A.
Words in the present tense include the future. The
singular number includes the plural number. The plural number includes
the singular number. The work "shall" is mandatory, while the word
"may" is permissive.
B.
ACT
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF USER
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(a)
(b)
(c)
AVERAGE DAILY FLOW
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
BYPASS
CATEGORICAL INDUSTRY
CATEGORICAL STANDARDS
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD)
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
DARA
DISCHARGE PERMIT
DRWPCC
ENGINEER
EPA
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
GARBAGE
GRAB SAMPLE
INDUSTRIAL USER
INDUSTRIAL WASTE DISCHARGE PERMIT
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER
INTERFERENCE
LOCAL DISCHARGE LIMITS
MILLIGRAMS PER LITER (mg/L)
MUNICIPALITY or MUNICIPAL
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMIT (NPDES
permit)
NATIONAL PROHIBITED DISCHARGE STANDARD or PROHIBITED DISCHARGE
NEW SOURCE
OWNER
PASS-THROUGH
PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (PADEP)
PERSON
pH
POLLUTANT
PRETREATMENT
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENT
PRETREATMENT STANDARD
QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL
SANITARY SEWAGE or SEWAGE
SEWERAGE SYSTEM
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE (SNC)
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
SLUG CONTROL PLAN
SLUG LOAD
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
STANDARD METHODS
STATE
STORMWATER
SURCHARGE
TOTAL KJELDAHL NITROGEN (TKN)
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS (TSS)
TOWNSHIP
TWENTY-FOUR HOUSE COMPOSITE SAMPLE
USER
WASTEWATER
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the following terms and phrases, as used in this Part 9, shall have
the meanings hereinafter designated.
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, also
known as the "Clean Water Act."
The Administrator or the Regional Administrator of EPA.
An authorized representative of a user is:
A principal executive officer of at least the
level of vice president, if the user is a corporation.
A general partner or proprietor if the user
is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively.
A principal executive officer or a person having
responsibility for the overall operation on the user's facility if
the user is a governmental body, unincorporated organization or other
similar entity.
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated in Subsections (1) through (3) above if:
The authorization specifies either an individual
or a position having overall responsibility for the overall operation
of the facility from which the industrial discharge originates, such
as the position of plant manager, or a position of equivalent responsibility,
or having overall responsibility for environmental matters for the
company.
The written authorization is submitted to DARA
and the Township.
The wastewater discharge volume from the most recent calendar
quarter divided by the number of calendar days in that quarter.
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in milligrams per liter
(mg/L), utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under
standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C. The standard
laboratory procedure shall be found in the latest edition of "Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" published by
the American Public Health Association.
The intentional diversion of waste streams from any portion
of an industrial user's facility for pretreatment.
Any industry subject to pretreatment standards as specified
in 40 CFR, Chapter I, Subchapter N, establishing quantities or concentrations
of pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged or introduced
to a treatment plant by existing or new industrial users in specific
industrial subcategories.
National Categorical Pretreatment Standards.
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in mg/L, required to chemically
oxidize the organic and inorganic matter in a water or wastewater
sample under the standard laboratory procedure. The standard laboratory
procedure shall be that in the latest edition of "Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" published by the American
Public Health Association.
BOD, COD, total suspended solids, total Kjeldahl nitrogen,
total phosphorus and fecal coliform bacteria.
Downingtown Area Regional Authority, a municipal authority
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
A permit issued by DARA authorizing the discharge of tank
truck or hauled waste at the DRWPCC.
The Downingtown Regional Water Pollution Control Center.
The facilities in East Caln Township treating wastewater pursuant
to the Intermunicipal Agreement among DARA, the Borough of Downingtown
and the Townships of Caln, East Caln, Uwchlan and West Whiteland.
West Whiteland Township's or DARAs consulting engineer, as
appropriate.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency, including
where appropriate, the administrator or other duly authorized official
of said agency.
The DARA Executive Director.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the commercial handling, storage
and sale of produce.
An individual sample collected over a period of time not
exceeding 15 minutes.
Any person discharging industrial wastewater to the sewerage
system.
A permit authorizing a person to deposit or discharge industrial
wastewater into the sewerage system.
Any water which, during a manufacturing or processing operation,
including those regulated under Section 307(b), (c) or (d) of the
Act, comes into direct contact with or results from the production
or use of any raw material, intermediate product, finished product,
by-product or waste product or any other water contaminated by an
industrial process and distinct from sanitary sewage.
The inhibition or disruption of the DRWPCC processes or operations
which contributes to a violation of any requirement of DARAs NPDES
permit or a decrease in treatment efficiency. The term includes inhibition
or disruption of sewage sludge use or disposal from the DRWPCC in
accordance with Section 405 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1317)
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
DRWPCC.
Numerical limitations on the concentration, mass or other
characteristics of wastes or pollutants discharged to the sewerage
system by industrial users and which are developed and/or promulgated
by DARA or the Township.
The ratio of weight to volume expressing the concentration
of a specified component in a wastewater. Also known as parts per
million (PPM).
The DARA member or political subdivision where a user is
located or connected or where wastewater is discharged.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1317) and which are defined in 40 CFR, Chapter
I, Subchapter N, Parts 405 through 471.
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342).
Any regulation developed under the authority of 40 CFR 403.5.
