Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the following terms and phrases as used in these rules and regulations
shall have the meanings hereinafter designated:
ACT OR THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., or
any successor law and all applicable regulations.
AUTHORITY
The Upper Montgomery Joint Authority.
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., expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams
per liter (mg/l)), as defined in standard methods.
COOLING WATERS
The water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is
heat.
DISCHARGE
The release of pollutants, including holding tank waste,
into the POTW and any source regulated under § 307(b), (c)
or (d) of the Act and at 40 CFR § 403.3(g).
EFFLUENT
All wastewater exiting the POTW.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
The U.S. 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 contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of effluent into the POTW, except residential users.
INTERFERENCE
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes
or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement
of the Authority's NPDES permit. The term includes, among other things,
pass through, the prevention of sewage sludge use, sludge processes
or disposal by the POTW in accordance with 405 of the Act, 33 U.S.C.
§ 1345, or any criteria, guidelines or regulations developed
pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), the Clean Air Act,
the Toxic Substances Control Act or more stringent State criteria,
including those contained in any State sludge management plan prepared
pursuant to Title IV of SWDA applicable to the method of disposal
or use employed by the POTW.
PASS THROUGH
A discharge which exists the POTW into waters of the United
States in quantities which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any
requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit (including an increase in the
magnitude or duration of a violation).
PERMIT
The written consent of the Authority to allow an industrial
user to discharge wastewater to the POTW. The permit may contain conditions
and limitations.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity, the United States and its agents, 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
A symbol denoting the negative logarithm of the hydrogen
ion concentration in a solution.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste
discharged into water.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
POTW TREATMENT PLANT
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater and which is owned and operated by the Upper Montgomery
Joint Authority.
PRETREATMENT OR TREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutants, or the
alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in effluent to a
less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise
introducing such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction or alteration
can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, or
process changes by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR § 403.6(d),
or other applicable law or regulations.
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment
other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on any user.
ALSO REFERRED TO AS POTW
a treatment works as defined by § 212 of the Act,
33 U.S.C. § 1292, or any successor law and its applicable
regulations. This definition includes any sewers that convey wastewater
to the POTW treatment plant, pipes, pumping stations, manholes, sewers
and other conveyances. POTW shall also include any sewers that convey
wastewater to the POTW from persons outside the service area who are,
by contract or agreement with the Authority, users of the Authority's
POTW.
SHALL
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
STATE
State of Pennsylvania.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUPERINTENDENT
The person designated by the Authority who is charged with
certain duties and responsibilities by this Part, or his duly authorized
representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The total suspended solids as determined by the latest editions
of standard methods.
HAZARDOUS POLLUTANT
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as prohibited
or restricted in regulations promulgated by authorities authorized
by law.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial 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 is contributed into
or permitted to enter the POTW.
WATERS OF THE STATE
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways,
wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage
systems and all other bodies or accumulation of water, surface or
underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through or border upon the State or any portion thereof.