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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 this municipality.
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Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this article shall be as follows and
integrated alphabetically:
A municipality's Official Plan as defined in the Pennsylvania
Sewage Facilities Act, Act of January 24, 1966, P.L. 1535 (1965),
No. 537, as amended, 35 P.S. §§ 750.1 — 750.20a
("Sewage Facilities Act" or "Act 537").
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
Any electric motor driven, submersible, 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 a fine slurry, and pumping this material
through a small diameter discharge.
Any property within Thornbury 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.
Thornbury Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
A change in the Municipality's Act 537 Plan to provide
for additional or newly identified future or existing sewage facilities
needs, as defined fully in § 1 of the Sewage Facilities
Act, 35 P.S. § 750.1.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property located in the Municipality.
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 PS §§ 691.1
— 691.1001, as amended.
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The connection of existing properties or proposed new 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 occur only after an Official Plan revision to the Municipality's
Act 537 Plan, approved by both the Municipality and Department, designates
that the proposed properties be served by such a connection.
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1.
The Municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt such
rules and regulations concerning sewage which it may deem necessary
from time to time to effect the purposes herein.
2.
The Municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to take such
other actions as are necessary, including, but not limited to, entering
into agreements with property owners that assure proper operation
and maintenance of sewage facilities within the Municipality's
borders, including, but not limited to, sewage grinder pumps and any
associated force mains or low-pressure laterals.
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1.
The Municipality shall exercise its powers and legal authority set
forth herein, and under all applicable statutes, ordinances, and other
laws to affect the purposes of this article.
2.
The Municipality may but is not required to enter into an agreement
with each property owner proposing to install or who has installed
a sewage grinder pump or low pressure sewage system to assure the
short- and long-term operation and maintenance, use, service, repair
or replacement of such systems.
3.
All grinder pumps and low-pressure sewer systems (and the installation,
use, operation, maintenance, service, repair and replacement thereof)
shall comply with the rules and regulations of the Municipality in
effect from time to time.
4.
All grinder pumps and low pressure sewer systems shall be connected
to the sewage collection and conveyance system in full compliance
with the rules and regulations of the Municipality in effect from
time to time.
5.
The Municipality shall maintain control over the type of grinder
pumps used and assure that full service capability is available locally
on short notice.
6.
Municipality shall bear no responsibility for the purchase, installation,
use, operation, maintenance, service, repair, or replacement of the
grinder pump and/or its low-pressure lateral, except as otherwise
set forth herein.
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1.
Each property owner served by a grinder pump shall bear full responsibility
for providing, installing, using, operating, maintaining, servicing,
repairing and replacing his/her grinder pump and/or its low-pressure
force main or lateral, unless otherwise set forth herein.
A.
Each property owner served by a grinder pump shall have full responsibility
for using the pump consistent with the manufacturer's instructions
and shall avoid introducing into the sewerage system materials that
may damage the impellers on the pump, including, but not limited to,
items designated as biodegradable in septic tanks.
B.
Each property owner served by a grinder pump shall close the sewage
system and cease operations during any period when the grinder pump
and/or low-pressure system serving a property is inoperable for more
than 90 days.
C.
Where the low pressure force main or lateral is shared between property
owners, they shall submit to the municipality a declaration of easements,
covenants and restrictions in recordable form setting forth the agreement
of each benefitted property owner with respect to the installation,
use, operation, maintenance, service, repair and replacement of the
low pressure sewer system, which agreement shall bind all future property
owners. Following the approval of the low pressure system by all applicable
agencies, the Municipality will not issue a permit for its installation
until evidence is presented that the agreement has been recorded in
the Office for the Recording of Deeds, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
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All such rules and regulations adopted by the Municipality to
effectuate this article 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.
