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BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
COOLING WATER
ENGINEER
GARBAGE
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
NATURAL OUTLET
NORMAL SEWAGE
PERSON
pH
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
SANITARY SEWER
SEWER
SLUG
STORM DRAIN or STORM SEWER
SUBDIVISION
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOWN
UNPOLLUTED WATER OR WASTE
VILLAGE
WASTEWATER, DOMESTIC
WASTEWATER FACILITIES or SEWAGE WORKS
WASTE WATER, SANITARY or SANITARY SEWAGE
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WASTEWATER or SEWAGE
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS (formerly "sewage treatment plant")
WATERCOURSE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20º C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
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 (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.
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other, but which shall be
free from odor and oil. It shall contain no polluting substances which
could produce BOD or suspended solids, each in excess of 10 parts
per million by weight.
The Engineer to the Tri-Municipal Sewer Commission or the
Engineer to specific sewer districts, sewer improvement areas or other
municipal systems of the Town of Poughkeepsie or the Village of Wappingers
Falls.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparations,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
Sewage shall be regarded as normal for the town and the village
if analysis shows, by weight, a daily average of not more than 300
parts per million of suspended solids, not more than 240 parts per
million of BOD and not more than 50 parts per million of either soluble
matter (grease or oil) each per million gallons of daily flow.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
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 sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and which is controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm- , surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
A pipe or conduit for carrying wastewater (sewage).
Any discharge of water, wastewater 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 of flows during
normal operation.
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes wastewater and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted
cooling water.
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots,
plots, sites or other divisions of land for immediate or future sale
for building development in such a way as to create one or more new
streets.
The Superintendent of Wastewater Facilities of the Town of
Poughkeepsie or Village of Wappingers Falls or the authorized deputy
or agent of the Tri-Municipal Sewer Commission.
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 Town of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York.
Any water or waste containing none of the following: free
or emulsified grease, or oil, acid or alkali, phenols or other substances
imparting taste or odor in receiving waters; toxic or poisonous substances
in suspension, colloidal state or solution; noxious or odorous gases.
It shall contain not more than 10,000 parts per million by weight
of dissolved solids of which not more than 2,500 parts per million
shall be as chlorides with permissible volumes subject to review by
the Engineer, and not more than 10 parts per million each of suspended
solids and BOD. The color shall not exceed 50 parts per million.
The Village of Wappingers Falls, Dutchess County, New York.
Wastewater derived principally from dwellings, office buildings,
institutions and the like. It may or may not contain groundwater,
surface water, or stormwater.
The structures, equipment and processes that collect, carry
away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
Domestic wastewater with storm- and surface
water excluded.
Wastewater discharging from the sanitary fixtures
of dwellings (including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings,
industrial plants or institutions.
The water supply of a community after it has
been used and discharged into a sewer.
The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source,
it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may
be present.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
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For the purposes of this chapter, the word "shall"
is mandatory and the word "may" is permissive.
