Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
The Regional Administrator of Region III of the EPA.
A person who obtains sewage from a holding tank and transports
such matter to a disposal site approved by the Pennsylvania Department
of Environmental Protection and who is at that time covered by a valid
and binding agreement with the Township governing such transportation
and disposal.
Upper Allen Township Authority, a Pennsylvania municipal
authority, acting by and through its Board or, in appropriate cases,
acting by and through its authorized representatives.
If the user is a corporation, the authorized representative
shall be:
The president, vice-president, secretary or treasurer of the
corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any other
person who performs similar policy or decision-making functions for
the corporation; or
The manager of one or more manufacturing, production or operating
facilities, provided the manager is authorized to make management
decisions that govern the operation of the regulated facility, including
having the explicit or implicit duty of making major capital investment
recommendations, and initiate and direct other comprehensive measures
to assure long-term environmental compliance with environmental laws
and regulations; can ensure that the necessary systems are established
or actions take to gather complete and accurate information for control
mechanism requirements; and where authorized to sign documents has
been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate
procedures.
If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship, an authorized
representative shall mean a general partner or proprietor, respectively.
If the user is a federal, state or local government facility,
the authorized representative shall mean a ranking elected official
or principal executive official having responsibility for the overall
operation and performance of the activities of the principal geographic
unit of the government facility.
The individuals described in Subsections A through C, above, may designate another authorized representative if:
The authorization is made in writing by the individual described
above;
The authorization specifies either an individual or a position
responsible for the overall operation of the facility from which the
indirect discharge originates or having overall responsibility for
environmental matters for the company; and
The written authorization is submitted to the Township and Authority.
Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in §§ 200-5.1 and 200-5.2 of Article V of these regulations and 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b). BMPs also include treatment requirements, operating procedures and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage.
Includes, as applicable, each of the following: an equivalent
dwelling unit, a residential unit, or any nonresidential use, including
a commercial establishment, industrial establishment and an institutional
establishment.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure for five days
at 20° C., expressed in terms of weight and concentration (mg/L).
The standard laboratory procedure shall be that found in the latest
edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater,
published by the American Public Health Association.
The governing body of the Township.
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the lateral of a sanitary sewer. The building sewer shall be maintained
by the owner.
A location where business is conducted, goods are made or
stored or processed, or where services are rendered, and may include
commercial and/or institutional land use for facilities such as a
retail store, office, warehouse, factory, assembly plant, or similar
use, and where generally the main objective is the receipt or generation
of a financial return in exchange for goods or services provided.
The intentional diversion of wastewater from any portion
of an industrial user's pretreatment facility through which the wastewater
normally passes.
Unless otherwise specified, the term "calendar day" when
referred to in these rates, rules, and regulations consists of the
period from midnight to midnight, or any equivalent twenty-four-consecutive-hour
period, as determined to be appropriate by the Township.
An industrial user subject to categorical standards.
The national categorical pretreatment standards (40 CFR 403-471).
A registered professional engineer under the laws of the
state.
A record of sample collection indicating the place, date
and time of collection and the person collecting the sample. It shall
also include a record of each person involved in possession of the
sample, including the laboratory person who takes final possession
of the sample for the purpose of analysis.
A measure of the oxygen required to oxidize all compounds,
both organic and inorganic, in water.
The Act of June 22, 1937, P.L. 1937, as amended and reenacted
by the Act of October 10, 1980, P.L. 894, 35 P.S. §§ 691.1
to 691.702.
Color of light transmitted through a waste after removal
of all suspended matter, including pseudo-colloidal particles, and
measured in platinum-cobalt units.
A procedure for calculating discharge concentrations of constituents
of industrial waste, as defined in 40 CFR 403.6(e).
Any room, group of rooms, building or enclosure used or intended
for use in the operation of one or more business enterprise for the
sale and distribution of any product, commodity, article or service
used or intended for use for any social, amusement, religious, educational,
charitable or public purpose and containing plumbing facilities for
kitchens, toilets or washing facilities, and shall include institutional
dormitories, individual condominium units and integral units within
a single structure (such as "flex-space offices"), but does not include
personal-care boarding homes as licensed by the state. A commercial
establishment represents a nonresidential use. Each business enterprise
shall represent a minimum of one EDU subject to applicable tapping
fees.
