Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms and phrases used in this Part 3 shall be as follows:
Ammonia nitrogen as determined pursuant to the procedure set forth in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by American Public Health Association.
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 Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association.
Any owner or lessee who is or will be occupant of an existing premises, owned or leased by him, which premises has a curbline abutting on that part of a street or highway in which there is or is to be located a sewer and which premises will receive service to begin immediately following installation of the sewer and lateral.
The Borough of Avis, an incorporated Borough under the Pennsylvania Borough Code [Act of Feb 1 (1966) 1965, P.L. 1656, No. 581], as amended.[1]
That part of the main building or house drain or sewer line inside the walls of the building and extending through the walls to a point a maximum of two feet outside the wall connecting to the service line.
A floor drain for the purpose of carrying off spent waters from the basement of a dwelling, factory, laboratory, workshop, or other building.
Any room, group of rooms, building or enclosure, or group thereof, connected, directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and used or intended for use in the operation of a business enterprise for the sale and distribution of any project, commodity, article or service, which maintains separate toilet, sink, or other plumbing facilities in the room or group of which rooms utilized for such business enterprise.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The jointure, or the process of making the jointure, of the service line with the lateral sewer.
Drawings prepared by a design professional, which have been submitted to the Borough for and have received approval by the Borough of Avis and all other applicable regulatory agencies, for construction. (See also "design drawings" and "record drawings.")
The individual or organization who undertakes, for a stated price, to supply goods or to perform construction services or other project for the owner.
A theoretical line running parallel to the road center line, located no less than three feet and no more than six feet from the edge of the asphalt cartway, or the back of the curb where curbing exists, of any Borough road, alley or street.
The individual or organization who ultimately agrees to pay the Borough for sanitary sewer services, including conveyance and treatment, under the rate schedules currently in effect and as amended in the future, until notice is given to discontinue service.
Refer to any change in the shape of a pipe, conduit or structure, from its original manufactured shape.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
Drawings prepared by a design professional and submitted to the Borough by the developer or his agent for approval. (See also "construction drawings" and "record drawings.")
Any owner, promoter, broker, builder, or contractor or similar individual or entity engaged in the development or improvement of real estate or in the construction of residences, as opposed to a person who will occupy the subject property or premises at the time permanent sewer service is established.
Any room, group of rooms, house trailer, apartment, condominium, cooperative or other enclosure connected, directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and occupied or intended for occupancy as living quarters by an individual, a single family or other discrete group of persons, excluding institutional dormitories.
Shall be a unit of measure of the volume of sewage equivalent to the average volume of domestic wastewater discharged from a single-family residential home in a twenty-four-hour period.
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected, directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and used or intended for use, in whole or in part, for educational purposes, including both public and private schools or colleges.
A registered architect or engineer, individual or organization, who acts for and on behalf of the owner in the transaction for sanitary sewer services.
The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States of America.
The unit of measure by which the user charge and the tapping fee shall be imposed upon each improved property, as determined by this Part 3, established by the Borough. One EDU is deemed to be an equivalent liquid volume of 350 gallons of domestic sanitary sewage per day which shall be considered the average daily discharge of a single-family residential unit.
An agreement between the Borough of Avis and either a bona fide customer or a developer which include:
Shall refer to the level of the lowest adjacent grade or ground surface as it meets the wall or foundation of any structure.
Any property 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 domestic sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
Any improved property used or intended for use, wholly or in part, for the manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling of any product, commodity or article, or any other improved property from which wastes, in addition to or other than domestic sanitary sewage, shall or may be discharged.
Any solid, liquid, or gaseous substance or form of energy, which is produced as a result, whether directly or indirectly, or any industrial, manufacturing, trade or business process or activity, or in the course of developing, recovering or processing of natural resources, but not sanitary sewage.
A volume of groundwater or liquid of any type entering sewers, building sewers and lateral sewers from the soil, through defective joints, broken or cracked pipe, improper connections, manhole walls, etc.
The volume of any kinds of water discharge into sewers, building sewers and lateral sewers from such sources as roof spouting, cellar and yard area drains, foundation drains, drains from springs and wet areas, and any surface or runoff water discharging directly into an opening in the sewer system, building sewers or lateral sewers.
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected, directly or indirectly, to the sewer system, including institutional dormitories and education establishments, which do not constitute a commercial establishment, a dwelling unit or an industrial establishment.
The condition in which a discharge, alone or in conjunction with discharges from other sources, inhibits or disrupts the collection system, sewage treatment plant, the sewage system, their processes or operations or sludge treatment, handling or disposal processes, or cause or be capable of causing a resulting violation of any requirement of any of the Borough's environmental permits, such as NPDES or sludge disposal permits, or other environmental laws or regulations.
The elevation of the surface of the inside of the pipe at the bottom of the pipe.
A person whose metered or estimated consumption of water is in excess of 22,500 gallons per calendar quarter in the case of a dwelling unit, or any commercial establishment, educational establishment, institutional establishment or industrial establishment, regardless of water consumption or volume of domestic sanitary sewage or industrial wastes discharged.
