For the purposes of this chapter, the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to
them by this section:
The Regional Administrator of U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Region I.
[Added 6-16-2008ATM by Art. 26]
The total volume of sewage in gallons measured at a metering
station or other point during a continuous period of 365 days divided
by 365.
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.
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.
Pollutant discharge limitations for specific industrial user
categories promulgated under federal law by the United States Environmental
Protection Agency.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Department of Public Works Director and/or his designee.
[Added 6-16-2008ATM by Art. 26]
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
A source of indirect discharge.
[Added 6-16-2008ATM by Art. 26]
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
An inhibition or disruption of the Town's wastewater works,
its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use
or disposal which is a cause of, or significantly contributes to,
a violation of any requirement of the Town's NPDES permit (including
an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation) or the prevention
of sewage sludge use or disposal.
[Amended 6-16-2008ATM by Art. 26]
Specific prohibitions or limits on pollutants developed by
the POTW and approved by the Approval Authority. Such local limits
shall be deemed pretreatment standards.
[Added 6-16-2008ATM by Art. 26]
The highest volume in gallons measured at a metering station
or other point during any continuous twenty-four-hour period.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the CWA, which
applies to industrial users, including the general and specific prohibitions
found in 40 CFR 403.5.
[Added 6-16-2008ATM by Art. 26]
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
Any building, structure, facility or installation from which
there is or may be discharge of pollutants, construction of which
commenced after the publication of the proposed pretreatment standards
pursuant to Section 307(c) of the Clean Water Act which will apply
to the facility if the standards are promulgated in accordance with
that section, provided that certain location and construction criteria
are met.
[Added 6-16-2008ATM by Art. 26]
Quantities or concentrations of pollutants that cause a violation
of the Town's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude
or duration of a violation caused by another source).
[Amended 6-16-2008ATM by Art. 26]
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
Any substantive or procedural pretreatment requirement, other
than a National Pretreatment Standard, applicable to industrial users.
[Added 6-16-2008ATM by Art. 26]
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 treatment works owned by the Town including any devices
and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation
of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature. It also
includes sewers, pipes and other conveyances that convey wastewater
to a POTW treatment plant.
[Added 6-16-2008ATM by Art. 26]
Any sewer owned or maintained by the Town and any sewer situated
outside the Town that is owned or maintained by a city, town, or district
that discharges into the Town's wastewater treatment works.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
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.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
An industry discharging wastewater to a public sewer with:
An average daily flow greater than 5,000 gallons
per day;
A maximum daily flow greater than 10,000 gallons
per day;
Pollutants that may interfere with or pass through
the Town's wastewater works;
Toxic amounts of pollutants;
Pollutants from an industrial process regulated
by categorical pretreatment standards;
Wastewater that makes up 5% or more of the dry
weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the Town’s sewage treatment
plant; or
[Added 6-16-2008ATM by Art. 26]
Wastewater that has a reasonable potential for
adversely affecting the treatment plant's operation.
[Added 6-16-2008ATM by Art. 26]
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.
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface water and drainage
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling
water.
The Superintendent of the wastewater treatment plant of the
Town or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
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.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
A.
The owner or other person having control of any existing
building or buildings hereafter erected or converted into a dwelling
to be occupied by one or more families and from which a public sewer
is accessible shall, in a manner and within a period of time satisfactory
to the Board of Health, cause such building to be connected with such
public sewer.
B.
No septic tank, permanent vault, privy or other means
of sewage disposal shall hereafter be constructed or installed in
this Town until a permit has first been obtained from the Board of
Health. [1]
C.
No building permit for a dwelling house or other inhabited
building shall be issued until the Board of Health has approved the
proposed lot as suitable from a sanitary point of view for human habitation.
No building permit shall be issued for a dwelling house on an unsewered
street until a permit for a sewage disposal installation has been
obtained from the Board of Health.
[Amended 6-16-2008ATM by Art. 26]
A.
The DPW Director, Superintendent and other duly authorized
employees of the Town bearing proper credentials and identification
shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purposes of inspection,
observation, measurement, sampling and testing in accordance with
the provisions of this chapter. The Town will have the authority to
inspect all areas of an industrial user's facility, including process
areas, areas with floor drains, chemical storage areas, hazardous
waste generation and storage areas, pretreatment systems, connections
to the sewer, areas where waste hauling and production take place,
and areas where effluent monitoring records are kept. The Town will
have authority to obtain information on all raw products used within
the facility, both in the industrial process and for other uses.
B.
While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in Subsection A of this section, the DPW Director, Superintendent or duly authorized employees of the Town shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company. The company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the Town employees, and the Town shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by Town employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the company and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in § 93-24.
C.
The DPW Director, Superintendent and other duly authorized
employees of the Town bearing proper credentials and identification
shall be permitted to enter all private properties for the purposes
of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling,
repair and maintenance of any portion of the sewage works.
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully
or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with
any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the sewage
works. Any person violating this provision shall be subject to immediate
arrest under charge of disorderly conduct.
No owner or person in control of premises shall
knowingly cause or permit surface or roof water from such premises
to enter the sanitary sewer system of the Town.
A.
Any person who shall violate any provisions of this chapter, except § 93-4, shall be served by the Town with written notice stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for the satisfactory correction thereof. Violations are immediately actionable and, if the industrial user continues to violate during the period it is supposed to be correcting its violation, the Town can take enforcement action against it. The offender shall, within the period of time stated in such notice, permanently cease all violations.
[Amended 6-16-2008ATM by Art. 26]
B.
Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limit provided for in Subsection A of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
C.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this
chapter shall become liable to the Town for any expense, loss or damage
occasioned the Town by reason of such violation.
D.
Any person or legal entity violating any of the provisions
of this chapter shall be liable for a civil or criminal penalty not
to exceed $5,000 for each day of violation of any such rule or regulation
under authority granted by MGL c. 83, § 10, as amended.
The Town has the authority to issue administrative penalties if allowed
under state law.
[Amended 6-16-2008ATM by Art. 26]
