A.
ACCEPTED ENGINEERING PRACTICE
ASHTO
ASTM
AUTHORITY
AUTHORITY SERVICE AREA
AWWA
BOD (biochemical oxygen demand)
BOROUGH
BOROUGH REPRESENTATIVE
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
CHLORINE DEMAND
CISPI
COLLECTION SEWER
COMMONWEALTH
CONNECTION UNIT
DOMESTIC SEWAGE
ENGINEER
(1)
(2)
EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT (EDU)
GARBAGE
G.P.D. (gpd)
HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL (HC)
HAZARDOUS MATERIAL
(1)
(2)
(3)
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE (HS)
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE LIST (HSL)
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
(11)
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE, SPECIAL
HAZARDOUS WASTE (HW)
IMPROVED PROPERTY
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
LATERAL
OWNER
PaDEP
PennDOT
PERSON
pH
PLUMBING INSPECTOR (PI)
POLLUTION
PPM (parts per million)
PRETREATMENT PROGRAM
PRIVATE SEWER SYSTEM
PRIVATE STREET
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM
PUBLIC STREET
PVC
SANITARY SEWAGE
SANITARY SEWER RATE
SEWAGE
SEWAGE PLANNING MODULES
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT (STP)
SEWER
SEWER CONSTRUCTION PERMIT
SEWER DEPARTMENT REPRESENTATIVE
SEWER SYSTEM
SLUG
STANDARD METHODS
STREET
SURCHARGE
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TAP-IN
TAP-IN FEE
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
The generally approved method by which wastewater facilities
shall be designed.
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation
Officials.
The American Society for Testing and Materials, 1916 Race
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.
The Pen Argyl Municipal Authority (PAMA), a municipal authority
of the commonwealth.
The Borough of Pen Argyl and other contiguous areas for which
the Authority provides sewer service in accordance with the intermunicipal
agreements between the Authority and the municipalities.
The American Water Works Association, 6666 West Quincy Avenue,
Denver, Colorado 80235.
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in parts per million (ppm)
by weight, utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter
under standard laboratory procedure for five days at 20° C. The
standard laboratory procedure shall be that found in the latest edition
of Standard Methods. "BOD" is also denoted as "CBOD."
The Borough of Pen Argyl, Northampton County, Pennsylvania,
a municipal corporation of the commonwealth, acting by and through
its Council or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized
representatives.
A person who serves as an agent for the Borough.
The part of the building drainage system within the foundation
walls of the building.
That part of the building drainage system that extends from
the end of the building drain to the public or private lateral, an
individual sewage disposal system or other point of disposal.
The certificate the Borough representative will issue to
the applicant upon completion of construction, testing, inspection
and certification of the work by the Borough representative and payment
of all appropriate fees and costs.
The quantity of chlorine absorbed in water, sewage or other
liquids, allowing a residual of 0.01 ppm by weight after 15 minutes
of contact.
The Cast Iron Soil Pipe Institute.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the public or
a private sewer system used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Each individual building or house, whether constructed as
a detached unit or as one of a pair or row, which is designed or adaptable
to separate ownership for use as a family dwelling unit or for commercial
or industrial purposes. A school, factory, apartment house, office
building or other multiple-unit structure whose individual apartments
or units are connected to a common internal sewerage system and are
not commonly subject to separate ownership shall be considered as
a connection unit.
An aqueous based substance that contains the waste products
or excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings and
any noxious or deleterious substance being harmful to inimical to
the public health or to animal or to aquatic life, or to the use of
water for domestic water supply or for recreation, or which constitutes
pollution under the Clean Streams Law,[1] related to a single-family dwelling or similar use.
A person licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to
perform engineering services.
BOROUGH SEWER COMMITTEE ENGINEERThe individual engineer or firm employed by the Borough or acting for the Borough's Sewer Committee and/or Authority.
ENGINEERA licensed individual who may be other than the Borough Sewer Committee Engineer.
An approved structure or portion of an approved structure
that serves as the residence for a single family. For other than a
family residence, an EDU shall be that portion of an approved structure
deemed to produce a sewage flow equal to 250 gallons per day, or fraction
thereof.
