A.
Approval required for industrial waste.
(1)
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged into the sewer system any industrial waste except upon application to this Township and upon receipt of a written permit therefor from this Township. Said permit shall set forth the terms and conditions upon which said industrial waste discharge shall be admitted into the sewer system, together with special charges or surcharge or the formula for computing any special charges or surcharges with respect to the discharge of such industrial waste, which terms and conditions and charges or surcharges shall be deemed a part of this chapter. The discharge of such industrial waste shall be subject to all applicable provisions of this chapter.
(2)
The Township has entered into agreements with the City of York and Springettsbury Township for transportation and treatment of sewage and industrial waste from areas of the Township as appropriate under drainage basin concepts, determinations under Act 537 and decisions of other regulatory agencies. Copies of said agreements, together with ordinances incorporated by reference, which bind the Township to certain stipulations, i.e., quality and quantity of waste are on file with the Building Code Official and each applicant and/or owner applying for a plumbing permit is responsible to ascertain which agreements and ordinances apply to his area and to comply with all such requirements.
(3)
Applicants for plumbing permits which will involve the connection and discharge of industrial waste understand that a contract between the industry and Township for such discharge must be consummated as a condition precedent to the issuance of a plumbing permit.
B.
Required survey data. Any person desiring to make or use a connection to the sewer system through which industrial waste shall be discharged into the sewer system shall file with this Township an industrial waste questionnaire, to be furnished by this Township, which shall supply to this Township pertinent data, including estimated quantity of flow, characteristics and constituents, with respect to industrial waste proposed to be discharged into the sewer system. The cost of obtaining all such data shall be borne by the person desiring to make or use a connection to the sewer system.
C.
Control manholes.
(1)
Any person who shall discharge industrial waste into the sewer system, when required by this Township, shall construct and thereafter properly shall maintain, at his own expense, a suitable control manhole or manholes or metering chamber and such other devices as may be approved by this Township to facilitate observation, measurement and sampling by this Township of industrial waste discharged to the sewer system.
(2)
Any such control manhole or manholes or metering chamber, when required by this Township, shall be constructed at an accessible, safe, suitable and satisfactory location in accordance with plans approved by this Township prior to commencement of construction.
(3)
The construction and maintenance of such manhole or metering chamber shall be mandatory for the procedures of abnormal industrial waste and, if deemed necessary by the Township, flows from such manhole or metering chamber shall be continuously monitored, transmitted and recorded by means of an approved receiving device.
D.
Changes in types of wastes. Any person discharging sanitary sewer and/or industrial waste into the sewer system and contemplating a change in the method of operation which will alter the characteristics and/or volumes of wastes at the time being discharged into the sewer system shall notify this Township, in writing, at least 10 days prior to consummation of such change.
E.
Variations in rate of discharge. This Township reserves the right to require any person discharging industrial waste having large variations in rates of waste discharge to install suitable regulating devices for equalizing waste flows to the sewer system.