For the purposes of this article, the following
terms shall have the meanings hereafter designated:
ALCOSAN
Allegheny County Sanitary Authority, including its treatment
facility and any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment,
recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes
of a liquid nature.
CORROSIVE WASTE
A waste or substance which has any of the following properties:
A.
It is aqueous and has a pH of less than or equal
to five or greater than or equal to 10, as determined by pH meter.
B.
It is a liquid and corrodes steel (SAE1020)
at a rate greater than 6.35 mm (0.250 in.) per year at a test temperature
of 55° C. (130° F.).
HAZARDOUS WASTE
All wastes that are defined as hazardous under the regulations
enacted pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
as specified in 40 CFR 261, as amended, or under the regulations promulgated
pursuant to the Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act as specified
in 25 Pa. Code § 261, as amended.
IGNITABLE WASTE
A waste or substance which can create a fire hazard in the
sewage collection system or the ALCOSAN treatment facility which has
any of, but is not limited to, the following properties:
A.
It is liquid with a flash point less than 60°
C. (140° F.) using the test methods specified in 40 CFR 261.21,
as amended.
B.
It is an oxidizer as defined in 49 CFR 173.151,
as amended.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge originating in the Borough, which alone or in
conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, both:
A.
Inhibits or disrupts the ALCOSAN facilities,
its treatment processes or operations or its sludge processes, use
or disposal;
B.
Therefore, is a cause of a violation of any
requirement of ALCOSAN’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (hereinafter referred to as “NPDES”) permit (including
an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation) or of the
prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by ALCOSAN in compliance
with the following statutory provisions and regulations or permits
issued thereunder (or more stringent state or local regulations):
§ 405 of the Clean Water Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act
(including Title 2 or more commonly referred to as the “Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act” and including state regulations
contained in the State Sludge Management Plan prepared pursuant to
subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act), the Clean Air Act and
the Toxic Substances Control Act, all as amended.
PASS-THROUGH
Any discharge of a pollutant through ALCOSAN into the waters
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in quantities or concentrations
which, alone or in conjunction with other discharges from other sources,
is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the ALCOSAN’s
NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of
a violation).
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity or any other legal entity, or its legal representatives, agents
or assigns.
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, emissions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt or other industrial, municipal or agricultural waste
discharged into water.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and/or radiological integrity of water.
REACTIVE/EXPLOSIVE WASTE
A waste or substance which can create an explosion hazard
in the sewage collection system or the ALCOSAN treatment facility;
which has any of, but is not limited to, the following properties:
A.
It is normally unstable and readily undergoes
violent changes without detonating.
B.
It reacts violently with water.
C.
It forms potentially explosive mixtures with
water.
D.
When mixed with water, it generates toxic gasses,
vapors or fumes in a quantity sufficient to present a danger to human
health or the environment.
E.
It is a cyanide- or sulfide-bearing waste which
can generate toxic gasses, vapors, or fumes in a quantity sufficient
to present a danger to human health or the environment.
F.
It is capable of detonation or explosive reaction
if it is subjected to a strong initiating source or if heated under
confinement.
G.
It is readily capable of detonation, explosive
decomposition or reaction at standard temperature and pressure.
H.
It is a forbidden explosive as defined in 40
CFR 173.51, as amended, or a Class A explosive as defined in 49 CFR
173.53, as amended, or a Class B explosive as defined in 49 CFR 173.88,
as amended.
THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
“Clean Water Act,” as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251
et seq.
TOXIC POLLUTANT
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the EPA, pursuant to § 307(A)
of the Act, as amended.
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
directly or indirectly into the facilities of ALCOSAN.
WATERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways,
wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems,. drainage
systems, and 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 of Pennsylvania or any
portion thereof.
No person shall introduce or cause to be introduced
directly or indirectly into the facilities of ALCOSAN, or into any
sewer, pipe or other conveyance located in the Borough and transmitting
substances into the facilities of ALCOSAN, any toxic pollutant or
other wastewater which will:
A. Cause interference with the operation or performance
of ALCOSAN’s treatment plant or other facilities.
B. Pass through ALCOSAN’s treatment plant or other
facilities.
No person shall introduce, permit or cause to
be introduced, directly or indirectly, into the facilities or ALCOSAN,
or into any piped sewer, pipe or other conveyance located in the Borough
and transmitting substances into the facilities of ALCOSAN, any of
the following:
A. Any substance which will endanger the life, health
or safety of the treatment plant sewer maintenance and plant operations
personnel or which would preclude safe entry into the sewer system
or any portion of the treatment plant.
B. Any ignitable, reactive, explosive, corrosive or hazardous
waste, except as provided for by ALCOSAN’s rules and regulations.
C. Any wastewater with a temperature greater than 140°
F. (60° C.).
D. Any waste which exceeds the naturally occurring background
levels for either alpha, beta or gamma radiation and/or any wastewater
containing any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half life or
concentration not in compliance with applicable state or federal regulations.
E. Any solids or viscous substance capable of causing
obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference with the proper
operations of ALCOSAN’s facility or facilities discharging into
the ALCOSAN system.
F. Any noxious or malodorous liquids, gases or solids
which either singly or by interaction with other wastes may create
a public nuisance or adversely affect public health or safety.
G. Pathological wastes from a hospital or other medical
establishment.
H. Garbage, whether ground or not, except properly shredded
food waste garbage resulting from the proper use of a garbage grinder
or disposer type approved by ALCOSAN and maintained in good operating
condition.
I. Sludges or other materials from septic tanks or similar
facilities or from sewage or industrial waste treatment plants or
from water treatment plants, unless the discharge of such sludges
and other materials is specifically approved by ALCOSAN.
J. Any pollutant including oxygen demanding pollutants
released in a discharge at a flow rate and/or pollutant concentration
which will cause interference with the ALCOSAN facilities.
K. Any substance which will cause ALCOSAN’s effluent
or any other product of the ALCOSAN facilities, such as residues,
sludges or scums, to be unsuitable for reclamation processes, including
any substance which will cause the ALCOSAN facility to be in noncompliance
with sludge use or disposable criteria, guidelines or regulations
developed under § 405 of the Act, as amended, any criteria,
guidelines or regulations promulgated pursuant to the Solid Waste
Disposal Act, the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act
or state laws or regulations, as amended, applicable to the treatment
or disposal of such effluent or such product.