The following terms used in this Part shall have the following meanings:
AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE - any facility which services motor driven, self-propelled vehicles and conducts the following operations.
A. Change oil.
B. Mechanical repairs which includes the use of detergents or solvents to clean equipment.
C. Use of grease or lubricants for mechanical parts.
BAKERY - 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 non-profit.
BOD (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND) - shall mean the quality of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20 degrees Celsius expressed in milligrams/liter.
BOROUGH - the Borough of East McKeesport or their duly authorized agent or representative.
BUILDING DRAIN - shall mean 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.
BUILDING SEWER (ALSO HOUSE CONNECTION OR SERVICE SEWER) - shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
CLEAN WATER ACT - shall mean 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, Public Law 95-217.
COMMERCIAL LAUNDRY - an establishment where clothes/items are laundered or cleaned in exchange for a fee.
COMMERCIAL OR INSTITUTIONAL USERS - shall mean all nonresidential users which introduce only sanitary sewage or primarily segregated domestic wastes into a building sewer.
FLOATING OILS - shall mean 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.
GARBAGE - shall mean the putrescible animal and vegetable waste resulting from handling, preparation, cooking, and serving of foods.
GREASE INTERCEPTOR - an interceptor whose rated flow exceeds 35 gpm and which is located underground, outside the building.
GREASE TRAP - 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.
INDUSTRIAL USER - shall mean any nondomestic source regulated under section 307 (b), (c), (d) of the Clean Water Act that introduces pollutants into the Borough’s sewage disposal system.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE - shall mean 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.
INTERFERENCE - a discharge which alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, both:
A. Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment process or operations or its sludge process, use, or disposal.
B. Therefore, 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 m compliance with the following statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent State or local regulations); Paragraph 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 (RORA) 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.
MAY - is permissive.
MINOR INDUSTRIAL USERS - shall mean an industrial user not classified as a significant industrial user.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD, OR PRETREATMENT STANDARD - mean any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1347) which applies to a specific category of Industrial Users.
NATIONAL PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD OR PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD - shall mean any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307(b) of the Act and the general Pretreatment Regulations (40 CFR 403.5).
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 will be applicable to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section.
OWNER OR OCCUPANT - shall mean 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.
PERSON - shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, governmental agency, society, corporation, group or political subdivision.
pH - shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams contained in one liter of solution.
POLLUTANT - any dredge 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.
POLLUTION - the manmade or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological and radiological integrity of water.
POTW - Public Owned Treatment Works.
PREMISES - shall mean all the parcels of land included in the contributory municipalities or in the service are thereof in a single assessor’s parcel number.
PRIMARILY SEGREGATED DOMESTIC WASTES - shall mean that sewage which is introduced into a building sewer and which contains no more than 50% industrial waste, prior to any intentional dilution.
PROPERLY SEGREGATED DOMESTIC WASTES - shall mean 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 one-half inch (one and twenty-seven hundredths centimeters) in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER - shall mean a sewer in publicly owned land or easements and controlled by the Borough.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW) - a treatment works as defined by Paragraph 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.
R-1 GROUP - 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.
RESTAURANT - means and 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 meals generally consisting of courses embracing some kind of meat, or its equivalent) vegetables, bread, pastry, beverage and accompaniments, served at more or less regular intervals.
SANITARY SEWAGE - shall mean 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.
SANITARY SEWER - shall mean a sewer which carries sanitary sewage and to which storm, surface, and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM - shall mean 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.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT (ALSO WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ASSOCIATION) - shall mean all facilities for collecting, pumping, transporting, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER - shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWER USER CHARGE - shall mean a monthly charge to all users of the sewage disposal system which is based on sewage volume, strength and/or flow.
SHALL - is mandatory.
(Ord. 926, 4/8/2015, §1)