[Ord. No. 4-1970, § 400, 11/9/1970]
These regulations, procedures, practices and standards shall
apply throughout the Township, to all sewage systems hereafter constructed,
installed, altered, extended or repaired.
[Ord. No. 4-1970, § 401, 11/9/1970; Ord. No. 2-1987, § 1, 4/28/1987; Ord. No. 3-1995, 9/12/1995]
1. No person may install or construct an individual or community on-lot
sewage system, or install, construct, occupy or use a building to
be served by that system without first obtaining a permit from the
sewage facilities officer, as provided in Subsections 4 and 5 of this
section.
2. A permit is required by the Township of South Hanover for alterations
to an existing individual or community on-lot sewage system when the
alteration requires repair, replacement or enlargement of a treatment
tank, subsurface absorption area or retention tank.
3. Multiple installation of chemical toilets or other portable toilets
proposed for temporary use at a construction site, a recreation activity
or a temporary facility shall be covered by one permit.
[Ord. No. 4-1970, § 402, 11/9/1970]
1. Application for a sewage facilities permit shall be made to the sewage
facilities officer by the person, corporation or other entity who
will be responsible for performing the work.
2. The application shall be made on a multicopy form, as prepared for
such use by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources
and provided by the sewage facilities officer, and shall contain or
be accompanied by the following information and data:
A. Name and address of the applicant.
B. Description of the real estate upon which the system is to be installed,
and the improvements thereon which the system will serve.
C. Information related to the proposed installation:
(1)
For a system proposed to discharge into a community or public
sewage system:
(a)
Official name of the agency operating the system into which
discharge is to be made.
(b)
Location and size of the collector pipe of the system into which
discharge is to be made.
(c)
Evidence of acceptance of, and capacity for, the discharge by
the operating agency and system.
(2)
For an on-lot treatment and disposal system, or any other system
not discharging into a public system:
(a)
Detailed information showing the absorptive qualities, depth
and type of soil involved, and the high-water level of the ground
water table.
(b)
Number and location of private and public water supplies within
100 feet of the proposed system.
(c)
Location of and distance to any public sewage system within
one mile of the site.
D. Approval of the proposed system, when such is required, by the Department
of Environmental Resources or any other agency of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
E. Such further information as may be required by the sewage facilities
officer to ensure the proposed system complies with these regulations.
[Ord. No. 4-1970, § 403, 11/9/1970]
1. For systems which will treat and dispose of sewage on the lot or
land to be served by the system, the applicant shall make an initial
application to the sewage facilities officer containing the following
information:
A. Name and address of the applicant.
B. Description of the real estate upon which the system is to be installed,
and the improvements thereon which the system will serve.
C. Brief description of the arrangements to conduct the required soil
percolation rate tests, indicating the locations of the test holes
on the site, who will be responsible for preparing the holes and performing
the tests, and when the holes can be prepared, soaked and tested in
accordance with this chapter.
D. The sewage facilities officer, or his agent, may periodically inspect
the presoaking process, and shall observe the actual percolation rate
tests. The presoaking and the rate tests shall be performed on a date
and at a time in accordance with a written schedule established cooperatively
by the sewage facilities officer and whoever is responsible for performing
the tests, provided that the sewage facilities officer may not require
a date and time more than 48 hours, exclusive of Sundays and holidays,
later than that requested, and provided that if the sewage facilities
officer or his agent fails to observe the tests performed according
to such schedule, he shall accept the results reported by whoever
is responsible for performing the tests and further provided that
the results of tests performed other than according to such schedule,
which are not observed by the sewage facilities officer or his agent,
shall not be accepted, and shall be repeated on the order of the sewage
facilities officer.
E. The applicant shall be advised by the sewage facilities officer of
the additional data which will be required, concerning the site and
the proposed system. The sewage facilities officer shall aid the applicant
by providing suggestions as to satisfactory sources of such data.
[Ord. No. 4-1970, § 404, 11/9/1970]
1. Permits shall be issued or denied by the sewage facilities officer
in writing within seven days after receiving an application for a
permit.
