[Amended 8-9-1979 by Ord. No. 1979-03; 12-1-1983 by Ord. No. 1983-08A; 12-26-1991 by Ord. No. 1991-17; 3-26-1998 by Ord. No. 1998-05; 1-9-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-01]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following words and terms used in this article shall have the following meanings:
A building which is intended to be used for continuous or periodic habitation by human beings and containing two or more family dwelling units or which contains business or professional offices and one or more family dwelling units or which contains business, professional or any other similar type of office or offices.
The report required in 40 CFR, Part 403.12, to be submitted by all industrial users and waste generators subject to categorical pretreatment standards.
Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures and other management practices not limited to but including management plans, treatment requirements, operating procedures and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal or drainage from raw material storage.
[Added 10-28-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-08]
The quantity of dissolved oxygen consumed in the biochemical oxidation of the organic matter in sewage, holding tank waste, septage of trucked industrial waste under standard laboratory procedures in five days at 20º C., expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/L). It shall be determined by an acceptable method described in 40 CFR, Part 136, and amendments hereto or any method approved by EPA.
The elected and appointed members of the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Springettsbury, as now or hereafter constituted and its duly authorized agents or representatives.
Pollutant discharge limits promulgated by EPA in accordance with § 307 of the Clean Water Act that apply to regulated process waste. They are based on the capability of a specific wastewater treatment technology or a series of technologies to reduce pollutant discharges equivalent to best available technology (BAT).
Public Law 92-500, October 18, 1972, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., as amended by P.L. 95-217, December 28, 1977; P.L. 97-117, December 29, 1981, P.L. 97-440, January 8, 1983, and P.L. 100-04, February 4, 1987.
A sewer designed to receive both sewage and stormwater runoff which has been approved for such purpose.
A property which is intended to be used for the purpose of carrying on a trade, business or profession or for social, religious, educational, charitable or public uses.
A permit issued to those industrial users that the Township does not classify as significant industrial users, but are considered to have a minor impact, either potential or realized, either singly or in combination with other contributing commercial or industrial establishments on the sanitary sewer system and/or the wastewater treatment facility (either its operational efficiency, effluent quality or quality of the sludge produced by such facility).
Any contributor discharging wastewater generated at a commercial establishment to the Springettsbury Township Wastewater Treatment Facility through direct connection (as opposed to discharging to the wastewater treatment facility through a waste hauler).
A sample consisting of a combination of individual samples, regardless of flow, obtained at regular intervals over a period of time and shall reasonably reflect the actual discharge conditions for that period of time.
A sample consisting of a combination of individual samples, regardless of flow, collected at regular intervals over a period of time, the sampling duration shall be not less than 20 hours, but shall not exceed 28 hours.
The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or any department or agency of the commonwealth succeeding to the existing jurisdiction or responsibility of the Department of Environmental Protection.
A property which is intended to be used for continuous or periodic habitation by human beings in a single-family unit.
Any person discharging only sanitary sewage.
A dwelling consisting of a room, group of rooms, house trailer or other enclosure occupied or intended for occupancy as a separate living quarters by a family or persons living together or by persons living alone. The value of sewage generated by one EDU is, for purposes of this article, 350 gallons per day.
The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States, or any agency or department of the United States succeeding to the existing jurisdiction or responsibility of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Any food service facility which prepares and/or packages food or beverages for sale or consumption, on or off site, with the exception of private residences. Food service facilities shall include, but are not limited to, food courts, food manufacturers, food packagers, restaurants, grocery stores, bakeries, lounges, hospitals, hotels, nursing homes, churches, schools, snack bars, grills, catering services, butchers and all other food service facilities not listed above.
[Added 10-28-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-08]
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
A sample taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and collected over a period of time not exceeding 15 minutes but shall reasonably reflect actual discharge conditions for that instant.
A device located inside or outside a food service facility designed to collect, contain or remove food wastes and grease from the waste stream while allowing the balance of the liquid waste to discharge to the wastewater collection system by gravity.
