[Adopted 7-12-2018 by Ord. No. 2018-04 (Ch. 212, Art. XI, of the 1999
Code)]
For purposes of this Part, the following terms shall have the
meanings hereafter designated:
Any facility which services motor driven, self-propelled
vehicles and conducts the following operations:
Any facility equipped to bake bread, cookies, cakes, pies,
etc., cooked in dry heat, especially an oven, and goods are sold either
retail or wholesale or nonprofit.
The quality of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C. expressed in milligrams/liter.
Borough of Homestead or its duly authorized agent(s) or representative(s).
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage
pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building
sewer.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Public Law 92-500,
also known as the "Clean Water Act," including the amendments made
by the Clean Water Act of 1977, Law 95-217.
An establishment where clothes/items are laundered or cleaned
in exchange for a fee.
All nonresidential users which introduce only sanitary sewage
or primarily segregated domestic wastes into a building sewer.
Oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment
facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable oil if
it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with
the wastewater facilities.
Any food establishment in any building, room or place or
any portion thereof or appurtenant thereto, where human food or drink
is mixed, cooked or otherwise prepared, offered for sale, sold, served
or given, with or without charge to patrons, customers or guests for
consumption on the premises, or to take out; provided, however, that
this does not include the mixing, cooking or other preparation or
serving of food in a single-family dwelling to the resident family
or its guest(s).
The putrescible animal and vegetable waste resulting from
handling, preparation, cooking, and serving of foods.
An interceptor with a rated flow exceeding 35 gpm and which
is located underground, outside the building.
A trap whose flow rate is 35 gallons per minute (gpm) or
less and which is located inside the building. Grease traps shall
be rated for a minimum of 22.59 gpm.
Any nondomestic source regulated under § 307(b),
(c) or (d) of the Clean Water Act that introduces pollutants into
the Borough's sewage disposal system.
The water-carried wastes from industrial manufacturing or
industrial processing as distinct from sanitary sewage. It shall include
the trade wastes produced by, but not limited to, food processing
and bottling plants, food manufacturing plants, slaughtering plants,
tallow works, plating works, disposal services, industrial cleaning
plants, fertilizer plants, car and truck washing operations, laundries,
cleaning establishments, cooling plants, industrial plants, factories,
chemical treatment installation, and steel making plants.
A discharge which alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges from other sources, both:
Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment process, operations
or its sludge process, use or disposal; and
Is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW'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 the following statutory provisions and regulations or permits
issued thereunder (or more stringent state or local regulations);
§ 403 of the Clean Water Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act
(SWDA) [including Title II, more commonly referred to as the "Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RDRA)"] and including state regulations
contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to
Subtitle D of the (SWDA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substance Control
Act and the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act.
Generally consisting of courses containing meat or its equivalent,
vegetables, bread, pastry, beverages and accompaniments.
An industrial user not classified as a significant industrial
user.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with § 307, Subsections (b) and
(c) of 33 U.S.C. § 1347 of the Clean Water Act, which applies
to a specific category of industrial users.
Any regulation under the authority of § 307(b)
of the Clean Water Act and the general Pretreatment Regulations at
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 the proposed pretreatment
standards under § 307(c) of the Clean Water Act which will
be applicable to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated
in accordance with that section.
The persons using the lot, parcel of land, building, or premises
connected to and discharging sewage into the sewage disposal system
of the Borough, and who pays or is legally responsible for the payment
of sewer user charges made against the said lot, parcel of land, building
or premises, if connected to the sewage disposal, or who would pay
or be legally responsible for such payment.
An individual, firm, company, association, governmental agency,
society, corporation, group or political subdivision.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams contained in one liter of solution.
Any dredge spoil, solid waste, incineration 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.
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
All the parcels of land included in the contributory municipalities
or in the service area thereof in a single assessor's parcel number.
That sewage which is introduced into a building's sewer and
which contains no more than 50% industrial waste, prior to any intentional
dilution.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles
will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing
in public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch (1.27 centimeters)
in any dimension.
A sewer in publicly owned land or easements and controlled
by the Borough.
A treatment works as defined by § 212 of the Clean
Water Act, which is owned in this instance by either ALCOSAN or the
MACM. This definition includes any sewer that conveys wastewater to
the POTW treatment plant, but does not include pipes, sewers, or other
conveyances not connected to a facility providing treatment.
A mechanical system used at intervals within a sanitary sewer
system for pumping wastewater or sewage from a lower to higher elevation
or otherwise aiding proper system flow.
This use group shall include all multiple-family dwellings
having four or more dwelling units and shall include all boarding
houses and similar buildings arranged for shelter and sleeping accommodations
in which occupants are primarily not transient in nature.
