Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the following words and terms used in this Part shall have the following
meanings:
APARTMENT OFFICE USE
A building which is intended to be used for continuous or
periodic habitation by human beings containing two or more family
dwelling units; or which contain business or professional offices
and one or more family dwelling units; or which contains business,
professional, or any other similar type of office or offices.
BASELINE MONITORING REPORT
The report required in 40 CFR, Part 403.12, to be submitted
by all industrial users and waste generators subject to categorical
pretreatment standards.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES or BMPs
Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance
procedures, and other management practices not limited to but including
management plans, treatment requirements, operating procedures, and
practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge
or waste disposal, or drainage from raw material storage.
[Added by Ord. 2011-07-04, 7/11/2011]
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD5)
The quantity of dissolved oxygen consumed in the biochemical
oxidation of the organic matter in sewage under standard laboratory
procedures in five days at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per
liter (mg/l). It shall be determined by an acceptable method described
in 40 CFR, Part 136, and amendments hereto or any method approved
by the EPA.
BOROUGH
The Borough of Red Lion, York County, Pennsylvania.
BOROUGH COUNCIL
The elected and appointed members of the Borough Council
of the Borough of Red Lion as now or hereafter constituted, and its
duly authorized agents or representatives.
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
Pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance
with § 307 of the Clean Water Act that apply to regulated
process wastewater. They are based on the capability of a specific
wastewater treatment technology or a series of technologies to reduce
pollutant discharges equivalent to best available technology (BAT).
CLEAN WATER ACT (CWA)
Public Law 92-500, October 18, 1972, 33 U.S.C. § 1251
et seq.; as amended by P.L. 95-217, December 28, 1977; P.L. 97-117,
December 29, 1981; P.L. 97-440, January 8, 1983; and P.L. 100-04,
February 4, 1987.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer designed to receive both sewage and stormwater runoff
which has been approved for such purpose.
COMMERCIAL USE or COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
A property which is intended to be used for the purpose of
carrying on a trade, business, or profession or for social, religious,
educational, charitable, or public uses.
COMMERCIAL USER
Any contributor discharging wastewater generated at a commercial
establishment to the Springettsbury Township Wastewater Treatment
Facility through a direct connection (as opposed to discharging to
the wastewater treatment facility through a waste hauler).
COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGE PERMIT
A permit issued to those industrial users that the Borough
does not classify as significant industrial users, but are considered
to have a minor impact, either potential or realized, either singly
or in combination with other contributing commercial or industrial
establishments, on the sanitary sewer system and/or the wastewater
treatment facility (either its operational efficiency, effluent quality,
or quality of the sludge produced by such facility).
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
A sample consisting of a combination of individual samples
regardless of flow, obtained at regular intervals over a period of
time, and shall reasonably reflect the actual discharge conditions
for that period of time.
DAILY COMPOSITE SAMPLE
A sample consisting of a combination of individual samples,
regardless of flow, collected at regular intervals over a period of
time; the sampling duration shall be not less than 20 hours and shall
not exceed 28 hours.
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (DEP)
The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, or any department or agency of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, or any department or agency of the commonwealth succeeding
to the existing jurisdiction or responsibility of the Department of
Environmental Protection.
DOMESTIC USE
A property which is intended to be used for continuous or
periodic habitation by human beings in a single-family unit.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States,
or any agency or department of the United States succeeding to the
existing jurisdiction or responsibility of the Environmental Protection
Agency.
EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT (EDU)
A dwelling consisting of a room, group of rooms, house trailer,
or other enclosure occupied or intended for occupancy as a separate
living quarters by a family or persons living together or by persons
living alone. The value of sewage generated by one EDU is, for purposes
of this Part, 350 gallons per day.
FOOD SERVICE FACILITY or FACILITY
Any food service facility which prepares and/or packages
food or beverages for sale or consumption, on or off site, with the
exception of private residences. Food service facilities shall include,
but are not limited to: food courts, food manufacturers, food packagers,
restaurants, grocery stores, bakeries, lounges, hospitals, hotels,
nursing homes, churches, schools, snack bars, grills, catering services,
butchers and all other food service facilities not listed above.
