A.
Words used in the present tense include the future;
the singular number includes the plural; and the masculine shall include
the feminine.
B.
ADMINISTRATOR
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING AND MATERIALS (herein referred
to as "ASTM" or the federal specifications referred to in this chapter)
BOD (denoting biochemical oxygen demand)
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
COMBINED SEWER
COOLING WATER
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
GARBAGE
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
OTHER WASTES
PERMITTEE
PERSON
pH
POLLUTANT
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEPTIC TANK
PUBLIC SEWER
RECEIVING WATERS
SANITARY SEWER
SCAVENGER WASTES
SEWAGE
SEWAGE CHARGE
SEWAGE SYSTEM
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT (WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT)
SEWER
SEWER DISTRICT
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
SLOPE
SLUG
STORM SEWER (STORM DRAIN)
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
THE ACT
TOWN
TOWN OF CHESTER or TOWN
TOWN SEWER SYSTEMS
WATERCOURSE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this Part 1 shall be as follows:
The Superintendent of Sewage or his duly authorized deputy,
agent or representative.
The latest published amendments or revisions applicable at
any time.
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).
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.
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, such as a public septic tank.
A sewer designed to receive and transport both surface runoff
and sewage.
The water discharge from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other sources.
The Orange County and/or New York State Department of Health.
Solid wastes from the domestic or commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food, or from handling, storage and sale
of produce.
The fluid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
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.
Any person who obtains a permit for sewer connection.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
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:
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste
discharged into water.
Any privy, septic tank, cesspool or other sewage disposal
facility owned and operated by a person other than a municipal sewage
system.
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.
Any septic tank within a sewer district which uses said tank
as a solids collector in the treatment process.
A sewer controlled by the Town.
A natural watercourse or any other body of surface or ground
water into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
A sewer which carries sewage, and to which storm- , surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
The conditioned human waste matter collected from privies,
septic tanks, cesspools and chemical toilets.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such ground- , surface 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.
The demand 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 quantity or characteristics
thereof exceed the maximum values as defined herein.
All facilities within any sewer district for collecting,
regulating, pumping and transporting sewage to any water pollution
control facilities within the Town or to Orange County Sewer District
No. 1 Water Pollution Control Facilities, whichever is applicable.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage at any Town water pollution control facility or at Orange County
Sewer District No. 1 Water Pollution Control Facilities, whichever
is applicable.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Any Town of Chester sanitary sewer district as created, altered
or modified by action of the Town Board of the Town of Chester. This
Part 1 shall apply to all sewer districts in the Town. Further, sewer
districts in the Town which discharge to the Orange County Sewer District
No. 1 Water Pollution Control Facilities shall be subject to the regulations
of Orange County Local Law No. 17 of 1974 and all amendments thereto,
as approved by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
(hereinafter "DEC"). Nothing contained in this Part 1 shall supersede
the requirements of said County Local Law No. 17 of 1974 and all amendments
thereto in those sewer districts in the Town which discharge to the
Orange County Sewer District No. 1 Water Pollution Control Facilities
with regard to purposes, construction, discharge standards, use of
public sewers, private sewage disposal, building sewers and connections
and protection requirements.
Any industrial user of any of the Town's wastewater disposal
systems, including Orange County Sewer District No. 1 Water Pollution
Control Facilities, where applicable, who has a discharge flow of
25,000 gallons or more per average workday or has a flow greater than
5% of the flow in any of the Town's wastewater treatment systems,
including Orange County Sewer District No. 1 Water Pollution Control
Facilities, where applicable, or has in his wastes toxic pollutants
as defined pursuant to Section 307 of the Act of New York statutes
and rules or is found by the Town, DEC or the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to have significant impact, either singly
or in combination with other contributing industries, on any of the
wastewater treatment systems, the quality of sludge, the system's
effluent quality or air emissions generated by the system.
The grade or pitch or a line of pipe in reference to a horizontal
plane. In drainage it is usually expressed as the fall in a fraction
of an inch per foot length of pipe.
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.
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than cooling waters
and other unpolluted waters.
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.
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.
The Town of Chester.
Includes the various sewer districts within the Town and
shall include the Town Board of the Town of Chester.
The interceptor sewers, trunk sewers, lateral sewers, force
mains, pumping stations, sewage regulators and other appurtenant structures
owned and operated by any Town sewer district.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
C.
Shall is mandatory; may is permissive.
