Scope. The following words, terms and phrases when used in this Part
shall have the meaning described in this Section, except where the
context clearly indicates a different meaning. Words, terms and phrases
are as follows:
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
ALLOWABLE INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance, water-borne waste
or form of energy ejected or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing,
trade or business process or from the development, recovery or processing
of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage, which complies
with all provisions of this Part and which is allowed to be discharged
into the sewer system by the Borough of Elizabethtown, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
An authorized representative of an industrial user may be:
(1)
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice-president,
if the industrial user is a corporation.
(2)
A general partner or proprietorship, respectively.
(3)
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.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD5)
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in mg/l, utilized in the
biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory
procedure in five days at 20° C. The standard laboratory procedure
shall be found in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the
Examination of Water and Wastewater" published by the American Public
Health Association.
BOROUGH
The Borough of Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
or its authorized deputy, agent or representative.
BOROUGH MANAGER
The person designated by the Borough to supervise the operation
of the sewerage system and who is charged with certain duties and
responsibilities by this Section or his duly authorized representative.
COLOR
Color of an industrial waste is the color of the light transmitted
by the waste solution after removing the suspended material, including
the pseudocolloidal particles.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, or water to which the only pollutant added
is heat.
DIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
DISSOLVED SOLIDS
The anhydrous residues of the dissolved constituents in water
or wastewater.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA
The U.S. 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.
GARBAGE
Solid waste resulting from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from handling, storage, and sale
of produce.
GRAB SIMPLE
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.
GROUND WATER
That water which is contained in or passing through the ground.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants
from any source regulated under § 307(b) or (c) of the Act
(33 U.S.C. § 1317), into the sewerage system (including
holding tank waste discharged into the system).
INDUSTRIAL USER
A source of indirect discharge which does not constitute
a "discharge of pollutants" under regulations issued pursuant to Section
402, of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1342).
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Solid, liquid or gaseous substances, water borne waste or
form of energy discharged or escaping in the course of any industrial,
manufacturing, trade, or commercial process or in the course of development,
recovering or processing of natural resources, but not sewage.
INTERFERENCE
The inhibition or disruption of the sewage treatment plant
processes or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement
of the Borough's NPDES permit. The term includes prevention of sewage
sludge use or disposal by the Borough in accordance with § 405
of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1345) or any criteria, guidelines,
or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act
(SWDA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, or more
stringent State criteria (including those contained in any State sludge
management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV of SWDA) applicable
to the method of disposal or use employed by the Borough.
MANHOLE
A structure leading from the surface of the ground to a sewer,
permitting access to the owner.
MG/L
Milligrams per liter.
MUNICIPALITY
Any county, county authority, municipal authority, city,
borough, township, or school district.
NEW SOURCE
Any source, the construction of which is commenced after
the publication of proposed regulations prescribing a § 307(c)
(33 U.S.C. § 1317) categorical pretreatment standard which
will be applicable to such source, if such standard is thereafter
promulgated within 120 days of proposal in the Federal Register. Where
the standard is promulgated later than 120 days after proposal, a
new source means any source, the construction of which is commenced
after the date of promulgation of the standard.
OPERATOR
Any person having charge, care, management or control of
a tank truck or trucks for use in the removal, transportation and
disposal of sewage and industrial wastes.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of an improved property.
PERSON
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.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions, expressed in gram equivalent per liter of solution, and indicating
the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a substance. A stabilized "pH"
will be considered as a "pH" which does not change beyond the specified
limits when the waste is subjected to aeration. It shall be determined
by one of the accepted methods described in the latest edition of
"Standard Methods for Examination of Water and Wastewater" published
by the American Public Health Association.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological, and radiological integrity of water.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged soil, solid waste, incineration 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.
PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT
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 the sewerage facilities.
The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical
or biological processes, or process changes or other means, except
as prohibited by 40 CFR § 403.6(d).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirements related to pretreatment,
other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial
user.
PROCESS WATER
Industrial waste resulting from any industrial, manufacturing,
trade or commercial process or operation, but not sewage.
