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Town of Wolfville
Bylaws and Regulations
Sewer Discharge and Connection Bylaw
Chapter 21
SEWER DISCHARGE AND CONNECTION BYLAW
A BY-LAW RESPECTING THE REGULATION OF DISCHARGES
TO THE PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEMS
INDEX
Description
I.
Title
2.
Use of Sewers
3.
Food Related Grease Interceptors
4.
Grease, Oil Sediment, Sand Traps or Interceptors
5.
Maintenance and Inspections
6.
Extra Strength and Volume Surcharge Agreement
7.
Sampling and Analysis
8.
Spills
9.
Reports
10.
General
11.
Connections
12.
Offences
13.
Definitions
14.
Repeal
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BE IT ENACTED by the Council of Town of Wolfville, under the authority of section
172 of the Municipal Government Act, PART XIV, SEWERS, S.N.S. 1998 C.18, as
amended.
1.
TITLE
This Bylaw may be cited as the "Sewer Discharge and Connection Bylaw".
2.
USE OF SEWERS
2.1
Disposal of Waste
No person shall discharge matter:
2.1.1. of any type or at any temperature or in any quantity which may be or may
become a health or safety hazard to a sewerage system's employee,
2.1.2. which may be or may become harmful to a sewerage system,
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2.1.3. which may cause the sewerage system effluent to contravene any
requirements of any applicable federal or provincial legislation,
2.1.4. which may interfere with the proper operation of a sewerage system,
2.1.5. which may impair or interfere with any sewage treatment process, or
2.1.6. which is or may result in a hazard to any person, animal, property or
vegetation.
2.2
Discharge to Combined Sewer or Sanitary Sewer
2.2.1
Except as otherwise provided in this Bylaw, no person shall discharge,
release, suffer or cause to be discharged into any sanitary sewer, combined
sewer, public or private connections to any sanitary sewer or combined
sewer any of the following:
2.2.1.1.
Matter of a type or quantity that has or may emit a toxic or
poisonous vapom or a chemical odom that may interfere with the
proper operation of the sewerage system, constitute a hazard to
humans, animals or property, or create any hazard or become
hannful in the receiving waters of a sewerage system;
2.2.1.2.
Noxious or malodorous gases or substances capable of creating a
public nuisance except human wastes, including, but not limited
to, hydrogen sulphide, mercaptans, carbon disulphide, other
reduced sulphur compounds, amines and ammonia;
2.2.1.3.
Ashes, cinders, sand, potters clay, mud, straw, shavings, metal,
glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood or other solid or viscous
substances capable of causing obstruction to the flow of sewers
or other interference with the proper operation of the sewerage
system;
2.2.1.4.
Wastewater which consists of two or more separate liquid layers;
2.2.1.5.
Paunch manme or intestinal contents from horses, cattle, sheep
or swine, hog bristles, pig hooves or toenails, animal intestines .or
stomach casings, bones, hides or parts of them, manure of any
kind, poultry entrails, heads, feet or feathers, eggshells, fleshing
and hair resulting from tanning operations;
2.2.1.6.
Animal fat or flesh in particles larger than will pass through a
quarter (114) inch screen;
2.2.1.7.
Gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or other flammable or
explosive matter or wastewater containing any of these in any
quantity;
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2.2.1.8.
Waste which, either by itself or upon the reaction with other
material, becomes highly coloured;
2.2.1.9.
Waste containing herbicides, pesticides or xenobiotics including,
but not limited to, polychlorinated biphenols (PCB's);
2.2.1.10.
Atomic waste and radioactive material except as may be
pennitted under the Nuclear Safety and Control Act, S.C. 1997
C.9 as amended, or its successor legislation currently in force
and Regulations under it;
2.2.1.11.
Wastewater or uncontaminated water having a temperature in
excess of sixty (60) degrees Celsius;
2.2.1.12.
Wastewater having a pH less than 5.5 or greater than 9.5 or
having any other corrosive or scale forming properties capable of
causing damage or hazards to the sewerage system or personnel
of the sewerage system;
2.2.1.13.
