For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTHORITY. The Municipal Authority of the Borough of Bedford, County of Bedford, Pennsylvania, and its duly authorized representatives and employees.
BOROUGH. The Borough of Bedford, County of Bedford, Pennsylvania, and its duly authorized representatives and employees.
BUILDING. Each single-family dwelling unit, multiple dwelling unit, multi-use unit, store, shop, office, business, institutional, commercial, or industrial unit contained within any structure, erected and intended for continuous periodic habitation, occupancy, or use by human beings or animals and from which structure wastewater or pollutants may be discharged into the Authority’s POTW.
CONNECTION. The part of the wastewater system extending from the end of the service line to the plumbing fixtures in the building.
MAY. Is permissive.
PERSON. Includes any person, partnership, firm, organization, and corporation.
POLLUTANT. Any dredged spoil, 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.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW). A treatment works as defined by § 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292) which is owned in this instance by the Municipal Authority of the borough. This definition includes any sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW treatment plant, but does not include pipes, sewers, or other conveyances not connected to the facility providing treatment. For the purposes of this subchapter, POTW shall also include any sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW from persons outside the borough who are, by contract or agreement with the Municipal Authority of the borough, users of the Municipal Authority’s POTW.
SANITARY SEWER MAIN. The part of the POTW which collects wastewater from the service lines and conveys it to the treatment plant.
SERVICE LINE. The part of the POTW including the wye, saddle, and pipe from the sanitary sewer main to the property line (connection).
SHALL. Is mandatory.
WASTEWATER. The liquid and water-carried domestic or industrial wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and storm water that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the POTW.
(Prior Code, Ch. 18, Pt. 1, § 101) (Ord. 2-2001, passed 7-2-2001)