[Added by Ord. 2011-07-04, 7/11/2011]
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
GRAB SAMPLE
A sample taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis with
no regard to the flow in the waste stream and collected over a period
of time not exceeding 15 minutes which shall reasonably reflect actual
discharge conditions for that instant.
GREASE INTERCEPTOR
A device, located inside or outside a food service facility,
designed to collect, contain or remove food wastes and grease from
the waste stream while allowing the balance of the liquid waste to
discharge to the wastewater collection system by gravity.
[Added by Ord. 2011-07-04, 7/11/2011]
HOLDING TANK
A watertight receptacle designed to receive and retain sewage
and is constructed to facilitate the ultimate disposal of the sewage
at another site.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE or DISCHARGE
Refers to the introduction of pollutants into the wastewater
treatment facility from a nondomestic source.
[Added by Ord. 2011-07-04, 7/11/2011]
INDUSTRIAL USE OR ESTABLISHMENT
A property which is intended to be used in whole or in part
for the manufacture, conversion, or assembly of any product, commodity
or article.
INDUSTRIAL USER
Any contributor to the public sanitary sewage system that
is engaged in any commercial or industrial use.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any liquid, gaseous or waterborne wastes from industrial or commercial establishments, or wastes having those characteristics of unacceptable wastes enumerated in §
18-403 of this Part, that are discharged into the public sanitary sewage system through direct connection, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INSTANTANEOUS LIMITED
Refers to 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.
[Added by Ord. 2011-07-04, 7/11/2011]
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges from other sources, inhibits, or disrupts the wastewater
treatment facility, its treatment processes or operations or its sludge
processes, end-use, or disposal and results in a violation of any
requirement of the wastewater treatment facility's NPDES permit
or prevents sludge use or disposal in compliance applicable federal
statutes, permits, or regulations or that results in a violation of
any requirement of the Air Pollution Control Act, 35 P.S. § 4001
et seq.
NEW SOURCE
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 Clean Water Act, which shall 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; or 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 there 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. Determination of new source status shall be consistent
with the provisions of 40 CFR, Part 403.3(k)(1), (2), and (3).
NINETY-DAY COMPLIANCE REPORT
The report required by 40 CFR, Part 403.12(d) and which describes
the user's compliance status with categorical pretreatment standards,
to be submitted by all industrial users or waste generators subject
to categorical pretreatment standards.
OCCUPIED BUILDING
Any structure erected and intended for continuous or periodic
habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which
structure sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, or either thereof,
is or may be discharged.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal, or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property, or his authorized representative.
PASS-THROUGH
A discharge which exits the wastewater treatment facility
into the waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations
which, along or in conjunction with other discharges, are a violation
of the wastewater treatment facility's NPDES permit, including
an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
[Amended by Ord. 2011-07-04, 7/11/2011]
PERSON
Includes an individual, a partnership, an association, a
corporation, a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated association,
a governmental body, a political subdivision, a municipality, a municipality
authority, or any other group or legally recognized entity. The masculine
gender shall include the feminine, singular shall include the plural
where indicated by the context.
pH
The measure of the intensity of the acidic or alkaline character
of a material, liquid, or solid. pH is represented on a scale of 0.0
to 14.0 with 7.0 representing a neutral state, 0.0 representing the
most acidic and 14.0 the most alkaline. It shall be determined by
one of the acceptable methods described in 40 CFR, Part 136, and amendments
thereto, or by any method approved by the EPA.
POLLUTANTS
Dredged soil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage,
sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive
materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar
dirt and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged
into water; or any material that, when added to water, shall render
that water (either because of the nature or quantity of the material)
unacceptable for its original intended use.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological, or radiological integrity of water.
POTW
Publicly owned treatment works.
PREMISES ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC SANITARY SEWAGE SYSTEM
Any real estate abutting on or adjoining or having access
to any street, alley or right-of-way in which a sewer is located which
ultimately connects to the public sanitary sewage system and upon
which the principal building is within 150 feet of such sewer and
to which sewer there is gravity flow from the first-floor level of
such building.