[Added 10-28-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-08]
A watertight receptacle designed to receive and retain sewage and is constructed to facilitate the ultimate disposal of the sewage at another site.
Sanitary sewage that is certified by the generator and waste hauler licensed by the Township, to originate from normal household functions and that is stored in such a manner so as not to concentrate said waste to level of nonfilterable residue exceeding 999 mg/L, the measurement of such total suspended solids being performed by Township staff, and shall include sanitary sewage removed from holding tanks such as, but not limited to, chemical toilet wastes, retention tank wastes and vault privy wastes.
The introduction of pollutants into the Township Wastewater Treatment Facility from a nondomestic source.
[Added 10-28-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-08]
A property which is intended to be used in whole or in part for the manufacture, conversion or assembly of any product, commodity or article.
Any contributor discharging to the Township Wastewater Treatment Facility through direct connection (as opposed to discharging to the wastewater treatment facility through a waste hauler) which is not a domestic user or commercial user.
The permit issued to a significant industrial user by the Township pursuant to § 265-4E of this article.
Any liquid, gaseous or waterborne wastes from industrial or commercial establishments or wastes having those characteristics of unacceptable wastes enumerated in § 265-5 of this article that are discharged into the public sanitary sewage system through direct connection (as opposed to discharge by a waste hauler) as distinct, but not including 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.
[Added 10-28-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-08]
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, inhibits or disrupts the wastewater treatment facility, its treatment processes or operations or its sludge processes, end-use or disposal and results in a violation of any requirement of the wastewater treatment facility's NPDES permit or prevents sludge use or disposal in compliance with applicable federal statutes, permits or regulations or that results in a violation of any requirement of the Air Pollution Control Act.
A permit issued under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) for discharge of wastewaters to the navigable waters of the United States pursuant to § 402 of the CWA, as amended.
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 shall 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.
The production or wastewater generating processes of the building, structure, facility or installation are 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. Determination of "new source" status shall be consistent with the provisions of 40 CFR, Part 403.3(k)(1), (k)(2) and (k)(3).
The report required by 40 CFR, Part 403.12(d) and which describes the user's compliance status with categorical pretreatment standards to be submitted by all industrial users or waste generators subject to categorical pretreatment standards.
Any structure erected and intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, or either thereof, is or may be discharged.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any property or his authorized representative.
A discharge which exits the wastewater treatment facility into the waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with other discharges, are a violation of the wastewater treatment facility's NPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
[Amended 10-28-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-08]
An individual, a partnership, an association, a corporation, a joint-stock company, a trust, an unincorporated association, a governmental body, a political subdivision, a municipality or a municipal authority or any other group or legally recognized entity. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
The measure of the intensity of the acidic or alkaline character of a material, liquid or solid. pH is represented on a scale of zero to 14 with seven representing a neutral state, zero representing the most acidic and 14 the most alkaline. It shall be determined by one of the acceptable methods described in 40 CFR, Part 136, and amendments thereto or by any method approved by EPA.
Dredged soil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water or any material that, when added to water, shall render that water (either because of the nature or quantity of the material) unacceptable for its original intended use.
Man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological and radiological integrity of water.
Publicly owned treatment works.
Any real estate abutting on or adjoining or having access to any street, alley or right-of-way in which a sewer is located which ultimately connects to the public sanitary sewage system upon which the principal building is within 150 feet of such sewer and to which sewer there is gravity flow from the first-floor level of such building.
The person designated by the Township to administer the monitoring and enforcement of industrial waste pretreatment for industrial and commercial contributors of the Township's Wastewater Treatment Facility.
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 the public sanitary sewage system. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes or process changes by other means.
The processes or equipment used by a user to reduce the amount of pollutants, eliminate pollutants or alter 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 the public sanitary sewage system. Pretreatment facilities or plants shall include, but are not limited to, systems designed to remove metals, grease/oil, BOD5, total suspended solids and toxic organics.
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment imposed on a user, other than a pretreatment standard.
