As used in this Chapter
66, Articles
I through
IV inclusive, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
[Amended 5-28-1985 by Ord. No. 7-1985; 11-13-1979 by Ord. No.
7-1979; 9-27-1994 by Ord. No. 2-1994]
AUTHORITY
The West Goshen Sewer Authority, Chester County, Pennsylvania,
as well as the duly qualified and acting members of the Board thereof.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any structure or any portion thereof intended to be used
wholly or in part for the purposes of carrying on a trade, business
or professional or for social, amusement, religious, educational,
charitable or public uses, and which contains plumbing for kitchen,
toilet or washing facilities.
FLOOR DRAIN
A pipe having an open orifice set in any floor of a building (the term "building," as used herein, is defined in §
84-8 of the West Goshen Zoning Code) into and through which liquids may be drained whether by gravity or pumping.
HOUSE DRAIN
That part of the main horizontal drain and its branches inside
the walls of the building, vault or area and for five feet outside
thereof and extending to and connecting with the house sewer.
HOUSE SEWER
That part of the main house drain or sewer extending from
a point five feet outside of the outer wall of a building, vault or
area to its connection with the service lateral.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any structure intended to be used wholly or in part for the
manufacturing, fabricating, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembly
of any product commodity or article.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or waterborne wastes
or form of energy rejected or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing,
trade or business process or from the development, recovery or processing
of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
OCCUPIED BUILDING
Each single dwelling unit, household unit, flat or apartment
unit, store, shop, office, business or industrial unit or family unit
contained within any structure erected within 150 feet from the sewer
system and intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy
or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary
sewage is or may be discharged.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property served directly or indirectly by the sewer
system.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
group or other entity.
PRETREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing
such pollutants into the sewer system. This reduction or alteration
may be obtained by the physical, chemical or biological processes,
process changes or by other means; provided, however, that no person
shall increase the use of process water or in any other way attempt
to dilute a discharge as a partial or complete substitute for adequate
treatment to achieve compliance with a pretreatment standard or requirement
imposed by this chapter or applicable regulation of any governmental
authority having jurisdiction.
PRIVATE DWELLING OR LIVING UNIT
Any room, group of rooms, house trailer, structure, dwelling,
apartment, enclosure or any other one-family living unit intended
to be occupied as separate living quarters by a family, other group
of persons living together or by persons living alone, but excluding
institutional dormitories.
REPRESENTATIVE
The Secretary of the Board of Township Supervisors, the Township
Engineer, Plumbing Inspector, Sewer Manager, Health Officer or such
other person as shall be appointed by the Township as its representative
for any of the purposes herein.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions, commercial and industrial
establishments.
SERVICE LATERAL
That part of the sewer line from the sewer system to the
curbline or to the property line if there is no curbline.
SEWER DISTRICTS
Sewer District No. 1 as designated and created pursuant to
resolution of the Township duly adopted on March 5, 1958, and Sewer
Districts Nos. 2 and 3 as each designated and created pursuant to
ordinance of the Township, duly enacted July 6, 1960.
SEWER MANAGER
Any person who may, from time to time, be placed in general
charge of the sewer system.
SEWER SYSTEM
All temporary and permanent facilities, at any time and from
time to time, owned by or leased to and operated by the Township and
used or usable for or in connection with the collection of sanitary
sewage and acceptable industrial wastes.
SHOWER DRAIN
A floor drain located within a booth, stall or enclosure
designed and constructed as a shower bath in which water is sprayed
on the bather from an overhead nozzle.
SOIL PIPE
Any pipe receiving the discharge of one or more water closets,
with or without other fixtures.
TOILET
A disposal apparatus consisting of a hopper, fitted with
a flushing device, used for human urination and defecation; a water
closet.
TOWNSHIP
West Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and the
group of elected officials acting as the Board of Supervisors of the
Township.
WATER SUPPLIER
The public agency or private company furnishing water service
to the particular property connected to the sewer system.