For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTHORITY. Springfield Township Authority.
COLLECTION SEWER LINE. Sewer lines, pipes, fittings, lift station or pumping station and any equipment or hardware attached to it.
COMMUNITY SEWAGE SYSTEMS. Any system, whether publicly or privately owned, for the collection of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature from two or more lots, and the treatment and/or disposal of the sewage or industrial waste on one or more of the lots or at any site.
CONSTRUCTION COST. The actual cost incurred by the township or the Authority to construct the public portion of a sewer project designed to collect, transport and treat sewage waste, but not including the cost of connection from an individual lot to the sewer line in the public road or right-of-way designed to connect an individual lot to the sewer system.
DEPARTMENT. The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE. The normal water-carried household and toilet waste from residences, business buildings and institutions.
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. A person or agency appointed to perform inspections and issue permits in connection with sewage systems, whether individual or community.
EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT (EDU). Wastewater flows into a public sewage treatment facility as calculated according to published regulations by the Department of Environmental Protection, or as defined by MTASA or Authority.
HOLDING TANK. A watertight receptacle which receives and retains sewage and is designed and constructed to facilitate 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.
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, which would not be further subdivided. Whenever a LOT is used for a multiple-family dwelling or for commercial or industrial purposes, the LOT shall be deemed to have been subdivided into an equivalent number of single-family residential lots as determined by estimated sewage flows.
MTASA. The Milford-Trumbauersville Area Sewer Authority.
OWNER. Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any property located in the township.
PERSON. Any natural person, partnership, association or corporation. Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty, or imposing a fine or imprisonment, or both, the term PERSON shall include the members of an association and the officers of a corporation.
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 water 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.
TOWNSHIP. The Township of Springfield, a Second Class Township of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
(Ord. 109, passed 1-12-1999)