[Added 10-28-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-08]
Categorical pretreatment standards and unacceptable wastes and discharges enumerated in § 265-5 of this article.
The pipe extending across private property originating at one or more occupied buildings and terminating at the public service lateral. The private service lateral shall normally extend to the street curb or street easement line. In some cases, the private service lateral may not extend to the street curb or street easement line.
Any water which, during manufacturing or processing, comes into direct contact with or results from the production of or use of any raw material, intermediate product, finished product, by-product or waste product, excluding sanitary noncontact cooling water and boiler blow down.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce that have been shredded to such degree that all particles shall be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
All sanitary or combined sewers, all pumping stations, all force mains, all sewage treatment works and all other sewage facilities owned or leased and operated by the Township for the collection, transportation and treatment of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes together with their appurtenances and any additions, extensions or improvements thereto. It shall also include sewers within the Township's service area which serve one or more persons and discharges into the public sanitary sewage system even though those sewers may not have been constructed by the Township or are not located within the Township boundaries or are not owned or maintained by the Township. It does not include separate storm sewers or culverts which have been constructed for the sole purpose of carrying storm and surface runoff, the discharge from which is not and does not become tributary to the wastewater treatment facility.
The pipe extending from the public sanitary sewage system and connecting to the private service lateral at the transition joint. Usually the public service lateral is installed by the Township, the Township's agent or by a developer and later dedicated to the Township. The public service lateral shall normally extend to the street curb or street easement line.
Shall be:
The chief executive officer or the chief operating officer of the user facility if the industrial user or waste generator is a corporation.
A partner or the general manager of the user facility if the industrial user or waste generator is a partnership.
The owner or the general manager of the user facility if the industrial user or waste hauler is a proprietorship.
The person duly designated as the responsible individual by a corporation, partnership or proprietorship; provided such person shall be actually responsible for overall operation of the user facilities.
Wastewater originating from domestic users containing human and customary household wastes or such wastes from commercial or industrial establishments, but excluding industrial wastes.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
A daily composite or grab sample collected from a significant industrial user based on a schedule formulated in accordance with § 265-13E of this article.
Waste that is generated in a septic tank as defined by this article and is certified by the generator and waste hauler licensed by the Township to originate from normal household functions and is concentrated or treated in such a manner so as to result in a concentration of total suspended solids between 5,000 mg/L and 24,999 mg/L the measurement of such total suspended solids being performed by Township staff.
Sanitary and/or industrial wastes carried either separately or in combination.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Is mandatory, "may" is permissive.
All industrial users that are regulated by categorical pretreatment standards or any industrial user of the Township's Wastewater Treatment Facility who has a discharge flow of 25,000 or more of process wastewater per average work day or contributes a process wastestream which makes up 5% or more of the average dry weather flow or organic (BOD5) capacity of the wastewater treatment facility or is found by the Township, EPA or DEP to have significant impact, either potential or realized, either singly or in combination with other wastes, on the sanitary sewer system and/or the wastewater treatment facility (either its operational efficiency, effluent quality or quality of the sludge produced by said facility).
Any instance of noncompliance with pretreatment requirements (limits, sampling, analysis, reporting and meeting compliance schedules and regulatory deadlines) for which the industrial user is liable for enforcement, including penalties.
[Amended 10-28-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-08]
The following are the criteria used to determine SNC:
Violations of wastewater discharge limits:
Chronic violations: 66% or more of the measurements exceed, in a six-month period, the same daily maximum limit, average limit or instantaneous limit (any magnitude of exceedence) of a pretreatment standard or requirement.
Technical review criteria (TRC) violations: 33% or more of the measurements exceed, in a six-month period, the same daily maximum limit, average limit or instantaneous limit by more than the TRC (any magnitude of exceedence) of a pretreatment standard or requirement.
Any other violation of an effluent limit average, daily maximum or instantaneous limit that the control authority believes has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass-through or endangers the health of Township personnel or the public.
Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health/welfare or to the environment and has resulted in the POTW's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge.
Violations of compliance schedule milestones for starting and completing construction and attaining final compliance by 90 days or more after the schedule date.
