The purpose of this article is to establish procedures for the
installation, use and maintenance of sewage grinder pumps and any
associated force mains or low-pressure laterals. It is hereby declared
that the enactment of this article is necessary for the protection,
benefit and preservation of the health, safety and welfare of the
inhabitants of Pocopson Township.
Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
DEPARTMENT
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
GRINDER PUMP
Any electric motor-driven, submersible, centrifugal pump
capable of macerating all material found in normal domestic sanitary
sewage, including reasonable amounts of objects such as plastics,
sanitary napkins, disposable diapers, rubber and the like, to 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.
MUNICIPALITY
Pocopson Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
OFFICIAL PLAN REVISION
A change in the municipality'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.
UPDATE REVISIONA comprehensive revision to an existing official plan required when the department or municipality determines the official plan or one or more of its parts is inadequate for the existing or future sewage facilities needs of the municipality or its residents or landowners.
B.
SPECIAL STUDYA study, survey, investigation, inquiry, research report or analysis which is directly related to an update 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 municipality.
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 (35 P.S. §§ 691.1
through 691.1001), as may be amended from time to time.
The connection of existing properties or proposed land development
to an existing or proposed sewerage system through the use of sewage
grinder pumps, their associated force mains, or low-pressure laterals
shall only occur after an official plan revision to the municipality's
Act 537 plan that designates the proposed properties to be served
by a low-pressure system has been approved by both the municipality
and the department.
In addition to any other remedies provided in this article, any violation of §
170-44 above shall constitute a nuisance and may be abated by the municipality, at its sole discretion, by either seeking mitigation of the nuisance or appropriate equitable or legal relief from a court of competent jurisdiction. Failure by the municipality to act does not prohibit the municipality from doing so in the future.
All such rules and regulations adopted by the municipality shall
be in conformity with the provisions herein, all other ordinances
of the municipality, and all applicable laws, and applicable rules
and regulations of administrative agencies of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.