The following words and terms used in this article
shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires
otherwise:
ABNORMAL INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any industrial waste having a suspended solid contend or
BOD appreciably in excess of that normally found in municipal sewage.
For the purposes of this article, any industrial waste containing
more than 320 parts per million (ppm) of suspended solids, or a chlorine
demand greater than 15 ppm, or having a BOD in excess of 320 ppm,
regardless of whether or not it contains other substances in concentrations
differing appreciably from those normally found in municipal sewage,
and/or industrial waste.
AUTHORITY
The Municipal Authority of Allegheny Township, Westmoreland
County, Pennsylvania, and its successors.
BOARD
The Board of Supervisors of the Township, and its successors
and assigns.
BOD
Designates the "biochemical oxygen demand," and shall mean
the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation or the
organic matter in sewage or industrial waste under standard laboratory
procedure in five days at 20° C., expressed in ppm by weight.
It shall be determined by one of the acceptable methods described
in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of
Water, Sewage and Industrial Wastes," published jointly by the American
Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and
the Federation of Sewage and Industrial Wastes Association (hereinafter
termed an "acceptable method") and acceptable to the Kiski Authority.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage
pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building
sewer which begins five feet outside the inner face of the building
wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
COMMERCIAL SERVICE
Service for premises where the customer is engaged in trade
and/or commerce.
CUSTOMER
The owner or tenant as hereinafter defined which is furnished
sewage service by the Authority.
DATE OF PRESENTATION
The date upon which a bill or notice is mailed, as evidenced
by the United States Post Office mark.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of food products and
produce. The term "garbage, properly shredded" shall mean the wastes
from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the
handling, storage and sale of food products and produce that have
been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried
freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers,
with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
INDUSTRIAL SERVICE
Sewage service for premises where the customer is engaged
in manufacturing or processing.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any liquid, gaseous or waterborne wastes from industrial
processes or commercial establishments as distinct from sanitary sewage.
[Amended 11-12-1984 by Ord. No. 9-1984]
KISKI AUTHORITY
Kiski Valley Water Pollution Control Authority and its successors.
MUNICIPAL OR PUBLIC SERVICE
Sewage service to a municipal subdivision of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania or agency thereof or to other similar public bodies.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
OCCUPIED PREMISES
Any premises erected and intended for continuous or periodic
habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals, and from
which premises sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, or either thereof,
may be discarded.
OWNER
The person having an interest as owner or presenting himself
to be the owner, whether legal or equitable, sole or only partial,
in any premises which is, or is about to be, furnished sewage service
by the Authority; and the word "owners" means all persons so interested
in any premises.
PERSON
Includes any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm,
company, corporation, association, or any other legal entity, or their
legal representatives, agents or assigns.
[Amended 11-12-1984 by Ord. No. 9-1984]
pH
The logarithm to the base 10 of the reciprocal of the weight
of the hydrogen ion concentration expressed in grams per liter of
solution, and shall be determined by an acceptable method.
PREMISES
The property or area including the improvements thereon to
which sewage service is or will be furnished by the Authority, and
as used herein shall be taken to designate:
A.
A building under one roof, owned or leased by
one customer and occupied as one residence or one place of business;
or
B.
A group or combination of buildings owned by
one customer, in one common enclosure, occupied by one family or one
other person as a residence, or place of business, or for manufacturing
or industrial purposes, or as a hotel, hospital, church, parochial
school, or similar institution, except as otherwise noted herein;
or
C.
The one side of a double house having a solid
vertical partition wall; or
D.
Each side of a double house or building occupied
by one family even though the water closet and/or other fixtures are
used in common; or
E.
Each apartment, office or suite of offices,
and/or place of business located in a building or a group of buildings
even though such buildings in a group are interconnected by a tunnel,
passageway, covered roadway, or a patio or by some similar means or
structure; or
F.
A public building devoted entirely to public
use, such as a town hall, school house, fire engine house; or
G.
A single lot, or park or playground; or
H.
Each house in a row of houses; or
I.
Each dwelling unit in a row of houses, a "dwelling
unit" being defined as a building or portion thereof with exclusive
culinary and sanitary facilities designed for occupancy and used by
one person or one family (household); or
J.
Each individual and separate place of business
and/or occupancy located in one building or group of buildings commonly
designated as shopping centers, supermarket areas, and by such other
terms; or
K.
Each dwelling unit in a public housing development
owned and operated by the United States of America, a municipal subdivision
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or an agency or instrumentality
of the Unites States or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; by a philanthropic
foundation or organization or some such similar body or organization;
or operated under private ownership.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sanitary sewer in which all owners of abutting properties
have equal rights to use the same, and is owned and controlled by
a public body or authority.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
residences, business establishments, institutions, industries and
commercial establishments, exclusive of stormwater runoff, surface
water, groundwater and industrial wastes.
