The following words, terms and phrases when used in this Section shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this Section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning. These definitions are applicable to all Sections contained within this Part of the Statutory Code of Hanover Township.
AIR CONDITIONING—the cooling or dehumidification, or both, of space for human occupancy or for any environmentally controlled equipment.
APPROVING AUTHORITY—the Township Manager.
AUTHORIZED INDUSTRIAL WASTE—industrial waste proposed for discharge into a sanitary sewer or storm sewer which complies with all provisions of this Section regarding quantity and quality and which:
(1) In the case of proposed discharge into a sanitary sewer is approved by the approving authority; or,
(2) In the case of proposed discharge into a storm sewer, is approved by the Department of Environmental Resources, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and approved by the approving authority in writing.
BUILDING DRAIN—the sewer or sewers within a building used to convey sewage and/or industrial waste to building sewers or laterals, and in this Section shall relate to the point of connection to the building sewers or laterals.
BUILDING SEWER OR LATERAL—the extension of the building drain from the building to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
CITY—the City of Bethlehem, Counties of Lehigh and Northampton, Pennsylvania.
COLOR—of an industrial waste means the color of the light transmitted by the waste solution after removing the suspended material, including the pseudocolloidal sections.
GARBAGE—all putrescible animal and vegetable matter resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
GROUND GARBAGE—solid waste that has been shredded to such a degree that all its sections will be carried freely under normal sewer flow conditions, with no section greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
HEARING BOARD—the board appointed according to provisions of § 18-715.
IMPROVED PROPERTY—any property located within the corporate limits of the Township upon which there is erected a structure or structures intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure or structures sewage and/or industrial waste shall be, or may be, discharged, or any property outside the corporate limits of the Township upon which there is erected a structure or structures intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use of human beings or animals and from which structure sewage and/or industrial waste shall be, or may be, discharged and which wastes are accepted by the Township into the Township's sewerage system as it exists now or with any extensions or enlargements that may be made in the future at any time.
MG/L—milligrams per liter.
MUNICIPALITY—any county, county authority, municipal authority, city, borough, town, township or school district.
OWNER—any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON—any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, the singular shall include the plural, where indicated by the context.
PREMISES ACCESSIBLE TO THE SEWERAGE SYSTEM—any improved property when the public sewer abuts, bounds or is adjacent to such improved property.
PUBLIC SEWER—a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and is controlled by public authority. It shall also include sewer within or without the Township limits, which serve one or more persons and discharge into the Township sewerage system.
REFRIGERATION—the preservation of food products, process work and the maintenance of storage temperature.
SANITARY SEWER—a sewer which carries sewage and/or authorized industrial wastes and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted, which is part of the sewage system.
SEWAGE—any substance that contains any of the waste products or excretions or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM or SEWERAGE FACILITY—all facilities owned and/or operated by the Township, which are used for collecting, pumping, transporting, treating and disposing of sewage and industrial waste, the effluent of which is discharged into the sewage system of the City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
SEWER—a pipe conduit for carrying sewage, industrial waste or storm or surface water.
SHALL—is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
SLUG—any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than 5 times the average 24 hour concentration or flow, during normal operation.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS—solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension of water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
TWENTY-FOUR HOUR COMPOSITE WASTE WATER SAMPLE—a sample which consists of 24 hourly waste water samples collected over a 24 period with the sample volume proportioned according to i.e., flow rate at the time of the sample. The cumulative sample shall be refrigerated.
TOWNSHIP—Hanover Township, Lehigh County.
TOXIC SUBSTANCE—any noxious and/or deleterious substance in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, which insures or interferes with any sewage treatment process, constitutes a hazard to humans or animals, creates a public nuisance or creates a hazard in any sewerage system or in the receiving waters of a sewage treatment plant.
WATER AS A DIRECT COOLING MEDIUM—the use of water as a refrigerant.
WATER AS AN INDIRECT COOLING MEDIUM—the use of water to extract heat from a refrigerant in a water-cooled condensing unit.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT—any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage or authorized industrial waste.
WATERCOURSE—a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Ord. 339, 7/3/1996, § 4)