A.
This chapter establishes the procedures for making connections to
the public sewer in the city sanitary sewer system. It also establishes
specific limits for pollutant discharges which, by their nature or
by their interaction with sewage, will be detrimental to the public
health, cause damage to the public sewer or the water pollution control
facility, pollute the waters of the state or otherwise create a public
nuisance.
B.
This chapter is intended to:
(1)
Inform the public as to the technical and administrative procedures
to be followed in obtaining connection to the city's sanitary
sewer system.
(2)
Prevent the introduction of pollutants into the sanitary sewer system
which will interfere with the collection and/or or treatment system.
(3)
Prevent the introduction of pollutants into the treatment system
which will pass through the system, inadequately treated, into the
waters of the state or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible
with the system.
(4)
Improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewaters and sludges
from the system.
A.
ACT or THE ACT
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
BUILDING CONNECTION LATERAL
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
CATEGORICAL STANDARDS
CITY
COMBINED SEWER
COMMISSIONER
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
COOLING WATER
DOMESTIC SEWAGE
DRAIN LAYER
EASEMENT
FLOATABLE OIL
GARBAGE
GRAB SAMPLE
HOLDING TANK WASTE
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT
PERSON
pH
PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
SANITARY SEWER
SEPTAGE
SEWAGE COLLECTION SYSTEM
SEWAGE or WASTEWATER
SLUG
SOLUBLE OIL
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOXIC POLLUTANT
USER
WASTEWATER
WATERCOURSE
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL FACILITY (WPCF)
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251, et seq.
The amount of oxygen required by bacteria while stabilizing
decomposable organic matter under aerobic conditions for five days.
The determination of "BOD" shall be performed in accordance with the
procedures prescribed in the latest edition of Standard Methods for
the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
The pipe laid incidental to the original construction of
a public sewer from said public sewer up to some point at the side
of the street, highway or similar location and there capped, having
been provided and intended for extension and for use at some time
thereafter as part of a building or house sewer connection. The "building
connection lateral" shall become the maintenance responsibility of
the property owner upon connection with the building sewer.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building's
plumbing 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 [one and 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. It may also be called a "house connection."
The "building sewer" is not maintained by the city.
National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or pretreatment
standards.
The City of West Haven.
A sewer intended to receive both sewage and storm- or surface
water.
The Commissioner of Environmental Protection for the State
of Connecticut.
Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal
coliform bacteria, plus any additional pollutants identified in the
water pollution control facility's NPDES permit, where the water
pollution control facility is designed to treat such pollutants and,
in fact, does treat such pollutants to the degree required by the
NPDES permit.
A mixture of aliquot samples obtained at regular intervals
over a time period. The volume of each aliquot is proportional to
the discharge flow rate for the sampling interval. The minimum time
period for composite sampling shall be four hours.
Process water in general use for cooling purposes to which
the only pollutant added is heat and which has such characteristics
that it may be discharged to a natural outlet in accordance with federal
and state laws and regulations.
Sewage that consists of water and human excretions or other
waterborne wastes incidental to the occupancy of a residential building
or nonresidential building, but not wastewater from water-softening
equipment, commercial laundry wastewater and blowdown from heating
and cooling equipment.
Any person who installs, alters or repairs building sewers,
house connections or building sewer connections into the public sewer.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from sewage by treatment in an approved pretreatment
facility.
The animal or vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking or serving of foods.
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration
of time.
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers and septage hauling trucks.
All pollutants other than compatible pollutants as defined
in this subsection.
All wastewater from industrial processes, trade or business
and is distinct from domestic sewage.
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342).
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity or any other legal entity or their legal representatives, agents
or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, and the
singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration.
The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter
of solution.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or the alterations of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a water pollution control
facility. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical,
chemical or biological processes, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have 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 common sanitary sewer controlled by a governmental agency
or public utility. The "public sewer" does not include the building
sewer and the connection into the public sewer.
A sewer which collects and conveys domestic sewage from residences,
public buildings, commercial establishments, industries and institutions.
A "sanitary sewer" may also collect and convey permitted industrial
wastewater and unintentionally admitted ground-, storm- and surface
waters.
The liquids and solids which are removed from a tank used
to treat domestic sewage.
The structures and equipment required to collect and convey
sewage to the water pollution control facility, such as but not limited
to manholes, pump stations, force mains and public sewers.
The fluid discharge from but not limited to residential,
commercial, industrial, agricultural or institutional appliances.
Any sudden or excessive discharge which exceeds permitted
levels either in terms of pollutant concentration or instantaneous
flow rate in such a manner as to adversely affect the sewage collection
system and/or the water pollution control facility.
Oil which is of either mineral or vegetable origin and disperses
in water or sewage at temperatures between 0° C. and 65° C.
For the purposes of this chapter, emulsified oil shall be considered
as "soluble oil."
A sewer which collects and conveys stormwater or groundwater.
The Director of Public Works for the City of West Haven.
The solids matter, measured in milligrams per liter, which
may be in suspension, floatable or settleable and is removable by
laboratory filtering as prescribed in the latest edition of Standard
Methods for Examination of Water and Wastewater.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provisions of Section 307(a) of the Act
or other acts.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of sewage into the city sewer system.
See "sewage."
A natural or artifical channel for the passage of water,
either continuously or intermittently.
An arrangement of devices for the treatment for sewage and
sludge.
B.
"May" is permissive; "shall" is mandatory.
