Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following
terms and phrases as used in this article shall have the meanings
hereinafter designated:
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES OF AN INDUSTRIAL USER
(1)
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice
president if the industrial user is a corporation.
(2)
A general partner or proprietor, if the industrial user is a
partnership or proprietorship, respectively.
(3)
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated
about, if such representative is responsible for the overall operation
of facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
(4)
A duly authorized representative of any entity, such as an authority,
which operates any entity which falls under the jurisdiction of this
article, such as a landfill.
BOROUGH
The Borough of Plymouth or the Borough Council of Plymouth.
BUILDING SEWER
A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user
to the POTW.
CONTROL AUTHORITY
The Mayor of the Borough, which has an approved pretreatment
program under the provisions of 40 CFR 403.11.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
DIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
into the waters of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum pump tank trucks.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants
from any source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act (33
U.S.C.A. § 1317) into the POTW, including holding tank waste
discharged into the system.
INDUSTRIAL USER
A source of indirect discharge which does not constitute
a discharge of pollutants under regulations issued pursuant to Section
402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1342).
INTERFERENCE
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes
or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement
of the Borough's plan.
LEACHATE
As defined in the Department of Environmental Protection
Solid Waste Act.
MAYOR
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 article, or his duly authorized
representative.
NEW SOURCE
Any source the construction of which is commenced after the
publication of this chapter which will be applicable to such source.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity or any other legal entity or their legal representatives, agents
or assigns.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution.
POLLUTANT
Any dredge, spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical waste, biological material,
radioactive material, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste
discharged into water.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction
or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological
processes or processed changes by other means.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than National Pretreatment Standards imposed on an industrial
user.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292). This definition includes any sewers that
convey wastewater to the POTW treatment plant but does include pipes,
sewers and other conveyances connected to a facility providing wastewater
and sewage treatment. For the purposes of this article, "POTW" does
include sewers that convey wastewater.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Any industrial user of the Borough's wastewater disposal
system who has:
(1)
A discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average work
day.
(2)
A flow greater than 5% of the flow in the Borough's wastewater
treatment system; or
(3)
In his waste, toxic pollutants as defined in Pennsylvania statutes
and rules, or who is found by the Borough or the Department of Environmental
Protection or the United States 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.
STATE
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of
or is suspended in water, wastewater or other liquid and which is
removable by laboratory filtering and treatment.
TOXIC POLLUTANT
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provisions of the Solid Waste Act.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contributions
of wastewater into the Borough's POTW.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may
be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into
or permitted to enter the POTW.
WATERS OF THE STATE
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways,
wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage
systems and all other bodies or accumulations 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.