[Ord. 1073, 11/8/2007, § 1.1]
1.
This Part sets forth uniform requirements for users of the publicly
owned treatment works for the City of Reading, Pennsylvania, which
are located within the Borough of Shillington, and enables the City
to comply with all applicable state and federal laws, including the
Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., and the General
Pretreatment Regulations, 40 CFR, Part 403, and amendments, thereto.
The objectives of this Part are:
A.
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the publicly owned
treatment works that will interfere with its operation.
B.
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into publicly owned treatment
works that will prevent or restrict the beneficial reuse of the resulting
sludge from the wastewater treatment process.
C.
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the publicly owned
treatment works that will pass through the publicly owned treatment
works, inadequately treated, into receiving waters, or otherwise be
incompatible with the publicly owned treatment works.
D.
To protect both publicly owned treatment works personnel who may
be affected by wastewater and sludge in the course of their employment
and the general public.
E.
To promote reuse and recycling of industrial wastewater and sludge
from the publicly owned treatment works.
F.
To provide for fees for the equitable distribution of the cost of
operation, maintenance, and improvement of the publicly owned treatment
works.
G.
To enable the City of Reading to comply with its National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System permit conditions, sludge use and disposal
requirements, and any other federal or state laws to which the publicly
owned treatment works is subject.
2.
This Part shall apply to all users of the City of Reading publicly
owned treatment works located within the Borough of Shillington. This
Part authorizes the issuance of wastewater discharge permits; provides
for monitoring, compliance, and enforcement activities; establishes
administrative review procedures; requires user reporting; and provides
for the setting of fees for the equitable distribution of costs resulting
from the program established herein. This Part supersedes Ord. 61-84,
Ord. 1-87, Ord. 104-89, Ord. 7-94, and Ord. 48-86, as amended and
provisions of that ordinance are null and void where they conflict
with specifics contained herein.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Ord. 61-84, Ord. 1-87, Ord. 104-89, Ord.
7-94 and Ord. 48-86 are not ordinances of the Borough of Shillington
but are ordinances of the City of Reading, Pennsylvania. Said ordinances
were repealed and replaced by Ord. 17-1998 and may have been subsequently
amended. Consult with the Borough or the City as to current provisions.
[Ord. 1073, 11/8/2007, § 1.2]
1.
This Part provides for the regulation of contributors to the POTW
and wastewater system through the issuance of permits to certain nondomestic
users and through enforcement of general requirements for users, authorizes
monitoring, compliance, and enforcement activities; requires user
reporting; assumes that existing customer's capacity will not
be preempted; and, provides for the setting of fees for their equitable
distribution of costs resulting from the program established herein.
2.
This Part shall apply to all users of the POTW. Except as otherwise
provided, herein, the Industrial Waste Administrator shall administer,
implement, and enforce the provisions of this Part. Any powers granted
to or duties imposed upon the Industrial Waste Administrator may be
delegated by the Industrial Waste Administrator to other City personnel
or to the City's authorized agent.
[Ord. 1073, 11/8/2007, § 1.3]
The following abbreviations or acronyms shall have the designated
meanings:
Average Percentage Rate.
American Standard Testing Materials.
Base/Neutral.
Best Available Treatment.
Best Available Technology Economically Achievable.
Best Control Technology.
Best Management Practices.
Baseline Monitoring Report.
Biochemical Oxygen Demand.
Best Professional Judgment.
Best Professional Technology.
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act.
Code of Federal Regulations.
Categorical Industrial User.
Chemical Oxygen Demand.
Combined Sewer Overflow.
Clean Water Act.
Combined Waste Stream Formula.
Discharge Monitoring Report.
Domestic Sewage Study.
Enforcement Management System.
Extraction Procedure.
Environmental Protection Agency of the United States.
Enforcement Response Plan.
Fundamentally Different Factor.
Fats, Oil, and Grease.
Finding of Violation.
Federal Register.
