[Added Ord. No. 2020-17, 12/3/2020[1]]
1.
ALLENTOWN AGREEMENTS
ALLENTOWN AUTHORITY
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
AUTHORIZED AGENT
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE USER
A.
(1)
(2)
B.
C.
D.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES or BMPs
BILLING UNIT
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND
BOARD
BOD
BUILDING SEWER
BYPASS
CATEGORICAL INDUSTRIAL USER
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or CATEGORICAL STANDARD
CFR
CITY
CLEAN WATER ACT
COD
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
COMMUNITY SEWAGE SYSTEM
COMPLIANCE
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
CONTROL AUTHORITY
COUNTY
COUNTY AUTHORITY
DAILY MAXIMUM
DAILY MAXIMUM LIMIT
DEDUCT METER
DEPARTMENT
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
DWELLING UNIT
EMPLOYEES
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA
EXISTING SOURCE
FOG
FOOD SERVICE FACILITY
GARBAGE
GPD
GRAB SAMPLE
GREASE
GREASE TRAP OR INTERCEPTOR
HOLDING TANK
A.
B.
C.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
INDIRECT DISCHARGE or DISCHARGE
INDIVIDUAL SEWAGE SYSTEM
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
INDUSTRIAL WASTE MANAGER
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
INSTANTANEOUS MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE DISCHARGE LIMIT
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
INTERCEPTOR SYSTEM
INTERFERENCE
LOCAL LIMIT
MALFUNCTION
MEDICAL WASTE
mg/l
MONTHLY AVERAGE
MONTHLY AVERAGE LIMIT
MULTIPLE UNIT
MUNICIPALITY
NEW SOURCE
A.
(1)
(2)
(3)
B.
C.
(1)
(a)
(b)
(2)
NONCONTACT COOLING WATER
NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS)
NOTICE
NPDES
OFFICIAL SEWAGE FACILITIES PLAN
OIL/WATER SEPARATOR
ON-LOT SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
OWNER
PASSTHROUGH
PERSON
pH
POLLUTANT
PPM
PRETREATMENT
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS or STANDARDS
PRIVATE LATERAL SEWER LINE
PROHIBITED DISCHARGE STANDARDS or PROHIBITED DISCHARGES
PROPERLY CHOPPED GARBAGE
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
PUMPER/HAULER
RCRA
REGULATED FACILITY
REHABILITATION
REPLACEMENT AREA
SANITARY SEWAGE
SEPTAGE
SEPTIC TANK WASTE
SEVERE PROPERTY DAMAGE
SEWAGE
SEWAGE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER (SEO)
SEWAGE MANAGEMENT DISTRICT
SEWAGE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
SEWAGE PERMIT
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
SEWER
SEWER CLEANOUT
SEWER LATERAL, PRIVATE
SEWER LATERAL, PUBLIC
SEWER SYSTEM
SEWER SYSTEM
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER (SIU)
A.
B.
(1)
(2)
(3)
C.
D.
SLUG LOAD or SLUG DISCHARGE
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC) CODE
STORMWATER
SUBDIVISION
SUMP PUMP
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
SYSTEM
TKN
TOTAL KJELDAHL NITROGEN or TKN
TOTAL SOLIDS
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS or SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOWNSHIP
TOXIC SUBSTANCE
TSS
U.S.C.
UMT
USER
USER or INDUSTRIAL USER
WASTEWATER
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT or TREATMENT PLANT
WATER SYSTEM
Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Chapter 18 shall be as follows:
Collectively, the Agreement, dated December 22, 1969, between
the City, as party of the first part, and the County Authority, as
party of the second part, and the Loan Agreement, dated December 22,
1969, by and among the City, as party of the first part, and Coplay-Whitehall
Sewer Authority, South Whitehall Township Authority, and Salisbury
Township Authority, all Pennsylvania municipality authorities, as
parties of the second part, and the County, as party of the third
part, including any amendments and/or supplements to either or both
of said agreements at any time constituting a part of either or both
of said agreements.
Allentown Authority, a Pennsylvania municipality authority.
The Regional Administrator of EPA, Region III.
