Manure and other animal waste derived from agricultural industries.

A consolidated or unconsolidated geological formation, group of formations or part of a formation capable of yielding a significant or economically useful amount of groundwater to wells, springs or infiltration galleries.

The water level or stage at which a stream, river or lake is at the top of its banks and any further rise would result in water moving into the floodplain.

The Building Inspector of the Village of Ossining.

Any bulk quantities of chloride compounds and other deicing compounds intended for application to roads, including mixes of sand and chloride compounds in any proportion where the chloride compounds constitute over 8% of the mixture. A bulk quantity of chloride compounds means a quantity of 1,000 pounds or more but does not include chloride compounds in a solid form, including granules, which are packaged in waterproof bags or containers which do not exceed 100 pounds each.

Building Inspector, Assistant Building Inspector and Code Enforcement Officer.

The emission of any water, substance or material into a wetland, watercourse or their buffers, whether or not such substance causes pollution.

Any commercially produced mixture generally containing phosphorous, nitrogen and potassium which is applied to the ground to increase nutrients to plants.

Any person or site whose act or process produces hazardous waste.

Water contained in interconnected pores and fractures in the saturated zone in an aquifer.

Any substance, including any petroleum by-product, which may cause harm to humans or the environment when improperly managed. A complete list of all hazardous substances except for petroleum by-products can be found in 6 NYCRR Part 597.2(b) Tables 1 and 2 and amendments thereto.

See 6 NYCRR Part 371 and amendments thereto for the identification and listing of hazardous wastes.

Any substance or mixture of substances intended to prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate any weed, including those substances defines as herbicides pursuant to Environmental Conservation Law § 33-0101, and amendments thereto.

Refers to systems and practices that use or mimic natural processes that result in the infiltration, evapotranspiration or the use of stormwater in order to protect water quality and associated aquatic habitat.

Animal feces and urine.

Any operation which involves the breaking of the earth's surface for the purpose of extracting and removing raw natural materials (such as topsoil) from the premises for the purpose of sale or off- premises use.

Aquifers and watersheds within the Indian Brook-Croton Gorge Watershed that serve as water sources for municipal water systems.

A water system which provides piped water to the public for human consumption as defined and regulated by 10 NYCRR Subpart 5-1.

Pollution from any source other than from any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyances and shall include, but not be limited to, pollutants from agricultural, silvicultural; mining, construction, subsurface disposal and urban runoff sources.

The overlay map showing the boundaries of the Indian Brook-Croton Gorge Watershed Protection Overlay District.

Any insect, rodent, fungus or weed; or any other form of terrestrial or aquatic plant or animal life or virus, bacteria or other microorganism (except viruses, bacteria or other microorganisms on or in living man or other living animals) which the Commissioner of Environmental Conservation declares to be a pest as provided in Environmental Conservation Law § 33-0101.

Any substance or mixture of substances invented to prevent, destroy, repel or mitigate any pest, including any substances defined as pesticides pursuant to Environmental Conservation Law § 33-0101 and amendments thereto.

Oil or petroleum of any kind and in any form, including, but not limited to oil, petroleum fuel oil, oil sludge, oil refuse, oil mixed with other waste, crude oil, gasoline, and kerosene, as defined in 6 NYCRR Part 597.1(7) and amendments thereto.

Pollutants discharged from a point source as defined in Environmental Conservation Law § 17-0105 and amendments thereto.

Any material or byproduct determined or suspected to be hazardous to human health or the environment as defined in Environmental Conservation Law § 17-0105. Pollutants may include, but are not limited to, dredged spoil, filter backwash, solid waste, incinerator residue, treated or untreated sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, hazardous materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand and industrial, municipal, agricultural waste and ballast discharged into water which may cause or might reasonably be expected to cause pollution of the waters of the state in contravention of the standards. Also, paints, varnishes, and solvents; oil and other automotive fluids; hazardous or nonhazardous liquid and solid wastes, yard wastes, including branches, grass clippings and leaves; refuse, rubbish, garbage, litter, or other discarded or abandoned objects and accumulations so that same may cause or contribute to pollution; and discharges of soaps, detergents, or floatables; pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers; sewage, fecal coliforms and pathogens; dissolved and particulate metals; animal wastes; wastes and residues that result from constructing a building, structure or site improvements; cement, gravel, sand, silt, mud, other soils, and noxious or offensive matter of any kind.

Includes all manner of useless or unwanted or discharged solid or semisolid nontoxic, domestic, commercial, industrial, institutional, construction and demolition waste materials, except hazardous, toxic, chemical, human or rendering wastes.

The system established pursuant to Article 17 Title 8 of the Environmental Conservation Law for issuance of permits authorizing discharges to the waters of the State of New York.

Within the Watershed Protection Overlay District, a steep slope is defined as any slope greater than 15%.

A land use or activity that generates higher concentration of hydrocarbons, trace metals, or toxicants than are found in typical stormwater runoff, based on monitoring studies. For purposes of the overlay district, the following land uses, and activities are deemed stormwater hotspots:

A plan for controlling stormwater runoff and pollutants from a site during and after construction activities as regulated in Chapter 227, Stormwater Management and Erosion and Sediment Control.

Lakes, bays, sounds, ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, wells, rivers, streams, creeks, estuaries, marshes, inlets, canals, the Atlantic Ocean within the territorial seas of the State of New York and all other bodies of surface water, natural or artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, public or private (except those private waters that do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters), which are wholly or partially within or bordering the state or within its jurisdiction. Storm sewers and waste treatment systems, including treatment ponds or lagoons which also meet the criteria of this definition, are not waters of the state. This exclusion applies only to man-made bodies of water which neither were originally created in waters of the state (such as a disposal area in wetlands) nor resulted from impoundment of waters of the state.

Water that is not stormwater, is contaminated with pollutants and is or will be discarded.

Any treatment plant, sewer, disposal field, lagoon, pumping station, septic system, collection and distribution pipes, on-site disposal systems and seepage units, constructed drainage ditch or surface water intercepting ditch, or other system not specifically mentioned in this definition, installed for the purpose of transport, treatment, neutralization, stabilization, storage, or disposal of wastewater.

Any natural or artificial pond, lake, reservoir or other area which ordinarily or intermittently contains water and which has a discernible shoreline, but not including a watercourse as defined in this chapter or man-made water features or swimming pools not associated with a wetland or watercourse.

The groundwater resources of the watershed, or the groundwater resources used for a particular well or community water system in the watershed.

A body of water flowing in a defined bed or channel, with banks and sides, having permanent sources of supply, uniform or interrupted.

The land area which contributes water, including surface runoff and groundwater flow to a specific stream or surface water body.

Indian Brook-Croton Gorge Inter-Municipal Watershed Protection Overlay District. The watershed for specific municipal water supplies, as designated on the official Watershed Protection Overlay District Map and described in § 270-72 of this article.

Any present or future artificial excavation used as a source of public or private water supply which derives water from the interstices of the rocks or soils which it penetrates, including bored wells, drilled wells, driven wells, infiltration galleries, and trenches with perforated piping, but excluding ditches or tunnels, used to convey groundwater to the surface.

An area surrounding a municipal water system well, designated as critical for protecting the well, created by a 200-foot radius around each protected well.

The area extending 100 feet along the surface, away from and around the perimeter of the outermost boundary of a wetland or waterbody and 50 feet from the outermost boundary of a watercourse.