Pennsylvania Code › Title 52 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part I - Public Utility Commission › Subpart C - Fixed Service Utilities › Chapter 66 - WASTEWATER SERVICE › Subchapter B - DAMAGED WASTEWATER SERVICE LATERALS › Section 66.32 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
						subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
AAO plan-Annual asset optimization
						plan
-The term as defined in §
											121.2 (relating to
						definitions).
Combined sewer system
-As defined by the
						Department of Environmental Protection under 25 Pa. Code §
											94.1 (relating to
						definitions).
Customer
-A party contracting with an
						entity for service.
Customer's service lateral
-The portion
						of a service lateral owned by the customer or property owner, if the customer
						is not the property owner, most often extending from the curb, property line or
						entity connection to a point 2 feet from the exterior face of the foundation of
						the structure.
DSIC-Distribution system improvement
						charge
-The term as defined in § 121.2.
DWSL-Damaged wastewater service
						lateral
-A customer's service lateral containing a single area or a
						combination of several areas, acting collectively, identified by visual or
						other means, along the length of the lateral which has or have been determined
						to significantly impair the intended function of the customer's service lateral
						to convey wastewater flow to the entity's service lateral and keep inflow and
						infiltration flows, within reason, out of the customer's service
						lateral.
DWSL plan-Damaged wastewater service lateral
						plan
-A plan and supporting documents submitted to and approved by the
						Commission that specify how an entity intends to implement its damaged
						wastewater service lateral program.
DWSL program-Damaged wastewater service lateral
						program
-A program submitted to and approved by the Commission for the
						replacement, rehabilitation or repair, or both, of damaged wastewater service
						laterals by an entity.
DWSL program report-Damaged wastewater service
						lateral program report
-The annual report, including a plan and
						supporting documents, providing information for damaged wastewater service
						lateral replacements completed by an entity under its damaged wastewater
						service lateral program.
DWSL project-Damaged wastewater service lateral
						project
-An entity's scheduled damaged wastewater service lateral
						activity either in conjunction with main replacements or as part of a damaged
						wastewater service lateral program.
DWSL project area-Damaged wastewater service
						lateral project area
-The area of a sewershed described by an entity as
						being eligible for the entity's damaged wastewater service lateral plan.
DWSL project commencement-Damaged wastewater
						service lateral project commencement
-Installation of the first damaged
						wastewater service lateral replacement within a damaged wastewater lateral
						project area.
DWSL replacement-Damaged wastewater service
						lateral replacement
-A service lateral installed to replace a damaged
						wastewater service lateral or an approved method under the entity's damaged
						wastewater service lateral plan to rehabilitate or repair, or both, a damaged
						wastewater service lateral.
Entity
-A public utility as defined in
						66 Pa.C.S. §
												102
						(relating to definitions) engaged in wastewater collection, treatment or
						disposal for the public for compensation, a municipal corporation as defined in
						66 Pa.C.S. §
												102
						engaged in wastewater collection, treatment or disposal for the public for
						compensation beyond its corporate limits as referenced in
						66 Pa.C.S. §
												1501
						(relating to character of service and facilities), and an authority as defined
						in
						66 Pa.C.S. §
												3201(2) (relating to
						definitions).
Entity's service lateral
-The portion of
						a service lateral owned by the entity, most often extending from a main to the
						outlet connection of a customer's service lateral at the curb or property
						line.
Hydraulic design capacity
-The term as
						defined by the Department of Environmental Protection under 25 Pa. Code §
											94.1 (relating to
						definitions).
Hydraulic overload
-The term as defined
						by the Department of Environmental Protection under 25 Pa. Code §
						94.1.
I&I-Inflow and infiltration
-The
						total quantity of water from both infiltration and inflow.
Infiltration
-The term as defined by the
						Department of Environmental Protection under 25 Pa. Code § 965.1.
Inflow
-The term as defined by the
						Department of Environmental Protection under 25 Pa. Code §
											965.1 (relating to
						definitions).
LTIIP-Long-term infrastructure improvement
						plan
- The term as defined in § 121.2.
Main
-The pipe of a public utility
						system, excluding service laterals, located in a public highway, street, alley
						or private right-of-way which pipe is used in collecting and conveying
						wastewater.
Monthly average flow
-The term as defined
						by the Department of Environmental Protection under 25 Pa. Code §
											94.1.
Sanitary sewer system
-"Separate sanitary
						sewer system'' as defined by the Department of Environmental Protection under
						25 Pa. Code §
											94.1.
Service lateral
-The pipe and
						appurtenances that connect any main to a point 2 feet from the exterior face of
						the foundation of the structure.
Sewershed
-A delineated area contributing
						wastewater flows to a single downstream point in a wastewater system.
Wastewater
-The term as defined in
						66 Pa.C.S. §
												102.
Wastewater facilities
-Sewerage
						facilities as defined by the Department of Environmental Protection under 25
						Pa. Code §
											94.1.
Wastewater system
-Sewer system as
						defined by the Department of Environmental Protection under 25 Pa. Code §
											94.1.
Wastewater overflow
-Includes the terms
						"CSO-Combined sewer overflow'' and "Sanitary sewer overflow'' as defined by the
						Department of Environmental Protection under 25 Pa. Code §
											94.1.
This section cited in 52 Pa. Code §
													66.38 (relating to pro forma
						  tariff or tariff supplement
						  requirements).