All residential, commercial and industrial properties situated
within the Township of Eagleswood and abutting on any street, alley
or right-of-way in which there is now located, or may in the future
be located, a public sanitary sewer is hereby required at the owner's
expense to connect such facilities directly to the public sanitary
sewer in accordance with the provisions of these rules and regulations,
provided that said public sewer is within 100 feet of the property
line. Connections shall be made within 90 days after the date of official
notice from the Township of Eagleswood.
No person(s) shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of
the following described waters and wastes into any public sewer:
A. Individual sewage disposal systems. Discharges from any cesspool,
septic tank or other individual sanitary disposal system.
B. Rainwater or groundwater. Discharges from roof downspouts, foundation
rains, sump pumps, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff
or groundwater.
C. Unpolluted water. Unpolluted waters, such as stormwater, groundwater,
roof runoff, subsurface drainage or cooling water; stormwater runoff,
subsurface drainage or cooling water, which may be polluted at specific
times, may be discharged to the sanitary sewer by individual written
permission of the Township for each occasion, and then only with provision
for metering said flow and for specific time limits of less than 30
days.
D. Acidic or alkaline materials. Any waters or wastes having a pH lower
than 5.5 or higher than 9.0, or having any other corrosive property
capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment or personnel
of the wastewater works.
E. Flammable or explosive materials. Any gasoline, benezene, naphtha,
fuel oil or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
F. Solid or viscous materials. Solid or viscous substances in such quantities
or of such size as to be capable of causing obstruction to the flow
in sewers or other interference with the proper operations of the
wastewater facilities, such as, but not limited to, ashes, bones,
cinders, entrails, feathers, glass, grease, unground garbage, hair
or fleshings, metal, milk containers, etc., either whole or disintegrated,
mud, paper dishes, paunch manure, plastics, rags, sand, shavings,
shells, straw, tar, whole blood, wood.
G. Toxic or poisonous materials. Any waters containing toxic or poisonous
solids, liquids or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or
by interactions with other wastes, to injure or interfere with any
waste treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals,
create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in the receiving waters
of the wastewater treatment plant.
H. Steam exhausts. Steam exhausts or blowoff from boilers or from steam
heating plants. Any such exhaust or blowoff shall in every case discharge
into a tank of suitable size from which a trapped and vented overflow
may lead to the sewer.
I. Refrigerating systems. Refrigeration, cooling system or air-conditioning
water.
J. Vehicle wash water. No washings from vehicles of any type without
first passing through an appropriately designed and approved trap
or sedimentation chamber to remove excess solids, oil, grease, etc.
K. Radioactive wastes or isotopes. Any radioactive wastes or isotopes
of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits imposed upon
the Township by applicable state or federal regulations.
If any waters or wastes are discharged or are proposed to be
discharged to the public sewers, which waters or wastes contain the
substances or possess the characteristics enumerated above and which,
in the judgment of the Township, may have a deleterious effect upon
the wastewater facilities, processes, equipment or receiving waters,
or which otherwise creates a hazard to life or constitute a public
nuisance, the Township may:
A. Refuse to accept the wastes.
B. Require pretreatment to an acceptable condition before discharge
to the public sewer; that is reduce the biochemical oxygen demand
to 300 parts per million and the suspended solids to 350 parts per
million by weight.
C. Require control over the quantities and rates of discharge.
D. Require payment to cover the added cost of handling the wastes not
covered by existing sewer charges (see rate schedule) or added charges
imposed by the County Utilities Authority.