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ACT or THE ACT
APPROVED AUTHORITY
AUTHORITY
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
(1)Â
(2)Â
(3)Â
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
BOROUGH
BOROUGH MANAGER
BUILDING SEWER
CATEGORICAL STANDARDS
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD)
COOLING WATER
CUSTOMER
DEPARTMENT
DIRECT DISCHARGE
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA
EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT (EDU)
GRAB SAMPLE
HOLDING TANK
HOLDING TANK WASTE
IMPROVED PROPERTY
INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGE
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
INDUSTRIAL USER
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
INTERFERENCE
LATERAL
METERING FACILITIES
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD OR PRETREATMENT STANDARD
NATIONAL POLLUTION DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM OR NPDES PERMIT
NATIONAL PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD or PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE
STANDARD
NONRESIDENTIAL USER
OUTSIDE SEWER FACILITIES
OWNER
PERMIT
PERSON
pH
PLUMBING CODE
POLLUTANT
POLLUTION
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT
RESIDENTIAL UNIT
SANITARY SEWAGE
SEWAGE
SEWER
SEWERED AREA
SEWER SYSTEM
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
STATE
STORMWATER
STREET
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOXIC POLLUTANT
TREATMENT PLANT
USER
WASTEWATER
WATERS OF THE STATE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the following terms and phrases shall have the meanings hereinafter
designated:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
The Director in an National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (NPDES) state with an approved state pretreatment program and
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in
a non-NPDES state or NPDES state without an approved state pretreatment
program.
The Lehighton Sewerage Authority.
A principal executive officer of at least the
level of vice president if the industrial user is a corporation;
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial
user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively; or
A duly authorized representative of the individual
designated above if such representative is responsible for the overall
operation of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C. expressed in terms of weight and concentration [milligrams
per liter (mg/l)].
The Borough of Lehighton.
The person designated by the Borough who is charged with
certain duties and responsibilities by this Part 1 or his duly authorized
representative.
The extension from the sanitary sewage drainage system of
any structure to the lateral of a sewer.
National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or pretreatment
standard.
The quantity of oxygen required to oxidize the organic matter
present in water or wastewater under specific conditions of oxidizing
agent, temperature and time.
The water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is
heat.
Any person, partnership, company, association, corporation,
township, municipality, Borough or other group or entity.
The Department of Environmental Resources of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency, or where
appropriate, the term may also be used as a designation for the Administrator
or other duly authorized official of said Agency.
A source of wastewater equivalent to that generated by a
single-family dwelling unit. Every building or use connected to the
sewer shall constitute at least one "EDU." For the purposes of residential
uses, the number of "EDU's" applicable shall consist of the total
number of single-family dwelling units, together with the "EDU's"
applicable to any common-use areas calculated as set forth herein
for nonresidential use. For the purposes of a nonresidential use,
the number of "EDU's" applicable to that use shall consist of the
actual or estimated total gallons of wastewater discharged per day
divided by 262.5 gallons and rounded upward to the nearest whole number.
The sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration
of time.
A watertight receptacle which receives and retains sewage
and is designed and constructed to facilitate ultimate disposal of
the sewage at another site. As used herein, "holding tank" shall be
restricted to that type in which sewage is conveyed to it by a water-carrying
system.
Any waste from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
Any property within the sewered area 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 industrial waste shall be or may be discharged.
The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants
from any source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1317) into the wastewater treatment plant, including
holding tank waste discharged into the system.
Any premises used in whole or in part for the manufacture,
processing, cleaning or assembly of any product, commodity or article
or any other premises from which wastewater other than sanitary sewage
is discharged.
A source of indirect discharge which does not constitute
a discharge of pollutants under regulations issued pursuant to Section
402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1342).
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance, rejected or escaping
in the course of any industrial, manufacturing, trade or business
process or in the course of the development, recovery or processing
of natural resources, which is discharged into the sewer system, as
distinct from sanitary sewage.
The inhibition or disruption of the wastewater treatment
plant processes or operations which contributes to a violation of
any requirement of the Authority's NPDES permit. The term includes
prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the wastewater treatment
plant in accordance with Section 405 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1345)
or any criteria, guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the
Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances
Control Act or more stringent state criteria (including those contained
in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV
of SWDA) applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the
wastewater treatment plant.
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
curbline or, if there shall be no curbline, extending to the edge
of the right-of-way, sewer easement or property line.
A flow-measuring system, designed and installed in accordance
with accepted engineering practices and approved by the Borough, for
the measurement of sewage flows. For industrial establishments and
nonresidential users, publicly metered water use records may be considered
"metering facilities" if approved by the Borough.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1347) which applies to a specific category of industrial
users.
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342).
Any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307(b)
of the Act and 40 CFR 403.5.
Any commercial, institutional or industrial use, other than
a residential unit, which is connected to the sewer system and from
which sanitary sewage or industrial waste is or may be discharged
into the sewer system.
The system of sanitary sewers and appurtenances for the collection,
transportation, pumping and treatment of sewage that is located outside
of the municipal boundaries of the Borough.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property located in the sewered area.
Written permission by the Borough for the discharge of nonresidential
wastewater to the wastewater treatment plant.
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity or any other legal entity or their legal representatives, agents
or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, and the
singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution.
The Pennsylvania Construction Code, Act 45 of 1999, as amended
from time to time, and the regulations promulgated thereunder.[1]
[Amended 3-23-2015 by Ord. No. 623-2015]
Any dredged spoil; solid waste; incinerator residue; sewage;
garbage; sewage sludge; munitions; chemical wastes; biological materials;
radioactive materials; heat; wrecked or discarded equipment; rock;
sand; cellar dirt; and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste
discharged into water.
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial
user.
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 wastewater treatment
plant. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical
or biological processes or process changes by other means, except
as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
Each private dwelling; each dwelling unit in a double house
or in a row of connecting houses; each apartment; and each room, group
of rooms, house trailer, mobile home or any structure occupied or
intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by a family or
group of persons living together or by persons living alone, which
accommodation is connected to the sewer system and from which sanitary
sewage is or may be discharged into the sewer system.
The type of toilet and other watercarried waste normally
discharged from residential properties.
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals
and any noxious or deleterious substance, being harmful or inimical
to the public health or to animal or aquatic life or to the use of
water for domestic water supply or for recreation.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system,
used or usable for sewage collection purposes, other than a lateral.
The entire area, including the Borough, served by the sewage
collection system which conveys wastewater to the Lehighton Sewage
Treatment Plant.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial
waste, situate in the sewered area and owned and/or operated by the
Authority or the Borough.
Any industrial user of the wastewater disposal system who
has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average workday
or has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the Authority's wastewater
treatment system or has in his wastes toxic pollutants as defined
pursuant to Section 307 of the Act of Pennsylvania statutes and rules,
or is found by the Borough, Pennsylvania control agency or the United
States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have significant impact,
either singly or in combination with other contributing industries,
on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's
effluent quality or air emissions generated by the system.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
Any street, road, lane, court, alley or public square.
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of
or is suspended in water, wastewater or other liquids and which is
removable by laboratory filtering.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency, under the provision of Section 307(a) or other
Acts.
Wastewater treatment plant owned by the Lehighton Sewerage
Authority and operated by the Borough of Lehighton under a lease-back
agreement.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the Authority's wastewater treatment plant.
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions,
together with any other waters which may be present, whether treated
or untreated, which are contributed into or permitted to enter the
wastewater treatment plant.
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways,
wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage
systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or
underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through or border upon the state or any portion thereof.
[1]
Editor’s Note: See 35 P.S. § 7210.101 et seq.
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Word usage. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
