Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 10 > Chapter 47 > Subchapter 1A - Notification of Sewage and Wastewater Discharges

• Collection system: means pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, force mains, and all other facilities used to collect or conduct sewage or stormwater, or both sewage and stormwater. See
• Combined sewer overflow: means an untreated or partially treated discharge to waters of the State from a combined sewer system outfall that results from a wet weather storm event. See
• Combined sewer system: means a collection system that was designed to convey sewage and stormwater through the same network of pipes to a treatment plant. See
• Department: means the Department of Environmental Conservation. See
• Discharge: means the placing, depositing, or emission of any wastes, directly or indirectly, into an injection well or into the waters of the State. See
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Domestic: when applied to a corporation, company, association, or copartnership shall mean organized under the laws of this State; "foreign" when so applied, shall mean organized under the laws of another state, government, or country. See
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Municipality: shall include a city, town, town school district, incorporated school or fire district or incorporated village, and all other governmental incorporated units. See
• Person: means any individual; partnership; company; corporation; association; joint venture; trust; municipality; the State of Vermont or any agency, department, or subdivision of the State; any federal agency; or any other legal or commercial entity. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Natural Resources or his or her authorized representative. See
• Sewage: means domestic, commercial, and industrial wastewater conveyed by a collection system. See
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
• Stormwater: means precipitation and snowmelt that does not infiltrate into soil, including material dissolved or suspended in it. See
• Untreated discharge: means :

• Wastewater treatment facility: means a treatment plant, collection system, pump station, and attendant facilities permitted by the Secretary for the purpose of treating sewage. See
• Waters: includes all rivers, streams, creeks, brooks, reservoirs, ponds, lakes, springs, and all bodies of surface waters, artificial or natural, that are contained within, flow through, or border upon the State or any portion of it. See