Wastewater that will create tastes or odours in drinking water
supplies, maldng such waters unpalatable after conventional
water purification treatment;
2.2.1.14.
Matter of any type or at any temperature or in any quantity which
may cause the sludge from the sewerage system to fail to meet
the criteria relating to contaminants for spreading the sludge on
agricultural lands, under Nova Scotia guidelines for sewage
sludge utilization on agricultural lands;
2.2.1.15.
Stormwater, water from drainage of roofs or footing drains or
land, or water from a watercourse or uncontaminated water,
except in the case of discharge to any combined sewer;
2.2.1.16.
Sewage containing dyes or colouring materials which pass
through a sewage works and discolour the sewage works
effluent;
2.2.1.17.
Wastewater containing any of the following in excess of the
indicated concentrations:
Aluminum (AI)
Antimony (Sb)
Arsenic (As)
Barium (Ba)
Beryllium (Be)
Bismuth (Bi)
Cadmium (Cd)
50 Milligrams/Litre
5 Milligrams/Litre
1 Milligram/Litre
5 Milligrams/Litre
5 Milligrams/Litre
5 Milligrams/Litre
0.1 Milligram/Litre
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Chlorides expressed as Cl
1500 Milligrams/Litre
Chromium (Cr)
4 Milligrams/Litre
Cobalt (Co)
5 Milligrams/Litre
Copper (Cu)
1 MilligramslLitre
Cyanide expressed as HCN
2 Milligrams/Litre
Fluorides expressed as FlO
Milligrams/Litre
Iron (Fe)
50 MilligramslLitre
Lead (Pb)
2 Milligrams/Litre
Manganese (Mn)
5 MilligramslLitre
Mercury (Hg)
0.1 Milligrams/Litre
Molybdenum (Mo)
5 Milligrams/Litre
Nickel (Ni)
2 MilligramslLitre
Phenolic Compounds
1 MilligramslLitre
Phosphorus (P)
30 Milligrams/Litre
Sulphates expressed as S04
1500 Milligrams/Litre
Sulphide expressed as H2S
2 Milligrams/Litre
Selenium (Se)
5 Milligrams/Litre
Silver (Ag)
2 MilligramslLitre
Tin (Sn)
5 MilligramslLitre
Zinc (Zn)
3 Milligrams/Litre
Benzene
0.0 1 Milligrams/Litre
Chloroform
0.04 Milligrams/Litre
Dichlorobenzene (1,2)
0.088 Milligrams/Litre
Dichlorolbenzene (1, 4)
0.09 Milligrams/Litre
Cis-l,2-dichloroethylene
4.0 Milligrams/Litre
Trans-I, 3, - dichloropropylene
0.15 Milligrams/Litre
Ethylbenzene
0.057 Milligrams/Litre
Hexachlorobenzene
0.055 Milligrams/Litre
Methylene chloride (dichloromethane)
0.0981 Milligrams/Litre
PCBs (chlorobiphenyls)
0.004 Milligrams/Litre
Phenols, Total (or phenolic compounds) 1 Milligrams/Litre
Tetrachloroethylane (1,1,2,2-)
0.04 Milligrams/Litre
Tetrachloroehlylene
0.05 Milligrams/Litre
Toulene
0.08 Milligrams/Litre
Trichloroethylene
0.054 Milligrams/Litre
Xylenes, Total
0.32 Milligrams/Litre
o-xylene
0.5 Milligrams/Litre
2.2.1.18.
Wastewater of which the BOD exceeds three hundred (300)
milligrams per litre;
2.2.1.19.
Wastewater containing more than three hundred fifty (350)
milligrams per litre of suspended solids;
2.2.1.20.
Wastewater of which the COD exceeds one thousand (1000)
milligrams per litre;
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2.2.1.21.
2.2.1.22.
2.2.1.23.
2.2.1.24.
2.2.1.25.