[Amended 11-12-1984 by Ord. No. 9-1984]
SANITARY SEWER
A public sewer which carries sewage and/or industrial wastes
and to which stormwater runoff, surface waters, and groundwaters are
not intentionally admitted.
SERVICE AGREEMENT
The Service Agreement, dated as of July 1, 1973, among the
Township, Kiski Authority and 12 other municipalities, as hereafter
amended and supplemented, pertaining to the acceptance, transportation,
treatment and disposal of acceptable sanitary sewage and/or industrial
wastes from users in the Kiskiminetas River watershed of the Township.
SEWAGE
A combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business
and other buildings, institutions, schools, churches, and industrial
and commercial establishments.
SEWAGE AGENCY
A municipal subdivision or an authorized representative thereof,
and/or an owner, having the power to negotiate and enter into an agreement
with Kiski Authority relative to the furnishing of sewage service
by the Kiski Authority.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
All sanitary or combined sewers, all pumping stations, all
force mains, all sewage treatment works, and all other sewerage facilities
owned or leased and operated by the Kiski Authority 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 Kiski
Authority's service area which serve one or more persons and discharge
into the public sanitary sewerage system of the Kiski Authority even
though those sewers may not have been constructed by the Kiski Authority
and are not owned or maintained by the Kiski Authority. It does not
include separate storm sewers or culverts which have been constructed
for the sole purpose of carrying stormwater and surface water runoff,
the discharge from which is not and does not become tributary to the
sewage treatment facilities.
SEWAGE TREATMENTS WORKS
An assemblage of devices, structures and equipment for treating
and disposing of sewage and industrial wastes, including the sewage
treatment plants of the Authority and of Kiski Authority.
SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage or industrial wastes or a combination
of both and to which stormwater runoff, surface and groundwaters are
not intentionally admitted.
SEWER EXTENSIONS
The extensions of sewer lines, exclusive of service connections,
beyond existing sanitary sewage facilities.
SEWER SYSTEM
All public, sanitary sewers for the disposal of sanitary
sewage and/or industrial wastes nor or hereafter constructed or otherwise
acquired by the Township and/or the Authority in the Chartiers Run,
Kiskiminetas River and Allegheny River watersheds of the Township.
[Amended 1-10-2005 by Ord. No. 2-2005]
STORM SEWER
A pipe or conduit which carries stormwater runoff, surface
water and/or groundwater, to which sewage and/or industrial wastes
are not intentionally admitted.
STORMWATER RUNOFF
That portion of the rainfall which reaches a channel, trench,
sewer or sink.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface or are in suspension
in water, sewage, industrial waste or other liquids, and which are
removable by laboratory filtration. Quantitative determination of
suspended solids shall be made by an acceptable method.
TEMPORARY SERVICE
Sanitary sewage service for circuses, bazaars, fairs, construction
work, and similar uses, that because of their nature will not be used
steadily or permanently.
TENANT
Anyone occupying premises owned by another, which premises
are furnished sewage service.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Allegheny, located in Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania, and its successors.
TOWNSHIP USERS
At any particular time, customers, property owners and all
persons in the Township using, directly or indirectly, the sewer system
at such particular time, and their heirs, personal representatives,
administrators, successors and assigns.
UNPOLLUTED WATER OR WASTES
Any water or wastes containing none of the following: free
or emulsified grease or oil; acids or alkalis, phenols or other substances
imparting taste and odor and color to receiving waters; toxic or poisonous
substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution; obnoxious or
odorous gases. It shall contain not more than 3,200 ppm by weight
of dissolved solids, of which not more than 1,500 ppm shall be as
chloride and not more than 3,200 ppm each of suspended solids and
BOD. The color shall not exceed 50 ppm. Analysis for any of the above-mentioned
substances shall be made by an acceptable method.
VOLUME OF WATER USED
Includes, for sewer service charge and surcharge purposes,
metered water purchased from the Water Utility and in addition thereto
all water obtained from wells, springs, streams, etc., as determined
by:
A.
Water meters installed and maintained by the
Water Utility;
B.
Water meters installed and maintained by the
customer, property owner or water user; or
C.
Estimates or measurements made by the Water
Utility, the Township or the Authority, as the case may be.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently. (Ord. No. 18-1978, enacted February 13, 1978.)
WATER UTILITY
Any private water company or any other utility public or
quasi-public corporation or utility supplying water to the public
within the Township, and its successors and assigns.