Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the following words and terms used in this chapter shall have the
following meanings:
ABNORMAL INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any industrial waste having a suspended solid content or
BOD appreciably in excess of that normally found in municipal sewage.
For the purposes of these regulations, any industrial waste containing
more than 350 milligrams per liter of suspended solids or having a
BOD in excess of 350 milligrams per liter shall be considered an abnormal
industrial waste regardless of whether or not it contains other substances
in concentrations differing appreciably from those normally found
in municipal sewage.
BOARD
The elected members of the Council of New Wilmington Borough,
as now or hereafter constituted, and its duly authorized agents or
representatives.
BOD OF SEWAGE OR INDUSTRIAL WASTE (DESIGNATES "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN
DEMAND")
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of the organic matter in said sewage or industrial waste under standard
laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C., expressed in milligrams
per liter by weight. It shall be determined by one of the acceptable
methods described in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the
Examination of Water and Wastewater, cited above.
BOROUGH
The Borough of New Wilmington located in Lawrence County,
Pennsylvania.
DEVELOPER
A person or person, owning one or more lots, each lot of
which having a building thereon having sanitary facilities therein
must be connected to the public sanitary sewage system.
FATS, OILS AND GREASE (FOG)
Organic polar compounds derived from animal and/or plant
sources that contain multiple carbon chain triglyceride molecules.
These substances are detectable and measurable using analytical test
procedures established in 40 CFR 136, as may be amended from time
to time. All are sometimes referred to herein as "grease" or "greases."
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GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce. Solid
wastes exclude wrappers, packaging and other nonfood products.
[Amended 5-7-2012 by Ord. No. 508]
GREASE INTERCEPTOR
A plumbing appurtenance or appliance that is installed in
a sanitary drainage system to intercept nonpetroleum fats, oils, and
greases (FOG) from a wastewater discharge and is identified by volume,
baffle(s) a minimum of two compartments, a minimum total volume of
1,000 gallons and gravity separation. Gravity grease interceptors
are installed outside.
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INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any liquid, gaseous or waterborne wastes from industrial
processes or commercial establishments, as distinct from sanitary
sewage.
INSPECTOR
The person designated by and representing the Borough, who
shall inspect the installation of any part of the public sanitary
sewage system.
MAIN BUILDING SEWER
The sanitary sewer line from the property, either residential,
commercial or industrial, which carries sewage from the building or
buildings into the public sanitary sewage system.
OCCUPIED BUILDING
Any structure erected and intended for continuous or periodic
habitation, occupancy or use by human beings and from which structure
sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, or either thereof, is or may
be discharged.
OWNER-USE
The person who owns or who rents or occupies the property
from which the main building sewer is connected into the public sanitary
sewage system.
PERSON
Includes natural persons, partnerships, associations and
corporations, public or private.
PH
The logarithm to the base 10 of the reciprocal of the weight
of the hydrogen ion concentration expressed in grams per liter. It
shall be determined by one of the acceptable methods described in
the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water
and Wastewater, published jointly by the American Public Health Association,
the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control
Federation.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce that have
been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely
under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with
no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SANITARY SEWAGE SYSTEM (SOMETIMES CALLED THE "SEWER SYSTEM")
All sanitary or combined sewers, all pumping stations, all
force mains, all sewage treatment works and all other sewage facilities
owned or leased and operated by the Borough for the collection, transportation
and treatment of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, together with
their appurtenances, and any additions, extensions or improvements
thereto. It shall also include sewers within the Borough's service
area which serve one or more persons and discharge into the public
sanitary sewage system even though those sewers may not have been
constructed by the Borough and are not owned or maintained by the
Borough. It does not include separate storm sewers or culverts which
have been constructed for the sole purpose of carrying storm and surface
runoff, the discharge from which is not and does not become tributary
to the sewage treatment facilities.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions, industrial and commercial
establishments, exclusive of stormwater runoff, surface water or groundwater.
The definition excludes animal waste.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business,
buildings, institutions and industrial and commercial establishments.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
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 longer duration than 15 minutes more than
three times its average hourly concentration of flow.
STORM SEWER
A sewer which is intended to carry stormwater runoff, surface
waters, groundwater drainage, etc., but which is not intended to carry
any sanitary sewage or polluted industrial waste.
STORMWATER RUNOFF
That portion of the rainfall which reaches a channel, trench
or storm sewer.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface or are in suspension
in water, sewage, industrial waste or other liquids and which are
removable by laboratory filtration. The quantity of suspended solids
shall be determined by one of the acceptable methods described in
the latest editions of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water
and Wastewater, cited above.
TEST
A required test of a sanitary sewer shall be pneumatic, hydrostatic
or smoke, all as approved by the Borough Council or its authorized
agent.
UNPOLLUTED WATER OR WASTE
Any water or waste containing none of the following: emulsified
grease or oil; pH less than 6.0 or greater than 9.0; phenols or other
substances imparting taste and odor to receiving waters; toxic or
poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution; obnoxious
or odorous gases. It shall contain not more than 1,000 milligrams
per liter by weight of dissolved solids, of which not more than 250
milligrams per liter shall be as chloride, and not more than 10 milligrams
per liter each of suspended solids and BOD. The color shall not exceed
50 color units. Analyses for any of the above-mentioned substances
shall be made in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, cited above.
USER
Any person, including those located outside the jurisdictional
limits of the Borough, who contributes, causes, or permits the contribution
or discharge of wastewater into the sewer system, including persons
who contribute such wastewater from the mobile sources.
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