[Adopted 7-24-1985 by Ord. No. 85-9]
Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms and phrases used in this article shall be as
follows:
Silver Spring Township Authority, a municipality authority
of the commonwealth.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected,
directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and used or intended for
use, in whole or in part, in the operation of a business enterprise
for manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling
any product, commodity or article.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or form of energy
rejected or escaping in the course of any industrial, manufacturing,
trade or business process or in the course of the development, recovery
or processing of natural resources.
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected,
directly or indirectly, to the sewer system, including institutional
dormitories and industrial establishments, which do not or does not
constitute a residential establishment.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any residential establishment, nonresidential establishment
or industrial establishment which shall be connected, directly or
indirectly, to the sewer system.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group or entity.
Any room, group of rooms, house trailer, building or other
enclosure connected, directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and
occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by
a family or any other group of persons living together or by a person
or persons living alone, excluding institutional dormitories.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
and used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping, transporting and disposing of wastewater to be acquired or
to be constructed and to be owned and operated by the Township or
to be owned by the Authority and to be leased to the Township for
maintenance, operation and use, as the case may be.
The Township of Silver Spring, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
acting by and through its Board of Supervisors or, in appropriate
cases, its authorized representative.
Facilities for transportation of sewage and waste to any
treatment plant and through which sewage and wastes from the sewer
system are transported.
With respect to any portion of the sewer system, the sewage
treatment plant and related facilities, including sewage transportation
facilities, owned by the Township, the Authority or any other person,
to which wastewater is discharged from such portion of the sewer system
for ultimate treatment and disposal.
Normal water-carried domestic wastes and/or suitable industrial
wastes discharged into the sewer system.
Any person, including but not limited to the Authority or
the Township, rendering water service to the public in the Township.
Sewer rentals or charges are imposed upon and shall be collected
from the owner of each residential establishment, nonresidential establishment
and industrial establishment, which shall be connected with the sewer
system, for use of the sewer system and for services rendered in connection
therewith, whether such use shall be direct or indirect, and shall
be payable in the amounts, at the times and in the manner as provided
in this article.
A.
Sewered residential establishments and nonresidential establishments.
[Amended 9-25-1985 by Ord. No. 85-13]
(1)
All owners of sewered residential establishments and nonresidential
establishments shall pay a sewer rental based upon the actual metered
water consumption, with exceptions as hereinafter noted. All sewer
rentals based upon metered water consumption shall be computed in
accordance with the rates set by Authority resolution.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
(2)
The volume of water to be used for billing sewer rentals under this
subsection shall include any and all water obtained from any water
supplier or any other private or public water source.
(3)
All owners of sewered residential establishments and nonresidential
establishments having an unmetered water source shall pay a sewer
rental on the basis of volume as estimated or measured by the Township,
which rental shall be not less than that established by Authority
resolution per quarter.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
B.
Multiple residential establishments and nonresidential establishments. In the case of owners of property from which wastewaters originate in more than one residential establishment and/or nonresidential establishment located on the property and are discharged to the sewer system, sewer rentals shall be computed for each individual residential establishment and/or nonresidential establishment as set forth in Subsection A and, as may be applicable, Subsections C and D of this section. Individual sewer rentals thus computed for each residential establishment or residential establishment shall be totaled for purposes of determining the aggregate sewer rental billing to the owner.
C.
Sewered nonresidential establishments that exclude wastewater from
sewer system.
(1)
Exclusion from the sewer system of noncontaminated wastewater may be required of a nonresidential establishment by the Township, or such exclusion may be optional with the owner if not required by the Township. When such wastewater is excluded, or when any other portion of the water consumption of a nonresidential establishment does not reach the sewer system, sewer rentals shall be based upon total water consumption, less water excluded, as set forth under Subsection A and, as may be applicable, as set forth in Subsection E of this section. Water excluded shall be determined from meters installed and maintained by the owner as required and approved by the Township; from estimates made by the Township; or the owner may elect to measure wastewater volumes actually discharged to the sewer system as hereinafter provided.