Adherence to conditions and requirements of these Rates,
Rules, and Regulations, any order issued by the Township and any wastewater
discharge permit and other permit issued under the provisions of these
Rates, Rules, and Regulations.
A sample composed of individual subsamples taken at regular
intervals over a specified period of time. Subsamples may be proportioned
by time interval or size according to flow (flow-proportioned composite
sample) or be of equal size and taken at equal time intervals (equal-time
composite sample).
The liquid that condenses from chiller or cooling unit gas
caused by a reduction in temperature.
A signed legal agreement made by a party to a promissory
note to a creditor, such as a municipality, that, in the event that
the party does not abide by the repayment terms or otherwise defaults
on the agreement, the creditor has the right to file a complaint in
confession of judgment against the party in the County Courthouse,
declare a default and enter judgment immediately in an agreed amount.
The defaulting party does not receive the benefit of a trial.
A fee, as established and defined by Act 203 of 1990 and
amended by Act 57 of 2003, which is imposed to recover the Township's
cost for facilities installed between the sewer mains and the property
line of the property to be connected to the sewer system and which
is payable to the Township.
All drawings or plans pertaining to a development project
as prepared by a registered professional engineer and as approved
by the Township.
The water from any use such as air conditioning, cooling
or refrigeration, not otherwise considered as process wastewater,
and to which the only pollutant added is heat.
A fee, as established and defined by Act 203 of 1990 and
amended by Act 57 of 2003, which is imposed to recover the Township's
cost for facilities installed between the property line and the internal
plumbing of the building being connected to the Township's sewer and
which is payable to the Township.
The highest value obtained for samples collected in any calendar
day. When used in a limit, the daily maximum is the highest value
allowed in any composite sample or the maximum value allowed as an
average of one or more grab samples taken during a calendar day. The
daily maximum may also be expressed as the maximum mass allowed to
be discharged during any one calendar day.
The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania or its successor in authority.
A master plumber or plumbers selected by the Township to
perform installation, repair and maintenance services for grinder
pump systems.
Any landowner, or sometimes hereafter and otherwise referred
to as "owner," agent of such landowner, or tenant with the permission
of such landowner, who makes or causes to be made a subdivision of
land or a land development, or other prospective users of the Township's
sanitary sewer system developing in that portion of the Township served
through the sewage treatment plants of the Lower Allen Township Authority
and the Township.
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Human excrement and gray water (showers, dishwashers, washing
machines, etc.) generated from residential households, institutions,
commercial and industrial establishments, but excluding industrial
wastewater.
Any room, group of rooms, building, house trailer, mobile
or manufactured home or other enclosure occupied or intended for occupancy
as separate living quarters by a family or other group of persons
living together or by a person living alone.
A generally unexpected occurrence that demands immediate
action.
A plan and guide developed pursuant to 40 CFR 403.8(f)(5)
providing for the enforcement of the industrial pretreatment program.
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.
With to regard residential owner: any home, mobile home,
house trailer, enclosure, room, group of rooms, etc., occupied or
intended for occupancy as separate living quarters for a family or
other group of persons living together or by persons living alone.
An EDU also represents a unit of measurement applied to a nonresidential
establishment or improvement and its use which produces a volume of
sanitary sewage equivalent to residential dwelling units. The unit
rate of flow of sanitary sewage generated by one EDU is stated to
be an average daily flow of 221 gallons per day, subject to adjustment
from time to time in conjunction with the Township tapping fee calculation
in accordance with the provisions of PA Act 57 of 2003. Measurement
of average daily flow is to be based upon water consumed at said use
or structure or upon the actual flow of sewage discharged into the
said sewer system.
Any source of discharge, the construction or operation of
which commenced prior to the publication by the EPA of proposed categorical
standards, which categorical standards will be applicable to such
source if the categorical standard is thereafter promulgated in accordance
with Section 307 of the Act.
Organic polar compounds derived from animal and/or plant
sources that contain multiple carbon chain triglyceride molecules,
such as rendered animal fat, vegetable shortening and other such oily
material used for the purposes of and resulting from cooking and/or
preparing food, and is distinct from petroleum or mineral oils.
Refers to a type of building designed to provide its occupants
or tenants with the ability to configure a flexible amount of space
for an office, warehouse, showroom, manufacturing facility or other
use.
