A. 
As used in this Part, the following terms have the meanings indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, five days at 20° C., expressed in terms of weight and concentration [milligrams per liter (mg/l)].
BUILDING DRAIN
The lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the sewage discharged from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of a building and conveys the sewage to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
Piping carrying liquid wastes from a building to the treatment or holding tank or to the municipal sewage system. The pipe extending from the building drainage system of any improved property to the lateral of a sewer.
COMMUNITY SEWAGE SYSTEM
Any system, whether publicly or privately owned, for the collection and disposal of sewage or industrial waste of a liquid nature, or both, including various devices for the treatment of such sewage or industrial waste serving three or more individual lots.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
DEPARTMENT
The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within this Township upon which there is erected a building or structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings, or an industrial establishment, and from which structure or establishment, sewage and/or industrial waste shall be or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any structure used for or intended to be used wholly or in part for the manufacturing, fabricating, warehousing, processing, cleaning or assembling of any product, commodity or article.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or waterborne waste or form of energy 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, as distinct from sewage.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge, which along or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, causes an inhibition or disruption of the POTW, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, or disposal and which results in a reduction in the effectiveness of the treatment facilities, and which causes or contributes to a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit (including any increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation), the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with the following statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent state or local regulations): Section 405 of the Clean Water Act,[1] the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) [including Title II, more commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA),[2] as well as state regulations contained in a State SWDA], the Clean Air Act,[3] the Toxic Substances Control Act,[4] and the Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer main to the property line or right-of-way line or to an easement line. If no such lateral shall be provided, then "lateral" shall mean that portion of, or place in a sewer which is provided for connection of any building sewer.
LOT
A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by a plat or otherwise as permitted by law and to be used, developed or built upon as a unit.
MUNICIPAL SEWAGE SYSTEM
Sewer system and the sewage treatment plant owned, operated or maintained by the Township, and approved by the Department under a permit issued pursuant to the Clean Streams Law, 35 P.S. § 691.1 et seq., as hereafter amended, supplemented, modified or reenacted by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania.
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM OR NPDES PERMIT
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1342).
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any property located in this Township.
PASS-THROUGH
A discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United States and/or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges to other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit (including any increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, 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.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced negative alteration of the chemical, physical, biological and radiological integrity of water, including, but not limited to, the addition of material that reduces its usefulness.
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 a POTW. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, process changes by the person producing the pollutant, or by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment as mandated by the Township and contained in this Part. These requirements are in addition to any National Categorical Pretreatment Standard and they shall take precedence over the National Categorical Pretreatment Standard when the ordinance pretreatment requirements are more restrictive.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works is defined by Section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292) which is the municipal sewage system owned by Upper Makefield Township. This definition includes any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial waste of a liquid nature. This definition also includes all Township-owned sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW treatment plant. The term also means the municipality as defined in Section 502 (foreclosed) of the Act,[5] which has jurisdiction over the indirect discharges to and the discharges from such a treatment works.
SEWAGE
The domestic and normal waterborne waste from a residential household, as well as toilet and bathroom wastes from dwellings, business buildings, institutions, commercial and industrial establishments.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices, equipment, processes and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
All temporary and permanent facilities at any time and from time-to-time owned or leased by or to and operated by the Township, and used or usable for in connection with the collection, treatment and disposal of any sewage and acceptable industrial wastes.
STORM SEWER
Any pipe, conduit, structure or facility which carries storm and surface waters, drainage or any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
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.
TOXIC POLLUTANT
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants:
(1) 
Listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under the provision of the CWA 307(a)[6] or other Acts; or
(2) 
Which has been or can be shown by scientific experiment to inhibit or disrupt a POTW treatment process, Upper Makefield's or otherwise, full scale or laboratory scale.
TOWNSHIP
Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater into the Township's POTW.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial wastes or sewage from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial establishments, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and stormwater that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the POTW.
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 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 33 U.S.C. § 1345.
[2]
Editor's Note: See 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.
[3]
Editor's Note: See 42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq.
[4]
Editor's Note: See 15 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.
[5]
Editor's Note: See 33 U.S.C. § 1362.
[6]
Editor's Note: See 33 U.S.C. § 1317(a).
B. 
In this Part, the singular shall include the plural; the plural shall include the singular; and the masculine shall include the feminine and the neuter.