For the purpose of this ordinance, the following terms have
the meaning hereafter designated:
55.46.1.
ALCOSAN — Allegheny County Sanitary Authority including
its treatment facility and any devices and systems used in the storage,
treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial
waste of a liquid nature.
55.46.2.
CORROSIVE WASTE — A waste or substance which has any of
the following properties:
1. It is aqueous and has a pH of less than or equal to five or greater
than or equal to 10, as determined by pH meter.
2. It is a liquid and corrodes steel (SAE1020) at a rate greater than
6.35 mm (0.250 in.) per year at a test temperature of 55$C (130$F).
55.46.3.
REACTIVE/EXPLOSIVE WASTE — A waste or substance which
can create an explosion hazard in the sewage collection system or
the ALCOSAN treatment facility; which has any of but is not limited
to the following properties:
1. It is normally unstable and readily undergoes violent change without
detonating.
2. It reacts violently with water.
3. It forms potentially explosive mixtures with water.
4. When mixed with water, it generates toxic gasses, vapors or fumes
in a quantity sufficient to present a danger to human health or the
environment.
5. It is a cyanide or sulfide bearing waste which can generate toxic
gasses, vapors, or fumes in a quantity sufficient to present a danger
to human health or environment.
6. It is capable of detonation or explosive reaction if it is subjected
to a strong initiating source or if heated under confinement.
7. It is readily capable of detonation, explosive decomposition or reaction
at standard temperature and pressure.
8. It is forbidden explosive as defined in 40 CFR 173.51, or a Class
A explosive as defined in 49 CFR 173.53 or a Class B explosive as
defined in 49 CFR 173.88.
55.46.4.
HAZARDOUS WASTE — All wastes that are defined as hazardous
under the regulations enacted pursuant to the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act (RCRA) as specified in 40 CFR 261 or under the regulations
promulgated pursuant to the Pennsylvania Solid Waste. Management Act
as specified in 25 PA Code 261.
55.46.5.
IGNITABLE WASTE — A waste or substance which can create
a fire hazard in the sewage collection system or the ALOCSAN Treatment
Facility which has any of but is not limited to the following properties:
1. It is liquid with a flash point less that 60$C (140$F) using the
test methods specified in 40 CFR 261.21
2. It is an oxidizer as defined in 49 CFR 173.151
55.46.6.
INTERFERENCE — A discharge originating in the Borough/Township
which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from
other sources, both:
1. Inhibits or disrupts the ALCOSAN facilities, its treatment processes
or operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and
2. Therefore is a cause of a violation of any requirement of ALCOSAN's
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (hereinafter referred
to as "NPDES") Permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration
of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal
by ALCOSAN in compliance with the following statutory provisions and
regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent state
or local regulations): Section 405 of the Clean Water Act, the Solid
Waste Disposal Act (including Title 2 or more commonly referred to
as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and including state
regulations contained in and State Sludge Management Plan prepared
pursuant to subtitle D of the solid Waste Disposal Act), the Clean
Air Act and the Toxic Substances Control Act.
55.46.7.
PASS-THROUGH — The term pass-through shall mean any discharge
of a pollutant through ALCOSAN into the waters of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in
conjunction with or other discharges from other sources, is a cause
of a violation of any requirement of the ALCOSAN's NPDES Permit
(including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
55.46.8.
PERSON — Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm,
company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate,
Governmental Entity, or any other legal entity, or its legal representatives,
agents, or assigns.
55.46.9.
pH — The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the
concentration of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
55.46.10.
POLLUTANT — Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator
residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, emissions, chemical wastes,
biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged
equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt or other industrial, municipal
or agricultural waste discharged into water.
55.46.11.
POLLUTION — The man-made or man induced alteration of
the chemical, physical, biological, and/or radiological integrity
of water.
55.46.12.
THE ACT — The Federal Water Pollution Control Act also
known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 USC 1251 et. seq.
55.46.13.
TOXIC POLLUTANT — Any pollutant or combination of pollutants
listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the EPA, pursuant to
Section 307 (A) of the Act.
55.46.14.
WASTE WATER — The liquid and water carried industrial
or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial
facilities, and institutions, together with any ground water, surface
water, and stormwater that may be present, whether treated or untreated,
which is contributed directly or indirectly into the facilities of
ALCOSAN.
55.46.15.
WATERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH — All streams, lakes, ponds,
marshes, watercourses, water ways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers,
irrigation systems, drainage systems, and 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 Commonwealth of PA or any portion thereof.