Wastewater containing more than one hundred (100) milligrams
per litre of fat, grease or oil, and, in the case of mineral oils, in
concentrations exceeding fifteen (15) milligrams per litre;
Any matter in such quantities which exert excessive chlorine
requirements so as to constitute a significant load on the
wastewater treatment works;
Wastewater containing fish offal or pathologic waste;
Septic tank sludge, waste from marine vessels or vehicles or
sludge from sewage treatment plants;
Any water or waste containing substances for which special
treatment or disposal practices are required by applicable
provincial or federal legislation.
2.2.2
No person shall connect a sump ptunp to a sanitary sewer.
2.2.3
The presence in wastewater of anyone of the matters in Section 2.2.1.17 in a
concentration in excess of its limits constitutes a separate offence.
2.2.4
Compliance with any limit is not attainable simply by dilution.
2.3
Discharges to Storm Sewers
2.3.1
Except as otherwise provided in this Bylaw, no person shall discharge,
release, place or cause to be placed, any substance other than stom1water or
uncontaminated water into a storm sewer.
3.
FOOD RELATED GREASE INTERCEPTORS
3.1.
Every owner or operator of a restaurant or other industrial, commercial or
institutional premises where food is cooked, processed or prepared, which
premises are connected directly or indirectly to a sewer, shall:
3.1.1.
talce all necessary measures to ensure that oil and grease are prevented
from entering the storm or sanitary sewer,
3.1.2.
install, operate, and properly maintain an oil and grease interceptor in
any drainage piping system. The oil and grease interceptors shall be
installed in compliance with the most current requirements of the
applicable Building Code, and shall meet the requirements of the
Canadian Standards Association National Standard CAN/CSA B-481.
All interceptors shall be maintained according to manufacturer's
recommendations. The testing, maintenance and performance of the
interceptor shall meet the requirements of CAN/CSA B-481,
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3.1.4.
annually submit a written maintenance schedule and record of
maintenance of each oil and gas interceptor to the Engineer
3.1.5.
for two (2) years, keep maintenance records of proof for interceptor
clean-out and oil and gas disposal.
4.
GREASE, OIL SEDIMENT, SAND TRAPS OR INTERCEPTORS
04.1
Every owner or operator of a motor vehicle service station, repair shop or garage
or of an industrial, commercial or institutional premises or any other
establishment where motor vehicles are repaired, lubricated or maintained and
where waste drainage piping is directly or indirectly connected to a sewer shall
install an oil and grease interceptor designed to prevent motor oil and lubricating
grease from passing into the drainage piping which is connected directly or
indirectly to a sewer.
4.2
Every owner or operator of premises from which sediment may directly or
indirectly enter a sewer, including but not limited to premises using a ramp drain
or area drain and car and vehicle wash establishments, shall take all necessary
measures to ensure that sediment is prevented from entering the drain or sewer.
4.3
Catch basins installed on private property for the purposes of collecting storm
water and carrying it into the storm sewers shall be equipped with Goss Traps
(inverted elbow pipes) or an equivalent and the installation of these catch basins
on private property shall comply with Nova Scotia Roadbuilders-Consulting
Engineers of Nova Scotia Standard Specification for Municipal Services
5.
MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTIONS
5.1
All oil and grease interceptors, sediment interceptors and catch basins shall be
maintained by the owner or operator of an establishment in good working order
and according to any manufacturer's recommendations and shall be tested
regularly to ensure performance is maintained.
5.2
The owner or operator of an establishment will not allow retained or trapped oil,
grease, sediment, sand, silt or other matter in any form to pass from the installed
trap or interceptor into the wastewater facilities. Instead, removal of retained or
trapped materials shall be achieved by pumping or other physical means and shall
be hauled away and disposed of as required by law.
5.3
The owner or operator of an establishment will install traps or interceptors such
that they are easily accessible for all aspects of cleaning and inspection and shall
be maintained in a condition of continuous efficient operation at the owners'
expense.
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5.4
Whenever an inspection by the Engineer of an installed trap or interceptor resnlts
in a written notice for action on the part of the person( s) responsible for the
installed device, that person shall complete such action within the compliance
period stated in the written notice.
