For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTHORITY. Borough of Topton Municipal Authority, a Pennsylvania municipality authority.
BILLING UNIT. Includes, as applicable, each of the following: a commercial establishment; a dwelling unit; an industrial establishment; and an institutional establishment.
BOD (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND). The quantity of oxygen, expressed in ppm, utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure for five days at 20°C. The standard laboratory procedure shall be that found in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Sewage published by the American Public Health Association.
BOROUGH. The Borough of Topton, Berks County, Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania municipal corporation, acting by and through its Council or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized representatives.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT. Any room, group of rooms, building or enclosure connected directly or indirectly to the sewer system and used or intended for use in the operation of one business enterprise for the sale and distribution of any product, commodity, article or service.
DWELLING UNIT. Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected directly or indirectly to the sewer system and occupied or intended for occupancy as a separate business or as separate living quarters by a family or other group of persons living together or by a person living alone.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes resulting from preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
IMPROVED PROPERTY. Any property located within the borough upon which there is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT. Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected directly or indirectly to the sewer system and used or intended for use, in whole or in part, in the operation of one business enterprise for manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling any product, commodity or article or from which any process waste, as distinct from sanitary sewage, shall be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or form of energy rejected or escaping in the course of any industrial, manufacturing, trade or business process or in the course of the development, recovery or processing of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT. Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected directly or indirectly to the sewer system which does not constitute a commercial establishment, dwelling unit or an industrial establishment.
MULTIPLE UNIT. Any improved property in which shall be located more than one billing unit.
OWNER. Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any property located in the borough.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, company, association, society, corporation or other group or entity.
pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, and indicates the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
ppm. Parts per million, by weight.
PROPERLY CHOPPED GARBAGE. Garbage that has been chopped to such a degree that all its particles will be carried freely under normal sewer flow conditions, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
SANITARY SEWAGE. Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any improved property, including such ground, surface or stormwater as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. The plant and facilities operated for such purpose by the borough, to which the sewer system is to be connected.
SEWER. Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM. All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, situated in or adjacent to this borough and owned by the authority and leased to this borough for operation and use.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids neither dissolved nor floating on the surface of the liquid, as determined by appropriate procedures found in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Sewage published by the American Public Health Association.
TOTAL SOLIDS. All solids as determined by appropriate procedures found in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Sewage published by the American Public Health Association.
TOXIC SUBSTANCE. Any poisonous substance, including copper, cyanide, chromium, beryllium, cadmium, lead, nickel, tin and zinc ions, any phenolic bodies or radioactive isotopes.
WATER SYSTEM. The facilities owned by the borough and used for the supply of water to the public in the borough.
(Ord. 329, passed 8-27-1962)