[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Harrisburg
by Ord. No. 19-1984. Amendments noted where applicable.]
CROSS-REFERENCES
Connections to sewers inside City: see Ch. 9-507.
Power to furnish sewerage facilities outside City: see Third
Class City Code § 3250 (53 P.S. § 38250).
A.
No connection to the sewer system beyond the limits of the City shall be made except under the terms, provisions and conditions set forth in this chapter and those in Chapter 9-501, if applicable, and after issuance of a permit by the Director DPW if required by Chapter 9-501. Any industrial establishment desiring to connect to the sewer system beyond the limits of the City shall make application to the Director for a permit to connect upon a form provided by the superintendent. To the form shall be attached a sketch or plan showing in detail the location and size of lot; the improvements now of such lot or thereon proposed to be erected for which the permit is requested; the precise place where the tappage is proposed to be made to the sewer system; and the location, length and size of the sewerage line proposed therefor. The Superintendent shall notify the affected suburban municipality upon receipt of any such application.
B.
Any other connection to the sewer system beyond the City limits shall
be according to the terms and conditions set forth in the service
agreement of 1976 or any amendments thereto.
All such applications by an industrial establishment shall be
accompanied by a filing fee of $75 to cover the costs and expenses
of investigating the same.
Upon the filing of the application and payment of the filing
fee, the Director shall forthwith cause to be made an investigation
to determine whether the requested tappage will or will not be prejudicial
to the best interests of the AWTF in view of the additional burden
imposed on the sewer system and after taking into consideration present
and anticipated future needs.
Upon the approval of any such application, the Director is authorized to issue a permit granting to the applicant the right or privilege of tapping, in conformity with the application, into a specified sanitary sewer. The permit shall be subject to § 9-509.6 and Chapter 9-501, to which terms, provisions and conditions the applicant for it, and any successors in title to the improvements in question, by accepting the permit and acting thereon, hereby agrees to, all as though specifically set forth in written contract between the City and the applicant. The permit shall not be assignable or transferable.
The applicant, at applicant's sole cost, risk and expense,
shall lay and construct the necessary sewer line to the sewer system
and make the connection therewith in a manner satisfactory to the
Director.
Unless otherwise allowed by a permit issued pursuant to § 9-501.9, any connection beyond the City limits shall be for the purpose of discharging sanitary sewerage only into the sewer system.
If the territory in which the permitted discharges in question
are located should thereafter be annexed to the City, the applicant
shall forthwith pay to the City a sum equal to the full amount that
other similar applicants in the City would then have to pay for the
privilege of tapping into the sewer system.
Each suburban municipality or suburban municipal authority which
supervises discharges within its borders into the sewerage system
shall be billed quarterly for services rendered for the preceding
quarter on or before quarterly dates specified by each of the municipalities
and agreed to by the City. Each municipality shall supply promptly
to the City all information deemed necessary by the City in order
to compute such sewage treatment rates and charges to such municipality,
including, but not limited to, information concerning number and types
of physical connections to such municipality's sewage collection
system, number of dwelling units connected to such municipality's
sewage collection system and strength, character and volume of sewage
discharged into such municipality's sewage collection system.
Each municipality shall also provide or take any legally available
action to provide information concerning the volume of water consumed
by each and all customers connected to such municipality's sewage
collection system.
Each industrial establishment governed by the pretreatment requirements of Chapter 9-501 located in a suburban municipality shall be assessed a surcharge directly by the City for the pollutant load for all sewage and wastes discharged into the sewer system which exceed the maximum threshold levels set forth therein, such surcharge to be determined by the City.
A.
Any municipality contributing to the sewer system shall agree to
adopt, enforce and keep in full force and effect during the term of
any agreement or discharge into the sewer system an ordinance or ordinances,
or resolution or resolutions, as appropriate, prohibiting the discharge
into its sewage collection system which discharges into the City sewer
system of any wastes prohibited to be discharged into the sewer system
under the ordinances, rules and regulations of the City as the same
shall be, from time to time, adopted.
B.
Any municipality contributing to the sewer system shall agree to
adopt such ordinances or resolutions necessary to impose any rates,
charges, tariffs or requirements upon any of the customers by agreements
or laws and regulations which relate to obligations assumed under
such agreements.
C.
Any municipality contributing to the sewer system shall agree to
cooperate with the City in any investigation regarding discharges
into the sewer system and shall grant to the City the right to review,
at any time, the volume, pollutant load and character of sewage and
wastes being discharged into the sewer system.
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall be subject to the penalty and enforcement provisions of Chapter 9-511, including the right of the City to disconnect service.