The part of the sewer system extending from a sewer main to the curbline, or if there shall be no curbline, to the edge of the street abutting the property affected or any part extending from the sewer main to the edge of any public right-of-way, provided that Avis Borough has legal access to and through said right-of-way for purposes of inspecting and rehabilitation of the line, or if no such lateral shall be provided, then lateral sewer or service connection shall mean that portion, or place, in a sanitary sewer which is provided for the connection of any service line.
Any improved property upon which there shall exist any combination of a dwelling unit, commercial establishment, industrial establishment, education establishment or institutional establishment.
An engineer retained or employed by the Borough or its agents, including any authorized member of the staff of such engineer.
Any outlet into a watercourse, ditch, pond, lake, or other body of surface water or groundwater.
The individual or organization for whom sanitary sewer service is being constructed under an agreement with a contractor. Owner is the purchaser of goods and services pertaining to sanitary sewer systems. The owner is vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any property situated in the service area of the Borough.
Discharge of pollutants in an untreated or insufficiently treated state to the receiving water of the sewage treatment plant so as to cause pollution or violation of the plant's NPDES permit, or causing concentration of pollutants in the sludge so that the end use of the sludge results in pollution or violates any applicable state law or regulation.
Any individual, organization, or other group who shall secure a permit as herein provided.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society, corporation, or other group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, indicating the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
Any receptacle intended to receive and discharge any liquid water, or water-carried waste into a service line or house connection.
Parts per million parts water, by weight.
Drawings of record which have been updated by the design professional after the construction of the facilities to reflect the actual dimensions, location and construction details and have been sealed by the registered design professional responsible for the design.
Any rules and/or regulations enacted by the Borough of Avis, which implements the terms of this Part 3.
Toilets, sinks, and other plumbing fixtures and related piping intended to receive and discharge sanitary sewage into a service line or house connection.
The normal water-carried household waste and toilet waste, including but not limited to toilet wastewater, sink wastewater, dishwasher wastewater, garbage disposal wastewater, cloths washer wastewater, tub or shower wastewater, bidet wastewater or water softener backwash, from any improved property, excluding, however, the effluent from septic tanks or cesspools, swimming pools, infiltration, inflow, or accumulation thereof whether underground or in cellars or basements.
A sewer which is part of the sewer system and which carries sanitary sewage and/or industrial waste permitted to be discharged into the sewer system.
That part of the sewer line extending from a point of one foot outside the outer building wall or inundation wall to its connection with the lateral sewer, which shall be monumented on all future connections as the upstream edge of the cleanout tee installed at the right-of-way line.
Devices and/or structures or facilities for the treatment and disposal of sanitary sewage and industrial waste as owned and operated by the Pine Creek Municipal Authority.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system and used or usable for sewage collection or transportation purposes.
The entirety of the Borough of Avis.
Any Borough-owned sewage collection or conveyance line six inches or larger which is used to collect sewage from sewer laterals and/or convey the collected sewage.
Sewer mains, lateral sewers from a sewer main to service line, sewage pumping stations, sewer force mains, sewage treatment facilities, and all appurtenant facilities operated by the Borough of Avis, or the Pine Creek Municipal Authority furnishing sewerage service.
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
Any pipe receiving the discharge or one or more plumbing fixtures.
A pipe or conduit which carries stormwater, surface water, drainage and certain industrial water discharges, such as cooling and air-conditioning waters.
A public way, including any highway, street, road, land, court, public square, alley, or other passageway.
A fee against the owner of any improved property in the area served by the sewer system which actually connects or is required to be connected pursuant to this Part 3 or any rules/regulations promulgated by the Borough of Avis.
Total phosphorus as determined pursuant to the procedure set forth in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association.
Solids determined by evaporating at 100° C. a mixed sample of wastewater as determined pursuant to the procedure set forth in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association. Total solids include floating solids, suspended solids, settleable solids and dissolved solids, as defined below:
SUSPENDED SOLIDSSolids determined by standard laboratory procedure in the waste.
SETTLEABLE SOLIDSSolids that settle in an Imhoff cone from a standard sample of waste.
DISSOLVED SOLIDSSolids that are dissolved in the waste and cannot be removed by filtration but can be determined by evaporation.
The sewage treatment and disposal system facilities which may, in the future, be acquired or constructed by Avis Borough and/or the Pine Creek Municipal Authority facilities used for treatment and disposal of sewage.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater into the sewer system or the treatment plant from an improved property.
The monthly rental or charge imposed by the Borough, hereunder, as amended from time to time, against the owner of each improved property, for the use or availability of use of the sewer system.
Any pipe extended vertically from a sewer soil pipe or waste pipe to provide ventilation for the system piping and to prevent siphonage and back pressure.
The water-carried industrial and sanitary waste from improved property, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the sewer system.
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Editor's Note: See 8 Pa.C.S.A. § 101 et seq.