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ASTM
AUTHORITY
AWWA
BOD (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
BOROUGH
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
CISPI
COLLECTION SEWER
COMMONWEALTH
CONNECTION
ENGINEER
EQUIVALENT BILLING UNIT
EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT
GARBAGE
HOOKUP
IMPROVED PROPERTY
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
LATERAL
MOBILE HOME TRAILER
MOBILE HOME TRAILER PARK
NONRESIDENTIAL
OWNER
PENNDOT
PERSON
pH
PPM (PARTS PER MILLION)
PRIVATE SEWER SYSTEM
PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM
PVC
RESIDENTIAL
SANITARY SEWAGE
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
SEWER SYSTEM
SLUG
STANDARD METHODS
STREET
SURCHARGE
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOXIC SUBSTANCE
UNPOLLUTED WATER OR LIQUIDS
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
The American Society for Testing Materials, 1916 Race Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.
The Lackawanna County River Basin Sewer Authority.
The American Water Works Association, 6666 West Quincy Avenue,
Denver, Colorado 80235.
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in parts per million (ppm)
by weight, utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter
under standard laboratory procedure for five days at 20° Centigrade.
The standard laboratory shall be found in the latest edition of "Standard
Methods."
The Borough of Moosic, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, a
municipal corporation of the commonwealth, acting by and through its
Council or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized
representative.
That part of a building's drainage system which extends from
the building to five feet outside the foundation wall, unless the
distance from the foundation wall to a lateral or connection is less
than five feet, in which case it is a building sewer, if so designated
by the Borough.
That part of the building drainage system which extends from
the end of the building drain to a public or private lateral, an individual
sewage disposal system or other point of disposal.
The Cast Iron Soil Pipe Institute.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the public or
a private sewer system used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
A connection to the public's sewer system shall consist of
all gravity pipe, pump stations, force mains, appurtenances and equipment
including the lateral, the building sewer, drain and any other collection
sewer or a private system, which is used to connect in a property,
lot, street including land, alley, way or drive, a project, a development,
a building, use or any part thereof, to the municipality's sewer system.
A person licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to
perform engineering services. “Borough Engineer” shall
refer to the individual engineer or firm employed by the Borough of
acting for the Borough.
The unit quantity of water per day as determined by the Borough
that is used for billing purposes when using consumption of water
as the basis for billing.
The structure or portion of a structure which serves as the
residence of a single family or the equivalent portion of a structure
that equates to similar usage.
Solid wastes usually collected by Street Department personnel as defined in Chapter 255, Solid Waste, as amended. It shall include solid wastes resulting from food preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food and from handling, storage and sale of food products and produce.
The initial, additional or replacement connection made from
a property, improved or otherwise, to the collection sewer.
Any property within this Borough 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 wastes, industrial or otherwise, shall be discharged.
Any and all wastes discharged from an industrial establishment
and shall be defined in content by the Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Protection.
That part of the public or private sewer system extending
from a collection sewer to the curbline or, if there shall be no curbline,
to the property line, or that portion of, or place in, a sewer which
is provided for the connection of any building sewer.
A furnished vehicle used as a residence and/or dwelling unit
designed to be capable of being moved, by a truck or tractor or any
other motor vehicle, from place to place.
[Added 12-12-1994]
A site where mobile home trailers are parked or housed for
a period of time, in which said trailers are used for living and/or
dwelling purposes.
[Added 12-12-1994]
Any properly that is not residential.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property that is within the Borough, that property
being either improved or not improved.
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation, or other group or entity.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of
hydrogen ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, which indicate
the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
A weight-to-weight ratio, with a factor of 8.345 to be used
when pounds per million gallons of water is necessary.
All the facilities for collecting, pumping or conveyance
of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes situated either on private
or public property, ways or streets, rights-of-way, which are or are
not constructed to the standards of a public sewer system but are
not the property of the Borough.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping, treating, and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial
wastes, situated in the sewered area and owned and/or operated by
the Authority or the Borough.
Polyvinyl chloride, or pipe constructed of that material.
A dwelling unit constructed as a private dwelling unit within
which a single family resides or could reside.
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any
improved property.
The plant and/or facilities operated for such purpose by
the Borough to which the public sewer system is to be connected. (Shall
also be referred to as SIP.)
Any pipe or conduit whether public or private which carries
any sanitary sewage, or industrial wastes or other liquid other than
potable water or stormwater.
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 longer duration than 15 minutes, more than
five times its average hourly concentration of flow.
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the
most recent 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 Water Pollution Control Federation.
Includes any street, road, lane, court, cul-de-sac, alley,
public way or public square.
The extra charge in addition to the service rental which
is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than
the concentration values established as representative of normal sewage.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtration as set forth in the latest edition of "Standard Methods."
Any poisonous substance including but not limited to copper,
cyanide and chromium ions.
Any water or liquid containing more of the following: free
or emulsified grease or oil; acids or alkalis; substances that may
impart taste-and-odor or color characteristics; toxic or poisonous
substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution; odorous or
otherwise obnoxious gases. It shall not contain more than 1,000 parts
per million by weight of dissolved solids, and not more than five
parts oxygen demand and shall meet public drinking water standards.
Analytical determinations shall be made in accordance with procedures
set forth in "Standard Methods."
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“Shall” is mandatory; “may”
is permissible.
