This Part 1 shall be entitled a "Local Law Regulating the Use
of Public and Private Sewers and Drains, Private Wastewater Disposal,
Installation and Connection of Building Sewers and the Discharge of
Waters and Wastes into the Public Sewer Systems and Providing Penalties
For Violations Thereof in the Village of Webster, State of New York."
A.
ASTM
BUILDER
BUILDING SEWER DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER LATERAL
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
CONTAMINATION
CONTRACTOR
CRITICAL USER
DEVELOPER
ENGINEER
FEDERAL ACT
HOLDING TANK WASTE
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
LIVING UNIT
MASS EMISSION RATE
NATURAL OUTLET
NUISANCE
NYSDOT
OWNER
POLLUTION
PREMISES
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
UNPOLLUTED WATER
USER
USER CLASSIFICATION
VILLAGE BOARD or BOARD OF TRUSTEES
WASTE
WASTEWATER
WASTEWATER CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
WATERCOURSE
WATERS OF THE STATE
Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Part 1 shall be as defined in Part 2 of this chapter or as follows:
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
Any person, persons or corporation that undertakes to construct,
either under contract or for resale, any habitable building.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge for soil, waste and other drainage pipes
inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer
lateral, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building
wall.
The extension from the building sewer drain to the public
sewer or other place of disposal.
Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal
coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the Village's
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit, if
the publicly owned treatment works was designed to treat such pollutants
and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree.
An impairment of the quality of the waters of the state by
waste to a degree which creates a hazard to the public health through
poisoning or through the spread of disease. "Contamination" shall
include any equivalent effect resulting from the disposal of wastewater,
whether or not waters of the state area are affected.
Any person, firm or corporation approved by the Village Board
to do work in the Village.
A user who is required to obtain a permit, as defined in § 113-9.
Any person, persons or corporation that undertakes to construct
more than one housing unit on a given tract or land subdivision.
The professional engineer retained as Village Engineer for
the Village of Webster.
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, P.L. 92-500, and
any amendments thereto, as well as any guidelines, limitations and
standards promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant
to the Act.
Any waste from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum pump tank trucks.
Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined
in this section. The pretreatment standard for "incompatible pollutants"
introduced into a publicly owned treatment works by a major contributing
industry not subject to Section 307(c) of the Federal Act shall be,
for sources within the corresponding industrial or commercial category,
that established by a promulgated effluent limitations guideline defining
best practicable control technology currently available pursuant to
Sections 301(b) and 304(b) of the Federal Act, provided that if the
publicly owned treatment works which receives the pollutants is committed,
in its NPDES permit, to remove a specified percentage of any "incompatible
pollutant," the pretreatment standard applicable to users of such
treatment works shall be correspondingly reduced for the pollutant;
and provided, further, that even when the effluent limitations guideline
for each industry category is promulgated, a separate provision will
be proposed concerning the application of such guideline to pretreatment.
A self-contained apartment or a portion of a private dwelling
occupied by a person or persons living independent and separate from
the other occupants of the building.
The weight of material discharged to the sewer system during
a given time interval. Unless otherwise specified, the "mass omission
rate" shall mean pounds per day of a particular constituent or combination
of constituents.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
Anything which is injurious to health or is indecent or offensive
to the senses or an obstruction to the free use of property so as
to interfere with the comfort or enjoyment of life or property or
which affects at the same time an entire community or neighborhood
or any considerable number of persons, although the extent of the
annoyance or damage inflicted upon individuals may be unequal.
The New York State Department of Transportation.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, person
or group having title to real property.
An alteration of the quality of the waters of the state by
waste to a degree which unreasonably affects such waters for beneficial
use of facilities which serve such beneficial uses. "Pollution" may
include contamination.
A parcel of real estate, including any improvements thereon,
which is determined by the Village to be a single user for purposes
of receiving, using and paying for service.
The waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that has been shredded to such degree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/4 inch in any dimension.
[Amended 6-9-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994]
A pipe or conduit which transports storm surface waters and
drainage but excludes wastewater and industrial wastes.
Water to which no constituent has been added, either intentionally
or accidentally, which would render such water unacceptable for disposal
to storm or natural drainages or directly to surface waters.
Any person that discharges, causes or permits the discharge
of wastewater into a public sewer.
A classification of user based on the 1972 Edition of the
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Manual prepared by the Executive
Office of Management and Budget.
The duly elected Board of Trustees of the Village of Webster
or its authorized deputy or representative.
Includes sewage and any and all other waste substances, liquid,
solid, gaseous or radioactive, associated with human habitation or
of human or animal origin or from any producing, manufacturing or
processing operation of whatever nature, including such waste placed
within containers of whatever nature prior to and for purposes of
disposal.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
The individual chemical, physical, bacteriological and radiological
parameters, including volume and flow rate and such other parameters,
that serve to define, classify or measure the contents, quality, quantity
and strength of wastewater.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
wastewater.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously
or intermittently.
Any water, surface or underground, including saline waters
within the boundaries of the state.
B.
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