QUALIFIED LABORATORY
Any laboratory which is certified by the Environmental Protection
Agency to perform drinking water analysis for inorganics and which
can document satisfactory participation in the EPA Quality Assurance
Program for wastewater testing administered by the Quality Assurance
Branch, Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, U.S. EPA.
REFRIGERATION
The preservation of food products, the maintenance of temperature
for aid in process work, and the maintenance of storage temperature.
REGULATORY AUTHORITY
The administrator of the EPA until such time as the State's
pretreatment program is approved by the EPA.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and/or authorized industrial
wastes and to which storm, surface, and ground waters are not intentionally
admitted.
SEWAGE
The normal water-carried household and toilet waste from
any improved property, excluding, however, the effluent from septic
tanks or cesspools, rain, storm and ground water, as well as roof
or surface water, drainage or percolating or seeping waters, or accumulation
thereof, whether underground or in cellars or basements.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage or authorized industrial
waste.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM or SEWERAGE FACILITY
A publicly owned treatment works (POTW) as defined by § 212
of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned in this instance
by the Borough. This definition includes any sanitary sewers that
convey wastewater to the sewage treatment plan, but does not include
pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected to a facility providing
treatment. For the purposes of this Part, "sewerage system" shall
also include any sewers that convey wastewaters to the sewerage system
from persons who are, by contract or agreement with the Borough, users
of the Borough's sewerage system.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
That portion of the sewerage system designed to provide treatment
to wastewater. Includes but is not necessarily limited to any arrangement
of devices and structures used for treating sewage and authorized
industrial waste.
SEWER INSPECTOR
The Borough of Elizabethtown Sewage Treatment Plant Supervisor,
his duly authorized assistant or representative.
SHALL
Is mandatory. MAY is permissive.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Any industrial user of the sewerage system who (a) has a
discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average day, or (b) has
a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the sewerage system, or (c)
has in its wastes toxic substances, or (d) is found by the Borough,
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, or the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency to have significant impact, either singly or in
combination with other contributing industries, on the sewerage system,
the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality, or air emissions
generated by the system.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste in which
concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds
for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times
the average twenty-four-hour concentration, or flow, during normal
operation.
STANDARD METHODS
An abbreviated expression used to denote "Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Waste Water," a manual published
by the American Health Association specifying official analytical
procedures for the measurement of wastewater parameters.
STATE
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
TOTAL NITROGEN
When related to wastewater, the sum of the organic nitrogen,
ammonia nitrogen, nitrite and nitrate in the wastewater; an essential
nutrient.
[Added by Ord. 966, 12/18/2014]
TOTAL PHOSPHORUS
When related to wastewater, the sum of orthophosphates, polyphosphates,
and organic phosphates in the wastewater; an essential nutrient.
[Added by Ord. 966, 12/18/2014]
TOTAL SOLIDS
The sum of dissolved and undissolved constituents in water
or wastewater.
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
Any substance or combination of substances that: (a) is listed
as toxic in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provisions of CWA, § 307(a),
or other Acts, or (b) is present in sufficient quantity, either singly
or by interaction with other wastes, to injure or interfere with any
sewage treatment process, to constitute a hazard to humans or animals,
to create a public nuisance, or to create any hazard in the sewerage
system or in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant.
TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR COMPOSITE WASTEWATER SAMPLE
Consists of 24 hourly wastewater samples collected over a
twenty-four-hour period. The individual hourly samples shall be proportioned
according to the flow rate at the time of the sample or shall be of
equal volume. The cumulative sample shall be refrigerated.
UNAUTHORIZED WASTE
Any waste which is not in compliance with the provisions
of this Part, or which is discharged into the sewerage system by a
person in violation of any provision contained in this Part.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the Borough's sewerage system.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions,
whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted
to enter the sewerage system.
WATER-COOLED EQUIPMENT
Any equipment using water as a cooling medium for purposes
other than air conditioning or refrigeration.
WATERS OF THE STATE
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
underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through, or border upon the State or any portion thereof.