All plans shall be prepared, signed and sealed
by a professional engineer registered in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
except for the following: Plans for the tap-in of a single-family
house involving a gravity lateral which taps into an existing sewer
in an existing dedicated street, which shall be a single lateral passing
only within the property line of the single-family house to the existing
sewer line may be submitted by a person competent to prepare such
plan, but not necessarily a professional engineer.
All plans shall be on a minimum twenty-four-inch-by-thirty-six-inch
sheets, unless they are for a tap-in of a single-family house.
Plan and profile drawings shall be at a maximum
scale of one inch equals 50 feet horizontal and one inch equals five
feet vertical.
Plans submitted shall show:
A. The location of all utility lines existing and proposed.
D. The location of any above-ground or below-ground structures.
E. The location of all existing manholes and proposed
manholes.
F. A profile of all existing and proposed sewer lines,
waterlines, storm sewers, electric lines and any other underground
utilities.
G. The location of any necessary pumps and/or pumping
stations and adequate details and calculations for proposed pump stations.
H. Erosion and sediment control measures.
I. Proposed easements/rights-of-way if and where required.
J. All information required by the Public Underground
Utilities Act, and amendments, which lists the utilities within the
work area shall be shown on the plans.
K. Testing specifications and PA One-Call serial number
shall be indicated on the plans.
Plans for pumping facilities and other equipment
shall be accompanied by hydraulic calculations pump operating efficiencies,
auxiliary equipment literature, site plans, and any other supportive
data necessary for a proper review of the submitted plans, including
capacity calculations for both pressure and gravity pipes.
Upon review of a submission, the Borough Sewer
Committee Engineer shall issue a letter addressed to the Borough,
with a copy to the applicant, three days prior to the next regularly
scheduled Sewer Committee meeting.