Words, terms and phrases. The following words, terms and phrases,
when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them
in this section, except where the context specifically clearly indicates
a different meaning:
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
ALLOWABLE INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance, waterborne waste
or form of energy ejected or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing,
trade or business process or from the development, recovery or processing
of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage, which complies
with all provisions of this article and which is allowed to be discharged
into the sewer system by the Township, or allowable by the rules and
regulations of the Township.
APPROVED AUTHORITY
The Director in an NPDES state with an approved state pretreatment
program and the Administrator of the EPA in a non-NPDES state or NPDES
state without an approved state pretreatment program.
AUTHORITY
Lower Allen Township Authority, a Pennsylvania municipal
authority, Lower Allen Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
An authorized representative of an industrial user may be:
(1)
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice
President, if the industrial user is a corporation;
(2)
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a
partnership or proprietorship, respectively;
(3)
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.
BOD (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in mg/l, utilized in the
biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory
procedure in five days at 20° C. The standard laboratory procedure
shall be found in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the
Examination of Water and Sewage" published by the American Public
Health Association.
BUILDING SEWER
A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user
to the sewer system.
COLOR
Color of an industrial waste is the color of the light transmitted
by the waste solution after removing the suspended material, including
the pseudocolloidal particles.
CONTROL AUTHORITY
The Township or its duly authorized designees, representatives
or agents. Such authorized representatives shall include the Manager
or the Superintendent of the POTW.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is
heat.
DIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the state.
DISSOLVED SOLIDS
The anhydrous residues of the dissolved constituents in water
or wastewater.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA
The U.S. 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.
GARBAGE
Solid waste resulting from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from handling, storage and sale
of produce.
GRAB SAMPLE
A 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.
GROUNDWATER
That which is contained in or passing through the ground.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
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 sewer system (including holding
tank waste discharged into the system).
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Solid, liquid or gaseous substances, waterborne waste or
form of energy discharged or escaping in the course of any industrial,
manufacturing, commercial, trade, business or research process or
in the course of development, recovering or processing of natural
resources, but not sanitary sewage.
INTERFERENCE
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW, its treatment processes
or operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal which contributes
to a violation of any requirement of the POTW NPDES permit. The term
includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the Authority
in accordance with Section 4.05 of the Act (32 U.S.C. § 1345)
or any criteria, guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the
Solid Waste 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 Township.
MANHOLE
A structure leading from the surface of the ground to a sewer,
permitting access to the sewer.
MG/L
Milligrams per liter.
MUNICIPALITY
Any county, municipal authority, city, borough, township
or school district.
NEW SOURCE
Any source, the construction of which is commenced after
the publication of proposed regulations prescribing a Section 307(c)
(33 U.S.C. § 1317) pretreatment standard which will be applicable
to such source, if such pretreatment standard is thereafter promulgated
within 120 days of proposal in the Federal Register. Where the pretreatment
standard is promulgated later than 120 days after proposal, a "new
source" means any source, the construction of which is commenced after
the date of promulgation of the pretreatment standard.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of an improved property.
PASS-THROUGH
The discharge of pollutants through the POTW into navigable
waters in quantities or concentrations which are a cause of or significantly
contribute to a violation of any requirement of the POTW'S NPDES
permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
An industrial user significantly contributes to such permit violation
where it:
(1)
Discharges a daily pollutant loading in excess of that allowed
by contract with the POTW or by federal, state or local law;
(2)
Discharges wastewater which substantially differs in nature
and constituents from the user's average discharge;
(3)
Knows or has reason to know that its discharge, alone or in
conjunction with discharges from other sources, would result in a
permit violation; or
(4)
Knows or has reason to know that the POTW is, for any reason,
violating its final effluent limitations in its permit that such industrial
user's discharge, either alone or in conjunction with discharges
from other sources, increases the magnitude or duration of the POTW
violations.
PERSON
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.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions, expressed in gram equivalent per liter of solution, and indicating
the degrees of acidity or alkalinity of a substance. A stabilized
pH will be considered as a pH which does not change beyond the specified
limits when the waste is subjected to aeration. It shall be determined
by one of the accepted methods described in the latest edition of
"Standard Methods for Examination of Water and Sewage" published by
the American Public Health Association.
POLLUTANT
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.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works, as defined in 40 CFR 403(o), which is
owned by the Authority. This definition includes any sewers that convey
wastewater to the POTW treatment plant, but does not include pipes,
sewers or other conveyances not connected to a facility providing
treatment. For the purposes of this article, POTW shall also include
any sewers that convey wastewaters to the POTW from any municipality
or person who is, by contract or agreement with the Authority or Township,
a user of the POTW.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a National Categorical Pretreatment Standard imposed on
an industrial user.
PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT
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 sewer system. The
reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological
processes, or process changes and other means, except as prohibited
by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
QUALIFIED ANALYST
Any person who has demonstrated competency in wastewater
analysis by having analyzed satisfactorily a minimum of three reference
wastewater samples as supplied upon request by the Authority or Township,
or by submission of the generally recognized documentation of competency.
REFRIGERATION
The preservation of food products, the maintenance of temperature
for aid in process work, and the maintenance of storage temperature.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal water-carried household and toilet waste from
any improved property, excluding, however, the effluent from septic
tanks or cesspools, rain, storm- and groundwater, as well as roof
or surface water, drainage or percolating or seeping waters, or accumulation
thereof, whether underground or in cellars or basements.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sanitary sewage or industrial
waste.
SEWER SERVICE
Publicly owned treatment works (POTW), as defined herein.
For the purposes of this article, a "sewer system" shall also include
any sewers that convey wastewater to the sewer system from any municipality
or person who is, by contract or agreement with the Township, a user
of the sewer system.
SIGNIFICANTLY INDUSTRIAL USER
Any industrial user of the sewer system who:
(1)
Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average workday;
(2)
Has a flow greater than 5% of the total flow into the sewer
system;
(3)
Has in its wastes toxic substances; or
(4)
Is found by the Township, Superintendent of the POTW, Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection, or the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, to have significant impact, either singly or in
combination with other contributing industries, on the sewer system,
the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality, or air
emissions generated by the system.
SLUG
Any discharges of water, sewage or industrial waste in which
concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds,
for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five
times the average twenty-four-hour concentration, or flow, during
normal operation.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972.
STANDARD METHODS
An abbreviated expression used to denote "Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Waste Water," a manual published
by the American Public Health Association specifying official analytical
procedures for the measurement of wastewater parameters.
STATE
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
TOTAL SOLIDS
The sum of dissolved and undissolved constituents in water
or wastewater.
TOWNSHIP
Fairview Township, a Second Class Township, York County,
Pennsylvania.
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
Any substance or combination of substances that is listed
as toxic in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provisions of CWA 307(a) or other Acts,
or is present in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction
with other wastes, to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment
process, to constitute a hazard to humans or animals, to create a
public nuisance, or to create any hazard in the sewer system or in
the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant.
TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR COMPOSITE WASTEWATER SAMPLE
Consists of 24 hourly wastewater samples collected over a
twenty-four-hour period with the sample proportioned according to
the flow rate at the time of the sample. The cumulative sample shall
be refrigerated.
UNAUTHORIZED WASTE
Any waste which is not in compliance with the provisions
of this article or which is discharged into the sewer system by a
person in violation of any provision contained in this article.
USER
Any person who distributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the sewer system.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions,
whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted
to enter the sewer system.
WATER-COOLED EQUIPMENT
Any equipment using water as a cooling medium for purposes
other than air conditioning or refrigeration.
WATERS OF THE STATE
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
ground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through or border upon the state or any portion thereof.