5.5
The owner or operator of an establishment shall provide the Engineer, upon
request, with the maintenance schedule and record of maintenance of each
installed grease, oil, sediment and sand traps or interceptors as well as information
as to the disposal method employed and location of hauled waste material.
5.6
Any reasonable request for an inspection by Wolfville shall be granted by the
owner or operator of the establishment.
5.7
A maintenance schedule and record of maintenance shall be submitted to the
Engineer annually for each oil, grease and sediment interceptor.
5.8
The owner or operator of a premises shall, for two (2) years, keep maintenance
records for each oil, grease, and sediment interceptor as proof for proper
maintenance and disposal of wastes.
6.
EXTRA STRENGTH AND VOLUME SURCHARGE AGREEMENT
6.1
Where large volumes of sewage, extra strength sewage or wastewater is
discharged to wastewater facilities, the Municipality may enter into a surcharge
agreement with a discharger permitting exceedances of the limits, including, but
not limited to, anyone or more of the following:
6.1.1.
6.1.2.
6.1.3.
6.1.4.
6.1.5.
6.1.6.
biochemical oxygen demand;
solvent extractables - animal or vegetable in origin;
total kjeldahl nitrogen;
phosphorus, total;
suspended solids, total;
large volumes.
6.2
The agreement may include terms and conditions under which the discharge
permitted and the method by which the Municipality shall recover costs incurred
by the pumping and treatment of wastewater.
6.3
During the term of the agreement, the discharger shall be exempt from meeting
the limits set out in section 2.2.1 for the parameter(s) included in the agreement, if
all conditions stipulated in the agreement are met.
6.4
Notwithstanding section 6(1), where a discharger has entered into surcharge
agreement, any anticipated change in the information provided pursuant to section
4 must be submitted by the discharger to WolfVille prior to the change to allow an
assessment of the impact of the change on the agreement.
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6.5
Wolfville may terminate the agreement at any time and the termination shall be
effective within 30 days of delivery of a written notice of termination to the
discharger's site or head office. Notice of Termination may be issued if the
discharger does not meet all conditions of the agreement or if it is determined the
discharge is having an adverse effect on the sewerage system.
7.
SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS
7.1
The owner or operator of industrial premises with one or more connections to a
sewerage system shall install and maintain in good repair in each connection a
suitable manhole to allow observation and sampling of the wastewater and
measurement of the flow of wastewater in it. If installation of a manhole is not
possible, an alternative device or facility may be substituted with the written
approval of the Engineer.
7.2
The manhole or alternate device shall be located on the property of the owner or
operator of the premises, unless the Engineer has given written approval for a
different location.
7.3
Every manhole, device or facility installed as required by subsection 7.1 shall be
designed and constructed in accordance with good engineering practice and the
requirements of the Engineer, and shall be constructed and maintained by the owner
or operator of the premises at the expense of the owner or operator.
7.4
The owner or operator of industrial premises shall at all times ensure that every
manhole, device or facility installed as required by subsection 7.1 is at all times
accessible for purposes of observing and sampling the wastewater and measuring
the flow of wastewater in it.
7.5
Where a sample is required for the purpose of determining the characteristics or
contents of the wastewater, uncontaminated water or stonnwater to which reference
is made in this Bylaw.
7.5.1
one sample alone is sufficient and, without liruiting the generality of the
foregoing the sample may be a grab sample or a composite sample, may
contain additives for its preservation and may be collected manually or by
using an automatic sampling device;
7.5.2.
except as otherwise specifically provided in this Bylaw, all tests,
measurements, analyses and examinations of wastewater, uncontaminated
water and stormwater, shall be carried out in accordance with Standard
Methods; and
7.5.3.
for each of the metals whose concentration is limited in this Bylaw the
analysis shall be for the quantity of total metal, which includes all metal
both dissolved and particulate.
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7.6
Where testing of a sample is required for the purpose of determining the
characteristics of contents of the wastewater, uncontaminated water or stormwater to
which reference is made in this Bylaw, the testing shall be conducted in accordance
with the method described below or by mechanical sampling devices:
7.6.1
Method of Sampling and Analysis
7.6.1.1.
