A. ACT ASTM BOD (DENOTING "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND") BUILDING SEWER COMBINED SEWER COMMERCIAL USER (CLASS II) DAY DER EASEMENT EPA GARBAGE GROUNDWATER INDUSTRIAL USER (CLASS III) INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT NATURAL OUTLET NPDES OWNER PERSON PH PRETREATMENT PRETREATMENT STANDARD PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE RESIDENTIAL USER (CLASS I) SANITARY WASTEWATER STANDARD METHODS STATE STORM SEWER SURFACE WATER SUSPENDED SOLIDS TOXICS WASTEWATER WASTEWATER FACILITY WASTEWATER SEWER WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY WPCF
Unless the context of usage indicates otherwise, the meaning of specific terms in this Part 2 shall be as follows:
The Federal Clean Water Act, as amended.
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
The quantity of oxygen used in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
The extension from a building wastewater plumbing facility to the public wastewater facility.
A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
Includes any property occupied by a nonresidential establishment not within the definition of an "industrial user (Class III)" and which is connected to the wastewater facilities.
The twenty-four-hour period beginning at 12:01 a.m.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
The solid animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the domestic or commercial handling, storage, dispensing, preparation, cooking and serving of foods.
Water within the earth.
Any nonresidential user identified in Division A, B, D, E or I of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual. "Class III" shall also include any user which discharges wastewater containing toxic or poisonous substances, or any substance which causes interference in the wastewater facilities.
Inhibition or disruption of any sewer system, wastewater treatment process or sludge disposal system, or their operation, which substantially contributes to a violation of applicable discharge permits.
The Manager of the Patterson Township Municipal Authority's wastewater system or an authorized designee.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or any other body of surface or ground water.
The national pollutant discharge elimination system permit program, whether administered by the EPA or by DER.
The person or persons who legally own, lease or occupy private property with wastewater facilities which discharge or will discharge to the Patterson Township Municipal Authority's wastewater facilities.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, partnership, corporation, municipality or other similar organization, agency or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration expressed in grams per liter of solution as determined by Standard Methods.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to discharge to the Patterson Township Municipal Authority's wastewater facilities.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act, which applies to industrial users.
Garbage that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under flow conditions normally prevailing in the wastewater sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (1/2) inch in any dimension.
All premises used only for human residency and which are connected to the wastewater facilities.
Wastewater discharged from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, office buildings, industrial plants or institutions.
The latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association, Water Pollution Control Federation and American Water Works Association.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
A sewer for conveying storm, surface and other waters which are not intended to be transported to a treatment facility.
Water which occurs when the rate of precipitation exceeds the rate at which water may infiltrate into the soil.
The total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of or in in suspension in water or wastewater, as determined by Standard Methods.
Any of the pollutants designated by federal regulations pursuant to Section 307(a)(1) of the Act.
A combination of liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industries and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water or stormwater that may be present.
The combination of the wastewater sewers and treatment facilities.
The structures, processes, equipment and arrangements necessary to collect and transport wastewaters to the treatment facility.
The structures, processes, equipment and arrangements necessary to treat and discharge wastewaters.
The Water Pollution Control Federation.
B.
"May" is permissive; "shall" is mandatory.