[Adopted 11-5-1970 by Ord. No. 105 (Ch.
18, Part 3, of the 1995 Code)]
[Amended 3-23-1995 by Ord. No. 192]
Unless specifically and clearly indicated otherwise,
the meaning of terms and phrases used in this part shall be as follows:
Lower Pottsgrove Township Authority, a municipality authority
of the Commonwealth.
A commercial establishment, a dwelling unit, an industrial
establishment or an institutional establishment.
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in parts per million (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 as published by the American
Public Health Association.
The Borough of Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,
a municipal corporation of the commonwealth.
The Pottstown Borough Authority, a municipality authority
of the Commonwealth.
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 a business enterprise for the sale and distribution
of any product, commodity, article or service.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Any room, group of rooms, house trailer, building or other
enclosure connected, directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and
occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by
a family or any other group of persons living together or by a person
or persons living alone, excluding institutional establishments.
Any property 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.
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 a business enterprise
for manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling
any product, commodity or article, or from which industrial wastes,
as distinct from sanitary sewage, shall be or may be discharged.
Any wastes and all liquids discharged from any industrial
establishment other than sanitary sewage.
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected,
directly or indirectly, to the sewer system, including institutional
dormitories, which do not or does not constitute a commercial establishment,
a dwelling unit or an industrial establishment.
The Joint Sewage Treatment Contract between the Authority
and this Township, on the one hand, and the Borough and the Borough
Authority, on the other hand, whereunder, inter alia, the Authority
and the Township have agreed to collect and to deliver to the Borough
and the Pottstown Authority, for treatment and disposition, sanitary
sewage and industrial wastes emanating in this Township, and the Borough
and the Borough Authority have agreed to treat and to dispose of such
sanitary sewage and industrial wastes through the sewage treatment
plant.
Any improved property in which shall be located more than
one billing unit.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property which shall be connected, directly
or indirectly, to the sewer system.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
municipality, corporation or other group or entity.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, indicating the degree
of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
Parts per million, by weight.
All normal water-carried household, lavatory, laundry and
toilet wastes discharged from any improved property.
The facilities for treatment and disposal of sanitary sewage
and industrial wastes which are operated and maintained in and for
the Borough by the Borough and/or the Borough Authority.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
and used or usable for sewage collection and transportation purposes.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping, transporting and disposing of sanitary sewage and/or industrial
wastes, to be acquired and to be constructed and to be owned by the
Authority and to be leased by this Township for maintenance, operation
and use.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
or are dissolved in water, sewage or other liquids and which are determined
by laboratory analysis.
The Township of Lower Pottsgrove, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,
a municipal subdivision of the commonwealth, acting by and through
its authorized representatives.
[Amended 3-23-1995 by Ord. No. 192]
Sewer rentals or charges are imposed by the
Authority upon and shall be collected from the owner of each improved
property which shall be connected with the sewer system for use of
the sewer system, whether such use shall be direct or indirect, and
for services rendered in connection therewith, including services
pursuant to the joint sewage treatment contract, which sewer rentals
or charges shall commence and shall be effective as of the date of
connection of each such improved property to the sewer system and
shall be payable in the amounts, at the times and in the manner as
provided in this part.
[Amended 3-23-1995 by Ord. No. 192]
A.
The owner of any improved property which shall be
connected to the sewer system for only a part of a quarter-annum billing
period shall pay pro rata sewer rentals or charges for the portion
of the quarter-annum billing period during which such connection was
in effect.
B.
Sewer rentals or charges shall be due and payable upon the applicable billing date at the place which shall be specified, from time to time, in the bills to be rendered by or in behalf of this Township as provided for in Subsection A, and the appropriate amount, computed in accordance with this part, shall constitute the net bill. If sewer rentals or charges are not paid within 15 calendar days after each applicable billing date, an additional sum of 5% shall be added to such net bill, which net bill, plus such additional sum, shall constitute the gross bill. Payment made or mailed and postmarked on or before the last day of such fifteen-calendar-day period shall constitute payment within such period. If the end of such fifteen-calendar-day period shall fall on a legal holiday or on a Sunday, then payment made on or mailed and postmarked on the next succeeding regular business day shall constitute payment within such period.
C.
The owner of an improved property which is connected
to the sewer system initially shall provide this Township with and
thereafter shall keep this Township advised of the correct address
of such owner. Failure of any person to receive quarter-annum bills
for sewer rentals or charges shall not be considered an excuse for
nonpayment nor shall such failure result in an extension of the period
of time during which the net bill shall be payable.
Sewer rentals or charges imposed by this part
shall be a lien upon the improved property connected to and served
by the sewer system, and any such sewer rentals or charges which are
delinquent shall be filed as a lien against the improved property
so connected to and served by the sewer system, which lien shall be
filed in the appropriate office of the County of Montgomery, Pennsylvania,
as provided by law, and shall be collected in the manner provided
by law for the filing and collecting of municipal claims.
