This article is adopted to promote and protect the public health, safety, comfort, convenience and other aspects of the general welfare. These general goals include, among others, the specific enforcement of the various standards, rules and regulations promulgated by the Southern Delaware County Authority (SDCA) and any other agency which may succeed the aforementioned agency.
The Southern Delaware County Authority's Standards, Rules and Regulations are hereby adopted by Upper Chichester Township to govern the conduct of all discharges into the sewer system maintained and operated by SDCA.
A. It is intended that this article provide for the enforcement and prosecution of the SDCA Standards, Rules and Regulations.
B. The SDCA Standards, Rules and Regulations shall be the minimum standards and shall apply uniformly to each class or kind of user in Upper Chichester Township (the municipality).
The Board of Commissioners of Upper Chichester Township hereby ordains and establishes that any person, firm or corporation who fails or refuses to comply with the SDCA Standards, Rules and Regulations, embodied in the SDCA Resolution No. 06-05, adopted June 6, 2006, as same may be amended from time to time, which is incorporated herein by reference and attached hereto as Appendix A shall be subject to the penalties set forth in this article.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provisions of this article shall be subject to pay a fine of up to $1,000 or the maximum legal limit of the fining authority, whichever is greater, and/or upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days. Every day that each violation of this article and/or SDCA's Standards, Rules and Regulations, as amended, continues shall constitute a separate offense.
The Board of Commissioners of Upper Chichester Township hereby appoint the Upper Chichester Township Plumbing Inspector and/or the Upper Chichester Township Health Inspector and/or any agent/representative of the Southern Delaware County Authority and/or Upper Chichester Township, as designated from time to time by the Southern Delaware County Authority and/or Upper Chichester Township, to act as the Enforcing Officer hereunder.
This municipality shall have the right to enter facilities of any user to ascertain whether the purpose of this article, and any permit or order issued hereunder, is being met and whether the user is complying with all requirements thereof. Users shall allow the Enforcing Officer or his representatives ready access to all parts of the premises for the purposes of inspection, sampling, records examination and copying, and the performance of any additional duties.
A. Where a user has security measures in force which require proper identification and clearing before entry into its premises, the user shall make necessary arrangements with its security guards so that upon presentation of suitable identification, personnel from this municipality or the Southern Delaware County Authority will be permitted to enter without delay, for the purposes of performing their specific responsibilities.
B. This municipality and the Southern Delaware County Authority shall have the right to enter upon the user's property, or require installation of such devices as are necessary to conduct sampling and/or metering of the user's operations.
C. This municipality and the Southern Delaware County Authority may require the user to install monitoring equipment which shall be maintained at all times in a safe and proper operating conditions by the user at its own expense. All devices used to measure wastewater flow and quality shall be calibrated periodically to ensure their accuracy.
D. Any temporary or permanent obstruction to safe and easy access to the facility to be inspected and/or sampled shall be promptly removed by the user at the written or verbal request of the Enforcing Officer and shall not be replaced. The costs of clearing such access shall be born by the user.
E. Unreasonable delays in allowing this municipality's or the Southern Delaware County Authority's personnel access to the user's premises shall be a violation of this article.
Notwithstanding anything above to the contrary, Ordinance Nos. 510 and 511 shall remain in full force and effect.