The short title of this Part 2 shall be "Township Sewage and
Industrial Wastes Ordinances."
As used in this Part
2, the following words, terms and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning.
ASTM
American Society for Testing of Materials.
AUTHORIZED INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Industrial waste proposed for discharge into a sanitary sewer
or storm sewer which complies with all provisions of this Part 2 regarding
quantity and quality and which:
A.
In the case of proposed discharge into a sanitary sewer, is
approved by the designated Township representative on forms provided
for such purpose; or
B.
In the case of proposed discharge into a storm sewer, is approved
by the Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania and Township in writing.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in mg/L, utilized in the
biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory
procedure in five days at 20° C. The standard laboratory procedure
shall be found in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the
Examination of Water and Sewage" published by the American Public
Health Association.
BUILDING DRAIN
The sewer or sewers of a building used to convey sewage and/or
industrial waste to building sewers or laterals, and in this Part
2 shall relate to the point of connection to the building sewer or
laterals at the curbline or property line.
BUILDING SEWER OR LATERAL
The extension of the building drain from the curbline or
property line to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
CITY
The City of Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
COLOR
In an industrial waste, the color of the light transmitted
by the waste solution after removing the suspended material, including
pseudocolloidal particles.
DISSOLVED SOLIDS
The anhydrous residues of the dissolved constituents in water
or wastewater.
GARBAGE
Solid waste resulting from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from handling, storage and sale
of produce.
GROUND GARBAGE
Garbage that has been shredded 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.
GROUNDWATER
That which is standing in or passing through the ground.
HAULER
Any person who, alone, jointly or severally with others,
conducts or operates a tank truck, or tank trucks, for use in the
removal, transportation and disposal of sewage and industrial wastes.
HEARING BOARD
The Board appointed according to the provisions of Section
11.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property located within the corporate limits of the Township
upon which there is erected a structure or structures intended for
continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings
or animals and from which structure or structures sewage and/or industrial
waste shall be, or may be discharged, or any property outside a corporate
limits of the Township upon which there is erected a structure or
structures intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy
or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sewage
and/or industrial waste shall be, or may be, discharged and which
wastes are accepted by the city into the city's sewerage system as
it exists now or with any extensions or enlargements that may be made
in the future.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Solid, liquid or gaseous substances or forms of energy ejected
or escaping in the course of any industrial, manufacturing, trade
or business process or in the course of development, recovering or
processing of natural resources, but not sewage.
MANHOLE
A shaft or chamber leading from the surface of the ground
to a sewer, large enough to enable a man to gain access to the latter.
MG/L
Milligrams per liter.
MUNICIPALITY
Any county, county authority, municipal authority, city,
borough, town, township or school district.
OPERATOR
Any person having charge, care, management or control of
tank truck or trucks for use in the removal, transportation and disposal
of sewage and industrial wastes.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, partnership, company, association,
society, corporation or other group or entity.
pH
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. A stabilized pH will
be considered as a pH which does not change beyond the specified limits
when the waste is subjected to aeration. It shall be determined by
one of the accepted methods described in the latest edition of "Standard
Methods for Examination of Water and Sewage" published by the American
Public Health Association.
PLUMBING INSPECTOR
The Plumbing Inspector of the Township or his duly authorized
assistant or representative.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and is controlled by public authority. It shall also include
sewers within or without the Township limits, which serve one or more
persons and discharge into the Township system.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and/or authorized industrial
wastes and to which stormwaters, surface waters and groundwaters are
not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excretions or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM or SEWERAGE FACILITY
All facilities owned and/or operated by the city and/or the
Township of Weisenberg and/or Lehigh County Authority or any municipal
authority or joint sanitary sewer board, which are used for collecting,
pumping, transporting, treating and disposing of sewage and authorized
industrial waste.
[Amended 4-8-2002 by Ord.
No. 02-03]
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage and authorized industrial waste.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage, industrial waste or
stormwater or surface water.
SHALL
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds
for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times
the average twenty-four-hour concentration of flow, during normal
operation.
STORM SEWER
A sewer which carries stormwater, surface water and groundwater
and or authorized industrial waste but not sewage.
STORMWATER
That portion of the precipitation which runs off over the
surface during a storm and for such a short period following a storm
as the flow exceeds the normal or ordinary runoff.
SURFACE WATER
That portion of the precipitation which runs off over the
surface of the ground.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
TANK TRUCK
Any tank wagon, tank truck, tank car, can or any other container
used for the removal, transportation and disposal of sewage and industrial
wastes.
TOTAL SOLIDS
The sum of dissolved and undissolved constituents in water
or wastewater.
TOWNSHIP
The municipality passing the ordinance.
TOXIC SUBSTANCE
Any noxious and/or deleterious substance in sufficient quantity,
either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to injure or interfere
with any sewage treatment process, to constitute a hazard to humans
or animals, to create a public nuisance or to create any hazard in
any sewerage system or in the receiving waters of a sewage treatment
plant.
TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR COMPOSITE WASTEWATER SAMPLE
Consists of 24 hourly wastewater samples collected over a
twenty-four-hour period with the sample proportioned according to
the flow rate at the time of the sample. The cumulative sample shall
be refrigerated.
WPCF
Water Pollution Control Federation.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs whether continuously
or intermittently.
Industrial users subject to federal categorical pretreatment
standards will comply with all reporting requirements enumerated in
40 CFR 403.12. These include, at a minimum, the following:
A. Submission of a baseline monitoring report within 180 days of promulgation
of a categorical standard containing identifying information, permit
information, a description of operations, flow data, an analysis of
regulated pollutants, a certified statement of pretreatment compliance
status, and where necessary, the shortest possible schedule for compliance
with a pretreatment standard.
B. Submission of a compliance data report within 90 days of the date
for final compliance with a categorical standard indicating the nature,
concentration and flows of regulated pollutants in user discharges.
C. Submission of periodic compliance reports at least twice annually,
at times designated by the approving authority, indicating the nature,
concentration and flows of regulated pollutants.
Information and data on an industrial user obtained from questionnaires,
permit applications, monitoring reports, and inspections shall be
available to the public without restriction unless the user specifically
requests and is able to demonstrate to the Township's satisfaction
that the release of such information will divulge information, processes,
or methods of production protected as the user's trade secrets. Effluent
data on wastewater constituents and characteristics will not be recognized
as confidential information.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
This Part 2 shall become effective 20 days after final passage
(October 3, 1985); provided, however that enforcement of this Part
2 may be determined by the Township on the basis of the complexity
of pretreatment required for industrial waste, but all plans and specifications
for pretreatment of industrial waste shall be submitted to and approved
by the approving authority and implemented not later than one year
after the date of notice of noncompliance.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Discharge of any and all wastewater flows to the Township sanitary
sewer system is contingent on the payment of all Lehigh County Authority
(LCA) and Township fees. Township fees are established by resolution
of the Board of Supervisors as part of the yearly fee schedule. LCA's
fees are set by the LCA Board. The purpose of this limitation on the
admission of sewage into the Township system is to fulfill federal
requirements and grant conditions associated with the federal funding
of wastewater system improvements.