Any food service facility that prepares, packages or serves
food or beverages for sale or consumption, on site or off site, with
the exception of private residences, and that uses one or more of
the following preparation activities: cooking by frying (all methods),
baking (all methods), grilling, sauteing, rotisserie cooking, broiling
(all methods), boiling, blanching, roasting, toasting or poaching.
Also included are infrared heating, searing, barbecuing and other
food preparation activities that produce a hot, nondrinkable food
product in or on a receptacle that requires washing. Food service
establishments shall include, but are not limited to, food courts,
food manufacturers, food packagers, meat distributors, restaurants,
grocery stores, bakeries, lounges, hospitals, hotels, nursing homes,
churches and schools.
Solid or semisolid wastes resulting from preparation, cooking
and dispensing of food and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
A sample which is taken from a waste stream without regard
to the flow in the waste stream and over a period of time not to exceed
15 minutes.
A device located underground and outside of a food service
establishment designed to collect, contain or remove food wastes and
grease from the waste stream while allowing the wastewater to discharge
to the sewer system by gravity.
A device located inside a food service establishment or under
a sink and designed to collect, contain or remove food wastes and
grease from the waste stream by hydromechanical means while allowing
the wastewater to discharge to the sewer system.
A manufactured device enclosed in an impervious container
containing an electrically powered pumping device for the movement
of wastewater or sewage with various operating and safety controls
as specified from time to time by the Township and owned by the owner.
The sewage movement system as contained within an owner's
property, including the inflow sewage pipe from the house, building
or other structure to the grinder pump, the outflow sewage pipe from
the grinder pump to the point of connection to the Township's sewer
system (whether beyond the owner's property), and the necessary exterior
controls and the electrical wiring to energize the grinder pump and
any exterior controls.
Water which is contained in or passing through the ground.
A watertight receptacle, whether permanent or temporary,
which receives and retains sewage conveyed by a water-carrying system
and is designed and constructed to facilitate the ultimate disposal
of the sewage at another site.
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
Any property located within this Township upon which there
is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation,
occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure
sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
The introduction of pollutants into the POTW from any nonresidential
source regulated under Section 307 (b), (c) or (d) of the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act, including holding tank waste discharged
into the sewer system.
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure used
or intended for use, in whole or in part, in the operation of one
business enterprise for manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering
or assembling any product, commodity or article or from which process
waste, as distinct from sanitary sewage, shall be discharged. An industrial
establishment represents a nonresidential use.
The sum of the provisions of these Rates, Rules, and Regulations,
amendments thereto, and any activities authorized by this chapter
as regards the regulation and control of industrial users to the extent
required by the federal pretreatment regulations set forth in 40 CFR
403, and including similar provisions in ordinances administered and
enforced by the Lower Allen Township Authority.
A source of indirect discharge.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance, waterborne waste
or form of energy which is produced as a result, whether directly
or indirectly, of any industrial, manufacturing, commercial, trade
or business or research process or activity or in the course of developing,
recovering or processing of natural resources and which is discharged
into the sewer system; but not noncontact cooling water or sanitary
sewage. Any wastewater which contains industrial waste and which is
discharged from an industrial, manufacturing, trade or business premises
is considered industrial waste for the purposes of these Rates, Rules,
and Regulations.
Any substance which is discharged and which consists of or
is contaminated by pathogens or other etiologic agents and which has
not been sterilized, neutralized or otherwise rendered harmless. Infectious
waste includes but is not limited to contaminated blood, blood products
or other bodily fluids (excepting excreta discharged by normal bodily
functions); wastes, including excreta, from patient isolation areas;
laboratory samples or test materials; animal wastes and bedding; body
parts; pathology and autopsy wastes; and glassware, hypodermic needles,
surgical instruments and other sharps.
The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged
at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete or composited
sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the
duration of the sampling event.
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure which
does not constitute a commercial establishment, a dwelling unit or
an industrial establishment. An institutional establishment represents
a nonresidential use.
A discharge, which, alone or in conjunction with discharges
from other sources:
Inhibits or disrupts the processes or operations of the sewage
treatment plant or the sewage collection system, or sludge processes,
use or disposal; and therefor
Is a cause of or contributes to a violation of any requirement
of the Township's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude
or duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge
use or disposal in compliance with the following statutory provisions
and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent state
or local regulations): Article 405 of the Clean Water Act, the Solid
Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) [including Title II, more commonly referred
to as the "Resource Conservation and Recovery Act" (RCRA) and including
state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared
pursuant to Subtitle D of the SWDA], the Clean Air Act, the Toxic
Substances Control Act, and the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries
Act; or which results in or increases the severity of a violation
of other state or national environmental statutes, rules or regulations.