A minimum of seven (7) grab samples shall be taken, one (1) each day at
different days in any thirty (30) day period;
7.6.1.2.
Analyses shall be conducted separately on each day's grab sample;
7.6.1.3.
The final results of these tests shall be averaged for this period to
determine the characteristics and concentration of the effluent being
discharged into the sewerage system or storm sewer system.
7.7
The Inspector may from time to time conduct such tests as are deemed necessary at
the manhole, or may enter the industrial premises and conduct the tests as deemed
necessary.
8.
SPILLS
8.1
Every person who discharges or deposits or causes or pennits the discharge or
deposit of any matter into any sewer that in nature or quantity is not in the ordinary
course of events, shall forthwith notify the Engineer.
8.2
For any of the discharges in subsection 8.1 for which the person is required to
forthwith notify the Engineer, the notification shall include the following
information:
8.2.1.
name of the company and the address of location of spill;
8.2.2.
name of person reporting the spill and telephone number where that
person can be reached;
8.2.3.
time of the spill;
8.2.4.
type and volume of material discharged and any associated hazards; and,
8.2.5.
corrective actions being taken to control the spill.
8.3
Within five (5) days following a spill, the person shall submit to the Engineer a
detailed written report describing the cause of the spill and the actions taken or to be
taken to prevent a recurrence.
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9.
REPORTS
9.1
Any person who deposits, intends to deposit or pennits or intends to pennit the
deposit of any waste except domestic waste into a sanitary or combined sewer shall
file a Waste Survey Report with the Engineer.
9.2
The Waste Survey Report shall contain the following infonnation and shall be
signed by the person identified in subparagraph 10.1, or that person's authorized
representative:
9.2.1.
name and address of the premises, and names of its owner and operator;
9.2.2.
description of process operations, including waste discharge rates and
contaminant concentrations, hours of operation and plans and reports
certified by a professional engineer indicating proposed industrial
expansion, addition, new construction, or proposed pre-treatment works;
and
9.2.3.
a schematic process diagram indicating waste discharge points and waste
descriptions.
9.4
Where a change occurs in the information described in a Waste Survey Report, the
owner or operator of the premises shall submit the new infonnation within thirty
(30) days ofthe change.
9.5
Where a change occurs in any information described in a Waste Survey Report, the
owner or operator of the pren1ises shall submit a new Waste Survey Report setting
out the changes within thirty (30) days of the change.
9.6
No person shall deposit any waste other than domestic waste in any sanitary or
combined sewer until:
9.6.1
a Waste Survey Report has been filed with the Engineer; and,
9.6.2.
the Engineer has confirmed that the waste will comply with the
requirements of this Bylaw.
10.
GENERAL
10.1
For the purpose of the administration of this Bylaw, the Inspector may, upon
production of identification, enter any industrial premises and have free unimpaired
access to observe, to measure the flow of wastewater to any sewer and to collect any
samples required at reasonable times upon reasonable notice.
10.2
No person shall deface or tamper or cause or permit the breaking, damaging,
destroying, defacing or tampering with:
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10.2.1.
10.2.2.
any part of the sewerage system or storm sewer system; or
any permanent or temporary device installed in the sewerage system or
storm sewer system for the purpose of measuring, sampling and testing
of wastewater.
10.3
No work shall be carried out on any sewer other than by the authority of the
Engineer.
10.4
The Council shall have the power to stop and close up and prevent from discharging
into the sewerage system, any private sewer or drain through which substances are
discharged or into which substances are thrown, deposited, or supposed to be put,
prohibited by this Bylaw or which are liable to injure the sewers or obstruct the flow
of sewage.
10.5
The Council shall not cause any sewer to be closed up pursuant to sub-section 10.4
unless the owner of the sewer is first notified and given an opportuuity to be heard
by the Council.
10.6
Sewer rates including conuection fees, sewer service charges and sewer usage
charges will be set by Council annually at the same time the annual tax rates are set.
11.
CONNECTIONS
11.1
No person shall:
11.1.1.