PRETREATMENT ADMINISTRATOR
The person designated by the Borough to administer the monitoring
and enforcement of industrial waste pretreatment for industrial and
commercial contributors of the Borough to the wastewater treatment
facility.
PRETREATMENT FACILITY OR PLANT
The processes or equipment used by a user to reduce the amount
of pollutants, to eliminate pollutants or to alter 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 public
sanitary sewage system. Pretreatment facilities or plants shall include,
but are not limited to, systems designed to remove metals, grease/oil,
BOD5, total suspended solids and toxic organics.
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 public sanitary
sewage system. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical,
chemical or biological processes, or process changes by other means.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment
imposed on a user, other than a pretreatment standard.
[Added by Ord. 2011-07-04, 7/11/2011]
PROCESS WASTEWATER
Any water which, during manufacturing or processing, comes
into direct contact with or results from the production of or use
of any raw material, intermediate product, finished product, by-product
or waste product, excluding sanitary noncontact cooling water and
boiler blowdown.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce that have
been shredded to such degree that all particles shall be carried freely
under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with
no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM (sometimes called the "SEWER SYSTEM")
All sanitary or combined sewers, all pumping stations, all
force mains, all sewage treatment works and all other sewage facilities
owned or leased and operated by the Borough for the collection, transportation,
and treatment of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, together with
their appurtenances, and any additions, extensions or improvements
thereto. It shall also include sewers within the Borough's service
area which serve one or more persons and discharge into the public
sanitary sewage system even though those sewers may not have been
constructed by the Borough or are not located within the Borough boundaries
or are not owned or maintained by the Borough. It does not include
separate storm sewers or culverts which have been constructed for
the sole purpose of carrying storm and surface runoff, the discharge
from which is not and does not become tributary to the wastewater
treatment facility.
RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS
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(1) The chief executive officer or the chief operating officer
of the user facility if the industrial user is a corporation.
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(2) A partner or the general manager of the user facility if
the industrial user is a partnership.
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(3) The owner or the general manager of the user facility if
the industrial user is a proprietorship.
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(4) The person duly designated as the responsible individual
by a corporation, partnership, or proprietorship, provided that such
person is actually responsible for overall operation of the user facilities.
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SANITARY SEWAGE
Wastewater originating from domestic users containing human
and customary household wastes or such wastes from commercial or industrial
establishments, but excluding industrial wastes.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SCHEDULED SAMPLING
A daily composite or grab sample collected from a significant industrial user based on a schedule formulated in accordance with §
18-406 of this Part.
SEWAGE
Sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes, carried either
separately or in combination.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Any industrial user that is subject to categorical pretreatment
standards, or any industrial user of the township's wastewater
treatment facility which has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or
more of process wastewater per average workday or contributes a process
waste stream which makes up 5% or more of the average dry weather
flow or organic (BOD5) capacity of the wastewater
treatment facility or is found by the Borough, the Township, the EPA,
or DEP to have significant impact, either potential or realized, either
singly or in combination with other wastes, on the sanitary sewer
system and/or the wastewater treatment facility (either its operational
efficiency, effluent quality or quality of the sludge produced by
said facility).
SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE (SNC)
[Amended by Ord. 2011-07-04, 7/11/2011]
A.
Any instance of noncompliance with pretreatment requirements
(limits, sampling, analysis, reporting and meeting compliance schedules
and regulatory deadlines) for which the industrial user is liable
for enforcement, including penalties. The following is the criteria
used to determine SNC:
(1)
Violations of wastewater discharge limits:
(a)
Chronic Violations. Sixty-six percent or more of the measurements
exceed the same daily maximum limit, average limit, or instantaneous
limit in a six-month period (any magnitude of exceedence) of a pretreatment
standard or requirement.
(b)
Technical Review Criteria (TRC) Violations. Thirty-three percent
or more of the measurements exceed the same daily maximum limit, average
limit, or instantaneous limit by more than the TRC in a six-month
period (any magnitude of exceedence) of a pretreatment standard or
requirement.
