As used in this chapter, the following words or terms shall
be defined to mean as herein respectively indicated:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act" (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.), as amended
from time to time.
The Borough of Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,
a municipality of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting by and
through its Council or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through
its authorized representatives.
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the lateral or to any other structure.
The normal waterborne or dissolved waste discharged by a
residential household, as well as toilet wastes discharged by any
user.
Any property within or outside of this Borough upon which
there is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation,
occupancy or use by human beings or animals, including any unoccupied
structures from which wastewater shall be or may be discharged.
A nondomestic, noncommercial discharger of wastewater into
the municipal wastewater system or a commercial establishment designated
by the Borough as an industrial user, including but not limited to
dischargers of holding tank waste, factories, industrial cleaning
operations, and wholesale food processors; and any user discharging
wastewater into the municipal wastewater system which, based on information,
experience or analysis, is deemed to be industrial waste shall also
be considered an industrial user.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or waterborne or dissolved
waste that is ejected, escaping or discharged into the municipal wastewater
system. Industrial waste includes pollutants and toxic pollutants
as defined herein.
The pipe, extending from a sewer main (located in a utility
right-of-way or municipally dedicated thoroughfare) to the street
face of the curbline (or right-of-way boundary line if there is no
curbline) that connects to the building sewer; or, in the event that
no such pipe is provided, then that portion of or place in a sewer
main which is provided for connection of any building sewer.
The treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act
(33 U.S.C. § 1292) which is owned by the Borough and includes,
without limitation, the wastewater collection system, treatment plant,
pump stations and other ancillary facilities owned and operated by
the Borough. This shall include not only Borough-owned laterals and
sewer mains, but any other wastewater lines which, by agreement or
by order of other authority, discharge into the Borough-owned municipal
wastewater system or treatment plant. This definition includes the
treatment processes, systems and procedures.
Any commercial, institutional or industrial user, other than
a residential user, which is connected to the municipal wastewater
system and from which wastewater is or may be discharged.
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity and/or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives,
trustees, agents, successors or assigns.
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter
backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, chemical wastes, biological
materials, medical/dental waste, radioactive materials, heat, rock,
sand, cellar dirt, or industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste,
and certain characteristics of wastewater (e.g., pH, temperature,
TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, toxicity or odor) discharged into water.
Any occupant of a private dwelling, dwelling unit, in a double
house or in a row of connecting houses, apartment, multiple-unit dwelling
facility, room, group of rooms, house trailer, mobile home or any
structure for use as separate living quarters by a family or group
of persons living together or by persons living alone, which structure
is connected to the municipal wastewater system and from which wastewater
is or may be discharged.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the municipal
wastewater system connecting laterals to the treatment plant.
Any structure or portion thereof on an improved property
which is connected or required to be connected to the municipal wastewater
system. Sewer rental units shall be established as follows:
Each residential user, including a single-family dwelling unit,
duplex, townhouse, mobile home, house trailer, etc., designed or adaptable
to separate ownership or occupancy, shall constitute one sewer rental
unit. Each so designated sewer rental unit shall be connected to the
municipal wastewater system by an individual building sewer and lateral,
whenever practical, as determined by the Borough.
Every three rooms or portion thereof in a rooming house residential
structure shall constitute one sewer rental unit.
Each apartment unit of a residential structure or unit of a
multiple-unit residential dwelling designed or adaptable to separate
occupancy shall constitute one sewer rental unit.
Any portion of a nonresidential structure which occupies separate
building space, contains at least one receptacle or fixture for wastewater
for the separate use of the occupants thereof, can provide separate
income, service or benefit to the owner thereof (e.g., office space,
retail area, etc.), and which is estimated to or utilizes less than
33.4 cubic feet (250 gallons) of water per day shall constitute one
sewer rental unit.
For nonresidential structures or any portion of nonresidential
structures estimated to or which utilize more than 33.4 cubic feet
(250 gallons) of water per day, the number of sewer rental units shall
be calculated by dividing the estimated or actual flow of water per
day by 33.4 cubic feet (250 gallons) of water per day, rounded up
to the next whole sewer rental unit. (For example, 55 cubic feet per
day/33.4 cubic feet per day = 1.6, and, therefore, two sewer rental
units.)
Any street, road, lane, court, alley and public square.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency
under the Act, or discharged into the municipal wastewater system
at a concentration that has been or can be shown by scientific experiment
to inhibit or disrupt any part or portion of the treatment process,
or listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the Department of
Environmental Protection, or specifically identified by any other
state or federal act as being toxic.
That portion of the municipal wastewater system designed
to provide treatment to the discharged wastewater, including all pumps,
holding tanks and other such ancillary facilities.
Any person who voluntarily or involuntarily, intentionally
or unintentionally, accidentally or inadvertently discharges wastewater
into the municipal wastewater system.
The liquid and water-carried 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 are contributed into or permitted
to enter the municipal wastewater system.
The masculine gender shall include the feminine, and the singular
shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