Full-Time Equivalent.
Flow-Weighted Averaging.
Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrophotometry.
Gallons per day.
Infiltration and Inflow.
Industrial User.
Industrial Waste Survey.
Maximum Allowable Headworks Loading.
Milligrams per liter.
Million Gallons Per Day.
Memorandum of Understanding.
Material Safety Data Sheet.
Ammonia (NH3) expressed as nitrogen
(N).
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.
National Municipal Policy.
Notice of Noncompliance.
Notice of Violation.
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
Oil and Grease.
Operations and Maintenance.
Organic Chemicals, Plastics, and Synthetic Fibers.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Office of Water Enforcement and Compliance.
Proportioned Actual Domestic Flow.
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons.
Proportioned Actual Industrial Flow.
Pretreatment Audit Summary System.
Polychlorinated Biphenols.
Pretreatment Compliance Inspection.
Pretreatment Compliance Monitoring Enforcement.
Permit Compliance System.
Pretreatment Implementation Review Task Force.
Publicly Owned Treatment Works.
Parts per billion.
Pounds per day.
Pretreatment Permits Enforcement Tracking System.
Parts per million.
Permit Quality Review.
Pretreatment Standards for Existing Sources.
Pretreatment Standards for New Sources.
Quality Assurance/Quality Control.
Quarterly Noncompliance Report.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
Reportable Noncompliance.
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act.
Standard Industrial Classification.
Significant Industrial User.
Solvent Management Plan.
Significant Noncompliance.
Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures.
Strategic Planning and Management System.
Soluble Threshold Limit Concentration.
Sewage Treatment Plant.
Standard Units.
Sewer Use Ordinance.
Solid Waste Disposal Act.
Toxicity Characteristic Leachate Procedure.
Total Dissolved Solids.
Total Identifiable Chlorinated Hydrocarbons.
Toxic Organic Management Plan.
Technical Review Criteria.
Toxicity Reduction Evaluation.
Total Suspended Solids.
Total Threshold Limit Concentration.
Total Toxic Organics.
Industrial Waste Administrator.
Micrograms per liter.
United States Code.
Volatile Organic Analysis.
Volatile Organic Compounds.
Volatile Suspended Solids.
Water Environment Federation.
Water Enforcement National Data Base.
Water Quality Act.
Water Quality Standard.
Wastewater Treatment Plant.
[Ord. 1073, 11/8/2007, § 1.4]
Unless a provision explicitly states otherwise, the following
terms and phrases, as used in this Part, 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 EPA Regional III Administrator.
Auxiliary structures attached to a sewer which shall include,
but not be limited to, pump stations, slots, regulators, outfalls,
force mains, manholes, catch basins, tide gates, monitoring devices
and metering chambers.
A person who by reason of his or her general position or
job description with the City has specific duties and responsibilities
to perform on behalf of the City. Also included are agents of the
City, who are authorized by the IWA to act on behalf of the City through
an authorization letter.
If the user is a corporation:
The president, secretary, treasurer, or a vice-president of
the corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any
other person who performs similar policy or decision-making functions
for the corporation.
The manager of one or more manufacturing, production, or operation
facilities employing more than 250 persons or having gross annual
sales or expenditures exceeding $25,000,000 (in second-quarter 1980
dollars), if authority to sign documents has been assigned or delegated
to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures.
If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship: a general
partner or proprietor, respectively.
If the user is representing federal, state, or local governments,
or an agent thereof, an authorized representative shall mean a director
or highest official appointed or designated to oversee the operation
and performance of the activities of the government facility.
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The individuals described in Subparagraphs (1)-(3) above may
designate another authorized representative if said authorization
is submitted to the City in writing and specifies the individual or
position responsible for the overall operation of the facility from
which the discharge originates or having overall responsibility for
environmental matters of the company.
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The discharge of all or part of the contents of a tank that
occurs intermittently or over a short period of time.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures for five days
at 20° C., usually expressed as a concentration (e.g., mg/L).