Refuse or solid wastes resulting from preparation, cooking
and dispensing of food and from handling, storage and sale of food
products and produce.
Gallons per day.
Refer to "hazardous substance."
A material that, because of its quantity, concentration,
physical, chemical or infectious characteristics, may:
Cause, or significantly contribute to an increase
in mortality or an increase in serious, irreversible or incapacitating
reversible illness; or
Pose a substantial present or potential hazard
to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored,
transported, disposed of or otherwise managed; or
Any material that adversely affects any of the
Borough STP microorganisms or equipment.
Any chemical or mixture defined as hazardous. For the purpose
of this chapter any hazardous material is a hazardous substance.
A list of hazardous substances. The Boroughs HSL shall contain
any substance, including but not limited to the substances found in
the latest compilation or issue of any one of the following lists:
EPA list of toxic pollutants and hazardous substances
prepared pursuant to Sections 307 and 311 of the Federal Clean Water
Act of 1977 (33 U.S.C. §§ 1317, 1321).
EPA list of hazardous air pollutants prepared
pursuant of Section 112 of the Federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. § 7412).
EPA list of restricted use pesticides found
at 40 CFR 162.30 (relating to optional procedures for classification
of pesticide uses by regulation).
EPA Carcinogen Assessment Group's List of Carcinogens.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) list of toxic and hazardous substances found in 29 CFR 1910,
Subpart Z (relating to toxic and hazardous substances).
International Agency for Research on Cancer
sublist, entitled "Substances found to have at least sufficient evidence
of carcinogenicity in animals."
National Toxicology Program's list of substances
published in its latest Annual Report on Carcinogens.
National Fire Protection Association list found
in Hazardous Chemicals Data (NFPA 49).
National Fire Protection Association list found
in Fire Hazard Properties of Flammable Liquids, Gases, Volatile Solids
(NFPA 325M), but only those substances found on sublists for health
items. Categories 2, 3 and 4; sublists for reactivity items categories
3 and 4; sublists for flammability, categories 3 and 4.
American Conference of Governmental Industrial
Hygienists' list found in Threshold Limit Value for Chemical Substances
and Physical Agents in the Workplace.
National Cancer Institute sublist, entitled,
"Carcinogens bioassay with at least evidence suggestive of carcinogenic
effect," but including only those substances which satisfy criteria
of the National Toxicology Program indicating significant carcinogenic
effect.
A hazardous substance so designated by the Federal Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) because its particular toxicity, tumorigenicity,
mutagenicity, reproductive toxicity, flammability, explosiveness,
corrosivity or reactivity poses a special hazard to health and safety.
Any material that adversely affects any of the Borough's facilities.
A product or chemical designated as a "HW" by the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulations of the EPA. Although
the regulatory definition of a "HW" is very complicated, generally
speaking a material becomes a waste at the point at which it can no
longer be used for its originally intended purpose, or as a direct
substitute (without reprocessing). To determine if a waste is a hazardous
waste, EPA used both lists and definitions. The four hazards identified
by definition are called "characteristics," and include ignitability,
corrosivity, reactivity, and toxicity
Any property within the Authority's service area upon which
there is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation,
occupancy or use by human beings or animals, and from which structure
sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
Any improved property located in the Authority's service
area used or intended for use, wholly or in part, for the manufacturing,
processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling of any product, commodity
or article, or any other improved property located in the Authority's
service area from which wastes, in addition to or other than sewage,
shall be discharged.
All substances not classified as domestic sewage by the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection (PaDEP).
That part of the public or private sewer system extending
from a collection sewer to the property line. If no such lateral shall
be provided, then "lateral" shall mean that portion of, or place in,
a sewer which is provided for connection of any building sewer.
Any person or persons vested with legal ownership of any
real estate.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation or other group or entity.
The logarithm (Base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of
hydrogen ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, which indicates
the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
The Borough-designated representative delegated to make inspections
and enforce the provisions of the Pen Argyl Borough Sewage Procedures
Manual.