2. When the sewage facilities officer has found an application incomplete,
the applicant shall be notified in writing within seven days and the
time for acting thereon shall be extended seven days beyond the date
of submission of adequate supplementary or amendatory data. When the
sewage facilities officer is satisfied the application is complete,
and the proposed design meets the requirements of this chapter and
will adequately protect the public health, a permit shall be issued.
[Ord. No. 4-1970, § 405, 11/9/1970]
1. A denial of a permit by the sewage facilities officer shall be for
any one or more of the following reasons which shall be incorporated
into the written denial:
A. Failure of the proposed design to meet the requirements of these
regulations.
B. Soil or geological conditions are such as to preclude safe and proper
operation of the desired installation.
C. A public sewage system is accessible, into which the sewage can be
feasibly and legally discharged.
D. Proposed system will not adequately protect the public health.
[Ord. No. 4-1970, § 406, 11/9/1970; Ord. No. 129-1986, § 1, 2/11/1986; Ord. No. 3-1995, 9/12/1995]
1. Whoever shall receive a permit to install a sewage system shall notify
the sewage facilities officer as to when installation is to be made,
and the sewage facilities office or his agent may make such inspections
or tests as deemed necessary, before or during installation. The sewage
facilities officer shall be notified in writing when the installation
is completed, and no installation shall be covered until it is inspected
and given final written approval by the sewage facilities officer,
provided that if the sewage facilities officer or his agent fails
to inspect the installation within 48 hours, exclusive of Sundays
and holidays, of receiving the notice of completion, the installation
may be covered, and it shall be accepted by the sewage facilities
officer as in accordance with the approved plan and standards for
the system; further provided that the sewage facilities officer may
order correction of any installation found by inspection to be not
in accordance with the approved plan and standards, and that a new
notice of completion shall be effected, following any ordered uncovering
or corrective work.
2. The sewage facilities officer or his agent required to make such
inspections or tests as deemed necessary, before or during installation
shall charge an hourly fee per inspection in an amount as established
from time to time by resolution of the Board of Supervisors with a
minimum charge per inspection, also in an amount as established from
time to time by resolution. This fee is to be paid by the owner of
the land inspected.
[Ord. No. 4-1970, § 407, 11/9/1970]
The officer of the Township responsible for the issuance of
building permits shall not issue a building permit for any structure
which is connected, or is intended to be connected, to any individual
or community sewage system, until a sewage facilities permit has been
issued for the sewage system which serves or will serve the structure.
[Ord. No. 4-1970, § 408, 11/9/1970]
For the purposes of this chapter, mobile homes shall be considered
as separate dwelling units, each requiring an individual sewage system,
except for those mobile homes located in a mobile home park for which
a sewage facilities permit has been issued.
[Ord. No. 4-1970, § 408, 11/9/1970]
Every dwelling unit shall have a separate, individual sewage
system except those contained in apartment houses or in a two-family
house with the dwelling units arranged one above the other.
[Ord. No. 4-1970, § 410, 11/9/1970]
1. Sewage systems which serve recreation facilities shall comply with
the following regulations. Lands newly used for these purposes shall
comply from the outset; lands previously used for these purposes shall
comply within one year after adoption of this chapter, and it shall
be obligatory upon the owner or operator of any lands used for recreation
purposes to obtain a sewage facilities permit, prior to installing
or operating any sewage system, issued in accordance with the provisions
herein:
A. Structures or land uses serving, or intended to serve, more than 20 persons, or used or intended to be used periodically throughout the year, shall be served by an individual sewage system as defined and regulated in §
18-107 of this chapter.
B. Structures or land uses serving 20 or fewer persons, and generally
used only during the warm weather months, may be served by a sewage
system composed of a fully-enclosed insect-tight structure, a privy
vault or tank made of concrete, coated steel, or other material impervious
to water and sewage, and related facilities. Such systems shall be
in accordance with standards for such structures as accepted by the
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, and shall be subject
to initial and periodic inspection by the sewage facilities officer.
