[Ord. 2012-1, 3/12/2012]
Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms and phrases used in this Chapter shall be as
follows:
Ammonia nitrogen as determined pursuant to the procedure
set forth in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater," published by American Public Health Association,
Inc.
The Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority, a municipality authority
existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in ppm by weight, utilized
in the biochemical oxidation, of organic matter under the standard
laboratory procedure for five days at 20° C. The standard laboratory
procedure shall be that found in the latest edition of "Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" published by the American
Public Health Association, Inc.
The Borough of Wyoming, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, a political
subdivision of the commonwealth acting by and through the Mayor, Borough
Council and/or its agent.
The Borough Council of the Borough of Wyoming.
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any improved
property to the lateral serving such improved property.
Any room, group or rooms, building or enclosure, or group
thereof, connected, directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and
used or intended for use in the operation of a business enterprise
for the sale and distribution of any product, commodity, article or
service, which maintains separate toilet, sink or other plumbing facilities
in the room or group of rooms utilized for such business enterprise.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Charge imposed by the Borough upon an owner or person seeking
to connect or tap into the sewer system.
Refer to Borough of Wyoming Ordinance No. 3 of 1967[1] requiring that certain occupied buildings accessible to
public sewers be connected therewith: prohibiting privies, cesspools,
septic tanks and other devices for disposing of sanitary sewage on
properties required to be connected with public sewer; requiring permits
for connections to public sewers and providing for connection rules
and regulations; providing penalties for violations.
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes discharged
from any improved property.
Any room, group of rooms, house trailer, apartment, condominium,
cooperative or other enclosure connected, directly or indirectly,
to the sewer system and occupied or intended for occupancy as living
quarters by an individual, a single family or other discrete group
of persons, excluding institutional dormitories.
Any room, group or rooms, building or other enclosure connected,
directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and used or intended for
use, in whole or in part, for educational purposes, including both
public and private schools or colleges.
The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States
of America.
The unit of measure by which the user charge shall be imposed
upon each improved property, as determined in this Chapter or in any
subsequent ordinance or resolution of the Borough, which shall be
deemed to constitute the estimated, equivalent amount of domestic
sanitary sewage discharged by a single-family dwelling unit.
Any property 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 domestic sanitary sewage and/or
industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged, which is located
within the geographic area of the Borough of Wyoming and is subject
to the Connection Ordinance.[2]
Any improved property used or intended for use, wholly or
in part, for the manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or
assembling of any product, commodity or article or any other improved
property from which wastes, in addition to or other than domestic
sanitary sewage, shall or may be discharged.
Any and all wastes discharged from an industrial establishment,
and/or any wastewater having characteristics which may have the potential
to be detrimental to the treatment plant, other than domestic sanitary
sewage.
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected,
directly or indirectly, to the sewer system, including institutional
dormitories and educational establishments, which do not constitute
a commercial establishment, a dwelling unit or an industrial establishment.
A person whose metered or estimated consumption of water
is in excess of 15,000 gallons per calendar quarter in the case of
a dwelling unit, or any commercial establishment, educational establishment,
institutional establishment or industrial establishment, regardless
of water consumption or volume of domestic sanitary sewage or industrial
wastes discharged.
That part of the sewer system, extending from a sewer to
the curbline, or if there is no curbline, to the property line, or
if no such extension is provided, then "lateral" shall mean that portion
of, or place in, a sewer that is provided for connection of any building
sewer.
Any improved property upon which there shall exist any combination
of a dwelling unit, commercial establishment, industrial establishment,
educational establishment or institutional establishment.
Any person vested with title, legal or equitable, sole or
partial, of any improved property.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation or other group or entity, including municipalities,
municipality authorities, school districts and other units of government.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, indicating the degree
of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
Parts per million parts water, by weight.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
used or usable for collection of domestic sanitary sewage and/or industrial
wastes.
All facilities, at any particular time, acquired, constructed,
operated and/or leased by the Borough for collecting and transmitting
domestic sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes discharged by an
improved property within the Borough, other than a building sewer
or a lateral.
And shall include any street, road, lane, court, cul-de-sac,
alley, public way or public square, including such streets as are
dedicated to public use, and such streets as are owned by private
persons.
Total phosphorus as determined pursuant to the procedure
set forth in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater," published by the American Public Health
Association, Inc.
Solids determined by evaporating at 100° C. a mixed sample
of wastewater as determined pursuant to the procedure set forth in
the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water
and Wastewater," published by the American Public Health Association,
Inc. Total solids include floating solids, suspended solids, settleable
solids and dissolved solids, as defined in general below and by standard
methods:
SUSPENDED SOLIDSSolids determined by standard laboratory procedure in the waste.
SETTLEABLE SOLIDSSolids that settle in an Imhoff cone from a standard sample of waste.
DISSOLVED SOLIDSSolids that are dissolved in the waste and cannot be removed by filtration but can be determined by evaporation.
The sewage treatment and disposal system facilities and any
other relevant sewage facilities owned and operated by either the
Authority or its successors or assigns.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the sewer system or the treatment plant from an
improved property.
The rental fee or charge imposed by the Borough of Wyoming
upon an owner or improved property for the usage of the sewer system.
