Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following
words and terms used in this article shall have the following meanings:
ABNORMAL INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any industrial waste having a suspended solid content or
BOD appreciable in excess of that normally found in municipal sewage.
For the purposes of this article, any industrial waste containing
more than 350 milligrams per liter of suspended solids, or having
a BOD in excess of 300 milligrams per liter, shall be considered an
abnormal industrial waste, regardless of whether or not it contains
other substances in concentrations differing appreciably from those
normally found in municipal sewage.
BOD OF SEWAGE OR INDUSTRIAL WASTE (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of the organic matter in said sewage or industrial waste under standard
laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C. (under aerobic conditions),
expressed in milligrams per liter 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 Wastewater," cited
below.
BOROUGH
Girard Borough, situated in Erie County, Pennsylvania.
BOROUGH'S AGENT
The Borough Manager. The Borough's inspector shall be
the Borough Street Superintendent.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer designed to receive both sewage and stormwater runoff
which has been approved for such purpose.
COUNCIL
The elected officials of the Girard Borough Council.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any liquid, gaseous or waterborne wastes from industrial
processes or commercial establishments, as distinct from sanitary
sewage.
OCCUPIED BUILDING
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.
PERSON
Includes natural persons, partnerships, associations and
corporations, public or private.
pH
The logarithm to the base 10 of the reciprocal of the hydrogen
ion concentration expressed in moles per liter. It shall be determined
by one of the acceptable methods described in the latest edition of
"Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater," published
jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water
Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
POLLUTED INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any water or waste, generated by any establishment other
than a residential dwelling unit, containing any of the following:
emulsified grease or oil; pH less than 6.0 or greater than 9.0; phenols
or other substances imparting taste and odor to receiving waters;
toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution;
obnoxious or odorous gases. It shall contain not more than 750 milligrams
per liter by weight of dissolved solids, of which not more than 250
milligrams per liter shall be as chloride and not more than 10 milligrams
per liter each of suspended solids and BOD. The color shall not exceed
five color units. Analyses for any of the above-mentioned substances
shall be made in accordance with the latest edition of "Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Wastewater," cited above.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
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 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.
PUBLIC SANITARY SEWAGE SYSTEM (sometimes called the "sewer system")
All sanitary or combined sewers, all pumping stations, all
force mains, all sewage treatment works, and all other sewerage facilities
owned or leased and operated by the Borough for the collection, transportation
and treatment of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, together with
their appurtenances, and any additions or improvements thereto. It
shall also include sewers within the Borough's service area which
serve one or more persons and discharge into the public sanitary sewerage
system even though those sewers may not have been constructed by the
Borough and are not owned or maintained by the Borough. It does not
include separate storm sewers or culverts which may 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 sewage treatment
facilities.
SANITARY SEWAGE
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.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
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.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
STORM SEWER
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.
STORMWATER RUNOFF
That portion of the rainfall which reaches a channel, trench,
sewer or sink.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
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. The quantity of suspended solids
shall be determined by one of the acceptable methods described in
the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water
and Wastewater," cited above.
UNPOLLUTED WATER OR WASTE
Any water or waste containing none of the following: free
or emulsified grease or oil; pH less than 6.0 or greater than 9.0;
phenols or other substances imparting taste and odor to receiving
waters; toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state
or solution; obnoxious or odorous gases. It shall contain not more
than 750 milligrams per liter by weight of dissolved solids, of which
not more than 250 milligrams per liter shall be as chloride and not
more than 10 milligrams per liter each of suspended solids and BOD.
The color shall not exceed five color units. Analyses for any of the
above-mentioned substances shall be made in accordance with the latest
edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater,"
cited above.