[Amended 5-4-1976 by Ord. No. 1160]
The following words and terms used in this Part
2 shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly required
otherwise:
Shall designate the "biochemical oxygen demand" and shall
mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of the organic matter in sewage or industrial waste under standard
laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C., expressed in milligrams
per liter (mg/l) by weight. It shall be determined by one of the acceptable
methods described in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the
Examination of Water and Sewage," published by the American Public
Health Association (hereinafter termed an "acceptable method").
The Borough of Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
The Borough Council of the Borough of Indiana, as now or
hereafter constituted, and its duly authorized agent or representative.
[1]Includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, and
corporations.
Any room, group of rooms, enclosure, etc., occupied or intended
for occupancy as a separate living quarters by a family or other group
of persons living together or by persons living alone.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
A discharge of pollutants into a POTW from any nondomestic
source regulated under Section 307(b), (c), or (d) of the Clean Water
Act (CWA).[2]
[Added 9-7-1993 by Ord. No. 1592]
Any premises used wholly or in part for the manufacture,
processing, cleaning or assembling of any product commodity or article.
A source of indirect discharge.
[Added 9-7-1993 by Ord. No. 1592]
Any liquid, gaseous or waterborne wastes created by or arising
from industrial or commercial processes, as distinct from sanitary
sewage.
The discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges from other sources, both inhibits or disrupts the POTW;
its treatment processes or operations; or sludge process, use, or
disposal; and therefore, cause a violation of the POTW's National
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit or prevent sewage
sludge use or disposal in compliance with specified applicable federal
statutes, regulations, or permits; including an increase in the magnitude
or duration of a violation.
[Added 9-7-1993 by Ord. No. 1592]
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by EPA under Section 307(b) and (c) of the CWA[3] applicable to industrial users (IUs), including the general
and specific prohibitions found at 40 CFR 403.5.
[Added 9-7-1993 by Ord. No. 1592]
A facility from which there is or may be a discharge of pollutants,
construction of which began after the publication of proposed pretreatment
standards pursuant to Section 307(c) of the CWA,[4] which will apply to the facility if the standards are
promulgated, provided certain location and construction criteria are
met.
[Added 9-7-1993 by Ord. No. 1592]
Any structure erected and intended for continuous or periodic
habitation, occupancy, or use by human beings or animals, and from
which structure sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, or either thereof,
is or may be discharged.
Include persons, schools, churches, hospitals, clubs, societies
and all other charitable institutions and public and quasi-public
corporations.
A discharge which exits the POTW in quantities or concentrations
which, alone or with discharges from other sources, cause a violation
of the POTWs NPDES permit; including an increase in the magnitude
or duration of a violation.
[Added 9-7-1993 by Ord. No. 1592]
Natural persons, partnerships, associations, corporations
and governmental entitles.
[Amended 9-7-1993 by Ord. No. 1592]
The logarithm to the base 10 of the reciprocal of the hydrogen
ion concentration expressed in moles per liter, and shall be determined
by an acceptable method.
A substantive or procedural pretreatment requirement, other
than a national pretreatment standard, applicable to IUs.
[Added 9-7-1993 by Ord. No. 1592]
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce that have
been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried
freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers,
with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
Any and all sanitary sewers, sewage treatment works and other
facilities owned or operated by or leased to the Borough of Indiana,
the Township of White and/or the White Township Municipal Authority
for the collection, transportation and treatment of sanitary sewage
and industrial wastes, together with their appurtenances, and any
additions, extensions or improvements thereto. It shall also include
sewers within the limits of the Borough of Indiana and White Township
which serve one or more persons and discharge into the public sanitary
sewerage system even though those sewers may not have been constructed
by Borough, Township or White Township Municipal Authority funds and
are not owned or maintained by the Borough of Indiana, White Township
or White Township Municipal Authority. It does not include separate
storm sewers or culverts which have been constructed for the sole
purpose of carrying storm and surface runoff, the discharge from which
is not and does not become tributary to the Borough's or Township's
sewerage facilities.
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial and commercial
establishments, exclusive of stormwater runoff, surface water or groundwater.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
That sewer connecting any structure to the public sanitary
sewer system from a point 10 feet from the inside of the basement
wall of the structure to the point of connection to the public sanitary
sewer.
A combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions, and industrial and commercial establishments,
together with such groundwater, surface water or stormwater as may
be present.
Shall mean a) any categorical industrial user (CIU); or b)
any other IU which:
[Added 9-7-1993 by Ord. No. 1592]
Discharges 25,000 gallons or more process wastewater per day
(excluding sanitary noncontact cooling, and boiler blowdown wastewater);
Contributes a process wastewater which makes up 5% or more of
the dry weather average hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW;
or
Is designated as such by the control authority on the basis
that it has reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTWs
operation or for violating a pretreatment standard or requirement.
A violation which meets one or more of the specific criteria
listed in this Part 2.
[Added 9-7-1993 by Ord. No. 1592]
A sewer which is intended to carry stormwater runoff, surface
waters, groundwater drainage, etc., but which is not intended to carry
any sanitary sewage or polluted industrial waste.
That portion of the rainfall which reaches a channel, trench,
sewer or sink.
Solids that either float on the surface or are in suspension
in water, sewage, industrial waste or other liquids, and which are
removable by laboratory filtration.
Any water or waste acceptable for direct discharge without
treatment to public waters, as determined by the proper commonwealth
and/or federal regulatory agencies.