11.1.2.
11.1.3.
conuect any private sewer or building sewer to a municipal sewer
without first obtaining pennission from the Engineer,
conuect to a municipal sewer except under the supervision of the
Engineer,
cover a conuection until it has been inspected and approved by the
Engineer.
11.2
Every person conuecting to a sewerage system shall construct the connection in
compliance with the most current requirements of the applicable Building Code
and Plumbing Codes.
11.3
Every person conuecting to the sewerage system shall insure that all conuections
shall be equipped with backflow prevention in accordance with the most current
requirement ofthe applicable Building Code and Plumbing Codes.
11.4
No person shall connect any storm sewer to any sanitary sewer.
11.5.
The owner of a building, the nearest part of which is not more than one hundred
feet from any portion of a municipal sewer, is required at the owner's expense to
construct a building sewer from the building and to connect it to the municipal
sewer. Council may exempt any such building as appears to Council:
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11.5.1.
to be adequately served with existing storm drainage and on-site
sewage disposal system;
11.5.1.
would not be adequately served by connection to the municipal
sewerage system.
11.6.
The Council shall not require an owner to connect to a municipal sewer until
service from the sewer has been available for connection to the property for one
(I) year.
II. 7.
Where a building has been connected to the municipal sewerage system or the
Council has ordered a building to be so connected, the Council may by resolution
order the owners of an outhouse and septic tank, or either of them, to remove the
outhouse and to destroy or fill the septic tank.
11.8. All costs associated with the installation, connection, maintenance or repair of a
building sewer connection to the municipal sewerage system, whether in a street,
highway or easement, including the costs of any necessary permits, are the sole
responsibility of the owner.
12.
OFFENSES
Any person who contravenes any section of this Bylaw is liable on conviction to a
penalty of not less than five hundred dollars ($500.00) and not more than five
thousand dollars ($5,000.00).
13.
DEFINITIONS
In this By-law, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression:
13.1.
"Biochemical Oxygen Demand" or "BOD" means the quantity of oxygen
utilized, expressed in milligrams per litre, in the biochemical oxidation of
matter within a one hundred and twenty (120) hour period at a temperature
of twenty degrees (20) centigrade as determined in procedures set forth in
Standard Methods;
13.2.
"Chemical Oxygen Demand" or "COD" means the quantity of oxygen
utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard
laboratory procedure, expressed in milligrams per litre, according to
Standard Methods;
13.3.
"Colour of liquid" means the appearance of a liquid from which the
suspended solids have been removed;
13.4.
"Combined Sewer" means a sewer that is intended to conduct wastewater
and stormwater;
13.5.
"Council" means the mlmicipal Council of Town of WolfVille;
13.6.
"Domestic Waste" means waste derived principally from dwellings;
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13.7.
"Effluent" means treated wastewater flowing out of a treatment plant;
13.S.
"Engineer" means the Engineer for Wolfville and includes those
designated to act on behalf of the Engineer.
13.9.
"Grease" means total oil and grease extracted from aqueous solution or
suspension according to the laboratory procedures set forth in Standard
Methods, and includes, but is not limited to, hydrocarbons, esters, oils,
fats, waxes and high molecular fatty acids;
13.10.
"Industrial Premises" means an area of land with or without buildings or
structures on which activities are carried out pertaining to industry,
manufacturing, commerce, trade, business, or institutions as distinguished
from domestic dwellings;
13.11.
"Inspector" means a person authorized by the Engineer to carry out
observations and inspections and to take samples as prescribed by this
Bylaw;
13.12.
"Matter" includes any solid, liquid, or gas;
13.13.
"Natural Outlet" is any outlet from a natural watercourse into another
watercourse, pond, ditch or lake, or other body of surface or groundwater;
13.14.
"Pathologic Waste" means waste generated in a hospital or similar
instihltion which contains human or animal tissue altered or affected by
disease, and instruments or other materials which may have come in
contact with diseased tissue;
13.15.
"Person" means any individual, finn, company, association, society,
corporation or group;
13.16.