1)
The multiplier for BOD, TSS, fats, oils and grease is 1.4.
2)
The multiplier for all other pollutants (except pH) is 1.2.
(c)
Any other violation(s) of an effluent limit average, daily maximum
or instantaneous limit that the control authority believes has caused,
alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass-through
or endangers the health of Borough or Springettsbury Township personnel
or the public.
(d)
Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment
to human health/welfare or to the environment and has resulted in
the POTW's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent
such a discharge.
(2)
Violations of compliance schedule milestones for starting and
completing construction and attaining final compliance by 90 days
or more after the schedule date.
(3)
Failure to provide reports for compliance schedules, self-monitoring
reports or categorical standards within 45 days from the due date.
(4)
Failure to accurately report noncompliance.
(5)
Any other violation or group of violations that the Borough
or Springettsbury Township considers to be significant.
B.
For an industrial user that is in SNC, the Authority must report
the information to the approval authority as part of the pretreatment
performance summary of industrial user compliance, list the industrial
user in the largest daily newspaper as having significant violations,
and address SNC through appropriate enforcement action that may include
administrative fines or document in a timely manner the reasons for
withholding enforcement.
SLUG LOAD
Any pollutant (including but not limited to BOD5 total suspended solids, other conventional pollutants
and toxics) released in a discharge at a flow rate or concentration
which will cause interference or pass-through at the wastewater treatment
facility.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
A classification pursuant to the latest Standard Industrial
Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President,
Office of Management and Budget.
STORM SEWER
A sewer which is intended to carry stormwater runoff, surface
water, groundwater drainage, etc., but which is not intended to carry
any sanitary sewage or industrial waste.
STORMWATER RUNOFF
That portion of precipitation which reaches a channel, trench,
sewer, or sink.
TOTAL PHOSPHATE AS P (PO4ASP)
The concentration of total phosphate in sewage as determined
by an acceptable method referenced in 40 CFR, Part 136, and amendments
thereto, or by any other method approved by the EPA, expressed in
mg/l as P.
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS (TSS)
Solids that either float to the surface or are in suspension
in water, sewage, industrial waste or other liquids and which are
removable by laboratory filtration. The quantity of total suspended
solids shall be determined by one of the acceptable methods described
in 40 CFR, Part 136, and amendments thereto, or by any method approved
by the EPA.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Springettsbury, York County, Pennsylvania,
operator of the wastewater treatment facility.
UNPOLLUTED WATER OR WASTE
Water that has not had its pollutant level raised by the
user, or any water or waste containing none of the following: detectable
levels of free or emulsified grease or oil; pH less than 6.0 or greater
than 10.5; phenols or other substances imparting taste and odor to
receiving waters, toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal
state, or solution in levels that exceed state or federal water quality
or potable water quality criteria; obnoxious or odorous gases. It
shall contain less than 1,000 mg/l of dissolved solids, 250 mg/l of
chloride and 10 mg/l each of total suspended solids and BOD. The color
shall not exceed 50 color units. Analysis of the parameters referenced
in this definition shall be made in accordance with the methods listed
in 40 CFR, Part 136, and amendments hereto; if the parameter is not
listed in 40 CFR, Part 136, the analysis shall be made in accordance
with the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of
Water and Wastewater, published jointly by the American Waterworks
Association, the American Public Health Association and the Water
Pollution Control Federation, or Methods of Chemical Analysis of Water
and Wastes, published by the EPA, or by any other method approved
by the EPA.
UNSCHEDULED COMPLIANCE SAMPLING
A daily composite sample or grab sample collected from a significant industrial user based on the issuance of a notice of violation as referenced in §
18-406 of this Part, in accordance with §
18-406, Subsection
5, of this Part.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes, or permits the contribution
of sewage into the Borough's public sanitary sewage system.
WASTE
To any sewage discharged to the Borough's public sanitary
sewage system.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY
The wastewater treatment plant, including all machinery,
equipment, land, buildings and appurtenant facilities operated by
the Township's Department of Wastewater Treatment.