This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Sewer Use
Law of the Town of Saugerties."
The purposes of this chapter are specifically stated as follows.
A.
To permit the discharge into the Town of Saugerties sewer system
of sanitary sewage and normal sewage.
B.
To prohibit excessive volumes and/or inordinate rates of flow of
sewage and wastes into the public sewer system.
C.
To prohibit the contribution of sewage, industrial wastes or other
wastes of a flammable nature or which create in any way a poisonous
or hazardous environment for sewage maintenance and operation personnel.
D.
To prohibit the contribution of sewage and industrial wastes and
other wastes which may cause maintenance difficulties in the trunk
sewers, force mains, pumping stations, sewage regulators and other
structures and appurtenances to the sewer system.
E.
To require the treatment before introduction into the sewer system
of such wastes as may otherwise impair the strength and/or durability
of the structures appurtenant to the system by direct or indirect
chemical action, or interfere with the normal treatment processes.
F.
To provide the authority and procedure for the Superintendent of
Sewers and the Town Engineer to promulgate rules, to investigate and
prepare findings of facts, to issue licenses or permits, to hold hearings,
to make decisions, orders and opinions, and to give notice and make
public all rules and decisions affecting substantial rights of persons
or property.
G.
To provide cooperation with the Ulster County Department of Health,
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, New York
State Department of Health, United States Environmental Protection
Agency and other agencies which have requirements or jurisdiction
for the protection of the physical, chemical and bacteriological quality
of watercourses within or bounding the Town.
H.
To regulate by license or permit any connection to the sewer system.
I.
To protect the public health and to prevent nuisance.
A.
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
BOARD
BUILDING CONNECTION
COD (denoting "chemical oxygen demand")
CHLORINE DEMAND
COMBINED SEWER
CONTESTED CASE
CONTROL MANHOLE
COOLING WATER
COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
DISTRICT
GARBAGE
GREASE or FATS
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
LICENSE
LICENSING
NORMAL SEWAGE
(1)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(2)
(3)
OTHER WASTES
P (PHOSPHATE)
PERMIT
PERSON
PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS
pH
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
RECEIVING WATERS
RULE
SANITARY SEWAGE
SANITARY SEWER
SCAVENGER WASTES
SEWAGE
SEWAGE SURCHARGE
SEWAGE SYSTEM or SEWER SYSTEM
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT (WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT)
SEWER
SLUG
STORM SEWER (STORM DRAIN)
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
SYSTEM
TOWN
TOWN ENGINEER
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings
of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The laboratory determination of the total quantity of oxygen
utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter or in satisfying
the oxygen demand of other materials present during incubation for
a given time and at a specified temperature. It is commonly reported
as milligrams per liter of oxygen used in a period of five days at
20° C.
The Town Board of the Town of Saugerties, Ulster County,
New York.
The extension from a building of a sanitary and/or industrial
drainage system to the public sewers.
The oxygen equivalent of that portion of the organic matter
in a sample that is susceptible to oxidation by a strong chemical
oxidant. The determination is made by dichromate reduction by oxidizable
organic matter measured as the oxygen equivalent proportion of the
dichromate consumed, expressed as milligrams per liter.
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 fifteen-minute contact period at room temperature.
It is expressed in milligrams per liter.
A sewer receiving a mixture of stormwater and sanitary sewage
with or without industrial wastes.
A proceeding, including but not restricted to rate making,
surcharging, and issuance of licenses or permits, in which the legal
duties, rights or privileges of a party are required by law to be
determined by the Town with an opportunity for hearing.
An accessible manhole at the connection between an industrial
building sewer and the public sewer. It shall be constructed to provide
for sampling, measuring and observation of industrial flows.
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 milligrams per liter, toxic substances as limited elsewhere herein, prohibited materials as listed under § 190-7, or cause thermal pollution of the receiving waters.
County of Ulster.
The Ulster County Department of Health.
All sewer districts of the Town presently existing or hereinafter
constituted.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food, the handling, storage and sale of
produce, and from the packaging and canning of food.
