§ 298-5. Definitions.

Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in these regulations shall be as follows. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.

AERATOR

Includes any device which attaches to the faucet which breaks up into fine droplets and entrains air into the water which flows from that faucet.

BASEMENT FLOOR DRAIN

Includes all pipes together with all other structures or equipment appurtenant thereto provided to carry water, either subsoil drainage or otherwise, from the floor of the lowest level of a structure.

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 by weight.

BUILDING DRAIN

That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage system that 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 outside the inner face of the building wall.

CHLORINE DEMAND

The amount of chlorine which must be added to water or waste to produce a residual chlorine content of at least 1/10 milligram per liter after a minimum contact time of 10 minutes.

COOLING WATER

Includes the wastewater from air-conditioning, industrial cooling, condensing and hydraulically powered equipment or similar apparatus.

DESIGNATED AGENT

A person appointed by the Sewer Authority to represent the Authority in the field.

DRAIN LAYER or CERTIFIED DRAIN LAYER

Either an individual, partnership or corporation to whom or to which the Sewer Authority of the Town of Ridgefield has issued a certificate to install, alter or repair sewers, sewer connections, house connections, etc., during the period when such certificate is valid, and the proper agents and representatives of such drain layer.

FLOW RESTRICTOR

Includes any device that limits the amount of flow possible through a fully opened spigot or shower head to no more than four gallons per minute at a pressure of 35 pounds per square inch.

GARBAGE

Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food and from handling, storage, and sale of produce. "Properly shredded garbage" shall mean garbage which has been shredded so that no garbage particles will be greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.

NATURAL OUTLET

Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.

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.

SEWAGE

Wastewater or water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments. Sewage shall be further classified as follows:

A. 

DOMESTIC OR SANITARY SEWAGE

The solid and liquid wastes from toilet and lavatory fixtures, kitchens, laundries, bathtubs, shower baths, or equivalent plumbing fixtures as discharged from dwellings and business and industrial buildings.

B. 

INDUSTRIAL SEWAGE OR WASTES

The water-carried wastes of any industrial process as distinct from domestic or sanitary sewage. All substances carried in industrial wastes, whether dissolved, in suspension, or mechanically carried by water, shall be considered as industrial wastes.

SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT

Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.

SEWER

The pipe, together with manholes and other structures or equipment appurtenant thereto, provided to carry sewage. Sewers shall be further classified as follows:

A. 

PUBLIC SEWER

A trunk, main or lateral sewer up to and including the "Y" branch or tee provided for connection thereto and to which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and which is controlled by public authority. The public sewer does not include the building or house sewer, or the building connection lateral after it is connected with a building sewer.

B. 

SANITARY SEWER

A sewer which carries only sanitary sewage and to which stormwater, subsoil drainage, and cooling water are not intentionally admitted.

C. 

BUILDING OR HOUSE SEWER

The extension from the building drain to the public sewer.

D. 

BUILDING OR HOUSE CONNECTION LATERAL

The pipe laid incidental to the original construction of a public sewer from said public sewer up to some point at the side of the street, highway, or similar location, and there capped, having been provided and intended for extension and for use at some time thereafter as part of a building or house sewer connection.

SEWERAGE WORKS

All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage or wastewater.

SEWER AUTHORITY

The Water Pollution Control Authority of the Town of Ridgefield.

SEWER DISTRICT

That area within the Town of Ridgefield which is now or may in the future be served by public sewers.

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 or flow during normal operation.

STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN

A pipeline carrying stormwater, subsoil drainage, acceptable cooling water or other reasonably clean waters, but excluding sewage and polluted industrial wastes.

STORMWATER

Includes the runoff or discharge of rain and melted snow or other water from roofs, surfaces of public or private lands, or elsewhere. Stormwater shall also include subsoil drainage as defined in this section.

SUBSOIL DRAINAGE

Includes water from the soil percolating into subsoil drains and through foundation walls, basement floors, or underground pipes.

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 filtering as prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage and Industrial Waste, American Public Health Association.

TOWN

The Town of Ridgefield, Connecticut.

WATERCOURSE

A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.

Amended 10-5-1983; 8-10-1994