Definitions. Unless specifically indicated otherwise,
the following terms and phrases, as used in this article, shall have
the meanings hereinafter designated:
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 12151 et seq.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
The Director in an NPDES state with an approved state pretreatment
program and the Administrator of EPA in a non-NPDES state or NPDES
without an approved state pretreatment program.
AUTHORITY
The Maidencreek Township Authority, a Pennsylvania municipality
authority.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
An authorized representative of an industrial user may be:
(1)
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice
president, if the industrial user is a corporation;
(2)
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a
partnership or proprietorship, respectively; or
(3)
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated
above if this representative is responsible for the overall operation
of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, five days at
20° C. expressed in terms of weight and concentration [milligrams
per liter (mg/l)].
BUILDING SEWER
A sewer system conveying wastewater from the premises of
a user to the POTW.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any improved property used, in whole or in part, for sale
and distribution of any product, commodity, article, or service.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is
heat.
DIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
DOMESTIC CONSUMER UNIT
Any room, group of rooms, or enclosure occupied or intended
for occupancy as separate living quarters by a family or other group
of persons living together or by a person living alone.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
a domestic consumer unit, commercial establishment, institutional
establishment, or industrial establishment.
EQUIVALENT DOMESTIC CONSUMER UNIT
Volume not in excess of 12,500 gallons per calendar quarter
of standard strength domestic sewage or industrial wastes, based upon
water consumption, or adjusted water consumption or metered sewage,
whichever of these methods is applicable for the determination of
volume, as provided in this article.
GRAB SAMPLE
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration
of time.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks, pretreatment holding tanks, and vacuum-pump
tank trucks.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property connected to and served by the sewer system
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 domestic sewage or industrial waste is or
may be discharged.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants
from any source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act,
(33 U.S.C. § 1317), into the POTW (including holding tank
waste discharged into the system).
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any improved property used, in whole or in part, for manufacturing,
growing, processing, cleaning, laundering, or assembling any product,
commodity or article.
INDUSTRIAL USER
A source of indirect discharge which does not constitute
a "discharge of pollutants" under regulations issued pursuant to Section
402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1342).
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or form of energy
ejected or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing, trade or business
process or from the development, recovery or processing of natural
resources, as distinct from domestic sewage.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any improved property not constituting a commercial establishment,
domestic consumer unit, or industrial establishment which is used
by any group of persons not constituting a separate entity.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges from other sources, both:
(1)
Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment
processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal;
and
(2)
Therefore is a cause of a violation of any requirement
of the POTW's NPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude
or duration of a violation, or of the prevention of sewage sludge
use or disposal in compliance with the following statutory provisions
and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent state
or local regulations): Section 405 of the Clean Water Act, the Solid
Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) [including Title II, more commonly referred
to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and including
state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared
pursuant to Subtitle D of the SWDA], the Clean Air Act, the Toxic
Substances Control Act, and the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries
Act.
LARGE CONSUMER
A person whose consumption of water is in excess of 15,000
gallons per calendar quarter in the case of a domestic consumer unit,
and any commercial establishment, institutional establishment or industrial
establishment, regardless of water consumption.
NEW SOURCE
Any building, structure, facility, or installation from which
there is or may be a discharge of pollutants, the construction of
which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards
under Section 307(c) of the Act which will be applicable to this source
if these standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that
section, provided that:
(1)
The building, structure, facility, or installation
is constructed at a site at which no other source is located; or
(2)
The building, structure, facility, or installation
totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the
discharge of pollutants at an existing source; or
(3)
The production or wastewater generating processes
of the building, structure, facility or installation are substantially
independent of an existing source at the same site. In determining
whether these are substantially independent, factors such as the extent
to which the new facility is integrated with the existing plant, and
the extent to which the new facility is engaged in the same general
type of activity as the existing source should be considered.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity or other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents,
or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, the singular
shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste
discharged into water.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological, and radiological integrity of water.
PPM
Parts per million by weight.
PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature 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 these pollutants into a POTW. This reduction or alteration
can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, or
process changes other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR Section
403.6(d).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial
user.
PROJECT
The undertakings necessary in connection with the acquisition
and construction of additions, extensions, alterations and improvements
to the existing sewer system, including construction of sewage collection,
interceptor and treatment facilities, in accordance with plans and
specifications presently in force or in accordance with approved changes,
modifications, or alterations of these plans or specifications.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned in this instance by the Authority.
This definition includes any sewers that convey wastewater to the
POTW treatment plant. "POTW" shall also include any sewers that convey
wastewaters to the POTW from persons outside the Township who are,
by contract or agreement with the Authority, users of the Authority's
POTW.
SEWER
Any collecting sewer as of any particular time, forming a
part of the sewer system.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
transporting, treating, and/or disposal of sewage and wastes, including
the existing sewer system, and the sewage collection and treatment
system and all appurtenant and related facilities about to be constructed
by the Authority for operation and use.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Any industrial user of the Authority's wastewater disposal
system who:
(1)
Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average work
day; or
(2)
Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the Authority's wastewater
treatment system; or
(3)
Has in wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to Section
396 of the Act or (state) statutes and rules; or
(4)
Is found by the Township,
Authority, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
(DEP), or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have significant
impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries,
on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's
effluent quality, or air emissions generated by the system.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972.
STATE
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUPERINTENDENT
The person designated by the Authority to supervise the operation
of the publicly owned treatment works and who is charged with certain
duties and responsibilities by this article, or a duly authorized
representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of,
or is suspended in, water, wastewater, or other liquids and which
is removable by laboratory filtering.
TOTAL SOLIDS
Solids determined by evaporating at 100° C. of a mixed
sample of wastewater. Total solids include floating solids, suspended
solids, settleable solids, and dissolved solids.
(3)
DISSOLVED SOLIDSSolids that are dissolved in the waste and cannot be settled, but can be determined by evaporation.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Maidencreek, Berks County, Pennsylvania,
a Pennsylvania municipality, acting by and through its Board of Supervisors,
in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized representatives.
TOXIC POLLUTANT
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provisions of CWA 307(a) or other Acts.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the Authority's POTW.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water, and stormwater that
may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed
into or permitted to enter the POTW.
WATERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways,
wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage
systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or
underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through, or border upon the commonwealth or any portion
thereof.