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Village of Woodbury, NY
Orange County
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Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this Part 2 shall be as follows:
ADMINISTRATOR
The Superintendent of Water and Sewer or his duly authorized deputy, agent or representative.
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C. (68° F.) expressed in parts per million (ppm) or milligrams per liter (mg/l).
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building sanitary drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other sanitary drainage pipes inside the walls of any building and conveys such discharge to the building sewers, beginning four feet outside the outer face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
That part of the horizontal piping of a sanitary drainage system which extends from the end of the building drain and which receives the discharge of the building drain and conveys it to a public sewer or other point of disposal.
CHLORINE DEMAND
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 68° F. temperature.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff and sewage.
CONSOLIDATED SEWER AREA
Any Village sanitary sewer area as created, altered or modified by action of the Village Board of the Village of Woodbury.
COOLING WATER
The water discharge from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other sources.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
The Orange County Department of Health.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic or commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food or from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The fluid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
OTHER WASTES
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, woods, coffee grounds, sawdust, shavings, eggshells, bark, sand lime, cinder, ashes and all other discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial wastes.
PERMITTEE
Any person who obtains a permit for sewer connection.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
pH
The intensity of the acid or alkaline reaction of a solution in terms of hydrogen concentration (but is not a measure of the total concentration of acid or alkali present). The pH is expressed as the common logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen concentration in moles per liter.
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pH = log
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(h+)
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
Any privy, septic tank, cesspool or other sewage disposal facility owned and operated by a person other than a municipal sewage system.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food 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 having a dimension greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer controlled by public authority.
RECEIVING WATERS
A natural watercourse or any other body of surface water or groundwater into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SCAVENGER WASTES
The conditioned human waste matter collected from privies, septic tanks, cesspools and chemical toilets.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such groundwater, surface water 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.
SEWAGE CHARGE
The demand payment for the use of public sewer and/or sewage treatment plant for handling any sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes accepted for admission thereto in which the quantity or characteristics thereof exceed the maximum values as defined herein.
SEWAGE SYSTEM
All facilities within the Consolidated Sewer Area for collecting, regulating, pumping and transporting sewage to the Orange County Water Pollution Control Facility.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT (WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT)
Any arrangement of devices and structure used for treating sewage at the Orange County Water Pollution Control Facility.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SLUG
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.
STORM SEWER (STORM DRAIN)
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than cooling waters and other unpolluted waters.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
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.
VILLAGE
The Village of Woodbury.
VILLAGE SEWER SYSTEM
The interceptor sewers, trunk sewers, lateral sewers, force mains, pumping stations, sewage regulators and other appurtenant structures owned and operated by a Woodbury Consolidated Sewer Area.