All sanitary sewage and industrial waste from any improved property, after connection of such improved property with a sewer as required under §
100-2, shall be discharged into a sewer, subject to such limitations and restrictions as shall be established herein or otherwise shall be established by this municipality or by the Authority through the Authority's Rules and Regulations Concerning Connections to and the Use of the Sanitary Sewer System (dated July 1997 and amended December 20, 2001), the Authority's Specifications for Additions and Extensions to the Sewer System (dated July 1997), and the Lancaster Area Sewer Authority Industrial Waste Resolution (dated July 1981 and amended December 1992, May 1996, and September 1997).
It shall be unlawful to discharge or permit
the discharge of sanitary or industrial waste or other polluted water
into any natural outlet within this municipality, unless such discharge
is pursuant to a permit issued by, or with the approval of, the DEP.
It shall be unlawful to construct or maintain
any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, sinkhole or similar
receptacle intended for the disposal of sanitary sewage within this
municipality where such sewage emanates from any improved property
which the owner thereof is required to connect to the sewer system.
No privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle
shall be connected with a sewer at any time. Each such privy vault,
cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle shall be abandoned
upon the making of such connection to the sewer system and, at the
request of this municipality, shall be cleansed and filled under the
direction and supervision of this municipality, and any such privy
vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle not so
abandoned and, if required by this municipality, cleansed and filled
shall constitute a nuisance, and such nuisance shall be abated as
provided by law at the expense of the owner of such improved property.
There is hereby reserved to the Authority and
this municipality the right to refuse to any person the privilege
of connecting any improved property to a sewer, to compel discontinuance
of the use of any sewer by any person, or to compel the pretreatment
of industrial wastes, in order to prevent discharge into the sewer
system of wastes which may be deemed by the Authority, the Authority
Engineer, this municipality or the Municipal Engineer to be harmful
to the sewer system or to have a deleterious effect on sewage treatment
processes or to be injurious to personnel operating the sewer system.
There is hereby reserved to the Authority and
this municipality the right to refuse to any person the privilege
of connecting any private sewer system to the Authority's sewer system
unless the following conditions have been met:
A. The plans and specifications for such private sewer
system have been reviewed and approved by the Authority prior to construction
and such private sewer system has been constructed in accordance with
such approved plans and the standards established by this municipality
and the Authority from time to time for such private sewer system;
B. The Authority has inspected such private sewer system prior to connection to the Authority's sewer system and has determined that the private sewer system has been constructed in accordance with the requirements set forth in this §
100-7; and
C. The owner of the private sewer system has entered
into a written agreement with this municipality or the Authority agreeing
to maintain and repair the private sewer system and posting such security
as this municipality or the Authority, in their reasonable discretion,
shall deem adequate to secure the obligations of the owner of the
private sewer system with respect to the maintenance and repair of
the private sewer system.