(2)
The Township may require the owner of an industrial establishment or the owner of an industrial establishment may elect to install, pay for, and maintain a meter approved by the Township for measuring quarterly wastewater volumes discharged to the sewer system, in which case sewer rentals shall be based upon the actual volume of wastewater so metered and the rates set forth under Subsection A of this section. Pending installation of such meter the sewer rental for such industrial establishment shall be not less than that established by Authority resolution per quarter.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
D.
Minimum sewer rentals. Notwithstanding any other provisions contained
herein, all owners of metered or nonmetered residential establishments
connected to the sewer system shall be required to pay a minimum sewer
rental per quarter, and all owners of metered or nonmetered nonresidential
establishments connected to the sewer system shall be required to
pay a minimum sewer rental per quarter; such minimum sewer rental
charges shall be as set by Authority resolution.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
E.
Additional classifications. Additional classifications and sewer
rentals or modifications of the above schedule of sewer rentals may
be established by the Township from time to time as deemed necessary.
F.
Special agreements. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prohibit
this Township from entering into separate agreements with owners (including
any school) with respect to sewer rentals or charges to be imposed
in those cases where, due to seasonal fluctuations or other unusual
circumstances, the sewer rentals or charges set forth herein shall
be deemed by this Township to be unfair or inequitable.
A.
All sewer rental billings shall be rendered in arrears of the service provided for calendar quarter service periods on March 1, June 1, September 1, and December 1 of each year a property is connected to the sewer system. Billings in arrears shall be rendered quarterly for the quarterly periods ending on the last days of February, May, August and November of each year. Sewer rental billings under § 315-19A and B or C and E, as may be applicable, shall be based upon water consumed during the quarterly water service period immediately preceding the quarter in which the sewer billing is rendered. Owners of property connected to the sewer system for only a portion of a calendar quarter shall pay a pro rata sewer rental for the period of time actually connected during the quarter. All sewer rental billings shall be due and payable upon presentation and, if not paid within 15 days from the date of billing, a penalty of 6% shall be added.
B.
Sewer rentals or charges shall be due and payable upon the applicable
billing date at the office of the Treasurer of the Township, or at
such other location as the Township may designate, and the appropriate
amount, computed in accordance with this article, shall constitute
the net bill.
C.
The owner of any residential establishment, nonresidential establishment
or industrial establishment which is connected to the sewer system
initially shall provide the Township with and thereafter shall keep
the Township advised of the correct address of such owner. Failure
of any person to receive quarter annum bills for sewer rentals or
charges shall not be considered an excuse for nonpayment, nor shall
such failure result in an extension of the period of time during which
the net bill shall be payable.
Sewer rentals or charges imposed by this article shall be a
lien upon the property connected to and served by the sewer system,
and any such sewer rentals or charges which are not paid in accordance
with this article, at the discretion of this Township, shall be filed
as a lien against the property so connected to and served by the sewer
system, which lien shall be filed in the appropriate office of the
County of Cumberland, Pennsylvania, as provided by law, and shall
be collected in the manner provided by law for the filing and collecting
of municipal claims.
A.
No person shall discharge or shall cause to be discharged any stormwater,
surface water, spring water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface
drainage, building foundation drainage, cellar drainage or drainage
from roof leader connections into any sewer.
B.
The Township reserves the right to refuse permission to connect to
the sewer system, to compel discontinuance of use of the sewer system,
or to compel pretreatment of wastewater by any industrial establishment
in order to prevent discharges deemed harmful or to have a deleterious
effect upon any portion of the sewer system, transportation facilities
or any treatment plant.
C.
Where necessary, in the opinion of the Township, the Township may
require the owner of an industrial establishment to provide, at such
owner's expense, such facilities for preliminary treatment of
industrial wastes as may be necessary to reduce objectionable characteristics
or constituents of such industrial wastes in order to bring the same
within the maximum limits permitted in this article and to control
the quantities and rates of discharge of such industrial wastes over
a twenty-four-hour day and a seven-day week.