A Sewage Enforcement Officer, professional engineer, or code
enforcement officer who is authorized to function as an agent of the
Township to administer or enforce the provisions of this Part.
If the user is a corporation:
The president, secretary, treasurer or a vice president of the
corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any other
person who performs similar policymaking or decision-making functions
for the corporation.
The manager of one or more manufacturing, production, or operating
facilities, provided that the manager is authorized to make management
decisions that govern the operation of the regulated facility, including
having the explicit or implicit duty of making major capital investment
recommendations, and initiate and direct other comprehensive measures
to assure long-term environmental compliance with environmental laws
and regulations; can ensure that the necessary systems are established
or actions taken to gather complete and accurate information for wastewater
discharge permit requirements; and where authority to sign documents
has been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate
procedures.
If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship, a general
partner or proprietor, respectively.
If the user is a federal, state or local government facility,
a director or highest official appointed or designated to oversee
the operation and performance of the activities of the government
facility or its designee.
The individuals described in Subsections A through C, above,
may designate another authorized representative if the authorization
is in writing, the authorization specifies the individual or position
responsible for the overall operation of the facility from which the
discharge originates or having overall responsibility for environmental
matters for the company, and the written authorization is submitted
to the Township and the City.
Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in § 18-305, Subsections 2 and 3 [40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b)]. BMPs include treatment requirements, operating procedures, management plans, and practices to control the discharge of pollutants.
Includes, as applicable, each of the following: a "commercial
establishment," a "dwelling unit," an "industrial establishment" and
an "institutional establishment."
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in ppm or mg/1, 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.
The Board of Supervisors of Upper Macungie Township, Lehigh
County, Pennsylvania.
An abbreviation for "Biochemical Oxygen Demand."
The sewer or sewers from the building drain to the connection
point at the public sewer lateral. A Building Sewer shall also mean
a Private Sewer Lateral.
The intentional diversion of waste streams from any portion
of a user's treatment facility.
An industrial user subject to a categorical pretreatment
standard or categorical standard.
Any regulation containing pollution discharge limits promulgated by EPA in accordance with § 307(b) and (c) of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 1317) which apply to a specific category of users and which appear in 40 CFR, Chapter 1, Subchapter N, Parts 405 through 471.
Abbreviation for "Code of Federal Regulations."
The City of Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, or the
City Council of Allentown.
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
Abbreviation for "Chemical Oxygen Demand." A measure of the
oxygen required to oxidize all compounds, both organic and inorganic,
in water.
Any room, group of rooms, building or enclosure used or intended
for use in the operation of one business enterprise for the sale and
distribution of any product, commodity, article or service or used
or intended for use for any social, amusement, religious, educational,
charitable or public purpose and containing plumbing facilities for
kitchens, toilet or washing facilities.
Any system, whether publicly or privately owned, for the
collection of sewage from two or more lots and the treatment and/or
disposal of the sewage on one or more lots or at any other site.
Compliance with the provisions of the ordinance set forth herein, and any amendments thereto as well as Upper Macungie Township Ordinance 2007-6 and with § 18-305 of the Upper Macungie Township Code of Ordinances.
Samples collected at regular intervals, sometimes in proportion
to the existing flow, and then combined to form a sample representative
of flow over a period of time.
The City of Allentown.
The County of Lehigh, Pennsylvania.
Lehigh County Authority, a Pennsylvania municipality authority.
The arithmetic average of all effluent samples for a pollutant
collected during a calendar day.
The maximum allowable discharge limit of a pollutant during
a calendar day. Where daily maximum limits are expressed in units
of mass, the daily discharge is the total mass discharged over the
course of the day. Where daily maximum limits are expressed in terms
of concentration, the daily discharge is the arithmetic average measurement
of the pollutant concentration derived from all measurements taken
that day.
A second water meter on a customer's property where
the customer pays for the water usage through the meter, but not wastewater
usage, as the water that passes through this meter does not go to
the sanitary lateral for treatment at the treatment facility.
[Added by Ord. No. 2023-02, 1/3/2023]
The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania (DEP).
The person designated by the City to supervise the operation
of the POTW and who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities
by this Part. The term also means a duly authorized representative
of the Director of Public Works.