The improvement, conversion of use or expansion of existing
use of one lot or two or more contiguous lots, tracts or parcels of
land for any purpose involving:
A group of two or more residential buildings or one or more
nonresidential buildings on a lot or lots regardless of the number
of occupants or tenure.
The division or allocation of land or space between or among
two or more existing or prospective occupants by means of, or for
the purpose of, streets, common areas, leaseholds, condominiums, building
groups or other features.
Any other project requiring the approval of the Board of the
Township pursuant to any act or ordinance.
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer main
to the limits of the sewer easement or street rights-of-way for the
purpose of providing for connection of any building sewer; this term
may also be referred to as "service lateral."
Numerical limitations on the concentration, mass or other
characteristics of wastes or pollutants discharged, or likely to be
discharged, by industrial users, and which are developed by the Township
to implement the general and specific discharge prohibitions listed
in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b).
The sewage treatment plant, interceptor and related facilities
owned and operated by the Lower Allen Township Authority and used
for the purpose of transportation, treatment and disposal of sewage
collected in the sewer system.
A structure allowing access from the surface of the ground
to a sewer.
Isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood
byproducts, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, etiologic agents,
contaminated bedding, surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory
wastes, and dialysis wastes.
A flow measuring system designed and installed in accordance
with accepted engineering practices and approved by the Township for
the measurement of wastewater flows. For industrial and nonresidential
establishments, publicly metered water use records may be considered
"metering facilities" if approved by the Township.
Milligrams per liter, a measure of concentration of waterborne
substances.
The arithmetic mean of all daily determinations of concentration
and/or mass measurements made during a calendar month.
Any improved property in which shall be located more than
one billing unit.
Upper Allen Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
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. 1317) which applies to a specific category of industrial users. National categorical pretreatment standards are enumerated in 40 CFR, Chapter 1, Subchapter N, Parts 405 through 471.
A permit issued to control the discharge of pollutants from
point sources into the navigable waters, the contiguous zone and the
oceans pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1342).
Any building, structure, facility or installation from which
there is or may be a discharge of pollutants, the construction of
which commenced after the publication of proposed federal categorical
pretreatment standards under Section 307(c) of the Act (33 U.S.C.
1317) which apply to such source if such standards are thereafter
promulgated in accordance with that section, provided that:
The building, structure, facility or installation is constructed
at a site at which no other source is located; or
The building, structure, facility or installation totally replaces
the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants
at an existing source; or
The production or wastewater generating processes of the building,
structure, facility or installation are substantially independent
of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these
are substantially independent, factors such as the extent to which
the new facility is integrated with the existing plant, and the extent
to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity
as the existing source, should be considered.
Construction on a site at which an existing source is located results in a modification rather than a new source if the construction does not create a new building, structure, facility or installation meeting the criteria of Subsection A(2) or (3) of this definition but otherwise alters, replaces or adds to existing process or production equipment.
Construction of a new source as defined under this subsection
has commenced if the owner or operator has:
Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous on-site construction
program:
Any placement, assembly or installation of facilities or equipment;
or
Significant site preparation work, including clearing, excavation
or removal of existing buildings, structures or facilities which is
necessary for the placement, assembly or installation of new source
facilities or equipment; or
Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase
of facilities or equipment which are intended to be used in its operation
within a reasonable time from the date on which the contract was entered.
Options to purchase or contracts which can be terminated or modified
without substantial loss, and contracts for feasibility, engineering
and design studies, do not constitute a contractual obligation under
this subsection.
Not in compliance.
The water used for cooling that does not come into direct
contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product
or finished product.
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure, including
commercial establishments, industrial establishments, and institutional
establishments, which do not or does not constitute a residential
dwelling unit.