Includes any public eating place where meals are prepared,
offered for sale, sold and served to patrons, customers or guests
for compensation based on the prices charged for and generally paid
at the conclusion of each meal. The words "regular meals" as used
herein mean generally consisting of courses embracing some kind of
meal or its equivalent, vegetables, bread, pastry, beverage and accompaniments,
served at more or less regular intervals.
The water-carried wastes from residences, hotels, restaurants,
eating houses, or from business establishments or premises engaged
solely in the sale, storage or repair of goods, wares or merchandise,
and which contains garbage, human wastes, or animal wastes.
All tangible property used or useful to the authority in
the rendering of sewage transportation, treatment and disposal service,
and shall include intercepting sewers, regulator chambers, pumping
stations, force mains, and the sewage treatment plant.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, transporting, treating
and disposing of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
A monthly charge to all users of the sewage disposal system
which is based on sewage volume, strength and/or flow.
The following entities are required to install, operate and
maintain, in strict accordance with this Part, and all other controlling
state and federal laws and regulations, oil/grease interceptors:
1.Â
Restaurant.
2.Â
Food preparation facility.
3.Â
Automotive service (change oil/mechanical
repairs).
4.Â
Sale of gasoline or oil (retail
and bulk).
5.Â
Bakery.
6.Â
Facility using detergents or
solvents to clean mechanical equipment.
7.Â
Facility using grease or lubricants
for mechanical parts.
8.Â
Commercial laundry.
9.Â
Any facility involved with the
preparation of food made for human and/or animal consumption.
1.Â
No person shall discharge or
cause to be discharged into any sewer line substances, materials,
waters or wastes if it appears likely in the opinion of the Borough,
or its designated agent, that such wastes can harm the sewage disposal
system or the treatment process or equipment, or can otherwise endanger
life, limb, or public property, or constitute a nuisance.
2.Â
In forming their opinion as to
the acceptability of these waters, the Borough, or its designated
agent, will give consideration to such factors as to the qualities
of subject wastes in relation to flows and velocities in the sewers,
materials of construction of the sewers, nature of the sewage treatment
process, capacity of the wastewater treatment plant, degree of treatability
of wastes in the sewage treatment plant, degree of treatability of
wastes in the sewage treatment plant, and other pertinent factors.
3.Â
In all cases, the Borough, or
its designated agent, shall require compliance by the user with all
aspects of latest applicable ALCOSAN pretreatment standards.
4.Â
See provision Part 6, ALCOSAN
pretreatment standards.
A.Â
Plumbing to be in good repair.
Every building or room occupied or used as a food preparation facility
or restaurant shall be well drained. All soil pipes, waste pipes,
drains or other plumbing fixtures shall be of adequate size to enable
the passage of any waste intended to pass through it to the main public
sewer. All drains, sewers, waste and soil pipes, traps and water in
gas pipes shall, at all times, be kept in good repair and order so
that no gases or odor shall escape therefrom and so that the same
shall not leak, and all vent pipes shall be kept in good order and
repair and free from obstruction.
B.Â
Installation of grease interceptors
and grease traps.
(1)Â
Every building, room or
space or part thereof used as a food preparation facility or restaurant,
whether new or existing, shall install or cause to be installed, if
not already installed, a grease interceptor or grease trap. The type
of installation shall be determined by the total fixture flow-through
rate of potential grease-laden fixtures discharging through the building
sewage lines as determined by the Allegheny County Health Department
(ACHD) Plumbing Division. For flow-through rates of 35 gpm or less,
an internal grease trap may be installed in certain existing structures
used as food preparation facilities and restaurants. For flow-through
rates exceeding 35 gpm, an external, underground grease interceptor
must be installed in all new structures, major remodeling or renovation
of existing structures, or changes of use involving food preparation
facilities or restaurants.
(2)Â
Said grease trap or grease
interceptor shall be installed at an appropriate location along the
sewer line between the food preparation facility or restaurant and
the line's entry in the main public newline. An inspection site tee
shall be installed between the interceptor discharge and connect to
the public sewer system. All installation shall be in accordance with
the ACHD Plumbing Code and Regulations. No solid waste devices, such
as waste grinders, disposals, potato peelers, etc., shall discharge
through the grease trap or grease interceptor. Only potential grease-laden
fixtures may discharge through the trap or interceptor.
(3)Â
All new food preparation
facilities and restaurants shall be required to install an exterior,
underground grease interceptor of a minimum one-thousand-gallon capacity,
regardless of the flow-through rate.
(4)Â
In all existing food preparation
facilities and restaurants there shall be installed a grease interceptor
or grease trap as determined by the flow-through rate, as detailed
above, if not already installed. In existing facilities where it is
determined by the Borough that a grease trap is not sufficient, the
Borough may require that grease interceptors (as detailed above) be
installed. Such insufficiency shall be evidenced by excessive amounts
of grease being discharged into the public sewer system by a facility.
