[Amended 4-23-2014 by Ord. No. 14-06]
Sewer rentals are hereby established and imposed, which shall
be payable by and collected from the owner of each property, based
upon the number of EDUs applicable to such property, from and after
the date the Township certifies the connection of such property to
the sewer system as complete.
[Amended 8-28-1991 by Ord. No. 87-12; 12-16-1992 by Ord. No. 92-6; 2-23-1994 by Ord. No. 94-2; 2-25-1998 by Ord. No. 98-2]
The annual sewer rental for each EDU shall be established by resolution of the Board of Supervisors. Said sewer rental as established shall be payable in one annual payment for residential units. The rental as established shall be the basic rental for each residential unit, and the nonresidential users shall be charged semiannually in accordance with §
127-35 as set forth below. For all residential users, whether their system is a private system or public, the rate shall be as set forth in said resolution.
[Amended 11-12-2014 by Ord. No. 14-13]
The sewer rental for nonresidential uses shall be calculated
as the greater of the basic sewer rental for one EDU or the product
of multiplying the number of EDUs applicable to such use, calculated
based upon the six-month volume of actual water consumption or measured
volume of wastewater, by the basic sewer rental.
A. Metering
facilities: water usage. The volume of water to be used for billing
sewer rentals to industrial establishments and nonresidential users
shall include any and all water purchased from the North Penn Water
Authority or North Wales Water Authority or any other private or public
water company and, in addition, all water obtained from any other
source or sources (wells, springs, streams, etc.) as determined by
meters installed and maintained by either of said Water Authorities
or any other private or public water company, by meters maintained
and installed by the property owner as may be required, approved and
inspected by the Township, or from estimates or measurements made
by the Township where metering is considered impractical by the Township
or when meters have not been installed.
B. Excluded water.
(1) Exclusion from the sewer system and treatment plant of nonprocess,
nonsanitary waters not requiring treatment may be required by the
Township or such exclusion may be optional with the property owner
if not required by the Township. When such waters are not discharged
to the sewer system, sewer rentals shall be based upon total water
consumption less waters not discharged to the sewer system.
(2) Waters not discharged to the sewer system may be determined from
meters installed and maintained by the owner or from estimates or
measurements made by the Township, or the owner may elect to measure
the volume of wastewater actually discharged to the sewer system as
provided for below.
C. Metering
facilities: sewer meters. The Township shall require all private sewer
systems and outside sewer facilities, and may require any industrial
establishment and nonresidential user, to install, at their own expense,
and maintain a meter of a type approved by the Township to measure
the volume of wastewater discharged to the sewer system by such user.
Such a meter shall be installed for any nonresidential user obtaining,
in whole or in part, a supply of water from other than a public water
company.
D. Surcharge.
In addition to the sewer rental established hereby, a nonresidential
user may be subject to surcharges based upon the strength of the wastewater
discharged, as established under the provisions of Ordinance 84-6
of the Township, known as the “Pretreatment Ordinance.” Any nonresidential user subject to a strength surcharge
under the pretreatment ordinance shall pay, in addition to such surcharge,
an additional amount to be added to each billing to cover all costs
associated with the monitoring, sampling, testing or analysis of wastewater
discharged by such nonresidential user.
E. Sampling
facilities. When directed by the Township, industrial establishments
shall install, pay for and maintain a manhole or other device as may
be approved by the Township to facilitate observation, measurement
and sampling of wastes discharged to the sewer system and treatment
plant. The Township or its duly authorized representatives shall at
all reasonable times be permitted to enter upon any and all properties
for the purpose of inspecting all metering devices and of observing,
measuring and sampling wastes discharged to the sewer system and treatment
plant. Any industrial establishment that desires to connect with the
sewer system or which is connected to the sewer system and plans to
change its operations so as to materially alter the characteristics
and volumes of wastes discharged therefrom shall notify the Township
in writing at least 10 days before making such connection or changing
its operations.
