[Ord. 604, 2/10/1987, §§ 101 — 135;
as amended by Ord. 645, 3/13/1990]
1.
BOD (DENOTING BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
BOROUGH
BUILDING DRAIN
CAPITAL COST CONNECTION FEE
COMBINED SEWER
CONNECTION UNIT
(1)
(2)
(3)
CURBLINE
DOMESTIC WASTE
EASEMENT
EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT
FLOATABLE OIL
GARBAGE
HOUSE CONNECTION
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
LATERAL
LOT
MANAGER
NATURAL OUTLET
PERSON
pH
PLUMBING INSPECTOR
PRETREATMENT
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWER
SANITARY SEWAGE
SANITARY SEWER
SERVICE CONNECTION
SEWAGE
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
SEWAGE WORKS
SEWER
SLUG
STORM DRAIN (SOMETIMES TERMED STORM SEWER)
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
UNPOLLUTED WATER
WASTEWATER
WASTEWATER FACILITIES
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
WATERCOURSE
Unless the context
specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this
Part shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter in five days at 20° C., expressed in milligrams
per liter, as determined in accordance with the latest issue of American
Public Health Association Standard Methods for the Examination of
Water and Wastewater or by a method acceptable to the State Department
of Health and other agencies having jurisdiction.
The Council of the Borough of Oxford, Pennsylvania.
That 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 house connection,
beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
A fee established from time to time by resolution of the
Borough Council, which fee may be different for different classes
of users and within different sewer districts, and which fee is intended
to refund or recover to the Borough the costs of planning, design,
construction and like costs with respect to the sanitary sewage collection
and treatment facilities.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
With respect to single-family residential users, each residence
connected to the sewage collection system shall be considered a "connection
unit."
With respect to attached dwelling units or dwelling units which
exist as apartments, flats or other multifamily arrangements, each
attached dwelling unit, apartment or other multiple dwelling unit,
whether connected directly through sewer laterals to each individual
unit or by a common lateral, shall be considered a "connection unit"
as if each said unit had a direct and separate connection to the collection
system.
With respect to commercial or industrial properties, the number
of "connection units" shall be equal to the daily water usage in gallons
divided by 220 gallons (equivalent dwelling unit) as determined by
the metering of water usage or, in the event that metering is not
possible, by an acceptable estimate based on sound engineering studies
and generally acceptable usage estimates.
A location which, in the Borough's judgment, is as near
to the curb of the street as is feasible to terminate its service
connection and/or install Borough-owned facilities.
Normal household waste from kitchens, water closets, lavatories
and laundries.
An acquired right for the specific use of land owned by others.
A unit of measurement of domestic sanitary sewage equal to
220 gallons per day.
Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from the wastewater by treatment in an approved
pretreatment facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable
fat if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere
with the collection system.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
The sewer line running from a building to the curbline and
connecting with the service connection or lateral.
Any and all waste discharged from industrial establishments,
other than sanitary sewage.
The line from the public sewer to the curbline.
Any vacant land on which no revenue unit is located or which
is described in a deed separate from any lot on which a revenue unit
is located.
The Borough Manager or his authorized deputy or representative.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, public
or private corporation, the state or other entity whatsoever.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration.
The duly designated Plumbing Inspector of the Borough.
Treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction
into the public sewer.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch (1.27 centimeters)
in any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by the Borough.
All water-carried domestic waste from sanitary conveniences
of residences, offices, hotels, stores, restaurants, hospitals, schools,
commercial establishments, industrial establishments and similar services.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
The sewer line extended from the curbline to the public sewer.
A combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with
such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which,
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow,
exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than
five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during
normal operation.
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling
water.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
Water of a quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria
in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water
quality standards and would not be benefitted by discharge to the
sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source,
it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may
be present.
The structures, equipment and processes required to collect,
carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of
the effluent.
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater,
industrial wastes and sludge.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
[Ord. 604, 2/10/1987; as added by Ord. 687, 8/16/1993]
1.
Each and every reference in this Part, to the Borough of Oxford,
Borough Council of the Borough of Oxford, Manager, Borough Manager,
engineers, servants and employees of the Borough, except where such
terms refer to the geographical area included within the Borough limits,
shall be deemed to refer to and include the Oxford Area Sewer Authority,
its directors, officers, agents, engineers, servants, appointees and
employees, unless the context clearly indicates to the contrary.
2.
Said Oxford Area Sewer Authority and other persons and entities referred to in Subsection 1 above shall be deemed to have all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of the Borough and the other persons and entities referred to in Subsection 1 above shall have full power to exercise and enjoy the same.
