[Ord. 697, 11/17/1980, § 1]
This Part shall be known as the "Hatboro Well Drilling Ordinance."
[Ord. 697, 11/17/1980, § 2]
The following words and phrases shall have the following meanings
when used in this Part:
Any action necessary to construct, repair, or refurbish wells
such as drilling, boring, coring, washing, digging, driving, or letting.
Any water well contractor, his employee, or representative
in responsible charge of drilling or otherwise constructing a well.
Written authorization giving consent to dig or refurbish
well.
A natural person, corporation, partnership, or association.
A water supply which shall not be public as herein above
defined.
The facilities for the supply of water by the Hatboro Borough
Authority through its water distribution system.
Any excavation that is drilled, cored, bored, washed, drive,
dug, or otherwise constructed for the location, diversion, or acquisition
of underground waters or charging of water into underground strata.
[Ord. 697, 11/17/1980, § 3]
1.
From the effective date hereof, it shall be unlawful for any person
to locate, drill, or have drilled any private well, or to install
or have installed any relating pumping equipment to a private well,
or to alter an existing private well or its pumping equipment until
a permit for such location, drilling, installation, or alteration
shall have been issued by the Borough.
2.
All private wells shall be constructed in accordance with specifications
required therefor by Borough Council.
3.
No permits shall be issued unless approval is granted by the Hatboro
Borough Authority.
4.
No permits shall be issued unless approval is granted by the Hatboro
Borough Council.
[Ord. 697, 11/17/1980, § 4]
Application for permits as herein required shall be in writing
and shall set forth the location of the property on which the well
is proposed to be drilled and shall be accompanied by the name of
the proposed well driller and a sketch of the proposed well construction,
with an explanation of the methods to be used. All wells drilled within
the Borough must be drilled by a well driller licensed by the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
[Ord. 697, 11/17/1980, § 5]
1.
No private well shall be drilled to service any property within the
Borough of Hatboro which is serviceable by means of a public water
supply.
2.
No private well shall, in any event, be drilled at any location within
1,000 feet in any direction form any existing, or then proposed, water
supply.
3.
Wells for Waste Disposal. No private well shall be drilled nor shall
any existing private well be used for the purpose of disposal of domestic
or industrial waste.
[Ord. 697, 11/17/1980, § 6]
The owner of any private well shall, upon abandonment thereof,
effectively seal and fill such well in accordance with the standards
required by Borough Council. A private well not in operation for one
or more years or improperly maintained to prevent contamination, shall
be deemed to have been abandoned.
[Ord. 697, 11/17/1980, § 7; as amended by Ord.
907, 9/23/1996, § 13-607]
An application for permit to drill a private well shall be accompanied
by an application and fee in an amount to be established from time
to time by resolution of Borough Council.
[Ord. 697, 11/17/1980, § 8; as amended by Ord.
907, 9/23/1996, § 13-608]
Any person or persons, firm or corporation violating any provision
of this Part or the rules and regulation adopted hereunder, shall
be, upon conviction thereof, sentenced to pay a fine of not more than
$1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs,
to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30 days. Whenever such person
or persons have been notified by the Borough or by the service of
a warrant and summary proceeding that he is committing such violation,
each day thereafter that he continues and persists in such violation
shall constitute a separate offense.