Failure to provide reports for compliance schedules, self-monitoring reports or categorical standards within 45 days from the due date.
Failure to accurately report noncompliance.
Any other violation or group of violations that the Township considers to be significant.
For an industrial user that is in SNC, the Township must report the information to the approval authority as part of the pretreatment performance summary of industrial user noncompliance, list the industrial user in the largest daily newspaper as having significant violations, and address SNC through appropriate enforcement action that may include administrative fines, or document in a timely manner the reasons for withholding enforcement.
All waste generators that are regulated by categorical pretreatment standards or any waste generator who has a discharge frequency, flow or character that is found by the Township, EPA or DEP to have significant impact on the wastewater treatment facility (either its operational efficiency, effluent quality or quality of the sludge produced by said facility), either potential or realized, either singly or in combination with other wastes entering the wastewater treatment facility.
Any pollutant (including, but not limited to, BOD5, the total suspended solids, other conventional pollutants and toxics) released in a discharge at a flow rate and/or pollutant concentration which will cause interference or pass-through at the wastewater treatment facility.
A classification pursuant to the latest standard industrial classification manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget.
A sewer which is intended to carry stormwater runoff, surface water, groundwater, drainage, etc., but which is not intended to carry any sanitary sewage or industrial waste.
That portion of precipitation which reaches a channel, trench, sewer or sink.
The concentration of total phosphate in sewage or trucked industrial wastes as determined by an acceptable method referenced in 40 CFR, Part 136, and amendments thereto, or by any other method approved by EPA, expressed in mg/L as P.
Solids that either float to the surface or are in suspension in water, sewage, industrial waste or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtration. The quantity of total suspended solids shall be determined by one of the acceptable methods described in 40 CFR, Part 136, and amendments thereto, or by any method approved by EPA.
The point of connection of the public service lateral and the private service lateral. The transition joint is usually apparent by the junction of pipes of different materials or diameters. In the absence of a clearly defined transition joint, a Township representative will determine the location of the transition joint. The transition joint will normally be within nine feet of the curbline.
Any liquid, gaseous or waterborne wastes from industrial or commercial establishments or leachate from sanitary landfills or wastes having those characteristics of unacceptable wastes enumerated in § 265-5 of this article, as distinct from sanitary sewage, holding tank wastes and septage, that are transported by vehicle and discharged to the public sanitary sewage system.
The Township of Springettsbury, York County, Pennsylvania.
Water that has not had its pollutant level raised by the user or any water or waste containing none of the following detectable levels of free or emulsified grease or oil, pH less than 6 or greater than 10.5, phenols or other substances imparting taste and odor to receiving waters, toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution in levels that exceed state or federal water quality or potable water quality criteria, obnoxious or odorous gases. It shall contain less than 1,000 mg/L of dissolved solids, 250 mg/L of chloride and 10 mg/L each of total suspended solids and BOD. The color shall not exceed 50 color units. Analysis of the parameter referenced in this definition shall be made in accordance with the methods listed in 40 CFR, Part 136, and amendments thereto, if the parameter is not listed in 40 CFR, Part 136, the analysis shall be made in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published jointly by the American Waterworks Association, the American Public Health Association and the Water Environment Federation or Methods of Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes, published by the EPA or by any other method approved by EPA.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of sewage into the Township's public sanitary sewage system.
Any sewage, trucked industrial waste, holding tank waste or septage discharged to the Township public sanitary sewage system.
Any generator of truck industrial waste.
A person licensed by the Township to transport and discharge approved holding tank waste, septage trucked industrial waste or waste generated at a commercial establishment at the Township Wastewater Treatment Facility.
A license issued to a waste hauler by the Township in accordance with § 265-4G of this article.
The permit issued by the Township to a significant waste generator for a particular trucked industrial waste pursuant to § 265-4G of this article.
The wastewater treatment plant, including all machinery, equipment, land, buildings and appurtenant facilities operated by the Township's Department of Wastewater Treatment.
