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Borough of East Greenville, PA
Montgomery County
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A. 
The owner of any improved property abutting on or adjoining any street in which there is a sewer shall connect such improved property therewith, in such manner as this borough and the Authority may require, within 60 days after notice to such owner from this borough to make such connection, for the purpose of discharge of all sewage and industrial wastes from such improved property, subject to such limitations and restrictions as shall be established herein or otherwise shall be established by this borough or the Authority from time to time.
B. 
All sewage and industrial wastes from any improved property, after connection of such improved property with a sewer as required under Subsection A, shall be conducted into a sewer, subject to such limitations and restrictions as shall be established herein or otherwise shall be established by this borough or the Authority from time to time.
A. 
No person shall place or deposit or permit to be placed or deposited upon public or private property within this borough any sewage or industrial wastes in violation of § 78-2A.
B. 
No person shall discharge or permit to be discharged to any natural outlet within this borough any sewage or industrial wastes in violation of § 78-2A, except where suitable treatment has been provided which is satisfactory to this borough.
C. 
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water or unpolluted industrial process waters to any public sanitary sewer.
[Added 6-5-1972 by Ord. No. 4-72]
A. 
No privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle shall be used and maintained at any time upon any improved property which has been connected to a sewer or which shall be required under § 78-2A to be connected to a sewer.
B. 
Every such privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic or similar receptacle in existence shall be abandoned and, at the discretion of this borough, shall be cleansed and filled under the direction and supervision of this borough; and any such privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle not so abandoned and, if required by this borough, cleansed and filled, shall constitute a nuisance and such nuisance may be abated as provided by law, at the expense of the owner of such improved property.
C. 
No privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle shall at any time be connected with a sewer.
The notice by the borough to make a connection to a sewer, referred to in § 78-2A, shall consist of a copy of this chapter, including any amendments at the time in effect, and a written or printed document requiring the connection, and may be given at any time after a sewer is in place which can receive and convey sewage and industrial wastes for treatment and disposal from the particular improved property.