ORDINANCE NO. 65, S-2018
August 7, S-2018 - page 3
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P) Excreta - human waste composed of urine and feces.
q) Home Sewer- the pipeline conveying sewage from the house or building to the septic tank or to any point of discharge.
r) IEC/BCC Information, Education and Communication/Behavior Change Communication Programs.
s) Individual Excreta Disposal System - an excreta disposal system serving a dwelling unit.
t) Land Applications - the use of treated septage for agricultural purposes or as a soil amendment or filling materials, in accordance with the regulations of the Department of Agriculture.
u) Mobile Service Provider - a public or private entity, operator or water utility that is authorized and has the required Environmental Sanitation Clearance from the DOH to provide desludging services and to transport the septage to authorized treatment and disposal facilities.
v) Pollution Control Officer (PCO) - an officer of a private company, duly accredited by the DENR, that provides linkages between the company and the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Natural Resources (DENR) and is primarily responsible for the compliance with the DENR wastewater effluent standards.
w) Public Sanitary Sewer - Refers to a common sewer to which all abutters have equal rights of connection.
X) Public Toilet - Refers to a toilet facility located at public places like markets, bus stations, buildings, plazas, seaports, etc. intended for public use.
y) Scum - the lighter fraction of sewage composed of facts, oils, and grease that float.
z) Septage the combination of scum, sludge, and liquid that accumulates in septic tanks. It is a mixture of sludge, fatty materials, human feces, and wastewater removed during pumping of an onsite sewage treatment and disposal system. Excluded from this definition are the contents of portable toilets, holding tanks, and grease interceptors.
aa) Septage Management refers to comprehensive programs for managing septic tanks and the procedures for proper desludging, transporting, treating, and disposing of septic tank contents.
bb) Septage Management or Treatment Facility - means a stationary facility that treats only domestic septage or combinations of domestic septage, food establishment sludges, wastes removed from portable toilets, and wastes removed from holding tanks associated with boats, marinas, and onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems, before use or land application.
cc) Septic Tank - a watertight, multi-chambered receptacle that receives sewage from houses or other buildings and is designed to separate and store the solids and partially digest the organic matter in the sewage.
dd) Service Provider - a public or private entity, operator, or water utility, that is authorized to engage in the collection, desludging, handling, transporting, treating, and disposing of sludge and septage from septic tanks, cesspools, portalets, sewage treatment plants.
ee) Sewage mainly liquid waste containing some solids produced by humans, which typically consists of washing water, feces, urine, laundry wastes, and other material that flows down drains and toilets from households and other buildings.
ff) Sewage Disposal System - a system of collection, transportation, treatment and disposal of sewage.
gg) Sewer - a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage and wastewater.
hh) Sewerage Works refers to a system of pipes, pumps, devices and other appurtenant structures for the collection, transportation and final disposition of wastewater.
