[Ord. 468, 5/20/1996; as amended by Ord. 545, 2/26/2007,
§ 18-111; and by Ord. 585, 9/12/2011]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following
terms and phrases, as used in this Part, shall have the meaning hereinafter
designated:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
The Director in an NPDES state with an approved state pretreatment
program and the Administrator of the EPA in a non-NPDES state or NPDES
state without an approved state pretreatment program.
American Society for Testing Materials.
An authorized representative of an industrial user may be:
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice-president
if the industrial user is a corporation.
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a
partnership or proprietorship, respectively.
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated
above if such representative is responsible for the overall operation
of the facilities from which the indirect discharges.
The quantity of oxygen in the biochemical oxidation of organic
matter under standard laboratory procedure, five days at 20° C.
expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams per liter
(mg/l)).
The government of the Borough of Edinboro.
The registered professional engineer employed by the Borough
of Edinboro or any authorized member of the staff.
The individual duly approved by the Borough of Edinboro to
manage the affairs of the Borough of Edinboro as defined by the Borough's
Home Rule Charter.
A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user
to the Borough of Edinboro.
National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or pretreatment
standard.
Any property occupied by a nonresidential establishment not
within the definition of an "industrial user," and which is connected
to the wastewater facilities of the Borough of Edinboro.
Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal
coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the agency's
NPDES permit if the agency's treatment works are designed to
treat such pollutants and in fact do remove such pollutants to a substantial
degree.
Shall refer to the "approval authority" defined hereinabove;
or the Superintendent if the Borough has approved a pretreatment program
under the provisions of 40 CFR 403.11.
A structure located on a site from which wastes are discharged.
Where feasible, the manhole shall have an interior drop. The purpose
of a control manhole is to provide access for the Borough representative
to sample and/or measure discharge.
The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
The process of making weaker or less concentrated.
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
into the waters of the State of Pennsylvania.
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
Equivalent domestic/dwelling unit.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate,
the term may also be used as a designation for the administrator or
other duly authorized official of said agency.
Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment
facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable oil if
it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with
the collection system.
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration
of time.
Naturally occurring water within the earth.
Any wastewater from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical
toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants
from any source regulated under § 307(b) or (c) of the Act,
(33 U.S.C. § 1317), into the Borough (including holding
tank waste discharged into the system).
Any nonresidential user identified in Division A, B, D, E
or I of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual. Industrial
user shall also include any user which discharges wastewater containing
toxic or poisonous substance(s), or any substance(s) which cause(s)
interference in the wastewater facilities.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substances discharged, permitted
to flow or escaping from any industrial manufacturing, commercial
or business establishment or process or from the development recovery,
or processing of any natural resource as distinct from their employees
waste or waste from their sanitary conveniences.
The inhibition or disruption of the Borough treatment process
or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement
of the Borough's NPDES permit. The term includes prevention of
sewage sludge use or disposal by the Borough in accordance with 405
of the Act, (33 U.S.C. 1345) or any criteria, guidelines, or regulations
developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), the Clean
Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act or more stringent state
criteria (including those contained in any state sludge management
plan prepared pursuant to Title IV of SWDA) applicable to the method
of disposal or use employed by the Borough.
An industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works
that:
Has a flow of 10,000 gallons or more per average work day.
Has in its waste a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined
in standards issued under § 307(a) of the Act.
Is found by the permit issuance of the agency to have significant
impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries,
on that treatment works or upon the quality of effluent from that
treatment works.
Permissive.
Any regulation containing limits promulgated by the EPA in
accordance with § 307(b) and (c) of the Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1347,
which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
A permit issued pursuant to § 402 of the Act, 33
U.S.C. § 1342.
Any regulation developed under the authority of § 307(b)
of the Act and 40 CFR 403.5.
Any source, the construction commenced after the publication
of proposed regulations prescribing a § 307(c), 33 U.S.C.
