The following rates, rules and regulations shall be and are
hereby declared to be the rates, rules and regulations of the Borough
of Montgomery for the sewer system, effective by Ordinance No. 75,
duly adopted June 6, 1966, by Montgomery Borough Council to wit:
[Amended 9-19-1977 by Ord. No. 1977-3; 11-13-1990 by Ord. No. 1990-10; 1-1991 by Ord. No. 1991-3]
Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in these rates, rules and regulations shall
be as follows:
One that contributes smaller than 60,000 gallons per day
of wastewater, or 10% of design flow.
One which connects to the treatment work after such work
has been put into service (i.e., after January 1977).
One that contributes greater than 60,000 gallons per day
of wastewater, or 10% of the design flow.
The Montgomery Water and Sewer Authority.
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in ppm by weight, utilized
in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory
procedure for five days at 20° C. The standard laboratory procedure
shall be that found in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for
the Examination of Water and Sewage" published by the American Public
Health Association.
The Borough of Montgomery, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
Montgomery Borough Council.
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the service lateral of a collection sewer.
The amount of chlorine, in parts per million by weight, which
must be added to sewage to produce a specific residual chlorine content,
or to meet the requirements of some other objective, in accordance
with procedures set forth in "Standard Methods."
The collection sanitary sewers located under highways, roads,
streets and rights-of-way with branch service laterals that collects
and conveys sanitary sewage or industrial wastes or a combination
of both and into which storm, surface and ground waters or unpolluted
industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
Each individual building or house whether constructed as
a detached unit or as one of a pair or row which is designed or adaptable
to separate ownership for use as a family dwelling unit or for commercial
or industrial purposes. A school, factory, apartment house, office
building or other multiple-unit structure whose individual apartments
or units are connected to a common internal sewage system and which
are not commonly subject to separate ownership shall be considered
as one connection unit.
Solid wastes resulting from preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from handling, storage and sale of food products and produce.
The residue from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food that has been shredded to such degree that all particles will
be carried freely in suspension under the flow conditions normally
prevailing in public sewers with no particle greater than 1/2 inch
in any dimension.
Any property within the sewered area 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.
Any nongovernmental user of publicly owned treatment works identified
in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of
Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under the following
divisions:
A user in the divisions listed may be excluded if it is determined
that it will discharge primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes
from sanitary conveniences.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance discharged, permitted
to flow or escaping in the course of any industrial, manufacturing,
trade or business process or in the course of the development, recovery
or processing of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property located in the sewered area.
A weight-to-weight ration; the parts per million value multiplied
by the factor 8.345 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons
of water.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group or entity.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of
hydrogen ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, and indicates
the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any
improved property.
A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes or a combination
of both, and into which storm, surface and ground waters or unpolluted
industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
That part of the sewer system from the collection sewer to
the curbline or to a point one foot beyond the edge of the paved roadway
if there is no curbline.
The plant and facilities leased and operated for such purposes
by the Borough to which the sewer system is to be connected.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
used or usable for sewage collection purposes and to which ground,
surface and stormwater is not admitted intentionally.
Each family dwelling unit or the equivalent which is connected
with the sanitary sewer system as follows:
A single-family dwelling: one unit.
Each family apartment of business suite in a multiple dwelling
of office building: one unit.
Each half of a double house: one unit.
Each restaurant, hotel, boardinghouse, club, bar, grill, beauty
parlor (with more than one operator), service station, food market
and garage: two units.
Each retail store, beauty parlor, barber shop, or business or
professional office not herein otherwise classified: one unit.
Each church or fire company or similar charitable organization:
one unit.
Each self-service food market or chainstore ownership with two
or more cashier counters: 10 units.
Each public laundromat shall be charged on the basis for every
three automatic washers or fraction thereof: one unit. For the purpose
of this subsection, "public laundromat" shall include within its definition
any commercial, or business property, or apartment complex or other
location where coin-operated machines are offered for use to the general
public or to tenants of multiunit dwellings.
Each nursing or convalescent home regularly occupied by three
patients or occupants or less, and for each additional three patients
or occupants or portion thereof in regular occupancy: one unit. For
the purpose of computing occupancy, the number of patients or occupants
to be included for each quarter should be the average number of patients
or occupants for preceding quarter.
Each industrial establishment which does not discharge an industrial
waste regularly occupied during the business hours by less than 10
persons, and for each additional 10 persons or portion thereof, in
regular occupancy during business hours: one unit.
Each school regularly occupied during school hours by 18 persons
or less and for each additional 18 persons or portion thereof in regular
occupancy during school hours: one unit. For the purpose of computing
school occupancy, the number of persons to be included for each year
ending September 30 shall be the number of persons in the school on
October 1.
Each family dwelling located in Clinton Township connected to
the Borough's sanitary system shall be billed according to classification
applying to Borough residents plus $6 per annum charge for maintenance.
Any business which offers a bathhouse/toilet room to the general
public as part of its business operation shall be charged in addition
to other applicable charges stated above one unit for such bathhouse/toilet
room.
Any business having campsite facilities offered to the public
with a centralized sanitary dumping station shall be charged one unit
for such sanitary dumping station. In addition to all other appropriate
charges under the above definitions.
For any campground operation which offers campsites with sewer
connections, a daily sewer charge shall be assessed at 1/30 of a unit.
This charge is to be assessed only during periods of occupancy for
such campsites.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collection,
pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial
wastes, situated in the sewered area and leased from the Authority
and operated by the Borough.
The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection,
transportation and pumping of sewage and industrial wastes.
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 longer duration than 15 minutes, more than
five times its average hourly concentration or flow.
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the
most recent edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water,
Sewage and industrial wastes," published jointly by the American Public
Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water
Pollution Control Federation.
A sewer that carries storm, surface, and ground water drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
Includes any street, highway, road, lane, court, alley and
public square.
The extra charge in addition to the service charge rental
which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength
than the concentration values established as representative of normal
sewage.
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtration. The standard laboratory procedure shall be that found
in the latest edition of "Standard Methods."
Any poisonous substance, including copper, cyanide and chromium
ions.
Any water or liquid containing none of the following: free
or emulsified grease or oil; acids or alkalis; substances that may
impart taste and odor or color characteristics; toxic or poisonous
substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution; odorous or
otherwise obnoxious gases. It shall contain not more than 1,000 parts
per million by weight of dissolved solids, and not more than five
parts per million each of suspended solids or biochemical-oxygen-demand.
Analytical determinations shall be made in accordance with procedures
set forth in "Standard Methods."