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure occupied
or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by a family
or other group of persons living together or by a person living alone.
Such employees or designated representative or officials
of the UMT shall, from time to time, designate and utilize in making
the inspection and/or tests hereafter described in carrying out the
other duties as prescribed herein to be performed on behalf of UMT.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency or, where
appropriate, the Regional Water Protection Division Director or other
duly authorized official of said agency.
Any source of discharge that is not a new source.
Abbreviation for "Fats, Oils and Grease."
A facility or establishment, other than a residential dwelling,
regularly engaged in activities of preparing or serving or otherwise
making food available for consumption which uses one or more of the
following preparation techniques: cooking by frying (all methods);
baking (all methods), grilling, sauteing, rotisserie cooking, broiling
(all methods), boiling, blanching, roasting, toasting, or poaching.
Also included as a technique and for purposes of this definition are
infrared heating, searing, barbecuing, and any other food preparation
activity which produces a non-drinkable food product in or on a receptacle
that requires washing. These facilities include restaurants, cafeterias,
hotels, motels, hospitals, nursing homes, schools, grocery stores,
prisons, jails, churches, camps, caterers, concessions, manufacturing
plants, or any other sewer customers which discharge, or are likely
to discharge, grease into the system.
Solid wastes resulting from preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food and from handling, storage, and sale of produce.
Abbreviation for "Gallons Per Day."
A sample which is taken from a waste stream without regard
to flow and over a period of time not to exceed 15 minutes.
Material composed primarily of fats, oil, and grease from
animal or vegetable sources. The terms "fats," "oil," and "grease"
may be used interchangeably in this chapter under this single definition.
A device for separating and retaining waterborne grease and
grease complexes prior to the wastewater exiting the trap and entering
the system. These devices also serve to collect settleable solids,
generated by and from food preparation and other activities which
discharge grease, prior to water exiting the trap and entering the
system.
A watertight receptacle which receives and retains sewage
and is designed and constructed to facilitate ultimate disposal of
the sewage at another site. Holding tanks include but are not limited
to the following:
Chemical toilet, which is a toilet using chemicals that discharge
to a holding tank.
Retention tank, which is a holding tank where sewage is conveyed
to it by a water-carrying system.
Vault pit privy, which is a holding tank designed to receive
sewage where water under pressure is not available.
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 sanitary sewage and/or industrial
wastes shall be or may be discharged.
The introduction of pollutants into the POTW from any nondomestic
source regulated under § 307(b), (c) or (d) of the Clean
Water Act.
Any system of piping, tanks or other facilities serving a
single lot and collecting and disposing of sewage in whole or in part
into the soil or into any waters of the Commonwealth.
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure used
or intended for use, in whole or in part, in the operation of one
business enterprise for manufacturing, fabricating, processing, cleaning,
laundering or assembling any product, commodity or article or from
which any process waste, as distinct from sanitary sewage, shall be
discharged.
The Director of Public Works or a person designated by the
Director of Public Works who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities
by the ordinance.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or waterborne wastes
or form of energy rejected or escaping in the course of any industrial,
manufacturing, trade or business process or in the course of the development,
recovery or processing of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary
sewage.
The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged
at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete or composited
sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the
duration of the sampling event.
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure which
does not constitute a commercial establishment, a dwelling unit, or
an industrial establishment.
A system of interceptor sewers being acquired and constructed
by County Authority and leased to the County for use and operation,
to which interceptor system the sewer system is to be connected for
the purpose of receiving sewage and wastes collected in the sewer
system and transporting the same to the sewer system owned by the
Allentown Authority and leased to the City for the purpose of further
transportation, treatment and disposal pursuant to the Allentown Agreements.
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges from other sources, inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its
treatment processes or operations or its biosolids processes, use
or disposal and, therefore, is a cause of a violation of the City's
NPDES permit or of the prevention of sewage biosolids use or disposal
in compliance with any of the following statutory/regulatory provisions
or permits issued thereunder or any more stringent state or local
regulations: § 405 of the Clean Water Act; the Solid Waste
Disposal Act, including Title II, commonly referred to as the "Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)"; and state regulations contained
in any state biosolids management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle
D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; the Clean Air Act; the Toxic Substances
Control Act; and the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act.