An industrial user subject to federal categorical pretreatment
standards that is deemed not a significant industrial user (SIU),
as defined in this section, based on a finding that the industrial
user never discharges more than 100 gallons per day (GPD) of total
categorical wastewater (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling and
boiler blowdown wastewater, unless specifically included in the pretreatment
standard) and the following conditions are met:
For the purposes of sampling wastewater, a normal production
day is that portion of a calendar day during which wastewater is discharged
and production, cleanup and other activities that normally produce
wastewater or industrial waste are occurring. If a sample is specified
to be collected during a normal production day, it should not include
aliquots taken during low waste stream flow periods that are not representative
of such normal activities or during times when wastewater is not being
discharged.
Provides common industry definitions for Canada, Mexico,
and the United States to facilitate economic analyses that cover the
economies of the three North American countries and includes groupings
of industries as defined by the Office of Management and Budget.
A permit issued by the Township stating that all work indicated
on a building permit has been satisfactorily completed, or, in cases
not involving construction, a proposed new use is in conformity with
applicable ordinances, and the building or lot may be occupied.
Any person having charge, care, control or management of
a pretreatment facility for industrial wastes or of a truck or trucks
used in the removal, transport or disposal of sewage or industrial
wastes.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
A discharge which exits the sewage treatment plant into waters
of the state in quantities or concentrations which alone or in conjunction
with a discharge or discharges from other sources is a cause of a
violation of any requirement of the Township's or the Lower Allen
Township Authority's NPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude
or duration of a violation.
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
association, joint-stock company, society, trust, corporation, estate,
governmental entity, limited-liability company or other group or legal
entity, or their legal representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine
gender shall include the feminine and the singular shall include the
plural where indicated by context.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight (concentration)
of hydrogen ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, and indicates
the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
The DEP sewage facilities planning module for new land development
required for submission by the Township on behalf of the owner or
developer to DEP for approval as a revision to the Official Sewage
Facility Plan of the Township.
Any substance, including but not limited to dredged spoil,
solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge,
munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials,
heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, medical
wastes, backwash from water filtration and industrial, municipal,
and agricultural waste and certain characteristics of wastewater (BOD,
COD, color, odor, pH, temperature, TSS, toxicity, turbidity).
The contamination of any waters of the state such as will
create or is likely to create a nuisance or to render such waters
harmful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare,
or to domestic, municipal, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational
or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to livestock, wild animals,
birds, fish or other aquatic life; or contamination of the air, soil
or the environment so as to produce or is likely to produce similar
deleterious effects.
A publicly owned treatment works as defined by Section 212
of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1292). The term includes any devices or systems
used in the collection, storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation
of domestic or industrial wastewater and any conveyances which convey
wastewater to a POTW. The term also means the municipality as defined
in Section 502(4) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1362(4)) which has jurisdiction
over the indirect discharges to and the discharges from such a treatment
works.
A preparedness, prevention, and contingency plan developed
and implemented by an industrial or commercial user to prevent and
control endangerment to human health and the environment from fires,
explosions or accidental discharge of polluting materials to surface
water or groundwater, to minimize the likelihood, duration and intensity
of a slug load or spill, and to expedite control and cleanup activities
should a slug load or spill occur. A PPC plan is required for any
NPDES Application for Storm Water Discharge General Permit or Water
Management Permit.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Parts per million, by weight.
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 sewer system. The
reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological
processes, or by means of other process changes except as prohibited
by 40 CFR 403.6(d), which prohibits dilution as a substitute for treatment.
An agent of the Township designated to assist the Township
Manager and Sewer Department Director in the administration of the
provisions of the industrial pretreatment program, and so designated
by that title.
Any substantive or procedural requirement, other than a categorical
standard or prohibitive discharge standard, imposed on an industrial
user by Section 303(b) and (c) of the Act or associated regulations,
the state or the industrial pretreatment program.
Prohibited discharge standards, federal categorical pretreatment
standards and local limits.
Any wastewater resulting from the direct contact of water
with any raw material, intermediate product, finished product, by-product
or waste during any manufacturing process, or water other than noncontact
cooling water which results from a manufacturing process.
Garbage that has been chopped to such a degree that all its
particles will be carried freely under normal sewer flow conditions,
with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
A system designed to receive and store wastewater at a low
point in the collection system and pump it to a wastewater treatment
plant or to a continuation of the sewer system at a higher elevation,
and generally consisting of a wet well and a series of pumps housed
in a subsurface or aboveground structure.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person who has demonstrated competency in the analysis
of wastewater by submission of his/her generally recognized documentation
of competency to the Township and Authority, or who has received an
academic degree or professional certification of competency in the
field of chemical and/or biological analysis of water and wastewater.