Preparations made from living organisms and their products,
including vaccines, cultures, etc., intended for use in diagnosing,
immunizing or treating humans or animals or in research pertaining
thereto.
Any products derived from human blood including, but not
limited to, whole blood, blood plasma, platelets, red or white blood
corpuscles, and other derived licensed products, such as interferon,
etc.
Liquids emanating or derived from humans including blood
products, cerebrospinal, pleural, peritoneal and pericardial fluids,
and amniotic fluids and semen and vaginal secretions but excluding
feces, urine, nasal secretions, sputum, sweat, tears, saliva, and
breast milk, unless any such excluded substance contains visible blood
or is isolation waste.
The Borough of Shillington, Pennsylvania.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping within a building
that carries water, wastewater or stormwater to a building sewer.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer,
or other place of disposal. Also referred to as "house connection."
The intentional or unintentional diversion of waste streams
from any portion of a user's treatment facility.
Written documentation such as receipts and record book entries
to show the history of possession, custody and/or control of a sample
from collection through analysis.
A measure of the amount of oxygen required to oxidize organic
and oxidizable inorganic compounds in water.
The quantity of chlorine absorbed in water, sewage or other
liquids, allowing a residual of 0.1 mg/L, after 15 minutes of contact.
The City of Reading, Pennsylvania. The agent of the City
who is authorized by this Part to implement the City's industrial
pretreatment program shall be the Industrial Waste Administrator.
The sewers, lift stations, and other City facilities used
to collect wastewaters from individual users within specific tributary
districts and transport them to conveyance facilities for transmission
to the treatment plant for processing.
As analyzed by methods specified by 40 CFR, Part 136.
A source of discharge of wastewater to the City sewer system
from premises used partially or entirely for commercial purposes.
The sample collection technique resulting from the combination
of individual wastewater grab samples taken at selected intervals
based on either an increment of flow or time.
Any water used for cooling purposes which comes into direct
contact with the object being cooled such as any raw material, intermediate
product, waste product or finished products.
Shall refer to the City or the City of Reading POTW.
Pollutants so designated in accordance with § 304(a)(4)
of the Act as being effectively managed by secondary treatment as
defined by 40 CFR, Part 133.
The maximum allowable discharge of a pollutant during a calendar
day. Where maximum limitations are expressed in units of mass, the
daily discharge is the total mass discharged over the course of a
day. Where daily maximum limitations are expressed in terms of concentration,
the daily discharge is the arithmetic average measurement of the pollutant
derived from all measurements taken that day.
The connection of a building sewer directly to a sewer owned
by the City.
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The introduction of wastewater, water, and/or pollutants
into the City's facilities from any source.
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
Also known as "sewage."
The acquired legal right to use land owned by others for
a specific purpose.
A plan which sets forth the City's enforcement response
to violations of this Part, as required by 40 CFR, Part 403.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate,
the term may also be used as a designation for the Regional Water
Management Division Director, or other duly authorized official of
said agency.
Any source of discharge, the construction or operation of
which commenced prior to the publication by EPA of proposed categorical
pretreatment standards, which will be applicable to such source if
the standard is thereafter promulgated in accordance with § 307
of the Act.
See "wastewater facilities."
The temperature at which a liquid or volatile solid gives
off vapor sufficient to form an ignitable mixture with the air near
the surface of the liquid or within the test vessel. Flashpoint is
determined by the test methods set out in 40 CFR 261.21.
Includes, but not be limited to, the wastes resulting from
the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of food, and from the
handling, storage and sale of product.
A mechanical device used for grinding, shredding or macerating
garbage to a small particle size before discharge to the sewer.
A sample which is taken from a waste stream without regard
to the flow in the waste stream and over a period of time not to exceed
15 minutes.