Specific discharge limits developed and enforced by the City
upon industrial or commercial facilities to implement the general
and specific discharge prohibitions listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and
(b).
The condition which occurs when an on-lot sewage disposal
system discharges sewage onto the surface of the ground, into groundwaters
of this Commonwealth or into surface waters of this Commonwealth,
backs up into a building connected to the system or in any manner
causes a nuisance or hazard to the public health or pollution of ground-
or surface water or contamination of public or private drinking water
wells. A system shall be considered to be malfunctioning if any condition
noted above occurs for any length of time during any period of the
year.
Isolation wastes, infection agents, human blood and blood
products, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding,
surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory wastes and dialysis
wastes.
Milligrams per liter.
The sum of all daily discharges measured during a calendar
month divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that
month.
The highest allowable average of daily discharges over a
calendar month, calculated as the sum of all daily discharges measured
during a calendar month divided by the number of daily discharges
measured during that month.
Any improved property in which shall be located more than
one billing unit.
Upper Macungie Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
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 § 307(c) of the Clean Water Act which will be applicable
to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance
with that section, provided that:
The building, structure, facility, or installation is constructed
at a site at which no other source is located;
The building, structure, facility, or installation totally replaces
the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants
at an existing source; or
The production or wastewater-generating process of the building,
structure, facility, or installation is substantially independent
of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these
are substantially independent, factors such as the extent to which
the new facility is integrated with the existing plant and the extent
to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity
as the existing source should be considered.
Construction on a site at which an existing source is located
results in a modification rather than a new source if the construction
does not create a new building, structure, facility or installation
meeting the criteria of A(2) or (3), above, but otherwise alters,
replaces or adds to existing process or production equipment.
Construction of a new source, as defined under this section,
has commenced if the owner or operator has:
Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous on-site construction
program:
Any placement, assembly or installation of facilities or equipment.
Significant site preparation work, including clearing, excavation
or removal of existing buildings, structure or facilities which is
necessary for the placement, assembly or installation of new source
facilities or equipment.
Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase
of facilities or equipment which are intended to be used in its operation
within a reasonable time. Options to purchase or contracts which can
be terminated or modified without substantial loss, and contracts
for feasibility, engineering, and design studies, do not constitute
a contractual obligation under this subsection.
Water used for cooling which does not come into direct contact
with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product or finished
product.
A classification pursuant to the North American Industry
Classification System Manual issued by the United States Office of
Management and Budget.
Advising when inspections and tests of the system should
be performed by UMT.
Abbreviation for "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System."
A comprehensive plan for the provision of an adequate sewage
disposal system adopted by the Board and approved by the DEP, pursuant
to the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act.
A device that is specifically designed and manufactured to
separate oil from water and permits the oil to be collected and removed
on a regular basis so as to prevent it from being discharged into
the system.
Any system for disposal of domestic sewage involving pretreatment
and subsequent disposal of the clarified sewage into a subsurface
soil absorption area or retaining tank; this term includes both individual
sewage systems and community sewage systems.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole,
or partial, of any property located in the Township.
A discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United
States in quantities or concentration which, alone or in conjunction
with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a
violation of any requirement of the City's NPDES permit, including
an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
Any individual, association, public or private corporation
for profit or not for profit, partnership, co-partnership, firm, joint-stock
company, society, trust, estate, department, board, bureau or agency
of the Commonwealth, political subdivision, municipality, district,
authority, or any other legal entity whatsoever which is recognized
by law as the subject of rights and duties, or their legal representatives,
agents or assigns. This definition includes all federal, state, and
local governmental entities. Whenever used in any clause prescribing
and imposing a penalty or imposing a fine or imprisonment, the term
"person" shall include the members of an association, partnership
or firm and the officers of any local or municipal, public or private
corporation for profit or not for profit.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, and indicates the
degree of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
Dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash,
sewage, garbage, sewage biosolids, munitions, medical wastes, chemical
wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked
or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, municipal, agricultural
and industrial wastes and certain characteristics of wastewater (including,
but not limited to, pH, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD, toxicity
or odor).
