Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following
terms and phrases, as used in this chapter, shall have the meanings
hereinafter designated:
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act as amended, 33 U.S.C.
1251 et seq.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
The appropriate regional administrator of the United States
Environmental Protection Agency.
AUTHORITY
Warminster Township Municipal Authority (Authority).
AUTHORITY MANAGER
The general manager of the Warminster Township Municipal
Authority who is the person designated by the Authority to supervise
the operation of the publicly owned treatment works and who is charged
with certain duties and responsibilities by this chapter, including
the administration of this chapter, with respect to the control of
pollutants.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF USER
An authorized representative of a user may be:
A.
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice-president,
if the user is a corporation;
B.
A general partner or proprietor if the user is a partnership
or proprietorship, respectively;
C.
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated
above if such representative is responsible for the overall operation
of the facilities from which the waste discharge originates.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE (BMP)
Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance
procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions
listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b). "BMPs" also include treatment
requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant
site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage
from raw materials storage.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized 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)].
BUILDING SEWER
A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user
to the POTW.
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by EPA in accordance with Section 307 (b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1317)
that apply to a specific category of users and that appear in 40 CFR
Chapter I, Subchapter N. Parts 405-471.
CONTROL AUTHORITY
The term "control authority" shall refer to the Warminster
Township Municipal Authority.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning,
cooling, or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is
heat.
DOMESTIC WASTE
The normal water-borne waste from a residential household,
as well as toilet wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions,
commercial, and industrial establishments.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA
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.
GRAB SAMPLE
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 over a period
of time not to exceed 15 minutes.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any structure used for or intended to be used, wholly or
in part, for the manufacturing, fabricating, warehousing, processing,
cleaning, or assembling of any product, commodity, or article.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solids, liquid, or gaseous substances or form of energy
rejected or escaping from an industrial establishment other than domestic
waste.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges from other sources, causes an inhibition or disruption
of the POTW, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge
processes, or disposal, and which results in a reduction in the effectiveness
of the treatment facilities, and which causes or contributes to a
violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit (including
any increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation), the prevention
of sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with the following
statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder
(or more stringent state or local regulations):
A.
Section 405 of the Clean Water Act;
B.
The Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) (including Title II, more
commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
(RCRA) as well as state regulations contained in a State SWDA);
D.
The Toxic Substances Control Act; and
E.
The Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act.
NEW SOURCE
Any building, structure, facility or installation from which
there is or may be a discharge of pollutants, the construction of
which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards
under Section 307(c) of the Act which are applicable to such source
if such standards were enacted in accordance with that Section. Where
EPA pretreatment standards do not apply, a new source shall mean a
discharge that commenced after the adoption of this chapter.
PASS-THROUGH
A discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United
States and/or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in quantities or concentrations
which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from
other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the
POTW's NPDES permit (including any increase in the magnitude
or duration of a violation).
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, firm, company, corporation,
association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity
or any other 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.
pH
A measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution expressed
in standard units.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive
materials, heat, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal,
and agricultural waste discharged into water.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced negative alteration of the chemical,
physical, biological, and radiological integrity of water, including
but not limited to the addition of material that reduces its usefulness.
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, process changes by the person producing the pollutant,
or by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment
as mandated by the Authority and contained in this chapter. These
requirements are in addition to any categorical pretreatment standard
and they shall take precedence over the categorical pretreatment standard
when the ordinance pretreatment requirements are more restrictive.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works is defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292) which is owned in this instance by the Warminster
Township Municipal Authority. This definition includes any devices
and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation
of municipal sewage or industrial waste of a liquid nature. This definition
also includes all Authority-owned sewers that convey wastewater to
the POTW treatment plant. The term also means the municipality as
defined in Section 502 (foreclosed) of the Act, which has jurisdiction
over the indirect discharges to and the discharges from such a treatment
works.
SHALL
Is mandatory; "May" is permissive.
SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE
The term "significant noncompliance" is one or more of the
following:
A.
Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits which for
this purpose are defined as those in which 66% or more of all of the
measurements taken during a six-month period exceed (by any magnitude)
the daily maximum limit or the average limit for the same pollutant
parameter;
B.
Technical Review Criteria (TRC) violations 33% or more of measurements
for each pollutant parameter taken during a six-month period equal
or exceed the product of the applicable maximum limit or the average
limit multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC = 1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats,
oil and grease, and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH).
C.
Any other violation of a pretreatment standard or requirement
as defined by 40 CFR 403.3(1) (daily maximum, long-term average, instantaneous
limit, or narrative standard) that the POTW determines has caused,
alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass-through
(including endangering the health of POTW personnel or the general
public);
D.
Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment
to human health, welfare, or the environment or which required the
POTW to use its emergency authorities under 40 CFR 403.8(f)(1)(vi)(B);
E.
Violations of a compliance schedule milestone by 90 days;
F.
Violations of report submittal deadlines by 30 days;
G.
Failure to accurately report noncompliance; and
H.
Any other violation deemed significant by the Control Authority.
SIGNIFICANT USER
The term "significant user" means:
A.
All users subject to categorical pretreatment standards under
40 CFR 403.6 and 40 CFR Chapter I, sub-chapter N; and
B.
Any other user that: discharges an average of 25,000 gallons
per day or more of process wastewater to the POTW (excluding sanitary,
non-contact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater); contributes a
process waste stream which makes up 5% or more of the capacity of
the POTW treatment plant; or is designated as such by the Control
Authority as defined in 40 CFR 403.12(a) on the basis that the user
has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's
operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
SLUG LOAD or SLUG DISCHARGE
Any discharge at a flow rate or concentration, which could cause a violation of the prohibited discharge standards in Article
II of this chapter. A slug discharge is any discharge of a nonroutine, episodic nature, including but not limited to an accidental spill or a noncustomary batch discharge, which has a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass-through, or in any other way violate the POTW's regulations, local limits or permit conditions.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
A classification (categorization) of kinds of industrial
activities pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual,
issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management
and Budget, 1972.
STATE
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
STORM WATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS
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.
TOWNSHIP
Doylestown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes, or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the Control Authority's POTW.
WASTEWATER
The liquid- and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial establishments, 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.