[Ord. 79, 5/9/1961, Art. I]
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following
words and terms used in this Part shall have the following meanings:
Any industrial waste having a suspended solid content or
BOD appreciably in excess of that normally found in municipal sewage.
For the purposes of this Part any industrial waste containing more
than 275 parts per million of suspended solids or having a BOD in
excess of 300 parts per million, shall be considered an abnormal industrial
waste regardless of whether or not it contains other substances in
concentrations differing appreciably from those normally found in
municipal sewage.
The Allegheny Valley Joint Sewage Authority, representing
the Boroughs of Cheswick and Springdale and the Townships of Harmar
and Springdale, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Shall designate its "biochemical oxygen demand" and shall
mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of the organic matter in said sewage or industrial waste under standard
laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C., expressed in parts
per million by weight. It shall be determined by one of the acceptable
methods described in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the
Examination of Water and Sewage, published by the American Public
Health Association.
A sewer designed to receive both sewage and stormwater runoff
which has been approved by the Township Supervisors for such purposes.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
Any liquid, gaseous or water-borne wastes from industrial
processes or commercial establishments, as distinct from sanitary
sewage.
Any structure erected and intended for continuous or periodic
habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals, and from
which structure sanitary sewage and industrial wastes or either thereof,
is or may be discharged.
Includes natural persons, partnerships, associations and
corporations.
The logarithm to the base of 10 of the reciprocal of the
hydrogen ion concentration expressed in moles per liter. It shall
be determined by one of the acceptable methods described in the latest
edition of Standard Methods tor the Examination of Water and Sewage,
published by the American Public Health Association.
Any real estate abutting on or adjoining any street of the
Township in which is a combined sewer or a sanitary sewer of the public
sanitary sewerage system.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce that have
been shredded to such 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 in any dimension.
All sanitary sewers, all combined sewers, all sewage treatment
works, and all other facilities owned or operated by either the Township
of Harmar or the Authority for the collection, transportation and
treatment of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, together with
their appurtenances, and any additions, extensions or improvements
thereto. It shall also include sewers within the Township limits which
serve one or more persons and discharge into the public sanitary sewerage
system even though those sewers may not have been constructed by Township
funds and are not owned or maintained by the Township. It does not
include separate storm sewers or culverts which have been constructed/for
the sole purpose of carrying storm and surface runoff, the discharge
from which is not and does not become tributary to the Authority's
sewage treatment facilities.
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial and commercial
establishments, exclusive of stormwater runoff, surface water or ground
water.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions, and industrial and commercial establishments,
together with such ground, surface or stormwater as may be present.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
A sewer which is intended to carry stormwater runoff, surface
waters, groundwaters, drainage, etc., but which is not intended to
carry any sanitary sewage or polluted industrial waste.
That portion of the rainfall which reaches a channel, trench,
sewer or sink.
Solids that either float on the surface or are in suspension
in water, sewage, industrial waste or other liquids, and which are
removable by laboratory filtration. The quantity of suspended solids
shall be determined by one of the acceptable methods described in
the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water
and Sewage, published by the American Public Health Association.
The Township of Harmar, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
The Supervisors of the Township of Harmar as now or hereafter
constituted and its duly authorized agent or representative.
Any water or waste containing none of the following: free
or emulsified grease or oil; acid or alkali; phenols or other substances
imparting tastes and odor to receiving waters; toxic or poisonous
substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution; obnoxious or
odorous gases. It shall contain not more than 10,000 parts per million
by weight of dissolved solids of which not more than 2,500 parts per
million shall be as chloride and not more than 10 parts per million
each of suspended solids and BOD The color shall not exceed 50 parts
per million. Analyses for any of the above-mentioned substances shall
be made in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Sewage, published by the American
Public Health Association.
The publicly or privately owned duly authorized agency, corporation
or organization which is the approved purveyor of the public water
supply within the limits of the Township.
