The following abbreviations, acronyms, words, terms and phrases when used in this Part 7(B) shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this Section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning. Additional definitions that apply to this Part 7(B) are set forth in § 18-701 of the Statutory Code of Hanover Township.
ABBREVIATIONS—the following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
BOD
5 | - Biochemical Oxygen Demand (5-day) |
CBOD5 | - Carbonaceous Biochemical Oxygen Demand (5-day) |
CFR | - Code of Federal Regulations |
COD | - Chemical Oxygen Demand |
EPA | - United States Environmental Protection Agency |
IWDP | - Industrial Waste Discharge Permit |
mg/l | - milligrams per liter |
NPDES | - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System |
NH3-N | - Ammonia-Nitrogen |
POTW | - Publicly Owned Treatment Works |
RCRA | - Resource Conservation and Recovery Act |
SIC | - Standard Industrial Classification |
SWDA | - Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq. |
USC | - United States Code |
TSS | - Total Suspended Solids |
ACT or “THE ACT”—the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.
ADMINISTRATOR or “THE ADMINISTRATOR”—the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY—the Regional Administrator of EPA Region III as defined in 40 CFR 403.3(c).
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF A USER—an authorized representative of a user may be:
(1) A president, secretary, treasurer, or vice-president of the corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any other person who performs similar policy or decision making functions for the corpora tion.
(2) A general partner or proprietor, if the user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively.
(3) A director or highest official appointed or designated to oversee operations and performance, if the user is a Federal, State or local governmental facility.
(4) A duly authorized representative of the individual identified in paragraphs (1) through (3) above, if such representative is responsi ble for the overall operation of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates and a written request for designation of an alternate representative is approved by the City.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE (BMP)—schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b). BMP’s also include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to contract plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD5)—the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures, 5 days at 20º Celsius expressed as a concentration (mg/l - milligrams per liter), and determined in accordance with EPA test methods referenced in 40 CFR 136.
BUILDING SEWER—a sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user to the POTW.
CARBONACEOUS BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (CBOD5)—the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of carbonaceous organic matter expressed as a concentration (mg/l - milligrams per liter), and determined in accordance with EPA test methods referenced in 40 CFR 136.
CATEGORICAL STANDARD OR CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STAN DARD—see “National Categorical Standard.”
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD)—the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter which is susceptible to conversion to carbon dioxide and water and expressed as a concentration (mg/l - milligrams per liter), and determined in accordance with EPA test methods referenced in 40 CFR 136.
CITY—the City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, or the City Council of Bethlehem.
COOLING WATER—the water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
CONTROL AUTHORITY—the City of Bethlehem.
DIRECT DISCHARGE—the discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the State of Pennsylvania.
DIRECTOR OF WATER AND SEWER RESOURCES—the person designated by the City to implement, administer and enforce the provisions of this Article 923 of codified City ordinances, or the director’s duly authorized representative.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE—liquid or water-carried waste generated from sanitary conveniences of campers, trailers, dwellings, office buildings, factories or institutions and from household laundry operations, washing and cooking foods and dishwashing, but does not contain industrial waste.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA—the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or where appropriate the term may also be used as a designation for the administrator or other duly authorized official of said agency.
EXISTING SOURCE—any source of discharge, the construction or operation of which commenced prior to the publication by EPA of proposed categorical standards, which will be applicable to such source if the standard is thereafter promulgated in accordance with § 307 of the Act.
GRAB SAMPLE—a sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and taken over a period of time which does not exceed 15 minutes.
HEARING BOARD—the Board appointed according to provisions § 18-715 of this Part 7(B).
HOLDING TANK WASTE—any waste from holding tanks such as, but not limited to, treatment units, vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE—the discharge or the introduction of pollutants from any non-domestic source regulated under §§ 18-307 (b) or (c) or (d) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1317), into the POTW (including holding tank waste discharged into the system).
INDUSTRIAL PRETREATMENT COORDINATOR—the person designated by the City to supervise the operation of its industrial pretreatment program, who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities by this Part 7(B), or a duly authorized representative as delegated by the Industrial Pretreatment Coordina tor.
INDUSTRIAL USER—a source of indirect discharge.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE—solid, liquid or gaseous wastes from any industrial, manufacturing, or commercial process or from the development, recovery or processing of natural resources, but not domestic sewage.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE DISCHARGE PERMIT (IWDP)—a permit as set forth in § 18-714 of this Part 7(B).
INTERFERENCE—a discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, both:
(1) Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal.
