[Ord. 669, 5/14/2012]
AUTHORITY
Wellsboro Municipal Authority, a Pennsylvania municipal authority.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
BOROUGH
The Borough of Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania
municipal corporation, acting by and through its Council or, in appropriate
cases, acting by and through its authorized representatives.
BUILDING DRAIN
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 building
sewer, beginning five feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of
the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal, also called "house connection."
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or
surface water.
CONSUMER
An owner of property who, prior to, upon or after October
1, 1987, has received or shall receive sewer service for a consumer
unit by use of the sewer system.
CONSUMER UNIT
A.
A building under one roof and occupied by one family, business
or industry;
B.
A combination of buildings in one enclosure or group and occupied
by one family, business or industry;
C.
One side of a double building or house having a solid vertical
partition wall;
D.
A building, house or other structure, or any room, group of
rooms or part thereof, occupied by more than one family, business
or industry, the sewer fixtures of which are used in common;
E.
Each room or group of rooms in a building, house or other structure
occupied or intended for occupancy as a separate industry, as a separate
business, or as separate living quarters by a family or other group
of persons living together or by a person living alone, the sewer
fixtures of which are not used in common;
F.
Each trailer occupied by one family, business or industry;
G.
Each public school or municipal building; or
H.
Any combination of the foregoing which, with the consent and
permission of this Borough, shall receive sewer service through one
service connection to the sewer system.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
FLOATABLE OIL
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.
GARBAGE
The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking, and serving of foods.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or business
as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
LEASE
The agreement of lease dated as of August 1, 1967, as amended
and supplemented from time to time, between the Authority and this
Borough, with respect to the sewer system.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or
groundwater.
OWNER
Any person who is the occupant, tenant or holder of title
to any property served by the sewer system.
PERSON
An individual, partnership, an association, a corporation,
a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated association, a governmental
body, a political subdivision, a municipality, a municipal authority
or other group entity.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration.
The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter
of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of 7 and a
hydrogen ion concentration of 10.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of foods 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.
PUBLIC SEWER
A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public
utility.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions,
together with minor quantities of ground, storm, and surface waters
that are not admitted intentionally.
SEWAGE
The spent water of a community. The preferred term is "wastewater."
SEWER
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
SEWER SYSTEM
The facilities owned by the Authority for collection, interception,
transmission, treatment and disposal of domestic sewage and/or industrial
wastes, as such facilities exist as of the effective date hereof,
together with all appurtenant facilities and properties which the
Authority has acquired and/or constructed or hereafter shall acquire
and/or construct in connection therewith, including all property,
real, personal and mixed, rights, powers, licenses, easements, rights-of-way,
privileges, franchises and any and all other property or interests
in property of whatsoever nature used or useful in connection with
such facilities, and together with all additions, extension, alterations
and improvements which may be constructed and/or acquired from time
to time.
SLUG
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.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of Public Works or the Borough Manager
of the Borough of Wellsboro, or their authorized deputy, agent, or
representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface
of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and
that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in the latest
edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater"
published by the American Public Health Association, and referred
to as a "nonfilterable residue."
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Charleston, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, and/or
the Township of Delmar, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, both Pennsylvania
municipal subdivisions.
TOXIC POLLUTANTS
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in U. S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations, as amended and
supplemented from time to time.
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water of 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.
WASTEWATER
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.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES
The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect,
carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of
the effluent.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater,
industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "waste
treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "water pollution
control plant."
WATERCOURSE
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water
either continuously or intermittently.
[Ord. 669, 5/14/2012]
It is declared that enactment of this Part is necessary for
the protection, benefit and preservation of the health, safety and
welfare of inhabitants of this Borough.