The following words, terms and phrases will hereinafter
have the meanings set forth in this section, unless the context clearly
requires a different meaning:
BILLING PERIOD
The interval of time between two successive bills; under
normal conditions it will be approximately 30 days.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, five days at
20° C. (68° F.) expressed in terms of weight and concentration
[milligrams per liter (mg/L)].
BOROUGH
The Mayor and Town Council of the Borough of Chambersburg,
commonly known as "The Borough of Chambersburg," and/or its duly authorized
representatives acting on its behalf.
BUILDING SEWER
A sanitary sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of
a user to the sewer system.
COMMERCIAL or INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
A separate building, group of buildings, or room or group
of rooms on a parcel of land held in separate ownership wherein a
commercial or industrial activity is carried on by any person. It
shall not necessarily include an office room, or suite of rooms in
a building, accommodating a number of separate offices, except that
to the extent that such offices are set apart from each other and
provided with separate toilet facilities for employees, each shall
constitute a separate establishment. The determination of the Borough
as to what constitutes a separate establishment shall be final.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
A sample composed of individual subsamples taken at regular
intervals over a specified period of time. Subsamples may be proportioned
by time interval or size according to flow (flow-proportioned composite
sample) or be of equal size and taken at equal time intervals (equal-time
composite sample).
COOLING WATER
The water from any use such as air conditioning, cooling
or refrigeration, which does not come into contact with any product,
by-product or waste and to which the only pollutant added is heat.
DISCHARGE
The conveyance of any water or wastewater into the sewer
system.
DOMESTIC WASTE
Normal household wastes from kitchen, water closets, lavatories
and laundries, or any waste from a similar source and possessing the
same characteristics.
DWELLING UNIT
A separate dwelling, apartment, room or group of rooms used
for separate dwelling purposes and equipped for the preparation of
food. In all cases the determination of the Borough as to what constitutes
a separate dwelling unit shall be final.
EPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency, or, where
appropriate, the term may also be used as a designation for the Administrator
or other duly authorized official of said agency.
INDUSTRIAL USER
Any person who discharges industrial waste into the sewer
system.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance, or form of energy,
which is produced as a result, whether directly or indirectly, of
any industrial, manufacturing, trade or business process or activity,
or in the course of developing, recovering or processing of natural
resources and which is discharged into the sewer system; but not cooling
water of sanitary sewage. Any wastewater which contains industrial
waste and which is discharged from an industrial, manufacturing, trade
or business premise is considered industrial waste for the purposes
of this article.
MANHOLE
A structure allowing access from the surface of the ground
to a sewer.
Mg/l
Milligrams per liter; a measure of concentration of waterborne
substances.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives,
agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine,
the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions expressed in moles per liter of solution.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal water-carried domestic wastes from any improved
property, but excluding effluent from septic tanks or cesspools; rain,
snow or stormwater; groundwater; or other collected water from roofs,
drains or basements.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer carrying only sanitary sewage or industrial wastes,
and to which storm-, surface or ground waters are not intentionally
admitted.
SEWAGE COLLECTION SYSTEM
All facilities of the Borough or any municipality party to
a service agreement with the Borough, as of any particular time, used
or usable for collecting, transporting, pumping and disposing of Wastewater,
which facilities are connected to and served by the sewage treatment
plant.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
That portion of the sewer system owned and operated by the
Borough which is designed to provide treatment of wastewater and discharge
of treated effluent to the environment.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for conveying wastewater or stormwater.
SEWER SERVICE
The use of the sewer system to collect, transport and treat
the discharge from any improved property.
SEWER SYSTEM
The sewage collection system, sewage treatment plant and
any sewers that convey wastewater to the sewage treatment plant. For
the purposes of this article, "sewer system" shall also include any
sewers that convey wastewater to the sewage treatment plant from persons
who are, by contract or agreement with the Borough, users of the sewer
system.
STANDARD METHODS
The latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater, published by the Water Environmental Federation,
the American Public Health Association and the American Waterworks
Association.
STATE
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of,
or is suspended in, water, Wastewater or other liquids, and which
is removable by laboratory filtering.
UNIT
Shall mean 10 cubic feet of water.
USER
Any person, as defined above, owning any property served
with sewer from the sewer system of the Borough. The user may designate
that any person occupying his property receive the bills for sewer
service to that property.
WASTEWATER
Industrial wastes or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial
buildings, industrial facilities and institutions, together with any
groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may be present, whether
treated or untreated, which enters the sewer system.