Maintenance of temperature for storage, preservation of food
or as a process of manufacturing.
A sample taken so that it is representative of the wastewater
discharged during the sampling period. A representative sample is
normally a flow-proportioned composite sample taken during a normal
production day.
The agreement between the owner or developer and the Township
setting forth the terms and conditions for capacity reservation.
The charge or fee imposed by the Township pursuant to this
chapter when an owner or developer has requested the Township to reserve
sanitary sewer capacity for an EDU, or EDUs, in connection with an
approved preliminary plan, which said fee shall be based on debt and
fixed operating expenses in connection with the sewer system (hereinafter
defined).
The sewage volume or capacity allocated to and reserved by
an owner or developer.
Any private dwelling, any dwelling unit in a double house
or in a row of connecting houses, any apartment, room, group of rooms,
house, trailer, mobile home, building or other structure occupied
or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by a family
or other group of persons living together or by persons living alone,
excluding institutional dormitories, but including personal-care boarding
homes licensed by the commonwealth.
A subdivision of land into lots intended for conveyance to
persons for single-family or multifamily dwellings.
The limits of an area dedicated to the Township or the state
for use for streets, roads and other public access, granted by deed
of dedication and recorded at the County Office of the Recorder of
Deeds.
A sewer carrying only domestic or industrial wastes and to
which stormwater, surface water or groundwater are not intentionally
admitted.
A legal document or agreement conveying limited property
rights from the grantor (property owner) to the grantee (Township
or another property owner) and being recorded at the County Office
of the Recorder of Deeds, said document creating a nonexclusive, perpetual
right to use a portion of the grantor's property to provide access
rights to repair, replace, inspect, change, maintain, test or remove
the sanitary sewer facilities located within or accessed by the easement.
A schedule, adopted by resolution of the Board of Commissioners
of Upper Allen Township, setting forth various fees and charges to
be levied by the Township for different purposes relative to the sewer
system. The Schedule of Fees and Charges shall be considered part
of the official rates, rules and regulations.
A term that is synonymous with the term "lateral."
This term, which is synonymous with "wastewater," represents
any waterborne wastes that contain the waste products or excrement
or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals and
noxious or deleterious substances being harmful or inimical to the
public health, or to animal or aquatic life, or to the use of water
for domestic water supply or for recreation. These wastes may also
include discharges from commercial establishments, industrial wastes,
and groundwater or stormwater infiltration and inflow. This term includes
any substance which constitutes pollution under the Clean Streams
Law.[1]
Any network of sewer pipes, mains or conduits that are referred
to as collection, trunk, or interceptor sewers, force mains, or low-pressure
sewers constituting a portion of the sewer system that is used or
usable for sewage collection and transport.
The plant and facilities owned by the Township, including
all additions, extensions, alterations and improvements, and used
for the purpose of treatment and discharge of treated sewage or wastewater
to waters of the Commonwealth, and for dewatering of sewage sludge
for disposal at a permitted facility.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Any pipe, main or conduit constituting a part of the sewer
system used or usable for sewage collection and conveyance purposes
and to which stormwater, surface water or groundwater are not intentionally
admitted.
All rates charged for sewer service imposed under the Schedule
of Fees and Charges, including volume charges, charges for excess-strength
wastewaters and penalties and interest charges imposed under such
schedule.
That part of the sewer system that extends from the sewer
main to a point near the edge of the public right-of-way. The service
lateral shall be maintained by the owner.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for the collecting,
transporting, pumping, treatment and disposal of sanitary sewage and
industrial waste, including all related and necessary facilities,
and including all additions, extensions, alterations and improvements
owned or to be owned by the Township or to which the Township has
the right to utilize such facilities for the purpose of providing
public sanitary sewer service.
When used in the chapter, "shall" is mandatory; "may" is
permissive.
