Specific terms. Terms or words used herein, unless otherwise expressly
stated, shall have the following meanings:
ACT
The Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act 241.
AIR POLLUTION
The presence in the outdoor atmosphere of any form of contaminant
including, but not limited to, the discharges from stacks, chimneys,
openings, buildings, structures, open fires, vehicles, processes or
any other source of smoke, soot, fly ash, dust, cinders, dirt, noxious
or obnoxious acids, fumes, oxides, gases, vapors, odors, toxic or
radioactive substances, waste or any other matter in such place, manner
or concentration inimical or potentially inimical to public health,
safety or welfare, or which is, or may be injurious to human, plant
or animal life, or to property, or which unreasonably interferes with
the comfortable enjoyment of life or property.
ALL-WEATHER ROAD
Any cartway from a site entrance to the dumping area(s),
working face(s) or facilities located within the property boundaries
of a disposal facility, constructed in a manner which will provide
utilization in all weather conditions.
AUTHORITY
The Coolbaugh Township Municipal Authority.
BULKY WASTE
Large items of refuse including, but not limited to, appliance,
furniture, large auto parts, trees branches and stumps which cannot
be handled by normal solid waste processing, collection or disposal
methods.
CELL
Compacted refuse completely enclosed by cover material.
COMMERCIAL WASTE
All solid and/or fluid waste emanating from establishments
engaged in business. This category waste originating in stores, markets,
office buildings, restaurants, shopping centers and theaters.
COMPOSTING
The process in which organic solid waste is biologically
decomposed under controlled anaerobic and aerobic conditions to yield
a nuisance-free humus-like product.
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE
Waste building materials, dredging materials, grubbing waste
and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair and demolition
operations on houses, commercial buildings and other structures and
pavements.
DEP
The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
DESIGN PLANS
The drawings, profiles, cross sections, working drawings
and supplemental drawings or reproductions thereof, for a solid waste
disposal or processing facility prepared by or under the supervision
of a registered engineer, which show the location, character, dimensions,
sequence or details of the work.
DOMESTIC WASTE or HOUSEHOLD WASTE
Solid and/or fluid waste, comprised of garbage and rubbish,
which normally originates in the residential private household or
apartment house.
FOOD PROCESS WASTE
Residual materials in liquid or solid form generated in the
slaughtering of poultry and livestock, or in processing and converting
fish, seafood, milk, meat and eggs to food products; it also means
residual materials generated in the processing, converting and/or
manufacturing of fruits, vegetables, crops and other commodities into
marketable food items.
GARBAGE
Solid waste resulting from animal, grain, fruit or vegetable
matter used or intended for use as food or organic material.
GROUNDWATER
All water beneath the surface of the ground, excluding vadose
water, vadose water being that water above the water table but below
the surface of the ground.
HAZARDOUS WASTE
A solid and/or fluid waste (including gaseous waste), or
combination of such wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration
or physical, chemical, atomic or infectious characteristics may:
(1)
Cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality
or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible
illness; or
(2)
Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health
or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported or
disposed of, or otherwise managed.
INCINERATION
The process of burning combustible solid waste.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
All solid and/or fluid waste resulting from manufacturing
and industrial processes, such as, but not limited to, those carried
on in factories, processing plants, refineries, slaughterhouses and
steel mills.
INSTITUTIONAL WASTE
All solid and/or fluid waste emanating from institutions
such as, but not limited to, hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages,
schools and universities.
LEACHATE
A liquid waste resulting from the interaction of water or
other liquids with solid waste containing dissolved and/or suspended
solid matter which is deleterious, injurious or hazardous to the waters
of the commonwealth, the general public or the environment.
LIFT
An accumulation of up to eight feet of compacted refuse layers
upon which cover material has been placed. The cover material may
be daily, intermediate or final in application.
MEMBRANE
The layer or material portion of a sanitary landfill liner
which is impermeable.
MUNICIPALITY
Coolbaugh Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
NORMAL FARMING OPERATIONS
The customary and generally accepted activities, practices
and procedures that farmers adopt, use and/or engage in year after
year in the production and preparation for market of poultry, livestock
and their products, and in the production and harvesting of agricultural,
agronomic, horticultural, silvicultural and aquicultural and crops
and commodities. It includes the storage, composting and utilization
of agricultural and food process wastes for animal feed, and includes
the agricultural utilization of septic tank cleanings and sewage sludges
which are generated off-site. It also includes the management, collection,
storage, composting, transportation and use of manure, other agricultural
waste and food process waste on land where such materials will improve
the condition of the soil, the growth of crops and/or aid in restoration
of the land for the same purposes.
PROCESSING AND/OR RECYCLING OF WASTES
Any technology applied for the purpose of reducing the bulk
of solid waste materials or any technology designed to convert part
or all of the waste materials for reuse.
REFUSE
All materials which are discarded as useless.
RESIDUE
Solid or semisolid materials such as, but not limited to
ash, ceramics, glass, metal and organic substance remaining after
incineration or processing.
SALVAGING
The controlled removal of material from a solid waste processing
or disposal site.
SANITARY LANDFILL
A land site on which engineering principles are utilized
to bury deposits of solid waste without creating public health or
safety hazards, nuisances, pollution or environmental degradation.
SANITARY LANDFILL LINER
An impermeable barrier manufactured, constructed or existing
in a natural condition that is utilized to collect leachate. The component
parts of a sanitary landfill liner shall consist of, but not be limited
to, the natural subgrade which is the undisturbed in-place earth upon
which construction will commence, the subbase, the impermeable membrane,
the protective cover and drainage facilities.
SCAVENGING
The uncontrolled removal of material from a solid waste processing
or disposal site.
SETBACK LINE
A line across the front, side or rear of any private or public
property, the establishment of which prohibits the subsequent erection
of any building, fence or other obstruction in the area between such
line and the property line, except as otherwise provided in this article.
SEWAGE SLUDGE
The coarse screenings, grit and dewatered or air-dried sludges,
septic and holding tank pumpings and any other residues from sewage
collection and treatment systems which require disposal.
SOIL, DAILY COVER
Soil material used to cover the working face of a landfill
at the close of each working day or at the completion of a cell.
SOIL, FINAL COVER
Soil material placed on completed lifts where there is no
intention of placing any more lifts at any time and which will be
revegetated.
SOIL, INTERMEDIATE COVER
Soil material placed on completed lifts in areas where there
is clear intention to place another lift on top within one year.
SOIL, RENOVATING SOIL
Soil material that exists or is placed beneath the landfill
that will provide the natural renovation of leachate emanating from
the landfill.
SOLID WASTE
Garbage, refuse and other discarded materials including,
but not limited to, solid and liquid and/or fluid waste materials
resulting from municipal, industrial, commercial, agriculture and
residential activities.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
The entire process of storage, collection, transportation,
processing and disposal of solid waste by any person engaging in such
process as a business or by any municipality, authority, county or
any combination thereof.
TRANSFER STATION
A supplemental transportation facility used as an adjunct
to solid waste route collection vehicles. Such a facility may be fixed
or mobile.