A substance which tests positive in the standard analytical
method used for this parameter. Grease may be composed of volatile
and nonvolatile residual fats, oils, fatty acids, soaps, waxes, mineral
oils and other materials of similar composition.
A device for removal of grease and/or oil from a wastewater
discharge.
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
A building sewer connection that is not a direct connection;
and whose wastewater discharge shall, notwithstanding the passage
in its normal course through other sewers or conduits, ultimately
discharge in whole or in part through City sewers.
The discharge or the introduction of pollution from any nondomestic
source regulated under § 307(b), (c) or (d) of the Act,
33 U.S.C. § 1317, into the POTW (including holding tank
waste discharge into the system).
Any improved property used, in whole or in part, for manufacturing,
processing, cleaning, laundering, or assembling any product, commodity
or article; or from which any process waste, as distinct from sewage,
shall be discharged.
A source of indirect discharge which does not constitute
a "discharge of pollutants" under regulations issued pursuant to § 402
of the Act. In addition, "industrial user" shall also be defined as
an establishment which discharges or introduces industrial waste into
the POTW.
Have the meaning ascribed to it in the Act of June 22, 1937,
P.L. 1987, No. 394, known as the "Clean Stream Law," and the regulations
adopted thereunder.
The person designated by the City to administer its industrial
waste program and who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities
by this Part or his/her duly authorized representative.
Wastewater contaminated by or containing any agent or organism,
such as a virus or a bacteria, capable of being communicated by invasion
and multiplication in body tissues and capable of causing disease
or adverse health impacts in humans.
The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged
at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete or composited
sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the
duration of the sampling event.
A discharge, which alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges from other sources, both: (1) inhibits or disrupts the
POTW, its treatment processes or operations or its sludge processes,
use or disposal; and (2) therefore, is a cause of a violation of the
City's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or
duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use
or disposal in compliance with any of the following statutory/regulatory
provisions or permits issued thereunder, or any more stringent state
or local regulations; § 405 of the Act; the Solid Waste
Disposal Act, including Title II commonly referred to as the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); any state regulations contained
in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle
D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; the Clean Air Act; the Toxic Substances
Control Act; and, the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries
Act.
Biological waste and discarded materials contaminated with
blood, excretion, exudates, or secretions from humans who are isolated
to protect others from certain highly communicable diseases, or isolated
animals known to be infected with highly communicable diseases and
specified by the Center for Disease Controls (CDC) as Classification
4.
A shaft or chamber leading from the surface of the ground
to a sewer; large enough to enable a person to gain access to the
sewer.
Is permissive; shall is mandatory.
Any solid waste which is generated in the diagnosis, treatment
(e.g., provisions of medical services), or immunization of human beings
or animals in research pertaining thereto, or in the production or
testing of biologicals.
The arithmetic mean of the values for effluent samples collected
over a calendar month.
Any City, Borough, Township, municipal authority, county,
county authority, state authority or sewer district that discharges
wastewater into the sewers owned by the City.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by EPA in accordance with § 307(b) and (c) of the Act, 33
U.S.C. § 1317, which apply to a specific category of users
and which appear in 40 CFR, Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405-471.
A permit issued pursuant to § 402 of the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1342.
Any regulation developed under the Authority of § 301(b)
of the Act and 40 CFR 403.5.
Any building, structure, facility, or installation from which
there is (or may be) a discharge of pollutants, the construction of
which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards
under § 307(c) of the Act which will be applicable to such
source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance
with that section, provided that:
The building, structure, facility, or installation is constructed
at a site at which no other source is located.
The building, structure, facility, or installation totally replaces
the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants
at an existing source.
The production or wastewater generating processes of the building,
structure, facility, or installation are substantially independent
of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these
are substantially independent, factors such as the extent to which
the new facility is integrated with the existing plant, and the extent
to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity
as the existing source, should be considered.
Construction on a site at which an existing source is located
results in a modification rather than a new source if the construction
does not create a new building, structure, facility, or installation
meeting the criteria of Subparagraph (1)(b) or (c) above but otherwise
alters, replaces, or adds to existing process or production equipment.
