This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Waste Disposal
Ordinance of Nottingham Township of 1984."
The purpose of this chapter is as follows:
A. To prohibit the discharge of all hazardous and toxic wastes within
Nottingham Township.
B. To regulate the discharge of liquid wastes, sewage sludge, and human
and animal wastes upon property situated within Nottingham Township.
C. To preserve the fragile environmental qualities of all land within
the Township including but not limited to the protection of groundwater
supplies.
D. To promote, protect and facilitate the public health, safety and
general welfare of all Township citizens by preventing excessive discharge
of potential contaminants.
E. To provide methods of allowing certain human and animal wastes generated
within the Township to be used as agricultural nutrients for actively
farmed properties but to prevent excessive land application of such
wastes.
The following definitions shall be applicable:
AGRICULTURE WASTE
Poultry and livestock manure or residual materials in liquid
or solid form, generated in the production, maintenance, and/or marketing
of poultry, livestock, fur-bearing animals, and their products. It
includes the residual materials generated in producing, harvesting,
and marketing of all agronomic, horticultural, silvicultural, and
aquacultural crops or commodities grown on what are usually recognized
and accepted farm, forests, or other agricultural lands.
DEP
The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
HAZARDOUS WASTES
A solid or liquid waste or a combination of solid or liquid
wastes which, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical,
chemical, or infectious characteristics may cause or significantly
contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible
or incapacitating reversible illness; or pose a substantial present
or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly
treated, stored, transported, or disposed of or otherwise managed.
NORMAL FARMING OPERATIONS
The customary and generally accepted activities, practices,
and procedures that farmers adopt, use, or engage in year after year
in the production, maintenance and/or preparation for market poultry,
livestock, and their products and the production and harvesting of
agricultural, agronomic, horticultural, silvicultural, and agricultural
crops and commodities. It includes the storage, composting and utilization
of agricultural and food process wastes for animal feed and includes
the agricultural utilization of septic tank cleanings. It also includes
the management, collection, storage, composting, transportation and
use of manure, other agricultural waste, and food process waste on
land where such materials will improve the condition of the soil and
the growth of crops, or will aid in the restoration of the land for
the same purposes.
TREATMENT TANK
A watertight tank designed to retain sewage long enough for
satisfactory bacterial decomposition of the solids to take place.
It includes the following:
A.
SEPTIC TANKA watertight receptacle which receives domestic sewage and is designed and constructed to provide for sludge storage and sludge storage and sludge decomposition and to separate solids from the liquid through a period of detention before allowing the liquid to be discharged to a subsurface absorption area.
B.
AEROBIC SEWAGE TREATMENT TANKAny unit incorporating, as a part of the treatment process, a means of introducing air and oxygen into the residential sewage held in a storage tank or tanks so as to provide aerobic biochemical stabilization during a detention period prior to its discharge in to a subsurface absorption area.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person, owner, general agent, and/or contractor for the
premises where such violation has been committed or shall exist, and
the lessee or tenant of any premises in which part such violation
has been committed or shall exist, or any other person who knowingly
commits, takes part, or assists in any such violation, or who maintains
premises in which any such violation shall exist, shall, upon conviction
in a summary proceeding brought before a Magisterial District Judge
under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a
summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than
$1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default of payment thereof,
the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding
90 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation continues
or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense, and
each section of this chapter that is violated shall also constitute
a separate offense.