drains, foundation drains,
drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections
between stormwater sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling
towers, stormwaters, surface runoff, street wash waters, or drainage.
Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.
[Added 8-7-2012 by L.L. No. 6-2012]
Wastewater, raw or partly treated, flowing into any sewage
treatment device or sewage treatment facilities.
The inhibition or disruption of the treatment plant processes
or operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal. The term includes
any action which contributes to a violation of any requirement of
the Joint Sewage Board's SPDES permit or which results in the prevention
of sewage sludge reuse, reclamation or disposal by the treatment plant
in accordance with Section 405 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1345)
or any criteria, guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the
Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
or any more stringent state criteria applicable to the method of disposal
or use employed by the treatment plant.
The Binghamton-Johnson City Joint Sewage Treatment Plant.
The term includes all devices or systems used in the storage, treatment,
cycling or reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of
a liquid nature by the Binghamton-Johnson City Joint Sewage Treatment
Plant.
Sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes having pollutant
concentrations which do not exceed two hundred forty (240) milligrams
per liter of BOD5, three hundred (300) milligrams
per liter of total suspended solids or fifty (50) milligrams per liter
of oil and grease and which is otherwise acceptable for discharge
into the treatment plant under the terms of this Part 3. The numbers
and values of characteristics are subject to revision by the Joint
Sewage Board when, in the opinion of the Board, a revision is necessary
in order to maintain the physical integrity of the treatment plant
or to maintain the treatment plant's capability of providing treatment
in compliance with federal, state and local standards.
Any individual, firm, company, partnership, association,
private or public corporation, political subdivision, governmental
agency, municipality, industry, trust, estate or any other legal entity
whatsoever.
As may be defined now or hereafter by appropriate local,
state or federal authorities or by the Board, substances which may
be present in wastewater, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, the amount
of which may contain soluble or insoluble solids of organic or inorganic
nature which may deplete the dissolved oxygen content of natural waters,
contribute solids, contain oil, grease or floating solids which may
cause unsightly appearance on the surface of such waters or contain
materials detrimental to aquatic life.
Any parcel of real property, including land, improvements
or appurtenances or buildings, grounds, etc.
A sewer which is not owned or controlled by a public agency.
A sewer which is owned or controlled by a governmental agency.
This term includes any devices or systems used by the governmental
agency in the storage, transmission, treatment or reclamation of municipal
sewage or industrial wastes.
The Rules and Regulations Relating to the Use of the Binghamton-Johnson
City Joint Sewage Treatment Plant, promulgated by the Binghamton-Johnson
City Joint Sewage Board.
A sewer intended to carry only sanitary or sanitary and industrial
wastewater from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants
and institutions.
Wash water, culinary wastes, the liquid waste containing
only human excreta and similar matter, flowing in or from a building
drainage system or sewer originating in a dwelling, business building,
factory or institution.
The water-carried domestic human or animal waste, together
with industrial and commercial waste, from residences, buildings,
industrial, and commercial establishments or other places. Neither
infiltration or inflow are components of "sewage."
[Amended 8-7-2012 by L.L. No. 6-2012]
A pipe or conduit for carrying wastewater; the term includes
sanitary sewers and combined sewers.
Garbage shredded to such a degree that all particles will
be carried freely under flow conditions normally prevailing in public
sewers, with no particle having any dimension greater than one-half
(1/2) inch.
A wastewater discharge permit issued by the DEC under the
State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
A sewer intended to carry only stormwaters, surface runoff,
street wash waters and/or drainage, exclusive of sanitary wastes.
The total suspended matter in water or wastewater, as determined
by standard methods.
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, which when
discharged to the sewer system in sufficient amounts may tend to interfere
with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to the receiving
waters of the effluent from the sewage treatment plant, pose a hazard
to sewer maintenance personnel or constitute a hazard to animal life
or inhibit aquatic life. This definition includes but is not limited
to EPA priority pollutants.
Water to which no constituent has been added, either intentionally
or accidentally, which would render such water unacceptable to the
agency having jurisdiction thereof for disposal to storm or natural
drainages or directly to surface waters.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the village public sewer system.
The Village of Johnson City, New York.
All village-owned pipelines or conduits, pumping stations
and force mains and all other constructions, devices and appliances
appurtenant thereto used for conveying wastewater to a point of ultimate
disposal.
The composite of all flow constituents conveyed in a sewer
including sewage and infiltration and inflow.
[Amended 8-7-2012 by L.L. No. 6-2012]
The individual chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological
parameters, including volume, flow rate and such other parameters
that serve to define, classify or measure the contents, quality and/or
strength of wastewater.
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Word usage. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
