For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACT. The Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act (35 P.S. §§ 750.1 through 750.20).
COMMUNITY SEWAGE SYSTEMS. Any system, whether publicly or privately owned, for the collection of sewage from two or more lots, or the disposal of the sewage on one or more lots or at any other site.
CONVENTIONAL SEWAGE SYSTEM. A system employing the use of demonstrated on-lot sewage treatment and disposal technology in a manner specifically recognized by the regulations promulgated under the Act. The term includes individual or community on-lot sewage systems including sand mounds.
DEPARTMENT. Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
HOLDING TANK. A watertight receptacle which receives and retains sewage and is designed and constructed to facilitate the ultimate disposal of the sewage at another site. HOLDING TANKS include, but are not limited to the following.
(1) CHEMICAL TOILET. Toilet using chemicals that discharge into a holding tank.
(2) PRIVY. Holding tank designed to receive sewage where water under pressure is not available.
(3) RETENTION TANK. Holding tank to which sewage is conveyed by a water carrying system.
INDIVIDUAL RESIDENTIAL SPRAY IRRIGATION SYSTEM (IRSIS). An individual sewage system permitted under 35 P.S. § 750.7 of the Sewage Facilities Act, which serves a single dwelling and which treats and disposes of sewage using a system of piping, treatment tanks and soil renovation through spray irrigation.
INDIVIDUAL SEWAGE SYSTEM. A system of piping, tanks or other facilities serving a single lot and collecting and disposing of sewage in whole or in part into the soil or into any waters of this Commonwealth.
LOT. A part of a subdivision or a parcel of land used as a building site or intended to be used for building purposes, whether immediate or future.
PERSON. Any individual, association, public or private corporation for profit or not for profit, partnership, firm, trust, estate, department, board, bureau or agency of the Commonwealth, political subdivision, authority or any other legal entity whatsoever, which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties. Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing the penalty or imposing a fine or imprisonment, the term PERSON shall include the members of an association, partnership or firm and the officers of any local agency or municipal, public or private corporation for profit or not for profit.
PUBLIC SEWAGE SYSTEM. Sewer system and the treatment facility owned, operated or maintained by a municipality or municipal authority approved by the Department under a permit issued pursuant to the Clear Streams Law, 35 P.S. §§ 691.1 et seq. as hereafter amended, supplemented, modified or reenacted by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania.
SEWAGE. Any substance that contains any of the waste products or excrement, or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals, and any noxious or deleterious substances being harmful or inimical to the public health, or to animal or aquatic life, or to the use of water for domestic supply or for recreation, or which constitutes pollution under the Act of June 22, 1937, (P.L. 1987, No. 394), known as the Clean Streams Law, as amended.
SMALL FLOW TREATMENT FACILITY. An individual or community sewage system designed to adequately treat sewage flows not greater than 2,000 gallons per day for final disposal using a stream discharge or discharge to the surface of the ground.
TOWNSHIP. Springfield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
(Ord. 107, passed 6-10-1997)