Any material which is extractable from an acidified sample
of a waste by hexane or other designated solvent.
The Town of Saugerties Highway Department.
Any liquid, gaseous or solid substance or a combination thereof
resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade or business
or from the development or recovery of any natural resources.
Includes the whole or part of any permit, certificate, approval,
registration or similar form of permission required by law.
Includes the process respecting the grant, denial, renewal,
revocation, suspension, annulment, withdrawal or amendment of a license.
Sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes, which when analyzed
show by weight the following characteristics:
BOD of 2,500 pounds per million gallons (300 milligrams per
liter) or less;
Chlorine demand of 125 pounds per million gallons (15 milligrams
per liter) or less;
COD of 5,000 pounds per million gallons (600 milligrams per
liter) or less
Suspended solids of 2,500 pounds per million gallons (300 milligrams
per liter) or less.
The values for these characteristics are subject to revision
by the Superintendent if in his or her opinion data obtained during
the previous year indicates changes are required for the proper and
efficient operation of the sewage system and treatment plant.
The Superintendent may also add values for other characteristics
or delete characteristics if such action becomes appropriate and applicable
to the treatment or transportation of sewage.
Garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, egg shells,
coffee grounds, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, cinder, ashes,
and all other discarded matter not normally present in sewage or industrial
wastes.
The concentration of phosphate as phosphorus, expressed in
milligrams per liter.
A temporary license issued to allow the use of the sewer
system for specific wastes for a limited period of time.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
institution or group.
That portion of the total extractable grease or fats, as
defined in "grease or fats," which is not retained on an activated
alumina absorption column after elutriating with hexane.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution. 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.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensation
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
1/4 inch in any dimension.
Sewers, manholes, intercepting sewers, sewage pumping station,
treatment and disposal works and any other plant, works or equipment
and accessories under the jurisdiction of the Superintendent that
discharges its sewage and liquid into the sewer system.
A natural watercourse or body of water into which treated
sewage is discharged.
Each statement of general applicability that implements,
interprets or prescribes law or policy or describes the organization,
procedure or practice requirements of the Sewer District.
Sewage discharging from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings
(including apartments and hotels, but not commercial kitchens therein),
office buildings, factories, and institutions.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
The matter collected from privies, septic tanks, cesspools,
and chemical toilets, camper and marine holding tanks, sludge from
biological treatment of industrial wastes, and other domestic waste
collection devices.
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 the definition.
The demand for payment for the use of a public sewer and/or
sewage treatment plant for handling any sewage, industrial wastes
or other wastes accepted for admission thereto in which the characteristics
thereof exceed the maximum values of such characteristics in normal
sewage.
All facilities for collecting, regulating, pumping and transporting
sewage to the sewage treatment plant.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage and industrial wastes; the handling of sludge resulting from
such treatment, and the discharge of treated effluent into a designated
body of water.
A pipe or conduit carrying sewage.
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which
in concentration of any given constituent or in volume of flow exceeds
for any period of duration longer than five minutes more than five
times the average twenty-four-hour concentration of flow during normal
operation.
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface waters and drainage
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than cooling waters
and unpolluted waters.
The person appointed at the will of and by the Town Board
of the Town of Saugerties, Ulster County, New York, in charge of the
sewage system in the Sewer District.
The laboratory determination for the dry weight expressed
in milligrams per liter of solids that either float on the surface,
are in suspension in sewage, or are settleable and can be removed
from sewage by filtration under approved conditions of analysis.
All sewers, sewer lines and appurtenances to the sewer improvement
in said district.
The Town of Saugerties, Ulster County, New York.
The professional engineer retained as Town Engineer for the
Town of Saugerties or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
Any substance, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, which when
discharged to a public sewer in sufficient quantities will be detrimental
to the sewer system, interfere with any biological sewage treatment
process, or constitute a hazard to human beings or animals, or inhibit
aquatic life or create a hazard to recreation in the receiving waters
of the effluent from a sewage treatment plant.
B.
Word usage: "Shall" is mandatory. "May" is permissive.