Construction of a new source as defined under this paragraph
has commenced if the owner or operator has:
Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous on site construction
program:
Any placement, assembly, or installation of facilities or equipment.
Significant site preparation work including clearing, excavation,
or removal of existing buildings, structures, or facilities which
is necessary for the placement, assembly, or installation of new source
facilities or equipment.
Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase
of facilities or equipment which are intended to be used in its operation
within a reasonable time. Options to purchase or contracts which can
be terminated or modified without substantial loss, and contracts
for feasibility, engineering, and design studies do not constitute
a contractual obligation under this clause.
Water used for cooling which does not come into direct contact
with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product, or finished
product.
A user designated as such by the IWA based on the user's
discharge quantity and quality. Such users may include, but are not
limited to, commercial users, medical offices (doctor, dentist, etc.),
garages and auto repair facilities, funeral parlors, and laboratories.
The ultimate determination of the status of nonsignificant industrial
user is within the discretion of the IWA pursuant to the terms and
conditions of this Part.
The mouth of a sewer, drain or conduit where an effluent
is discharged into the receiving waters, or discharged into the POTW
collection system.
Any person who owns, leases, operates, or controls or supervises
a source.
A discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United
States in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction
with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a
violation of any requirement of the City's NPDES permit, including
an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
Shall refer to the City of Reading POTW.
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. This definition includes all federal, state, and
local governmental entities. The masculine gender shall include the
feminine, the singular shall include the plural where indicated by
the context.
A measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, expressed
in standard units.
Dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash,
sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, medical wastes, chemical
wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked
or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, municipal, agricultural
and industrial wastes, and certain characteristics of wastewater (e.g.,
pH, temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD, toxicity, or odor).
The man-made, or man-induced alteration of the chemical,
physical, biological, or radiological integrity of water.
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater prior to, or in lieu of, introducing such pollutants
into the POTW. This reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical,
chemical, or biological processes; by process changes; or by other
means, except by diluting the concentration of the pollutants unless
allowed by an applicable pretreatment standard.
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment
imposed on a user, including a pretreatment standard or procedural
provision of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 62 Stat. 115,
33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., or the Act of June 22, 1937, P.L.
1987, No. 394, known as the "Clean Streams Law," or any rule or regulation,
ordinance or term or condition of a permit or order adopted or issued
by the commonwealth or a POTW for the implementation or enforcement
of an industrial waste pretreatment program established under the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act or the Clean Streams Law.
Pretreatment standards shall mean prohibited discharge standards,
categorical pretreatment standards, and local limits.
The absolute or conditional prohibition from discharge of a substance, group of substances or type of substance as defined in § 18-405 of this Part.
A "treatment works," as defined by § 212 of the
Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1292, which is owned by the City. This
definition includes any devices or systems used in the collection,
storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of sewage or industrial
wastes of a liquid nature and any conveyances which convey wastewater
to a treatment plant.
A special category of solid waste that includes specific
types of medical waste that includes solid, semisolid, or liquid materials,
but does not include domestic sewage materials. This waste is subject
to the handling and tracking requirements of Pennsylvania Department
of Environmental Protection. Categories of regulated medical waste
are defined as blood, blood products, body fluids, contaminated sharps,
discarded cultures and stocks of infectious agents and associated
biologicals, isolation wastes, pathological waste and oncological
waste.
Persons only contributing sanitary wastewater to the municipal
wastewater system.
A sewer that is designed to carry liquid and water-carried
wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and
institutions together with minor quantities of ground, storm, and
surface wastes that are not discharged intentionally.
Any sewage from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, and septic tanks.
Human excrement and gray water (household showers, dishwashing
operations, etc.).
A pipe or conduit, and other appurtenance provided to carry
wastewater or stormwater.
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
A user subject to categorical pretreatment standards.