All existing food preparation facilities and restaurants shall, at
a change of ownership or remodeling or renovation thereof, install
an exterior, underground grease interceptor of a minimum one-thousand-gallon
capacity. In all existing structures, buildings or parts thereof in
which there is a change of use or occupancy or that of a food preparation
facility or restaurant there shall be installed a grease interceptor
of a minimum one-thousand-gallon capacity, regardless of the flow-through
rate.
(5)Â
All interceptors shall
be of a type and capacity approved by the Wastewater Superintendent
and shall be located under cover and so as to be readily and easily
accessible for cleaning and inspection. Interceptors shall not be
located so as to receive rainwater or unpolluted runoff.
(6)Â
Grease and oil interceptors
shall be constructed of impervious materials capable of withstanding
abrupt and extreme changes in temperature. They shall be of substantial
construction, watertight and equipped with easily removable covers
which, when bolted in place, shall be gastight and watertight.
C.Â
Maintenance of grease interceptors
and grease traps.
(1)Â
All grease interceptors
and grease traps shall be maintained and kept in good working order
at all times. The interceptor or trap shall limit the amount of grease
discharge into the public sewer system to levels not exceeding those
permitted by ALCOSAN. Oil/grease discharges shall not exceed 200 ppm
downstream of the interceptor or tap.
(2)Â
It shall be the duty and
responsibility of all owners, lessees or agents of all food preparation
facilities and restaurants to, at a minimum of annually, inspect the
grease interceptor or trap. A written record shall be kept of all
inspections. The inspection record shall, at a minimum, list the name
(inspector and company), address and phone number of the inspection/disposal
company, the method and frequency of cleaning scheduled and the date
of the cleaning/inspection. Such records shall be immediately presented
to the Borough upon request. A more frequent cleaning/inspection schedule
may be ordered to be performed by the facility when it is determined
by the Borough that the facility is discharging excessive amounts
of grease to the public sewer system.
(3)Â
Grease and all debris removed
from a trap or interceptor shall only be disposed of at a facility
approved by the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) and/or the
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). Under no
circumstances shall this material be deposited into another sanitary
or storm sewer.
(4)Â
Where installed, all grease,
oil and sand interceptors shall be maintained by the owner, at his/her
expense, in continuously efficient operations at all times. Interceptors
shall be cleaned at least once a week.
(5)Â
Failure by the owner to
properly clean and maintain these units shall be considered sufficient
cause for disconnection of premises from the public sewer, and/or
other enforcement actions and penalties as provided for in this Part
and/or by other, applicable law.
D.Â
Rate of flow control. Grease
interceptors shall be equipped with devices to control the rate of
water flow so that the water flow does not exceed the rated flow.
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Capacity of Grease Interceptors
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|---|---|
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Total Flow-Through Rating
(gallons/minute)
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Grease Retention Capacity
(pounds)
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4
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8
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|
6
|
12
|
|
7
|
14
|
|
9
|
18
|
|
10
|
20
|
|
12
|
24
|
|
14
|
28
|
|
15
|
30
|
|
18
|
36
|
|
20
|
40
|
|
25
|
50
|
|
35
|
70
|
|
50
|
100
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Due to the extra manpower, expertise, spare parts, and regular repair and maintenance required by sanitary sewer system pump stations, the Borough is hereby authorized to add a surcharge on top of sewer user charge/sewer rental rate imposed pursuant to Chapter 18, Part 5, of the Code of the Borough of Homestead to be assessed on all properties, residential or otherwise, that utilize a portion of the Homestead Sanitary Sewer System that requires the use of a pump station in order to pump wastewater or sewage through the system. Said surcharge shall be set by resolution in an amount calculated to cover all or part of the expense and cost of maintaining the pump station in proper working order.
1.Â
Any person, firm or corporation
who violates a provision of this Part, or who fails to comply therewith,
or any of the requirements thereof, shall be, upon conviction thereof,
sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 for each violation,
plus court costs and cost of prosecution incurred by the Borough,
and in default of payment of said fine and costs, imprisonment for
up to 30 days.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see AO)]
2.Â
Each day or portion thereof in
which a violation of this Part is found to exist shall constitute
separate violation/offense. All fines and penalties for the violation(s)
shall be paid to the Borough.
3.Â
The aforementioned penalties
shall not preclude or limit the Borough's ability to obtain such other
or additional remedies or relief available to it under any other applicable
laws including any and all right to commence appropriate actions in
equity or otherwise to prevent, restrain, correct, enjoin or abate
violation of this Part.
1.Â
In order to monitor compliance
with this Part and to enforce its terms, the Borough of Homestead
Code Enforcement Officer, or other authorized Borough representatives,
shall have the authority to enter, at any reasonable hour, a food
preparation facility or restaurant located, in whole or in part, in
the Borough. This right of entry and inspection shall be in addition
to the right of entry and inspection hereby granted by this Part,
and by other applicable law, to the Allegheny County Health Department
and ALCOSAN and their authorized representatives.
