Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following words and terms used in the rules and regulations shall have the following meanings.
BOARD. The elected and appointed members of the Board of Township Supervisors, as now or hereafter constituted.
BOD OF SEWAGE OR INDUSTRIAL WASTE. Shall designate its BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND and shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of the organic matter in said sewage or industrial waste under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20°C (under aerobic conditions), expressed in milligrams per liter by weight. It shall be determined by one of the acceptable methods described in the latest edition of Standard Methods of the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer designed to received both sewage and stormwater runoff which has been approved for such purpose.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. Any liquid, gaseous or water-borne wastes from industrial processes or commercial establishments, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
MAY. The act referred to is permissive.
OCCUPIED BUILDING. Any house, building or other structure located on said property and occupied, or intended for human occupancy, and having sanitary sewage produced thereon or emanating therefrom. 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/or industrial wastes is or may be discharged.
PERSON. Natural persons, partnerships, associations and corporations, public or private.
pH. The logarithm to the base ten of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration expressed in moles per liter. It shall be determined by one of the acceptable methods described in the latest edition of Standard 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.
PREMISES ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC 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, or is legally required to connect to, the public sanitary sewage system.
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 will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SANITARY SEWAGE SYSTEM (SEWER SYSTEM). All sanitary or combined sewers, all pumping stations, all force mains, all sewage treatment works, and all other sewerage facilities owned, leased, operated or otherwise used by or serving the township for the collection, transportation and treatment of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, together with their appurtenances, and any additions or improvements thereto. It shall also include sewers within the township’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 township and are not owned or maintained by the township. It does not include separate storm sewers or culverts which may 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 sewage treatment facilities serving the township.
SANITARY SEWAGE. The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, industrial and commercial establishments, exclusive of stormwater runoff, surface water or ground water.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE. A combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial and commercial establishments, together with such ground, surface or stormwater as may be present.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
SLUG. Any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration or flows during normal operation, and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
STORM SEWER. A sewer which is intended to carry stormwater runoff, surface waters, ground water drainage, and the like, but which is not intended to carry any sanitary sewage or polluted industrial waste.
STORMWATER RUNOFF. That portion of the rainfall which reaches a channel, trench, sewer or sink.
SUPERVISORS. The elected officials of the township as now or hereafter constituted, and its duly authorized agents or representatives.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids that either float on the surface or are in suspension in water, sewage, industrial waste or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtration. The quantity of SUSPENDED SOLIDS shall be determined by one of the acceptable methods described in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
TOWNSHIP. Township of Bradford situated in McKean County, Pennsylvania.
UNPOLLUTED WATER OR WASTE. Any water or waste containing none of the following: free or emulsified grease or oil; pH less than 6.0 or greater than 9.0; phenols or other substances imparting taste and odor to receiving waters; toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution; obnoxious or odorous gases. It shall contain not more than 750 milligrams per liter by weight of dissolved solids of which not more than 250 milligrams per liter shall be as chloride and not more than ten milligrams per liter each of suspended solids and BOD. The color shall not exceed five color units. Analyses for any of the above-mentioned substances shall be made in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
WATER AUTHORITY. Any publicly or privately owned duly authorized agency, corporation or organization which is the approved purveyor of the public water supply within the limits of the authority’s service area.
(Ord. 2013-05-02, passed 5-13-2013)