[Ord. 95, 5/4/1998, § 1]
By this Part the Board of Supervisors of East Coventry Township
intends to serve the purpose authorized by the rules and regulations
promulgated through Chapter 71 of the Sewage Facilities Act, as revised
and effective July 10, 1989. In furtherance thereof, the provisions
of this Part are deemed expedient and necessary to establish procedures
for the use and maintenance of low flow facility holding tanks for
institutional, commercial or recreational uses, designed to receive,
retain and to facilitate ultimate disposal of sewage at another site.
It is hereby declared by the enactment of this Part the intention
of the Township is to ensure the protection, benefit and preservation
of the health, safety and welfare of the residents of this Township
and for the requiring of control of holding tanks through specific
restrictions upon their uses, more fully set forth herein.
[Ord. 95, 5/4/1998, § 1]
As used herein, the following words and phrases shall have the
meanings indicated:
The owner or person applying for permission to utilize a
holding tank as an alternative sewage disposal system.
A watertight receptacle, whether permanent or temporary,
which receives and retains sewage conveyed by a water-carrying system
and is designed and constructed to facilitate the ultimate disposal
of sewage to another site.
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.
A sewage facility with a sewage flow of 800 gallons per day
or less.
The Township of East Coventry.
The Official Act 537 Sewage Facilities Plan of East Coventry
Township.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property located in the Township.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, corporation
or other group or entity.
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrement or other discharge from bodies of human beings or animals
or 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.
East Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
[Ord. 95, 5/4/1998, § 1]
The Board of Supervisors of the Township is hereby authorized
and empowered to undertake within the Township the control and methods
of holding tank use, sewage disposal and sewage collection and transportation
thereof.
[Ord. 95, 5/4/1998, § 1]
1.
The Board of Supervisors of the Township is hereby authorized and
empowered to adopt such rules and regulations concerning sewage and
holding tank usage, in addition to the following provisions, which
it may deem necessary, from time to time, to effect the purposes herein:
A.
General requirements for holding tank use are as follows:
(1)
Holdings tanks require regular service and maintenance to prevent
their malfunction and overflow and shall be used in lieu of other
methods of sewage disposal only when the following conditions are
met:
(a)
The Township Official Plan, or revisions thereto, indicates
the use of holding tanks for the subject property and provides for
replacement of adequate sewer services in accordance with the Department
of Environmental Protection approval or for a recreational, institutional
or commercial establishment with a sewage flow of 800 gallons per
day or less.
(b)
The Board of Supervisors identifies the Township office as the
administrative entity to receive, review and retain pumping receipts
for permitted holding tanks.
(c)
The Board of Supervisors shall establish an annual inspection
of holding tanks within the Township with completion and retention
of written inspection reports.
(d)
The Board of Supervisors shall adopt regulations, procedures
and penalties for correction of malfunctions or public health hazards
from holding tanks.
(2)
Applicant shall be required to complete and submit a holding
tank permit application along with a filing fee for the review thereof
by the Township Engineer or his designated agent. Upon the satisfaction
of the Township Engineer of the technical requirements by the applicant
of the holding tank permit application, but prior to the issuance
of a permit, the applicant shall execute a holding tank installation
and maintenance agreement for utilization of a holding tank which
shall require the submission of an escrow deposit. Any applicant awarded
a holding tank permit shall be responsible for the payment within
30 days of invoice for the actual cost incurred for any periodic inspections
conducted by the Township Engineer, as deemed necessary in the sole
discretion of the Township Engineer. The amount of the filing fee
and escrow deposit shall be in an amount determined by the Board of
Supervisors in the Township Schedule of Fees and Costs, as amended.
[Amended by Ord. No. 2023-261, 6/12/2023]
(3)
The proposed holding tank system application shall be approved
by the Department of Environmental Protection and reviewed by the
Township Engineer as to its design, construction and installation
and the owner shall certify to the Township and Department of Environmental
Protection that the design, construction and installation of the holding
tank has been completed in accordance with the permits granted by
DEP and the Township.
(4)
The owner shall provide proof of a signed written contract through
appropriate documentation evidencing a contractual relationship established
by owner and a DEP approved hauler and site to accept untreated sewage
from the subject holding tank. All regulations and requirements set
forth in Chapter 73 setting forth standards for operation of holding
tanks as issued by the Department of Environmental Protection shall
apply to and be satisfied by the owner.