Holding tanks shall be cleaned promptly, at the end of seasonal use,
and at such other times as necessary or as ordered by the sewage facilities
officer.
C. The sewage system serving any recreation facility open to the public,
with or without an admittance fee, is subject to the approval and
regulation of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources.
[Ord. No. 4-1970, § 411, 11/9/1970]
1. In accordance with the afore-cited acts, rules and regulations of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or such other regulations of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as may apply, the sewage facilities officer
shall require, prior to issuing a sewage facilities permit, written
or other acceptable means of notice the approval of the proposed sewage
system by the sanitary water board, or the department of environmental
resources, or such other agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
as may have jurisdiction, for sewage systems proposed to serve any
of the following:
B. A commercial structure or land use.
C. A community sewage system serving three or more lots.
D. An educational facility, public or private.
E. A hospital or industrial facility.
F. An industrial structure or land use.
G. A mobile home structure or land use.
I. A public or commercial park or recreation facility.
J. A public building or land use.
[Ord. No. 4-1970, § 412, 11/9/1970]
1. The sewage facilities officer shall be required to obtain the consultation
of the County Sanitarian of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Resources, prior to issuing a sewage facilities or a sewage system
proposed to serve the following:
A. A community sewage system serving more than two dwelling units.
B. A nonresidential facility for which the sewage system is not subject
to approval by an agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
[Ord. No. 4-1970, § 413, 11/9/1970]
The sewage facilities officer may obtain the consultation the
County Sanitarian of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Resources prior to issuing a sewage facilities permit for any proposed
sewage system.
[Ord. No. 54-1976, § 1, 1/20/1976]
No person, firm or corporation owning any real property within
the Township of South Hanover upon which is located an individual
or community sewage system, disposal field, building sewer, recreation
facility sewage system, seepage pit or treatment tank shall permit
the discharge of any raw sewage or untreated industrial wastes into
or through any of the aforementioned individual or community sewage
systems, disposal fields, building sewers, recreation facility sewage
systems, seepage pits or treatment tanks which by reason of malfunction,
disrepair or fault in design, causes or permits said raw sewage or
untreated industrial waste to escape to the surface of the ground
or cause or permit the same to be discharged upon any private or public
property, street, highway or right-of-way so as to emit any unpleasant
or noxious odor or to create a possible health hazard within the Township.
Any discharge of raw sewage or untreated industrial waste upon any
premises within the Township and in violation of the provisions of
this section, is hereby declared to be a nuisance and detrimental
to the public health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of the
Township.
[Ord. No. 54-1976, § 1, 1/20/1976]
The owner of any real property within the Township upon which
is located an individual or community sewage system, disposal field,
building sewer, recreation facility sewage system, seepage pit or
treatment tank shall maintain the same in a good state of repair and
in good working order and shall take such corrective measures as are
necessary to comply with § 18-45 of this division.
[Ord. No. 54-1976, § 1, 1/20/1976]
The Board of Supervisors or any officer or employee of the Township
designated thereby for the purpose is hereby authorized to give notice,
by personal service or by United States mail, to the owner of any
real estate whereon raw sewage or untreated industrial waste is being
discharged in violation of § 18-45 of this division, directing
and requiring such owner to take such corrective measures as are necessary
to abate the nuisance so as to comply with the provisions of this
division within five days after the service of notice. In case any
person, firm or corporation shall neglect, or fail or refuse to comply
with such notice within the period of time stated therein, the Township
authorities may take or have taken such corrective measures as are
necessary to abate the nuisance, and the costs thereof, together with
any additional penalty authorized by law, may be collected by the
Township from such person, firm or corporation in the manner provided
by law.
[Ord. No. 54-1976, § 1, 1/20/1976; Ord. No. 3-1995, 9/12/1995]
Any person who shall violate any provision of this division
shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding
$1,000 and costs and, in default of payment thereof, shall be subject
to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days. Each day that a
violation of this division continues shall constitute a separate offense.