[Amended 6-3-1985 by Ord.
No. 6-85]
A.
ACT or THE ACT
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
(1)
(2)
(3)
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
BOROUGH
BUILDING SEWER
CATEGORICAL STANDARDS
CONTROL AUTHORITY
COOLING WATER
COUNCIL
DIRECT DISCHARGE
DOMESTIC POLLUTANTS
DOMESTIC SEWAGE
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA
GRAB SAMPLE
HOLDING TANK WASTE
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
INDUSTRIAL SEWAGE
INDUSTRIAL USER
INTERFERENCE
MANAGER
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM OR NPDES PERMIT
NATIONAL PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD OR PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE
STANDARD
NEW SOURCE
PERSON
pH
POLLUTANT
POLLUTION
POTW TREATMENT PLANT
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
SANITARY SEWER
SEWAGE
SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS
SEWER SYSTEM
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
STATE or COMMONWEALTH
STORMWATER
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOXIC POLLUTANT
USER
WASTEWATER
WASTEWATER CONTRIBUTION PERMIT
WATER CONSUMPTION
WATERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
The Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Resources.
An authorized representative of an industrial user may be:
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice
president, if the industrial user is a corporation.
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a
partnership or proprietorship, respectively.
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated
above if such representative is responsible for the overall operation
of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
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)].
The Borough of Boyertown, Berks County, Pennsylvania, or
the Borough Council of Boyertown.
A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user
to the POTW.
See "National Categorical Pretreatment Standard or Pretreatment
Standards."
Refers to the "approval authority," defined hereinabove.
The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
The group of elected officials acting as the governing body
of the Borough of Boyertown.
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Pollutants derived principally from dwellings, business buildings,
institutions and the like.
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions, public and private,
and industrial establishments.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency or, where
appropriate, the term may also be used as a designation for the Administrator
or other duly authorized official of said agency.
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.
Any waste from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
The discharge or the introduction of other than domestic
pollutants from any source into the POTW (including holding tank waste
discharged into the system).
The liquid wastes from an industrial, commercial or manufacturing
establishment.
A source of indirect discharge.
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes
or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement
of the Borough's NPDES permit. The term includes prevention of
the selected method of sewage sludge disposal by the POTW.
The person designated by the Borough who is charged with
certain duties and responsibilities by this chapter, or his duly authorized
representative.
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. § 1347) which applies to a specific category of industrial
users.
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342).
Any EPA regulation developed under the authority of Section
307(b) of the Act and 40 CFR 403.5.
Any source, the construction of which is commenced after
the effective date of this chapter.
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity or any 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.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
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.
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater.
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial
user.
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 a POTW. The reduction
or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological
processes or process changes and other means.
A treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned in this instance by the Borough.
This definition includes any sewers that convey wastewater to the
POTW treatment plant but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances
not connected to a facility providing treatment. For the purposes
of this chapter, "POTW" shall also include any sewers that convey
wastewaters to the POTW from persons outside the Borough who are,
by contract or agreement with the Borough, users of the Borough's
POTW.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
The water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings,
institutions, public and private, and industrial establishments.
An arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
and disposing of sewage.
All facilities for collecting sewage.
Any industrial user of the Borough's wastewater disposal
system who has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average
workday, or has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the Borough's
wastewater treatment system, or has in his wastes toxic pollutants
as defined pursuant to Section 307 of the Act or Pennsylvania Statutes
and rules, or is found by the Borough, the Pennsylvania Department
of Environmental Resources or the United States 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.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
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.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provision of the Clean Water Act, Section
307(a), or other acts.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the Borough's POTW.
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 which
may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed
into or permitted to enter the POTW.
[Amended 4-5-1993 by Ord.
No. 1-93]
As set forth in § 156-15 of this chapter.
[Amended 4-5-1993 by Ord.
No. 1-93]
Water furnished by any pipe to a property.
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
under ground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are
contained within, flow through or border upon the commonwealth or
any portion thereof.
B.
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
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Abbreviation
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Meaning
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|---|---|
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BOD
|
Biochemical oxygen demand
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CFR
|
Code of Federal Regulations
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COD
|
Chemical oxygen demand
|
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EPA
|
Environmental Protection Agency
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l
|
Liter
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mg
|
Milligrams
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mg/l
|
Milligrams per liter
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NPDES
|
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
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POTW
|
Publicly owned treatment works
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SIC
|
Standard industrial classification
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SWDA
|
Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.
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TSS
|
Total suspended solids
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USC
|
United States Code
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