Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
BOD (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., expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN
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.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
PERMIT OFFICER
The Building Inspector of the Town of Alden or such other
person as from time to time may be designated by the Town Board to
issue permits for the construction of private sewage disposal systems
within the Town of Alden his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
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 in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and which has been dedicated to and accepted by the Town of
Alden.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm surface waters
and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
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 present.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SHALL
Is mandatory; MAY is permissive.
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 flows during normal
operation.
STORM DRAIN (STORM SEWER)
A sewer which carries storm- and surface water and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling
water.
SUPERINTENDENT
The person from time to time designated by the Town Board
to be in charge of supervision of the sewage works of the Town of
Alden, his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
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.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.