Contamination of any waters of the commonwealth, which will
create or is likely to create a nuisance or to render such waters
harmful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare.
A weight-to-weight ratio; the parts-per-million value multiplied
by the factor 8.345 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons
of water.
The treatment required for nondomestic wastes to make them
allowable for discharge into the public sewer system.
All the facilities for collecting, pumping or conveyance
of sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes situated either on private
or public property, streets or rights-of-way, which are constructed
to the standards of a public sewer system but are not the property
of the Authority or the municipality in the service area.
A street, accessway, or right-of-way that is not ordained
by the municipality in the service area.
Garbage that has been shredded to such a degree that all
its particles will be carried freely under normal sewer flow conditions,
with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping, treating and disposing of sewage and/or industrial wastes,
situated in the Authority's service area and operated by the Borough.
A street, accessway or right-of-way that is ordained by the
Borough or the municipality in the service area.
Polyvinyl chloride.
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any
improved property, including such ground, surface or stormwater as
may be present.
The fee imposed by the Borough for its sewer services.
An aqueous based substance that contains the waste products
or excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or
animals and noxious or deleterious substances being harmful or inimical
to the public health, or to animal or aquatic life, or to the use
of water for domestic water supply or for recreation, or which constitutes
pollution under the Clean Streams Law.[2]
As defined by PaDEP.
The plant and facilities owned by the Authority and operated
by the Borough to treat sewage and to which the public sewer system
is connected.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system,
used or usable for sewage collection purposes and to which ground,
surface and stormwater is not admitted intentionally.
A permit issued by the Borough to undertake construction
of or on a building sewer, lateral, private or public sewer system
or any other facilities necessary to connect to an approved structure
or portion of the Borough sewer system.
A person employed by the Borough or acting for the Borough
who enforces the provisions of the Pen Argyl Borough Sewage Procedures
Manual.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial
wastes, situate in the sewered area and owned and/or operated by the
Authority.
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which,
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow,
exceeds more than five times its hourly concentration or flow, for
a duration greater than 15 minutes.
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the
most recent edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water,
Sewage, and Industrial Wastes," published jointly by the American
Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and
the Water Pollution Control Federation.
Any street, road, lane, court, cul-de-sac, alley, public
way or public square.
The extra charge that is levied on those persons whose wastes
exceed the concentration values established as representative of normal
domestic sewage.
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension
in, water, sewage or other liquids, and which are largely removable
by laboratory filtering. The quantity of material removed from sewage
in a laboratory test, as prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water, Sewage, and Industrial Wastes and referred to as "nonfilterable
residue."
The connection to the public sewer system and shall consist
of all gravity pipes, pump stations, force mains, appurtenances and
equipment, including the lateral, the building sewer, the building
drain and any collection sewer or a private system, which is used
to tap-in a property, lot, street (including land, alley, way or drive),
a project, a development, a building, use or any part thereof, to
the sewer system. All parts of a tap-in shall be designed, approved,
constructed and inspected according to the appropriate provisions
of the Pen Argyl Borough Sewage Procedures Manual. The number of tap-in
fees shall be equal to the number of EDUs required for the property.
The fee charged prior to a property owner connecting his
or her property to the sewer system. Tap-in fees shall also be payable
in the event that any property or usage is modified so as to require
any additional EDUs. The tap-in fee is composed of four parts: capacity,
distribution or collection, special purpose, and new construction
reimbursement. It may not exceed an amount based upon some or all
of these four components, as follows:
The capacity component is a fee based on the
cost of treatment facilities. This may include facilities providing
existing services and those to provide future service.
The collection component includes fees based
on the facilities such as mains and pumping stations.
The special purpose component includes fees
based on the cost of providing facilities such as pump stations, and
industrial sewage treatment facilities. These facilities would provide
service to a particular group of customers or serve a particular purpose
and/or serve a specific area. There is no special purpose component
in the Authority's tap-in fee at the current time.
The new construction reimbursement component
is an amount necessary to recapture the allowable portion of facilities
to reimburse the property owner at whose expense the required facilities
were constructed.