An industrial user who:
Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more of process wastewater
during a normal production day, excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling,
and boiler blowdown wastewater;
Discharges industrial waste which makes up 5% or more of the
average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the sewage treatment
plant;
Is regulated by categorical standards; or
Is determined by the Authority, Township, Pennsylvania Department
of Environmental Protection or EPA to have the potential of adversely
affecting the operation of the POTW, causing interference or pass-through,
or of violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
Upon a finding that an industrial user meeting the criteria in Subsection A(1), (2) and (4) of this definition has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the Authority and Township may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from an industrial user, and in accordance with procedures established in 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine that such industrial user should not be considered a significant industrial user and may, in accordance with regulations at 40 CFR 403.3(v) instead be considered a nonsignificant industrial user.
A noncompliance which meets or exceeds standards of significant
noncompliance determined by the Township, Township Manager, Authority,
or Authority Manager and contained in these rules and regulations.
Any industrial user in significant noncompliance at any time
during a calendar year.
Any discharge of a nonroutine, episodic nature, or at a flow rate or concentration which could cause a violation of the general or specific prohibited discharge standards in §§ 200-5.1 and 200-5.2 of Article V of these regulations, including but not limited to an accidental spill or noncustomary batch discharge, which has a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass-through, or in any other way violates Township regulations, local limits or wastewater discharge permit conditions.
Any discharge of a nonroutine, episodic nature, including
but not limited to an accidental spill or a deliberate or accidental
noncustomary or unauthorized batch discharge, or the control or cleanup
activities associated with such an occurrence; an accidental spill
may result from the spilling, overflowing, rupture or leakage of any
storage, process or transfer container.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
The division or redivision of a single lot, tract or parcel
of land or part thereof by any means into two or more lots, tracts
or parcels of land, including changes in street lines or lot lines
for the purposes, whether immediate or future, of improvement and
development.
The person designated by the Township to supervise the operation
of the sewage treatment plant, or his duly authorized representative.
A term that is synonymous with the term "connection fee."
The sum of the dissolved and undissolved solid constituents
of water or wastewater.
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface or
is suspended in water, wastewater or other liquids and which is removable
by laboratory filtering.
The sum of all quantifiable values of various organic pollutants
as determined by the Township or, for certain categorical industrial
users, as defined in the applicable categorical standard.
The Township of Upper Allen, a First-Class Township, Cumberland
County, Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania municipality, acting by and through
its Board of Commissioners or, in appropriate cases, acting by and
through its authorized representatives.
A plan submitted in lieu of testing for total toxic organics
in which an industrial user specifies methods of control to assure
that total toxic organics do not routinely enter the sewer system.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provision of Section 307(a) of the Act,
or other acts, or is present in sufficient quantity, either singly
or in combination with other wastewater, so as to present risk of
causing interference or pass-through, causing harm to humans, animals
or plants, or creating a hazard to persons or property, either in
the sewage collection system, the sewage treatment plant or the environment
into which it is released.
Discharge of an unauthorized waste or a discharge which otherwise
is not in compliance with the requirements of the industrial pretreatment
program or other rules or regulations of the Township or a contributing
municipality.
Any substance which is discharged into the sewer system and
which is not in compliance with the provisions of the industrial pretreatment
program, or which is discharged by a person in violation of any of
the provisions of this chapter, resolution or the provisions of the
ordinances of a contributing municipality.
Any person who contributes, causes, or allows the contribution
of wastewater into the POTW.
A term that is synonymous with the term "sewage."
A term that is synonymous with the term "sewage collection
system."
As set forth in Article VI of these regulations.
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.
The facilities owned by any person and used for the supply
of water to the public in the Township.
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Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 691.1 et seq.
The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
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BMR
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Baseline monitoring report
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BOD
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Biochemical oxygen demand
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CFR
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Code of Federal Regulations
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COD
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Chemical oxygen demand
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DEP
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Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
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EPA
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Environmental Protection Agency
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EDU
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Equivalent dwelling unit
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GPD
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Gallons per day
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L
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Liter
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LEL
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Lower explosive limit
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mg
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Milligrams
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mg/L
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Milligrams per liter
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MGD
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Million gallons per day
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NH3-N
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Ammonia nitrogen
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NOV
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Notice of violation
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NPDES
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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
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NAICS
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North American Industry Classification System
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O&M
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Operation and maintenance
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POTW
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Publicly owned treatment works
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PPC
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Preparedness, Prevention and Contingency Plan
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RCRA
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
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SNC
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Significant noncompliance
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SWDA
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Solid Waste Disposal Act
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TSS
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Total suspended solids
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U.S.C.
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United States Code
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