F. Installation
and maintenance of meters. If the owner of any industrial establishment
shall be required pursuant to the foregoing provisions to install
a water meter or meters or a meter or meters for measuring wastewaters,
it shall be the duty of such owner to furnish and install such meter
at his own expense, and in such case and also if such owner shall
have voluntarily installed such meter or meters, such owner shall
be required to maintain the same in good operating condition and make
all necessary repairs and replacements. If the owner, being obligated
so to do, shall fail to furnish or install such meter or meters or
shall fail to maintain the same as above provided, then in any such
case after 10 days’ written notice by the Township to perform
such obligation, the Township may enter onto such property at all
reasonable times and install such meter or meters or repair and maintain
the same, as the case may be, and charge the cost of such installation
or repair to such owner. Bills for such installation or repairs if
made by the Township shall be due and payable immediately upon completion
of the work and then shall be collected in the same manner as semiannual
bills for sewer rentals and charges.
G. Amendments
and modifications. Additional classifications of sewer rentals or
modifications of the above schedule of rentals may be established
or made by the Township from time to time as deemed necessary.
[Amended 12-28-1988 by Ord. No. 88-15; 2-23-1994 by Ord. No. 94-2; 2-25-1998 by Ord. No. 98-2]
A. Sewer rentals for residential units shall be billed annually on the first day of March, commencing on the first day of the annual billing period next succeeding the date upon which the Township certifies the connection of the property to the sewer system as complete, and shall be due and payable immediately. Apportionment of sewer rentals for properties connected for less than the annual billing period shall be in accordance with §
127-37 of the Towamencin Township Code. Sewer rentals for industrial establishments and nonresidential users shall be billed semiannually on such dates or as soon thereafter as necessary data to prepare such bills for the semiannual period next preceding such dates shall become available and shall be due and payable immediately.
[Amended 4-23-2014 by Ord. No. 14-06]
B. If the full amount of such bills shall not be paid within 120 days
from the date of billing, 10% of the face amount of the bill shall
be added thereto, which together with the face amount of the bill
shall become the gross amount thereof. In the event any bill shall
remain unpaid as of December 31 of any year, the Township shall proceed
to collect all sums due in accordance with law.
[Amended 1-27-2021 by Ord. No. 21-03]
C. Failure of any owner to receive a bill for sewer rentals and charges due to the failure of such owner to notify the Township of his correct address or failure of any owner to receive a correct bill for sewer rentals and charges by reason of the failure of such owner to notify the Township of the use or uses of which an improved property or any portion thereof is made, pursuant to the notice requirements of §
127-44, shall not excuse nonpayment or failure to pay the amount which would be properly applicable to the use or uses of which said improved property is made, and shall not result in an extension of the period of time during which the bill shall be payable.
[Amended 2-25-1998 by Ord. No. 98-2; 4-23-2014 by Ord. No. 14-06]
Whenever sewer service to any property begins after March 1,
the sewer rentals for such property shall be for that portion of the
annual billing period during which the property is served. However,
in making such apportionment, a fraction of a month amounting to 1/2
or more of a month shall be counted as a full month, and a fraction
of a month amounting to less than 1/2 of the month shall be disregarded.
Delinquent bills for sewer rentals, together with all charges,
expenses and fees added thereto, shall, in the manner provided by
law, become a lien upon the property served and shall be collectible
by the Township by an action in assumpsit against the owner of such
property or be enforced against such property by the filing of a municipal
lien.
[Amended 11-12-2014 by Ord. No. 14-13]
The Township shall have the right to allocate the operation
and maintenance costs associated with a Township- and/or Authority-owned
and -operated pump station to the improved properties’ tributary
to said pump station. These costs shall include but not be limited
to electricity, parts and equipment replacement and associated labor
costs, servicing, cleaning, routine inspection and mileage costs.
Such allocation of costs shall be in addition to the other applicable
sewer rentals and charges and shall be assessed to each tributary
improved property on the basis of volume of flow contributed during
each billing period.