Any building, structure, facility or installation for which
there is or may be a discharge of pollutants, the construction of
which commenced after the publication of proposed categorical standards
under Section 307(c) of the Act which will be applicable to such source
if such categorical standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance
with that section. Determination of the applicability of new source
standards shall be made as provided in the Act and 40 CFR 403.3.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial of any property, or his agent.
Discharge through the DRWPCC which exists in quantities or
concentrations, alone or with discharges from other sources, which
causes a violation of any condition of DARAs NPDES permit or a discharge
that is unaffected by the treatment process.
The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, or any department or agency of the Commonwealth succeeding
to the existing jurisdiction or responsibility of the Department of
Environmental Protection.
Any individual, firm, company, partnership, corporation,
association, group or society, including the state and agencies, districts,
commissions and political subdivision created by or pursuant to state
law and federal agencies, departments or instrumentalities thereof.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration
expressed as moles per liter.
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
sewage sludge, garbage, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste
discharged into water of the sewerage system.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the sewerage system.
The reduction or alteration may be obtained by physical, chemical
or biological processes, process changes or by other means, except
as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a National Categorical Pretreatment Standard, imposed on
an industrial user.
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. This term includes National Categorical
Pretreatment Standards, prohibited discharge limits and local discharge
limits.
Pennsylvania-registered professional engineer skilled in
the field of wastewater treatment and operations.
The normal water borne waste from a household and toilet,
sink, shower and plumbing fixture wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions, commercial and industrial establishments,
but excluding industrial wastes.
The DRWPCC and any pipe, conduit or other equipment which
carries wastewater to the DRWPCC, including the municipal sewage collection
system.
Any industrial user that:
Is subject to National Categorical Pretreatment
Standards.
Discharges 10,000 gallons or more per day of
industrial wastewater.
Contributes a waste stream which makes up 5%
or more of the dry weather compatible pollutant capacity of the DRWPCC.
Has a reasonable potential, as determined by
DARA, DEP or EPA, to adversely affect the DRWPCC by interference,
pass-through of pollutants, sludge contaminations, to endanger collection
systems and DRWPCC personnel or to violate any applicable pretreatment
standard.
An industrial user is in significant noncompliance if its
violation(s) meet one or more of the following criteria as determined
by DARA and/or the Township.
Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits,
defined as those in which 66% or more of all the measurements taken
during a six-month period exceed (by any magnitude) the daily maximum
limit or the average limit for the same parameter measured.
Technical review criteria (TRC) violations,
defined as those violations in which 33% or more of all of the measurements
for each parameter measured taken during a six-month period equal
or exceed the product of the daily average maximum limit or the average
limit times the applicable TRC multiplier (TRC multiplier equals 1.4
for BOD and TSS, and 1.2 for all other pollutants with numerical limits,
except pH).
Any other violation of a pretreatment standard
or requirement (daily maximum or longer-term average) that DARA determines
has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, an interference
or pass-through at DRWPCC or has caused an interference in the Township
collection systems.
Any discharge of a pollutant that caused imminent
endangerment to the health of DRWPCC or Township personnel, the environment
or the general public or has resulted in DARA exercising any emergency
authority to halt or prevent such a discharge.
Failure to meet, within 90 days after the scheduled
date, a compliance schedule date or a compliance schedule milestone
contained in the user's industrial waste discharge permit or enforcement
action for starting construction, completing construction or attaining
final compliance.
Failure to provide, within 30 days after the
due date, required reports such as baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day
compliance reports, periodic self-monitoring reports and reports on
compliance with compliance schedules.
Failure to accurately report incidents of noncompliance.
Any other violation or group of violations that
DARA determines will adversely affect the overall implementation of
its industrial pretreatment program.
A report prepared by an individual user and provided to DARA
and Township in accordance with this Part 9 which details the existing
and proposed facility plans and operating procedures to be followed
by that user in the event of a slug load.
Any discharge of wastewater of a nonroutine or episodic nature
including, but not limited to, an accidental spill or noncustomary
batch discharge at a flow rate or concentration that may cause a violation
of any pretreatment requirement or pretreatment standard set forth
in this Part 9.
A classification pursuant to the latest Standard Industrial
Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President,
Office of Management and Budget.
The latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater," a manual published by the American Public
Health Association specifying analytical procedures for testing and
analysis of wastewater.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting exclusively therefrom.
An additional charge for the conveyance and/or treatment
of extra-strength wastewater in excess of the basic charge for treatment
of wastewater.
The sum of the organic nitrogen and ammonia nitrogen present
in wastewater, as measured by standard laboratory procedure as described
in standard methods.
The total suspended matter that either floats on the surface
of, or is in suspension in, water or wastewater and is removable by
laboratory filtration as prescribed in standard methods
The Township of West Whiteland.
A sample that is collected over time, formed either by continuous
sampling or by mixing discrete samples collected at regular intervals
not exceeding one hour, during a twenty-four-hour time span. The sample
may be composed either as a time composite sample (composed of discrete
sample aliquots collected in one container at constant time intervals
providing representative samples irrespective of discharge flow) or
as a flow proportional composite sample (collected either as a constant
sample volume at time intervals proportional to stream flow or collected
by increasing the volume of each aliquot as the flow increases while
maintaining a constant time interval between aliquots).
Any person who contributes wastewater into the sewerage system.
The combined flow of sanitary sewage and industrial wastewater,
together with such quantities of infiltration and inflow as may be
present.
