The following words and phrases, as used in this chapter, shall
have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, unless the context
indicates a different meaning:
The municipality's Official Plan as defined in the Pennsylvania
Sewage Facilities Act, Act of January 24, 1966, P.L. 1535 (1965),
No. 537, as amended, 35 P.S. §§ 750.1-750.20a ("Sewage
Facilities Act" or "Act 537").
A person who shall have charge, care or control of real property
as owner, or acting on behalf of or in the capacity of the owner,
or as executor, executrix, administrator, trustee or guardian of the
estate of the owner. Any such person representing the actual owner
shall be bound to comply with the provisions of this chapter to the
same extent as if that person was the owner.
The Green Lane-Marlborough Joint Authority and the Board
of the Green Lane-Marlborough Joint Authority, authorized by law to
adopt resolutions regarding sewage collection, conveyance, treatment
and disposal in Marlborough Township, under the provisions of the
Municipality Authorities Act of 2001 (2001, June 19, P.L. 287, No.
22, and as amended thereafter, 53 Pa.C.S.A. § 5601 et seq.).
The Board of the Green Lane-Marlborough Joint Authority.
An employee, consultant, or agent of Marlborough Township;
code enforcement officer; professional engineer; industrial pretreatment
program coordinator; plumbing inspector; or other qualified or licensed
person authorized to function within specified limits as an agent
of Marlborough Township to administer or enforce the provisions of
this chapter. Specifically, this may include the Authority and any
employee, consultant, or agent of the Authority.
The Board of Supervisors, Marlborough Township, Montgomery
County, Pennsylvania.
The pipe or conduit which extends from the end of a building
or structure to the curbline, right-of-way, or easement, and generally
includes the clean-out and sewer vent and connects to the publicly
owned sanitary sewer system at a lateral.
The Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services,
also known as the "Montgomery County Health Department (MCHD)."
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP).
Cooking fats poured into the sanitary sewer that creates
a coating or blockage in piping.
See "oil and grease trap/interceptor."
Any electric-motor-driven, submersible, centrifugal pump
capable of macerating all material found in normal domestic sanitary
sewage, including reasonable amounts of objects such as plastics,
sanitary napkins, disposable diapers, rubber and the like, to a fine
slurry and pumping this material through a small-diameter discharge.
Grinder pumps can be used as one component of an area-wide low-pressure
sewer system or to deliver wastewater from a single building to a
gravity collector sewer system. In either case, the property owner's
system will include the low-pressure lateral from the pump to the
Authority's limit of responsibility for the publicly owned sewer
system.
Any property located within this Township 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 improved property located in this Township used wholly
or in part for the manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering
or assembly of any product, commodity or article or any other improved
property located in this Township from which wastes, in addition to
or other than sanitary sewage, are discharged.
Any and all wastes discharged from an industrial establishment
other than sanitary sewage.
Excess water that flows into sewer pipes from stormwater
and groundwater through direct connections to the storm sewer system;
sump pumps; roof drains; floor drains; surface drains; and/or through
holes, cracks, joint failures, and faulty connections.
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
curbline, public right-of-way, or easement, or, if no such lateral
is provided, then lateral shall mean that portion of or place in a
sewer, which is provided for connection of any building sewer.
An alternative to a conventional gravity-collector sewer
system that relies on individual grinder pumps to deliver wastewater
from buildings to a system of pressurized small-diameter pipes that
serve an area of the municipality. The system is typically used where
gravity sewers are not cost-effective and/or not feasible due to topography,
excessive rock or other reason.
Marlborough Township and the Board of Supervisors of Marlborough
Township of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
A change in the municipality's Act 537 Official Plan
to provide for additional, newly identified future or existing sewage
facilities needs, as defined fully in Section 1 of the Sewage Facilities
Act, 35 P.S. § 750.1, which may include one or more of the
following:
UPDATE REVISIONA comprehensive revision to an existing Official Plan required when the department or municipality determines the Official Plan or one or more of its parts is inadequate for the existing or future sewage facilities needs of a municipality or its residents or landowners.
SPECIAL STUDYA study, survey, investigation, inquiry, research report or analysis which is directly related to an update revision. The studies provide documentation or other support necessary to solve specific problems identified in the update revision.
REVISION FOR NEW LAND DEVELOPMENTA revision to a municipality's Official Plan resulting from a proposed subdivision as defined in the Act.
A plumbing device installed in a sanitary drainage system
to trap or intercept nonpetroleum FOG from a wastewater system.
The person(s) vested with ownership of record, or any other
person with the legal authority and responsibility for the ownership
and transfer of real property.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group or entity.
A sale, real estate settlement, deed, foreclosure, sheriffs
sale, tax sale or other legal action resulting in the transfer of
ownership of real property.
Any structure, building, or vacant land being privately or
publicly owned which is connected to the Green Lane-Marlborough Joint
Authority sanitary sewer system.
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any
improved property.
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals
and any noxious or deleterious substance being harmful or inimical
to the public health, or to animal or aquatic life or to the use of
water for domestic water supply or for recreation or any substance
which constitutes pollution under the Clean Streams Law (35 P.S. §§ 691.1
through 691.1001).
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
transporting, pumping and disposing of sanitary sewage and/or industrial
wastes, owned, maintained and operated by or in behalf of the Authority.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewage collection
system used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
The video recording of the sewer lateral by closed-circuit
television (CCTV) or the use of other acceptable methods, as deemed
appropriate by the Green Lane-Marlborough Joint Sewer Authority, for
the purpose of determining the integrity of the sewer lateral and/or
building sewer.
Inspection of the sump pump and appurtenances by the authorized
agent for the purpose of determining any illegal connection or harmful
effect of the connection to the sewage collection system and/or sewage
treatment plant.
The Township of Marlborough, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,
acting by and through its Board of Supervisors or, in appropriate
cases, by and through its authorized representatives.
For the purposes of this chapter, where a term is not defined
in this section, such term shall have the meaning set forth in any
applicable standards, regulations, policies and/or procedures of the
Green Lane-Marlborough Joint Authority. Any term not defined therein
shall have the meaning attributed to it under the Pennsylvania Sewage
Facilities Act, 35 P.S. §§ 750.1 through 750.20a, and
any regulations promulgated therefrom. Where a term is not defined
by the Authority or in the Act, it shall receive its ordinarily accepted
meaning as interpreted by the authorized agent.
