Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used herein shall be as
follows:
ACT 537 PLAN
The Township's Official Plan as defined in the Pennsylvania
Sewage Facilities Act, Act of January 24, 1966, P.L. 1535 (1965),
No. 537, as amended, 35 P.S. §§ 750.1 through 750.20a
("Sewage Facilities Act" or "Act 537").
AUTHORITY
The Whitemarsh Township Municipal Authority, as presently
or hereafter constituted, which has been created by the Township Board
of Supervisors (the "Board") and to which has been referred by the
Board the specific project, inter alia, of sewers.
DEPARTMENT
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
GRINDER PUMP
Any electric-motor-driven, submersible, centrifugal capable
of macerating all material found in normal domestic sanitary sewage,
including a reasonable amount of objects such as plastics, sanitary
napkins, disposable diapers, rubber and the like, to a fine slurry
and pumping this material through a small diameter discharge.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within the Township 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 sewage
shall or may be discharged.
LOW-PRESSURE SYSTEM
A grinder pump or grinder pumps and the associated force
mains, low-pressure laterals and/or additional equipment associated
therewith.
OFFICIAL PLAN REVISION
A change in the Township's Act 537 Official Plan to provide
for additional, newly identified future or existing sewage facilities
needs, which may include one or more of the following:
A.
UPDATED REVISIONA comprehensive revision to an existing Official Plan required when the Department or the Township determines the Official Plan or one or more of its parts is inadequate for the existing or future sewage facilities needs of the Township or its residents or landowners.
B.
SPECIAL STUDYA study, survey, investigation, inquiry, research report or analysis, which is directly related to an updated revision. The studies provide documentation or other support necessary to solve specific problems identified in the update revision.
PROPERTY OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property located in the Township.
SEWAGE
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals
and any noxious or deleterious substance being harmful or inimical
to the public health, or to animal or aquatic life or to the use of
water for domestic water supply or for recreation or any substance
which constitutes pollution under the Clean Stream Law, as amended,
35 P.S. §§ 691.1 through 691.1001.
The connection of existing properties or proposed
land development to an existing or proposed sewage system through
the use of a low-pressure system shall occur only after either:
A. An Official Plan revision to the Township's Act 537
plan designating the proposed properties to be served by low-pressure
system has been approved by both the Authority and the Department;
or
B. A Department-approved exemption from the Official
Plan revision has been obtained by the property owner.
The Township reserves the right to, and may from time to time, adopt, revise, amend and readopt such rules and regulations as it deems necessary and proper for the use, operation and maintenance of low-pressure systems within the Township, and all such rules and regulations shall become a part of this Article
VI.
In addition to any other remedies provided herein, any violation of §
95-46, above, shall constitute a nuisance which may be abated by the Township or the Authority by seeking mitigation of the nuisance, use of statutory enforcement procedures and/or such other appropriate equitable or legal relief from a court of competent jurisdiction as the Township determines is necessary to adequately abate the nuisance.