Abbreviation for "Parts per million," by weight.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or other alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater prior to, or in lieu of, introducing such pollutants
into the POTW. This reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical,
chemical, or biological processes, by process changes or by other
means, except by diluting the concentration of the pollutants unless
allowed by an applicable pretreatment standard.
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment
imposed on a user, other than a pretreatment standard.
Prohibited discharge standards, categorical pretreatment
standards and local limits.
The sewer line owned, maintained, and controlled by the property
owner, which sewer line commences at its connection to the system.
Absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain standards. These prohibitions appear in § 18-305.
Garbage that has been chopped to such a degree that all its
particles will be carried freely under normal sewer flow conditions,
with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
A "treatment works," as defined in § 212 of the
Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned by the
City or any municipality which contributes wastewater to the City's
system. This definition includes any devices or systems used in the
collection, storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of sewage
or industrial wastes of a liquid nature and any conveyances which
convey wastewater to a treatment plant.
Any person, company, partnership or corporation which engages
in cleaning community or individual sewage systems and transports
the septage cleaned from these systems and who has registered with
the Township and a current member in good standing of the Pennsylvania
Septage Management Association.
Abbreviation for the "Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act."
Each food service facility, and all other customers of the
Township, which contribute discharges or accumulate grease which enters
the system. The term "regulated facility" shall not include residential
dwellings.
The work done to modify, alter, repair, enlarge or replace
an existing on-lot sewage disposal system.
A portion of a lot or a developed property, sized to allow
the installation of an on-lot sewage disposal system, which is reserved
to allow that installation in the event of the malfunction of the
presently installed on-lot sewage disposal system.
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
any improved property.
The sewage, residual scum and sludge pumped from on-lot disposal
systems.
Any sewage from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical
toilets, campers, trailers, and septic tanks.
Substantial physical damage to property, damage to the treatment
facilities which causes them to become inoperable, or substantial
and permanent loss of natural resources which can reasonably be expected
to occur in the absence of a bypass. "Severe property damage" does
not mean economic loss caused by delays in production.
Any substance that contains gray water (household showers,
dish-washing operations, etc.) or any of the waste products or excrement
or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals and
any noxious or deleterious substances 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 which constitutes
pollution under the Act of June 22, 1937 (P.L. 1987, No. 394), known
as the "Clean Streams Law," as amended.
A person certified by DEP who is appointed by the Township.
Such person is authorized to conduct investigations and inspections,
review permit applications, issue or deny permits and do all other
activities as may be provided for such person in the Sewage Facilities
Act, the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder and this Part
or any other ordinance adopted by the Township.
Any area or areas of the Township designated in the Official
Sewage Facilities Plan adopted the Board as an area for which a Sewage
Management Program and Ordinance is to be implemented.
A comprehensive set of legal and administrative requirements
encompassing the requirements of this Part, the Sewage Facilities
Act, the Clean Streams Law, the regulations promulgated thereunder
and such other requirements adopted by the Board to effectively enforce
and administer this Part.
A document issued for the local agency by the SEO when proper
application, fee, test results, field investigations, a suitable system
design and other requested information by the Township have all been
provided to the SEO in accordance with Pa.Code Title 25, Chapter 72,
and the Administration of Sewage Facilities Permitting Program.
The plant and facilities owned by Allentown Authority and
leased to the City for operation and use for the purpose, inter alia,
of treatment and disposition of sanitary sewage and certain industrial
wastes which may be collected in the sewer system and ultimately delivered
to said plant and facilities, including all additions thereto.
Any pipe, main or conduit constituting a part of the sewer
system and used or usable for collection and transportation of sanitary
sewage and industrial wastes.
A capped pipe that provides access to a lateral sewer line.
The capped pipe is typically used for accessing the lateral sewer
line to clean out blockages.
See definition of "Building Sewer" hereinabove.
The sewer line starting at the connection point to the Township's
sanitary sewer conveyance system to a point located at the right-of-way
line of the property.
