Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used herein shall be as follows:
Towamencin Municipal Authority.
[Amended 8-26-2020 by Ord. No. 20-05]
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the lateral of a sewer.
Includes all extensions and additions to the sewer system
in the Township, additional interceptor sewers, pumping stations and
force mains and other sewer facilities; improvements and additions
to the conveyance system, relocation of sewer and sewer facilities;
reconstruction, restoration, or replacement of buildings, equipment,
or property damaged or destroyed additional machinery and equipment;
additional lands, rights-of-way, and easements; renewals and replacements,
and other improvements, extensions, additions, betterments to the
sewer system or any part thereof.
[Added 8-26-2020 by Ord.
No. 20-05]
A source of wastewater equivalent to that generated by a
single-family dwelling unit. Every building or use connected to the
sewer shall constitute at least one EDU. For the purposes of residential
uses, the number of EDUs applicable shall consist of the total number
of residential dwelling units, together with the EDUs applicable to
any common-use areas calculated as set forth herein for nonresidential
use. For the purposes of a nonresidential use, the number of EDUs
applicable to that use shall consist of the actual or estimated total
gallonage discharge of wastewater at the property per day divided
by 200.[1]
[Amended 11-12-2014 by Ord. No. 14-13]
Consists of the number of persons per household as established
for Montgomery County by the census data provided by the United States
Census Bureau. As set forth as Section 5607(d)(24)(i)(C)(V)(e) of
Act 57, the amount of domestic sewage generated by a household unit
is calculated to be the number of persons times 90 gallons per person
per day.
[Added 8-26-2020 by Ord.
No. 20-05]
Any premises used in whole or in part for the manufacture,
processing, cleaning or assembly of any product, commodity or article,
or any other premises from which wastewater other than sanitary sewage
is discharged.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance, rejected or escaping
in the course of any industrial, manufacturing, trade or business
process or in the course of the development, recovery or processing
of natural resources, which is discharged into the sewer system, as
distinct from sanitary sewage.
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
curbline or, if there shall be no curbline, extending to the edge
of the right-of-way or sewer easement.
A flow-measuring system, designed and installed in accordance
with accepted engineering practices and approved by the Township,
for the measurement of sewage flows. For industrial establishments
and nonresidential users, publicly metered water use records may be
considered metering facilities if approved by the Township.
Any commercial, institutional or industrial use, other than
a residential unit, which is connected to the sewer system and from
which sanitary sewage or industrial waste is or may be discharged
into the sewer system.
The system of sanitary sewers and appurtenances for the collection,
transportation and pumping of sewage that is located outside of the
municipal boundaries of Towamencin Township and is owned and operated
by the Township and/or Authority.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property located in the sewered area.
Any individual, association, public or private corporation
for profit or not for profit, partnership, firm, trust, estate, department,
board, bureau or agency of the commonwealth, political subdivision,
municipality, district, authority or any other legal entity whatsoever
which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties. Whenever
used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty or imposing
a fine or imprisonment, the term "person" shall include the members
of an association, partnership or firm and the officers of any local
agency or municipal, public or private corporation for profit or not
for profit.
[Amended 8-26-2020 by Ord. No. 20-05]
The BOCA Plumbing Code of the Township.[2]
The system of sanitary sewers and appurtenances for the collection,
transportation and pumping of sewage that is located on private property
or in noneasement areas and is not owned and maintained by the Township
or Authority.
Each private dwelling; each dwelling unit in a double house
or in a row of connecting houses; each apartment; each room, group
of rooms, house trailer, mobile home, independent living unit, or
any structure occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living
quarters by a family or group of persons living together or by persons
living alone, which accommodation is connected to the sewer system
and from which sanitary sewage is or may be discharged into the sewer
system.
[Amended 11-12-2014 by Ord. No. 14-13]
The type of toilet and other water-carried waste normally
discharged from residential properties.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system,
used or usable for sewage collection purposes, other than a lateral.
That portion of the Township in which there shall be constructed
a sewage collection system as from time to time constructed and extended
by the Authority, the Township or others, and that part of areas outside
the Township in which sewers shall be constructed which connect to
the sewage treatment plant of the Authority located in the Township.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial waste, situate
in the sewered area and owned and/or operated by the Authority or
the Township.
Any street, road, lane, court, alley or public square.
The fee charged as a capital contribution at the time of
a request for allocation of capacity in the conveyance system or at
the time of actual connection to the sewer system. Said tapping fee
shall be in addition to any sewer rental or assessment for the cost
of construction of the sewer system. Said tapping fee shall not be
in lieu of any charge by the Township of Towamencin of a fee for supervising
or carrying out any connection to the sewer system.
[Added 8-26-2020 by Ord.
No. 20-05]
The Township of Towamencin, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,
or as the context may require, the Board of Township Supervisors (in
connection with matters requiring action of the Supervisors) or such
officers or employees of the Township as are authorized to act for
the Township in the premises, including but not limited to the Township
Engineers, Sewage Enforcement Officer and Code Enforcement Officer.
The facility owned and operated by the Authority situated
at 2225 Kriebel Road, Towamencin Township.
