Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms and phrases used in this article shall be as
follows:
ACT 537
The Sewage Facilities Act of the Commonwealth.
BCRA
The Brodhead Creek Regional Authority, acting through its
governing board, as owner and operator of the BCRA Treatment Plant
and, in appropriate cases, as agent of the Township hereunder.
BCRA TREATMENT PLANT
The facilities constructed, owned and/or operated by BCRA
to treat and dispose of sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes discharged
by the sewer system.
BUILDING SEWER
The sewage drainage system from a building constructed on
any improved property to the lateral serving such improved property,
including any grinder pump or pressure sewer or similar apparatus
or facilities installed by the Township or the owner and which are
located on such improved property.
DEP
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection or
any successor agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
DEVELOPED PROPERTY
Any property within the sewered area which was an improved
property on October 20, 2009.
DRBC
The Delaware River Basin Commission.
GPD
The gallons per day of sanitary sewage or industrial waste
allocable to an improved property, determined in accordance with the
rate resolution.
ICA
The amended and restated intermunicipal cooperation agreement,
dated May 1, 2010, among the Borough of Stroudsburg, the Township
of Hamilton, the Township of Pocono, the Township of Smifhfield, the
Township of Stroud, the Stroud Township Sewer Authority and the Brodhead
Creek Regional Authority, as the same may be amended and/or supplemented
from time to time.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property in the sewered area of the 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
into the sewer system.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any improved property located in the Township, used or intended
for use, wholly or in part, for the manufacturing, processing, cleaning,
laundering or assembling of any product, commodity or article, or
any other improved property from which wastes, in addition to or other
than sanitary sewage, shall be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any and all wastes discharged from an industrial establishment,
and/or wastewater having characteristics which may have the potential
to be detrimental to the sewer system or the BCRA Treatment Plant.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
curbline, or if there is no curbline, to the improved property line,
or if no such extension is provided, then that portion of, or place
in, a sewer that is provided for connection of any building sewer.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation, municipality, municipality authority or other
group or entity.
RATE RESOLUTION
The resolutions, rules and regulations adopted by the Township,
or its assigns, from time to time, establishing rates and other charges
and requirements for the use of the sewer system by the owner of any
improved property.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Typical water-carried household, commercial and toilet wastes,
having the biological and chemical characteristics prescribed by regulation
of the Township or BCRA, which is discharged by an improved property.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system,
used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWERED AREA
That geographic area or areas of the Township served or to
be served by the sewer system, including all existing or future sewer
areas or districts established and approved, from time to time, pursuant
to Act 537 and other applicable laws.
SEWER SYSTEM
All sewer lines and other facilities constructed, owned and/or
operated by the Township, including if operated by BCRA to collect,
transmit or treat sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes discharged
by an improved property, other than a building sewer or a lateral.
STA
That certain sewage treatment agreement (STA) dated March
1, 2011, between the Brodhead Creek Regional Authority and the Township
of Pocono.
STREET
Shall include any street, road, lane, court, cul-de-sac,
alley, public way or public square.
TAPPING FEE
The tapping fee described in Act 57 of 2003 payable by the owner of any improved property in the area
served by the sewer system which actually connects or is required
to be connected to the sewer system pursuant to the terms of this
article as then in effect requiring such connection or which otherwise
connects to the sewer system.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Pocono, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, a political
subdivision of the commonwealth, acting by and through its Board of
Commissioners, or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through BCRA
or other authorized representatives.
USER CHARGE
The periodic charge imposed for services, or availability
of services, provided by the sewer system, as established by resolution
of the Township, from time to time.
The Township will adopt, from time to time, additional rules
and regulations as it shall deem necessary and proper pertaining to
connection to, and use, operation, administration and protection of,
the sewer system, which additional rules and regulations, to the extent
appropriate, shall be, and shall be construed as, part of this article
as though fully set forth at length herein.
The provisions of this article are intended as a restatement,
amendment and continuance of Pocono Township Ordinance No. 149.
It is declared that enactment of this article and the provisions
hereof are necessary for the protection, benefit and preservation
of the health, safety and welfare of inhabitants of the Township.
The Township shall have the right to assign any rights, and/or
delegate any duties, hereunder to a municipal authority or to another
local government unit, in the Township's sole discretion.