"pH" means the measure of the intensity of the acid or alkaline condition
of a solution detennined by the hydrogen ion concentration of the solution
in accordance with the Standard Methods;
13.17.
"Phenolic Compotmds" means hydroxyl derivatives of benzene and its
condensed nuclei, concentrations of which are detennined by Standard
Methods;
13.1S.
"Professional Engineer" means a registered member in good standing of
the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia;
13.19.
"Provincial Regulations" means the requirements and provisions of the
Province of Nova Scotia contained in any Provincial Statute or in any
Regulation or Order made pursuant to the authority of any Statute of Nova
Scotia;
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13 .20.
"Sanitary Sewer" means a sewer for the collection and transmission of
domestic, commercial and industrial wastewater or any of them, and to
which uncontaminated or cooling water, storm, surface, and groundwater
are not intentionally admitted;
13.21.
"Sewage" means wastewater;
13.22.
"Sewer" means a pipe, conduit, drain, open channel, or ditch used for the
collection and transmission of wastewater, stonnwater, or uncontaminated
water;
13.23.
"Sewer connection" means a pipe, conduit or drain used to connect and
transmit domestic, commercial and industrial wastewater, or any of them
to the municipal sewerage system;
13.24.
"Sewerage System" means all pipes, mains, equipment, buildings and
structures for collecting, pumping or treahnent of wastewater and operated
by Wolfville, but does not include a stonn sewer;
13.25
"Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater"
(referred to as "Standard Methods") means the analytical and examination
procedures provided in the edition current at the time oftesting, published
jointly by the American Public Health Association and the American
Water Works Association or any publication by or under the authority of
the Canadian Standards Association deemed appropriate by the Engineer;
13.26.
"Storm Sewer" means a sewer and all related structures designed
exclusively for the collection and transmission of uncontaminated water,
stormwater, drainage from land or from any watercourse or any of them;
13.27.
"Stonnwater" means runoff water from rainfall or other natural
precipitation, grOlmdwater or water from the melting of snow or ice and
includes roof drainage and footing drainage;
13.28.
"Suspended Solids" means insoluble matter than can be removed by
filtration through a standard glass fibre filter as provided by Standard
Methods;
13.29.
"True Colour Units" means the measure of the colour of the water from
which turbidity has been removed;
13.30.
"Uncontaminated Water" means any water, including water from a public
or private water works, to which no matter has been added as a
consequence of its use, or to modifY its use, by any person, and may
include cooling water;
13.31.
"Waste" means any material discharged into the sewerage system;
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13.32.
"Wastewater" means any liquid waste containing animal, vegetable,
mineral, or chemical matter in solution or suspension carried from any
premises;
13.33.
"Watercourse" means
13.33.1.
the bed and shore of every river, stream, lalce, creek, pond,
spring, lagoon, or other natural body of water, and the water in
them, whether it contains water or not,
13.33.2.
all ground water, and
13.33.3.
any channel, ditch, reservoir, drain, land drainage works or
other man-made surface feahlre, whether it contains or conveys
water or not;
13.34.
"Wolfville" means Town of Wolfville, Municipal body corporate, or the
area contained within its municipal boundaries as the context requires.
14.
REPEAL OF SEWER BYLAW
The Sewer Bylaw, Chapter 21, passed by Town Council on July 19, 2004 is
hereby repealed.
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CERTIFICATE
I, RACHEL TURNER, Town Clerk of the Town of Wolfville do hereby certify that the
Bylaw of which the foregoing is a true copy was duly passed at a duly called meeting of
the Town Council of the Town of Wolfville held on the 19,h day of March 2012.
Notice of the said Bylaw passing was published in THE KINGS COUNTY REGISTER,
a newspaper circulating in the said Town on the 29'h day of.March 2012.
Given under the hand of the Town Clerk and the Corporate Seal of the Town of Wolfville
this 29'h day of March 2012.
RACHEL L. TURNER
TOWII Clerk
First Reading: 20 February 2012
Second Reading: 19 March 2012
Date of Publish: 29 March 2012
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