Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms and phrases used in this
article shall be as follows:
AMMONIA NITROGEN AS N
Ammonia nitrogen as determined pursuant to the procedure
set forth in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater, published by American Public Health Association,
Inc.
BOD (denotes biochemical oxygen demand)
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in ppm by weight, utilized
in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory
procedure for five days at 20º 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, Inc.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any improved
property to the lateral serving such improved property.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or enclosure, or group
thereof, connected, directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and
used or intended for use in the operation of a business enterprise
for the sale and distribution of any product, commodity, article or
service, which maintains separate toilet, sink or other plumbing facilities
in the room or group of rooms utilized for such business enterprise.
CONNECTION ORDINANCE
The ordinance enacted by this Township requiring all owners
of any improved property located in the Township, which is adjoining
and adjacent to a sewer, to connect to such sewer and use the same
in such manner as this Township may ordain.
DWELLING UNIT
Any room, group of rooms, house trailer, apartment, condominium,
cooperative or other enclosure connected, directly or indirectly,
to the sewer system and occupied or intended for occupancy as living
quarters by an individual, a single family or other discrete group
of persons, excluding institutional dormitories.
EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected,
directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and used or intended for
use, in whole or in part, for educational purposes, including both
public and private schools or colleges.
EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States
of America.
EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT or EDU
The unit of measure by which the user charge and the tapping
fee shall be imposed upon each improved property, as determined in
this article or in any subsequent resolution of the Township, which
shall be deemed to constitute the estimated, equivalent amount of
domestic sanitary sewage discharged by a single-family dwelling unit.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
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 domestic sanitary sewage and/or
industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged, and is subject to
the Connection Ordinance.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any improved property used or intended for use, wholly or
in part, for the manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or
assembling of any product, commodity or article, or any other improved
property from which wastes, in addition to or other than domestic
sanitary sewage, shall or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any and all wastes discharged from an industrial establishment,
and/or any wastewater having characteristics which may have the potential
to be detrimental to the treatment plant, other than domestic sanitary
sewage.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected,
directly or indirectly, to the sewer system, including institutional
dormitories and educational establishments, which do not constitute
a commercial establishment, a dwelling unit or an industrial establishment.
LARGE CONSUMER
A person whose metered or estimated consumption of water
is in excess of 17,000 gallons per calendar quarter in the case of
a dwelling unit, or any commercial establishment, educational establishment,
institutional establishment or industrial establishment, regardless
of water consumption or volume of domestic sanitary sewage or industrial
wastes discharged.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
curbline, or if there is no curbline, to the property line, or if
no such extension is provided, then "lateral" shall mean that portion
of, or place in, a sewer that is provided for connection of any building
sewer.
MULTIPLE-USE IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any improved property upon which there shall exist any combination
of a dwelling unit, commercial establishment, industrial establishment,
educational establishment or institutional establishment.
OWNER
Any person vested with title, legal or equitable, sole or
partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation or other group or entity, including municipalities,
municipality authorities, school districts and other units of government.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, indicating the degree
of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
ppm
Parts per million parts water, by weight.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
used or usable for collection of domestic sanitary sewage and/or industrial
wastes.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, at any particular time, acquired, constructed,
operated and/or leased by the Township for collecting, pumping, transporting,
treating and/or disposing of domestic sanitary sewage and/or industrial
wastes discharged by an improved property within this Township.
STREET
Includes any street, road, lane, court, cul-de-sac, alley,
public way or public square, including such streets as are dedicated
to public use, and such streets as are owned by private persons.
TAPPING FEE
A fee against the owner of any improved property in the area
served by the sewer system which actually connects or is required
to be connected pursuant to the Connection Ordinance then in effect
requiring such connection or which otherwise connects to the sewer
system.
TOTAL PHOSPHORUS AS P
Total phosphorus as determined pursuant to the procedure
set forth in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater published by the American Public Health Association,
Inc.
TOTAL SOLIDS
Solids determined by evaporating at 100º C a mixed sample
of wastewater as determined pursuant to the procedure set forth in
the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water
and Wastewater published by the American Public Health Association,
Inc. Total solids include floating solids, suspended solids, settleable
solids and dissolved solids, as defined in general below and by standard
methods:
C.
DISSOLVED SOLIDSSolids that are dissolved in the waste and cannot be removed by filtration but can be determined by evaporation.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Kidder, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, a political
subdivision of the Commonwealth, acting by and through its Board of
Supervisors or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized
representatives.
TREATMENT PLANT
The sewage treatment and disposal system facilities acquired
and owned by the Township, together with all appurtenant facilities
and properties, and together with any additions, improvements, enlargements
and/or modifications thereto from time to time acquired or constructed.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the sewer system or the treatment plant from an
improved property.
USER CHARGE
The quarterly rental or charge imposed by the Township hereunder,
as amended from time to time, against the owner of each improved property,
for the use or availability of use of the sewer system.
The Township shall have the right of access,
at all reasonable times, to any part of any improved property as necessary
for purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and
testing and for performance of other functions relating to service
rendered by the Township.
Unless otherwise provided by the Township, the
owner of any improved property, upon direction of the Township, shall
acquire, install, operate and maintain at such owner's cost and expense
a grinder pump or similar apparatus satisfactory to the Township in
the manner and at the location directed by the Township. Such grinder
pump shall be installed at the time such improved property is connected
to the sewer system and shall be subject to inspection and approval
together with the remainder of the building sewer. In cases where
the Township furnishes a grinder pump to the owner of an improved
property, the Township reserves the right to impose hereunder a customer
facilities fee, in an amount not to exceed the maximum amount described
in Exhibit A hereto, payable at the time such grinder pump is furnished
by the Township (but payable not earlier than the date such improved
property is required to connect to the sewer system under the terms
of the Connection Ordinance).
The owner of any improved property shall be
held liable for all acts of tenants or other occupants of such improved
property, as may be permitted by law, insofar as such acts shall be
governed by the provisions of this article.
The Township shall adopt, from time to time,
such additional rules and regulations as it shall deem necessary and
proper in connection with the use and operation of the sewer system,
which rules and regulations shall be, shall become and shall be construed
as part of this article.
It is declared that enactment of this article
is necessary for the protection, benefit and preservation of health,
safety and welfare of the inhabitants of this Township.