This part governs installation, repair, maintenance, operation
and termination of sewer laterals, lines, systems, pumping stations,
meters and service to and from the Washington Township public sewage
system for wastewater collection and treatment. The Township's goal
of providing efficient and environmentally safe sewer service to portions
of Washington Township shall be governed by uniform rules and procedures
designed to infuse compliance with federal, state and local environmental
laws into the daily operations of those involved with the sewage treatment
process.
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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
CATEGORICAL STANDARDS
COLLECTOR LINES
COMMERCIAL USER
COMMONWEALTH
COMMUNITY SEWAGE SYSTEM
CONNECTION
COOLING WATER
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
DEVELOPER
DIRECT DISCHARGE
EDU
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT
HOLDING TANK
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(2)Â
HOLDING TANK WASTE
IMPROVED PROPERTY
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
INDUSTRIAL USER
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
INTERFERENCE
LAND DEVELOPMENT and/or SUBDIVISION
LATERAL
LOT
NATIONAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD
OWNER
PERSON
POLLUTANT
PRETREATMENT
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
PUBLIC SEWAGE SYSTEM
SEWAGE
SEWER
SEWER INSPECTOR
SLUG LOAD
STORMWATER
TAPPING FEE
TOWNSHIP
TOXIC POLLUTANT
USER
WASTEWATER
WATERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH
As used in this part, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
The Board of Supervisors of the Township.
Part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes
inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer,
beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
Piping carrying liquid wastes from a building to the treatment
or holding tank or to the public sewer main.
National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or Pretreatment
Standard as may be periodically established by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency.
A sewage line of no less than eight inches in diameter which
transports the sewage of a multiple-unit structure or a multiple-family
unit structure and which is itself connected to a main trunk line
of the public sewage system, but which collector line is not necessarily
owned by the Authority, its successors or assigns.
A nonresidential, nonindustrial user who uses its premises
for the sale of products or services to the public or others at retail
or wholesale. Any manufacturing, production or finishing of a product
shall constitute an industrial process and denominate the user as
an industrial user and not a commercial user.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Any system, whether publicly or privately owned, for the
collection and disposal of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid
nature, or both, including various devices for the treatment of such
sewage or industrial wastes serving three or more individual lots.
The physical joining of any building sewer to the public
sewage system.
The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is
heat.
The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Any landowner 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.
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
into the waters of the Commonwealth.
Equivalent dwelling unit.
A person or agency appointed to perform inspections and issue
permits in connection with individual sewage systems and community
sewage systems.
The unit of measure by which sewer rates and tapping fees
shall be imposed upon each improved property, as determined by resolution
of the Township, which shall be deemed to constitute the estimated
quantity of sewage discharged by a single dwelling unit.
A watertight receptacle which receives and retains sewage
and is designed and constructed to facilitate ultimate disposal of
the sewage at another site. Holding tanks include but are not limited
to the following:
CHEMICAL TOILETA toilet using chemicals that discharges into a holding tank.
RETENTION TANKA holding tank to which sewage is conveyed by a water-carrying system.
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum pump tank trucks.
Any property within the Township upon which there is erected
a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy
or use by human beings and from which structure sewage and/or industrial
waste shall or may be discharged.
The discharge or introduction of pollutants from any source
regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
A source of indirect discharge of industrial waste.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or form of energy
or discharge, rejected or escaping in the course of any industrial,
manufacturing, trade or business process, or waste conversion, storage
or recycling process, or in the course of the development, recovery
or processing of natural resources, as distinct from sewage.
The inhibition or disruption of the Township's public sewage
system or treatment operations. This term shall include prevention
of sewage sludge disposal or any noncompliance with criteria, guidelines
or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act,
the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, or more stringent
state criteria applicable to the method of sludge disposal.
The meaning ascribed to these terms by the Washington Township
Zoning and/or Subdivision and Land Development Ordinances, and in
default thereof, the definition ascribed to these terms by the Pennsylvania
Municipalities Planning Code, Act of 1988, Dec. 21, P.L. 1329, No.
170, § 7, as amended.[1]
The part of the Township's public sewage system extending
from a sewer line to the curbline, or, if there shall be no curbline,
to the property line or right-of-way line; if no such laterals shall
be provided, then "lateral" shall mean that portion of a sewer which
is provided for connection of any building sewer.
A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by
a plat or otherwise as permitted by law and to be used, developed
or built upon as a unit.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the Environmental Protection Agency in Section 307(b) and (c) of
the Clean Water Act, applicable to industrial users, including the
general and specific prohibitions found in 40 CFR 403.5.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property located in the Township.
Any natural person, partnership, firm, company, trust, estate,
governmental entity, association, corporation or other entity. Whenever
used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty or imposing
a fine or imprisonment, or both, the term "person" shall include the
principals and officers of an entity.
Any dredged soil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical waste, biological materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste
discharged into water.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutants in wastewater
to a less harmful state prior to discharging such pollutants into
the public sewage system.
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment
other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial
user.
The sewer system and treatment facility owned, operated and
maintained by the Township.
Any substance that contains any of the waste products, excrement
or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals, and
any 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.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the public sewage
system used or usable for wastewater collection purposes.
The Township's appointed Sewer Inspector.
Sudden spills or batch discharges to the public sewage system
of a size or concentration that could affect the public sewage system's
operation.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
The fee charged by the Township for each equivalent dwelling
unit required by each user for each use, for every property, set pursuant
to a fee computation in accordance with the provisions of Act 57 of
2003, as amended, of the Commonwealth.
The Township of Washington, Berks County, a political subdivision
which acts through the Board of Supervisors and appropriate authorized
representatives.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provisions of the Clean Water Act, Section
307(a)(1), or other law or regulations.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the public sewage system.
The liquid- and water-carried industrial or domestic waste
of dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions
which enters the public sewage system. Wastewater includes sewage
and industrial waste.
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 Commonwealth or any portion
thereof.
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Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.
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In this part, the singular shall include the plural; the plural shall
include the singular; and the masculine shall include the feminine
and neuter.
