As used in this part, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context.
In addition, the singular shall include the plural; the plural shall
include the singular; and the masculine shall include the feminine
and the neuter.
Allegheny County Sanitary Authority, including its treatment
facility and any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment,
recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes
of a liquid nature. It also includes sewers, pipes and other conveyances
conveying wastewater to publicly owned treatment works (POTW) plant.
The Borough of Sharpsburg.
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, government
entity or any other legal entity, or its legal representatives, agents
or assigns.
A sewer system owned, operated and maintained by the Borough
of Sharpsburg for the collection and disposal of sewage and industrial
wastes of a liquid nature, including sewers, pipes and other conveyances
conveying wastewater to an ALCOSAN treatment facility.
Any substance containing any of the waste products or excrementitious
or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals, and
any noxious or deleterious substances 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.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
The liquid and water carried by industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial building, industrial facilities and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may
be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed directly
or indirectly into ALCOSAN facilities.
Every building in the Borough used as a dwelling and every other
building from which sewage and/or waste matter is discharged, if located
upon property abutting and/or adjoining any street, public way, right-of-way
or other easement or place in which there is a public sewage system,
or which is within 150 feet of such system, shall be connected with
and shall use such public sewer. Such connection shall be the responsibility
of the owner of such building, and shall be made in conformity with
all the provisions of this part. Such connection shall be made to
carry into the public sewage system all wastewater and sewage from
such building.
If the owner of property abutting upon any public sewage system as hereinabove provided shall fail or neglect to make such connection with such sewer, the Borough Secretary shall notify such owner to make such connection within 30 days of such notice. If such owner shall fail to make such connection, as hereby required, within such limit, he shall be in violation of this part and shall be subject to the penalty referred to in § 18-106 of this part. In addition, the Borough shall have authority, at the expiration of such time limit, to make such connection and to collect the cost of same from such owner in default, as allowed by law.
Before making any connection with the Borough's public sewage system, whether or not such connection shall be made pursuant to notice from the Borough Secretary as referred to in § 18-103, the owner of the property to be connected to the sewer shall obtain a connection or tap-in permit from the Borough Secretary. Before the Borough will issue such a permit:
1.
The property owner shall submit in writing to the Borough Secretary
or Borough Engineer, to indicate such connection will conform to the
technical requirements of this part and of any other applicable Borough
ordinance and of any applicable regulation or code of the County of
Allegheny. There shall be a separate plan and set of specifications
showing the location, size and kind of pipe fixtures to be used for
all work for which a permit is required. The property owner shall
file such plans and specifications when he applies for a connection
permit. The plans as filed will not constitute permission to proceed;
a permit must be obtained before work begins. Work for which a permit
is required shall not be covered or concealed in any manner until
it has been inspected and approved by the Borough Inspector.
2.
The property owner shall pay the Borough Secretary the following
connection fee:
|
Pipe Size
|
Fee
|
|---|---|
|
4 inches
|
$120
|
|
6 inches
|
$190
|
|
8 inches
|
$265
|
|
10 inches
|
$320
|
Although the work of making sewer connections shall be subject
to inspection by personnel of the Allegheny County Health Department,
nothing herein shall preclude the Borough Inspector from supervising
or inspecting any aspect of such work to determine whether the terms
of the connection permit have been complied with.
[Amended 2-21-2013 by Ord. No. 13-05]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this part shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a
fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment
of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30
days. Each day that a violation of this part continues or each section
of this part which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute
a separate offense.