A.
No person shall discharge or shall cause to be discharged
any stormwater, surface water, spring water, groundwater, roof runoff,
subsurface drainage, building foundation drainage or drainage from
roof leader connections into any sewer.
B.
This Township reserves the right to refuse permission
to connect to the sewer system, to compel discontinuance of use of
the sewer system or to compel pretreatment of industrial wastes by
any owner of an improved property in order to prevent discharges deemed
to be harmful or to have a deleterious effect upon any sewer or the
sewer system or the sewage treatment plant.
C.
No sanitary sewage or industrial wastes shall be discharged
to the sewer system, which:
(1)
Shall have a temperature higher than 150° F.
(2)
Shall contain more than 100 ppm of fat, oil and/or
grease.
(3)
Shall contain any gasoline, benzine, naphtha, fuel
oil or other inflammable or explosive liquids, solids or gases.
(4)
Shall contain any solid wastes resulting from preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from handling, storage and sale
of produce, which wastes commonly are known as garbage, which have
not been ground by household-type garbage disposal units or other
suitable garbage grinders.
(5)
Shall contain any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw,
shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, cotton, wool or other
fibers, plastics, wood, paunch manure or any other solid or viscous
substances capable of causing obstructions to or other interferences
with proper operation of the sewer system or any sewer or the sewage
treatment plant.
(6)
Shall have a pH lower than 4 1/2 or higher than
nine or shall have any other corrosive property capable of causing
damage or hazards to structures or equipment of the sewer system or
any sewer or the sewage treatment plant or to any person engaged in
operation and maintenance of the sewer system or any sewer or the
sewage treatment plant.
(7)
Shall contain toxic or poisonous substances in sufficient
quantity to injure or to interfere with any sewage treatment process,
to constitute hazards to humans or animals, or to create any hazards
in waters which shall receive treated effluent from the sewer system
and the sewage treatment plant. Toxic wastes shall include, but shall
not be limited to, wastes containing cyanide, chromium, copper and
nickel ions.
(8)
Shall contain noxious or malodorous gases or substances
capable of creating a public nuisance.
(9)
Shall contain total solids of such character and quantity
that special and unusual attention is required for handling at the
sewage treatment plant.
D.
Where necessary, in the opinion of this Township, the owner of an improved property shall provide, at the expense of the owner, suitable pretreatment facilities in order to comply with Subsection C of this section.
E.
Plans, specifications and any other pertinent information
relating to proposed facilities for preliminary treatment and handling
of industrial wastes shall be submitted for approval of this Township,
and no construction of any such facility shall be commenced until
approval thereof first shall have been obtained, in writing, from
this Township and until approval thereof first shall have been obtained
from any governmental regulatory body having jurisdiction.
F.
Whenever facilities for preliminary treatment and
handling of industrial wastes shall have been provided by any owner,
such facilities continuously shall be maintained at the expense of
the owner in satisfactory operating condition, and this Township shall
have access to such facilities at reasonable times for purposes of
inspection and testing.
G.
Nothing contained in this section shall be construed
as prohibiting any special agreement or arrangement between this Township
and any owner whereby industrial wastes of unusual strength or character
may be admitted into the sewer system either before or after preliminary
treatment.
This Township shall have the right of access,
at all reasonable times, to any part of any improved property served
by the sewer system as shall be required for purposes of inspection,
observation, measurement, sampling and testing and for performance
of other functions relating to service rendered by this Township through
the sewer system.
A.
The furnishing and installation of meters or other
measuring devices which shall not be owned by this Township but which
shall be permitted or required under provisions of this part shall
be the sole responsibility of the owner. The installation or use of
such meters or other measuring devices at all times shall be subject
to the approval of this Township and may be tested and inspected by
this Township whenever necessary. The owner shall be responsible for
the maintenance, safekeeping and repair of any such meter, whether
such repairs shall be made necessary by ordinary wear and tear or
other causes.
B.
This Township shall be responsible for the reading
of all meters or other measuring devices, and the same shall be available
to employees and agents of this Township at all reasonable times.
C.
Representatives of this Township shall have the right
of access at reasonable times to any part of any improved property
served by the sewer system and any meters used for purposes of establishing
or determining volumes for purposes of this part.
The owner of any improved property connected
to the sewer system shall be responsible for all acts of tenants or
other occupants of such improved property insofar as such acts shall
be governed by provisions of this part.
The Township reserves the right to adopt, from
time to time, such additional rules and regulations as it shall deem
necessary and proper in connection with use and operation of the sewer
system, which rules and regulations shall be, shall become and shall
be construed as part of this part.
It is declared that enactment of this part is
necessary for the protection, benefit and preservation of the health,
safety and welfare of inhabitants of this Township.
