Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Part 1 shall be as follows:
BOD (DENOTING "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 (1.5 meters) 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 or ground water.
NYSDEC The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation or other duly authorized official of said Department.
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.
POTW TREATMENT PLANT That portion of the POTW which is designed to provide treatment, including recycling and reclamation, of municipal sewage and industrial wastes.
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 one-half (1/2) inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and which is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground-, surface and stormwaters as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
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 of flows during normal operation.
SPDES The State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System established by Article 17 of the Environmental Conservation Law of the State of New York for issuance of permits authorizing discharges to waters of the state.
SUPERINTENDENT The Village of Churchville Superintendent of Sewage Works and/or of Water Pollution Control, or 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.
USEPA The United States Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate, a designation for the administrator or other duly authorized official of said Agency.
WATERCOURSE A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
" Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.