§ 1317. Categorical standard will be applicable to such
source, if such standard is thereafter promulgated within 120 days
of proposal in the Federal Register. Where the standard is promulgated
later than 120 days after proposal, a new source means any source
the construction of which is commenced after the date of promulgation
of the standard.
A person to whom a building sewer permit, under Part 2E,
has been granted.
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity or any legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents
or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, the singular
shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
The degree of acidity or alkalinity of a solution expressed
as the logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste
discharged into water.
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutants properties
in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharge
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction
or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological
processes, or process changes or other means, except as prohibited
by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
Any substance or procedural requirements related to pretreatment,
other than a National pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial
user.
A treatment works as defined by § 212 of the Act,
33 U.S.C. § 1292, which is owned in this instance by the
Borough. This definition includes any sewer that conveys wastewater
to the POTW treatment plant, but does not include pipes, sewers or
other conveyances not connected to a facility providing treatment.
For the purpose of this Part, "POTW" shall include any sewers that
convey wastewaters to the POTW from persons outside the Borough of
Edinboro who are, by contract or agreement with the Borough of Edinboro,
users of the Borough of Edinboro POTW. Responsibility for the mains
of the sewers shall be set forth in the contract or agreement between
the Borough and those outside the Borough.
A fee for reinstating a disconnected user to the Borough's
wastewater system.
All premises used only for human residency and which are
connected to the wastewater facilities.
A sewer that carries wastewater from residences, commercial
buildings, industrial plants and institutions together with minor
quantities of ground, storm and surface waters that are not admitted
intentionally.
Wastewater discharges from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings,
commercial buildings, industrial plants or institutions.
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings
or animals.
Is mandatory.
Any nondomestic user of the Borough of Edinboro's wastewater
disposal system who:
Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average work
day.
Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the Borough of Edinboro's
wastewater treatment system.
Has in its waste toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to § 307
of the Act of the State of Pennsylvania statutes and rules.
Is found by the Borough of Edinboro Council or the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to have significant impact, either singly
or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater
treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent
quality, or air emissions generated by the system.
Any discharge of water or wastewater 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 and
shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of
the wastewater treatment works.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972.
Latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of
Water and Wastewater," published by the American Health Association,
Water Pollution Control Federation and American Water Works Association.
State of Pennsylvania.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
The person designated by the Borough to supervise the operation
of the publicly owned treatment works and who is charged with certain
duties and responsibilities by this Part or his duly authorized representative.
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of,
or is suspended in, water, wastewater or other liquids and which is
removable by laboratory filtering.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provisions of CWA § 307(a) or
other acts.
Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria
in effect or water that would not be benefitted by discharge to sanitary
sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the Borough's POTW.
Includes sewage and any and all other waste substances, liquid,
solid, gaseous or radioactive, associated with human habitation, or
of human or animal origins, or from any producing, manufacturing,
or processing operation of whatever nature prior to, and for purposes
of, disposal.
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwelling, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions,
which is contributed into or permitted to enter the POTW.
As set forth in Part 2G.
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways,
wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage
systems and all other bodies or accumulation of water, surface or
underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through or border upon the state or any portion thereof.
Water Pollution Control Federation.
[Ord. 468, 5/20/1996; as amended by Ord. 545, 2/26/2007,
§ 18-112; as amended by Ord. 585, 9/12/2011]
Biochemical oxygen demand.
Code of Federal Regulations.
Chemical oxygen demand.
Copper.
Environmental Protection Agency.
Fats, oils or greases.
Liter.
Pounds per day.
Milligrams.
Milligrams per liter.
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
Operation and maintenance.
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
Publicly owned treatment works (Borough of Edinboro).
Standard Industrial Classification.
Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. § 694.
Total suspended solids.
United States Code.
Wastewater contribution permit.
Wastewater call collection and treatment.
[Ord. 468, 5/20/1996]
Unless the context of usage indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms in this Part and not defined in § 18-211, above, shall be defined as in the glossary: "Water and Wastewater Control Engineering," prepared by the Joint Editorial Board of the American Public Health Association, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Water Works Association and Water Pollution Control Federation, copyright 1969.