(2) 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 in compliance with the following statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent state or local regulations): Section 405 of the Clean Water Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) (including Title II, more commonly referred to as Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), 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.
MONTHLY AVERAGE—the arithmetic mean of the values for users’ samples collected over a calendar month.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL STANDARD or CATEGORICAL STAN DARD—standard specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged to the POTW by existing or new industrial users in specific industrial subcategories as established as separate regulations under 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N.
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM or NPDES PERMIT—a permit issued pursuant to § 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1342).
NATIONAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or NATIONAL STANDARD—any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by EPA in accordance with §§ 307(b) and (c) of the Act, which applies to industrial users. This term includes categorical standards and the prohibitive discharge standards or local limits established pursuant to 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 Act which will be applicable to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section provided that:
(1) The building, structure, facility or installation is constructed at a site at which no other source is located.
(2) The building, structure, facility or installation totally replaced the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at an existing source.
(3) The production or wastewater generating processes of the building, structure, facility or installation are substantially independent of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these are substantially independent, factors such as the extent to which the new facility is integrated with the existing plant, and the extent to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity as the existing source should be considered.
PASS THROUGH—a discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the City’s NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
PERSON—any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corpora tion, 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.
pH—a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, expressed in standard units, and determined in accordance with EPA test methods referenced in 40 CFR 136.
POLLUTANT—any dredged soil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemicals, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into the environment.
POLLUTION—the man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological integrity of the environment.
PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT—the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, or process changes by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR § 403.6(d).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS—any substantive or procedural require ment related to pretreatment, other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial user.
PRETREATMENT STANDARD—see “National Pretreatment Standard.”
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 City. This definition includes any devices or systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature and any manholes, sewers, pumping stations, force mains, siphons or other facilities or appurtenances which are part of the system utilized to convey wastewater to the City’s POTW Treatment Plant. The POTW shall also include any collection and conveyance systems which convey wastewaters to the City’s POTW from persons outside the City who are, by contract or agreement with the City, users of the City’s POTW.
POTW TREATMENT PLANT—that portion of the POTW designated to provide treatment to wastewater.
SEPTAGE—a type of holding tank waste originating from the discharge of strictly domestic sewage to holding tanks, chemical toilets, camper waste tanks, trailer waste tanks, cesspools and septic tanks.
SEWAGE—see “wastewater.”
SHALL—is mandatory; MAY—is permissive.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER—any industrial user of the City’s POTW or collection system who:
(1) Is subject to categorical standards under 40 CFR 403.6 and 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N.
(2) Discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of process wastewater to the POTW (excluding sanitary, non-contact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater); or contributes a process waste stream which makes up 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW treatment plant; or is designated as such by the City on the basis that the industrial user has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW’s operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
SLUG LOAD or SLUG—any pollutant released in a discharge at a flow rate or concentration which will cause a violation of the specific discharge prohibitions in 40 CFR 403.5(b) and/or any discharge of non-routine nature, episodic nature including, but not limited to, accidental spills or non-customary batch discharges, or which could cause a violation of the prohibited discharge standards of § 18-712 of this Part 7(B).
SPECIFIC POLLUTANT DISCHARGE LIMITATIONS or LOCAL LIMITS —numeric quantities or concentrations of pollutants which may be discharged to the POTW by existing or new industrial users developed by the City in accor dance with 40 CFR 403.5(c) and defined in § 18-712(4) of this Part 7(B).
STATE—State of Pennsylvania.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)—a classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, 1972, as amended.
STORMWATER—any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUPERINTENDENT—the person designated by the City to supervise the operation of the publicly owned treatment works and who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities by this Part 7(B), or the Superintendent’s duly authorized representative.
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS (TSS) or SUSPENDED SOLIDS—the total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater or other liquids, and which is removable by laboratory filtering and determined in accordance with EPA test methods referenced in 40 CFR 136.
TOWNSHIP—Hanover Township, Lehigh County.
USER—any person who utilizes the services of the City’s POTW.
WASTEWATER—the liquid and water-carried industrial wastes and/or domestic sewage from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, or institutions, whether treated or untreated, which are contributed into or permitted to enter the POTW.
WATER QUALITY MANAGER—the person designated by the City to supervise the operation of the Water Quality Bureau.
WATERS OF THE STATE—all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through, or border upon the State or any portion thereof.
WEEKLY AVERAGE—the arithmetic mean of the values for the users’ samples collected over a 7-day calendar week.
(Ord. 495, 6/17/2009)