A user that:
Discharges an average of 25,000 gpd or more of process wastewater
to the POTW (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling, and boiler blowdown
wastewater).
Contributes a process waste stream which makes up 5% or more
of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW
treatment plant.
Is designated as such by the City on the basis that it has a
reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation
or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
Upon a finding that a user meeting the criteria in Subparagraph
(2) has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's
operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement,
the City may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to
a petition received from a user, and in accordance with procedures
in 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine that such user should not be considered
a significant industrial user.
An industrial user is in significant noncompliance if its
violation meets one or more of the specific criteria set forth in
40 CFR 403.8(f)(2)(vii). For purposes of this definition, an industrial
user is in significant noncompliance if its violation meets one or
more of the following criteria:
Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here
as those in which 66% or more of wastewater measurements taken during
a six-month period exceed the daily maximum limit or average limit
for the same pollutant parameter by any amount.
Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as
those in which 33% or more of wastewater measurements taken for each
pollutant parameter during a six-month period equals or exceeds the
product of the daily maximum limit or the average limit multiplied
by the applicable criteria (1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oils and grease,
and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH).
Any other discharge violation that has caused, alone or in combination
with other discharges, interference or pass through, including endangering
the health of POTW personnel or the general public.
Any discharge of pollutants that has caused imminent endangerment
to the public or to the environment, or has resulted in the City's
exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge.
Failure to meet, within 90 days of the scheduled date, a compliance
schedule milestone contained in a wastewater discharge permit or enforcement
order for starting construction, completing construction, or attaining
final compliance.
Failure to provide within 30 days after the due date, any required
reports, including baseline monitoring reports, reports on compliance
with categorical pretreatment standard deadlines, periodic self-monitoring
reports, and reports on compliance with compliance schedules.
Failure to accurately report noncompliance, including failure to report and resample in accordance with § 18-441.
Any other violation(s) which the City determines will adversely
affect the operation or implementation of the local pretreatment program.
The solids, residues, and precipitate separated from wastewater
by the unit processes of a publicly owned treatment works or industrial
pretreatment systems.
Any discharge of a nonroutine, episodic nature, or at a flow
rate or concentration which would cause a violation of the prohibited
discharge standards in Part 1B.
Any building, structure, facility or installation from which
there is or may be the discharge of pollutants.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the United States Office of Management and Budget.
Methods for the examination of water and wastewater published
jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water
Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
A sewer that carries stormwater and other wash waters or
drainage, but excludes domestic, sanitary, commercial, and industrial
wastes. Also called a "storm drain."
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation, including snowmelt.
The person designated by the City to supervise the operation
of the POTW or his/her duly authorized representative.
Stormwater or other wash water or drainage carrying any pollutants
which affect the characteristics of wastewater.
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of,
or is suspended in, water, wastewater, or other liquid, and which
is removable by laboratory filtering in accordance with EPA laboratory
procedures (40 CFR, Part 136).
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provisions of CWA § 307(a) or
other acts.
Any discharge of pollutants from the City's facilities
into waters of the state.
A condition in water or wastewater caused by the presence
of suspended matter, resulting in the scattering and absorption of
light rays and determined by measurements of light diffraction, usually
reported in arbitrary turbidity units.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the City's POTW.
The spent water of the community. Liquid and water-carried
industrial wastes and sewage from residential dwellings, commercial
buildings, industrial and manufacturing facilities, institutions,
and governmental facilities whether treated or untreated, which are
contributed to the POTW.
As used herein, shall mean the structures, equipment, and
processes required for the collection, treatment, and disposal of
wastewater and sewage sludge which are owned and operated by the City.
That portion of the POTW which is designed to provide treatment
of wastewater and sewage sludge sometimes used as synonymous with
waste treatment plant, sewage treatment plant, or wastewater treatment
works.
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.
A wastewater pretreatment system with no discharge to the
sewer system.