All facilities within the Township, as of any particular
time, for collecting, transporting, pumping, treating, or disposing
of wastewater which is ultimately conveyed for treatment to the City's
wastewater treatment plant.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
transporting, pumping and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial
wastes, situate in or adjacent to the Township, owned by the Authority
and leased to this Township for operation and use.
Except as provided in Subsections C and D of this definition,
a significant industrial user is:
An industrial user subject to categorical pretreatment standards.
An industrial user that:
Discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of process
wastewater to the POTW (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling water
and boiler blowdown wastewater).
Contributes a process waste stream which makes up 5% or more
of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW
treatment plant.
Is designated as such by the City or the Township on the basis
that it has reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's
operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
The City may determine that an industrial user subject to categorical
pretreatment standards is a nonsignificant categorical industrial
user rather than a significant industrial user on a finding that the
industrial user never discharges more than 100 gallons per day (gpd)
of total categorical wastewater (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling
and boiler blowdown wastewater, unless specifically included in the
pretreatment standard) and the following conditions are met:
Upon a finding that a user meeting the criteria in Subsection
B has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation
or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the Township
and the City may at any time, on its own initiative or in response
to a petition received from a user, and in accordance with procedures
in 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine that such user should not be considered
a significant industrial user.
Any discharge at a flow rate or concentration which could cause a violation of the prohibited discharge standards in § 18-405. 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 passthrough, or in any other way violate the POTW's regulations, local limits or permit conditions.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the United States Office of Management and Budget.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting from such precipitation, including snowmelt.
The division or subdivision of a lot, tract, or parcel of
land into two or more lots, tracts, parcels, or other divisions of
land, including changes in existing lot lines. The enumerating of
lots shall include as a lot that portion of the original tract or
tracts remaining after other lots have been subdivided therefrom.
For the purpose of this Part, this term shall also mean a land development.
Any pump connected to the sanitary sewer system which is
being used to pump groundwater/stormwater into the sanitary sewer
system.
Solids neither dissolved nor floating on the surface of the
liquid, as determined by appropriate procedures found in the latest
edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater"
published by the American Public Health Association.
All of the facilities for collecting, pumping, and disposing
of sanitary sewage which is owned by the UMT within the sanitary sewer
service area of the UMT.
Abbreviation for "Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen."
The sum of free-ammonia and of organic nitrogen compounds
which are converted to ammonium sulfate (NH4)2S04 under conditions
specified by Standard Methods 20th Edition, Method 4500 or EPA Method
351.
All solids as determined by appropriate procedures found
in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of
Water and Wastewater" published by the American Public Health Association.
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.
The Township of Upper Macungie, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania,
a municipality of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting by and
through its Board of Supervisors or, in appropriate cases, acting
by and through its authorized representatives.
Any poisonous substance, including copper, cyanide, chromium,
beryllium, cadmium, lead, nickel, tin and zinc ions, and any phenolic
bodies or radioactive isotopes.
Abbreviation for "Total Suspended Solids."
Abbreviation for "United States Code."
Abbreviation for "Upper Macungie Township."
The owner, lessee, or occupant of the property on which the
buildings and/or appurtenances that are connected to the system are
located.
A source of indirect discharge.
Liquid and water-carried industrial wastes and sewage from
residential dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial and manufacturing
facilities, and institutions, whether treated or untreated, which
are contributed to the POTW.
That portion of the POTW which is designed to provide treatment
of municipal sewage and industrial waste.
The facilities owned by any person and used for the supply
of water to the public in the Township.
2.
Any term
not defined herein shall have that meaning found in the Sewage Facilities
Act; the Municipalities Planning Code and regulations promulgated
thereto, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided for the repeal and renumbering of further sections and parts of this chapter, including former § 18-101, Definitions, Ord. 6-71, 5/18/1971, as amended; § 18-302, Definitions, Ord. 7-73, 9/6/1973; § 18-303, Definitions, Ord. 1-96, 5/16/1996, as amended; Part 4, Reserve Allocation Charge, Ord. 2007-9, 9/13/2007; § 18-501, Definitions, Ord. 2008-3, 12/4/2008; and § 18-702, Definitions, Ord. 2010-8, 10/7/2010, and the updating of internal references pursuant to these changes.
