ABBREVIATIONS.
ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
ASTM | American Society for Testing and Materials |
AWWA | American Water Works Association |
CS | Commercial standard |
ppm | parts per million |
mg/l | milligrams per liter |
Reference to standards of the above organization shall refer to the latest edition of same. | |
ACT or THE ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq.
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. The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from the soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet (one and one-half 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.
COMMISSION. The Water and Sewer Commission of the Town of East Lyme, Connecticut.
DEP COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of Environmental Protection for the State of Connecticut.
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. The State of Connecticut Environmental Protection Agency; abbreviated DEP.
DIRECTOR OF HEALTH. The Director duly appointed by the town, in accordance with Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 19a-200 et seq. or his or her authorized deputy, agent or representative.
DIRECTOR or SEWER DIRECTOR. The person appointed by the Commission as an administrative officer who shall at all times be responsible to and subject to the Commission and subject to removal for cause. The Commission may also appoint a Deputy Director who in the Director’s absence shall have the same powers and duties as the DIRECTOR.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE. The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business as distinct from sanitary wastewater.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
OWNER. Titleholder or titleholders of real property.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group or other entity.
pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
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 the public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries wastewater and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE or WASTEWATER. A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SHALL. Is mandatory; MAY is permissive.
SLUG. Any discharge of water, wastewater or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any period or duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five times the average 24-hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
STORM DRAIN (SOMETIMES TERMED “STORM SEWER”). A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes wastewater and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, wastewater or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
TOWN. The word TOWN or any other word in common usage designating a legally constituted unit of local government, shall mean the Town of East Lyme Connecticut.
TOWN MEETING. The town meeting of the Town of East Lyme, Connecticut.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement of devises and structures used for treating wastewater.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. passed 3-17-1991; Ord. passed 9-12-1998)
Editor’s note:
TM Volume 18, page 63; TM Volume 21, page 584