(1)
Plans, specifications and any other pertinent information relating
to proposed facilities for preliminary treatment and handling of industrial
wastes shall be submitted for approval of the Township, and no construction
of any such facility shall be commenced until approval thereof first
shall have been obtained, in writing, from the Township, and until
approval thereof first shall have been obtained from any governmental
regulatory body having jurisdiction.
(2)
Whenever facilities for preliminary treatment and handling of industrial
wastes shall have been provided by any owner, such facilities continuously
shall be maintained at the expense of such owner in satisfactory operating
condition, and the Township shall have access to such facilities at
reasonable times for purposes of inspection and testing.
A.
Any person desiring to make or to use a connection to the sewer system
through which industrial wastes shall be discharged into the sewer
system shall file with the Township an application for a permit, and
such person also shall supply to the Township pertinent data, including
estimated quantities of flow, characteristics and constituents, with
respect to industrial wastes proposed to be discharged into the sewer
system and shall obtain a written permit from the Township to do so
before making or using such connection. The cost of obtaining all
such data shall be borne by the person desiring to make or to use
such a connection to the sewer system.
B.
Any person who shall discharge industrial wastes into the sewer system,
when required by the Township, shall construct at the expense of such
person and thereafter properly shall maintain at the expense of such
person a suitable control manhole and other devices as shall be approved
by the Township to facilitate observation, measurement and sampling
by the Township of wastewater discharged to the sewer system. Any
such control manhole, when required by the Township, shall be constructed
at an accessible, safe, suitable and satisfactory location in accordance
with plans to be approved by the Township prior to commencement of
construction.
C.
Industrial establishments shall install fine screens to remove husks,
hull, vegetable skins, peelings, threads, lint, grease and other such
nonsettleable and floating solids, or other organic or inorganic substances,
determined by this Township or the Authority to overload, impair the
efficiency of or cause difficulties in operation of the sewer system,
transportation facilities or any treatment plant.
D.
Any owner of an industrial establishment who is discharging or permitting
to be discharged industrial wastes into the sewer system and who contemplates
a change in the method of operation which will alter the type of industrial
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 so that this Township may sample the industrial wastes
immediately after such change takes place in order to make the determinations
provided for or required by this article.
The Township, or its duly authorized representatives, shall
have the right of access, at all reasonable times, to any part of
any and all properties served by the sewer system as shall be required
for purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and
testing and for performance of other functions relating to service
rendered by the Township through the sewer system.
A.
Meters or other measuring devices which shall not be provided in
connection with the operations by any water supplier, but which shall
be required or permitted under provisions of this article, shall be
furnished and installed by the owner of the residential establishment
or nonresidential establishment at his expense; shall be under the
control of this Township and may be tested, inspected or repaired
by this Township whenever necessary. Such owner shall be responsible
for the maintenance and safekeeping of such meter or other measuring
device, and all repairs thereto shall be made at the expense of such
owner, whether such repairs shall be made necessary by ordinary wear
and tear or other causes. Bills for such repairs, if made by this
Township, shall be due and payable immediately upon completion of
such repairs and shall be collected in the same manner as quarterly
bills for sewer rental or charges.
B.
The Township shall be responsible for the reading of all meters or
other measuring devices, and the same shall be available to employees
and agents of the Township at all reasonable times.
C.
Representatives of the Township shall have the right of access at
reasonable times to any part of any property served by the sewer system
and any meters used for purposes of establishing or determining volumes
for purposes of this article.
A.
This Township reserves the right to adopt and promulgate, from time
to time, additional classifications and sewer rentals or charges therefor,
or modifications of, the schedule of sewer rentals or charges as set
forth in this article, which additional classifications and sewer
rentals or charges, or modifications, as the case may be, shall be
construed as a part of this article.
B.
This Township reserves the right to adopt, from time to time, such
additional rules and regulations as it shall deem necessary and proper
in connection with use and operation of the sewer system, which rules
and regulations shall be, shall become and shall be construed as part
of this article.
It is declared that enactment of this article is necessary for
the protection, benefit and preservation of the health, safety and
welfare of inhabitants of the Township.
