[1972 Code § 14B-1]
As used in this chapter:
Shall mean and include any individual, corporation, company,
association, society, firm, partnership and joint-stock company.
Shall mean any introduced gas, liquid or solid or any matter
which is not an integral natural constituent of the waterway in question,
which matter may cause or threaten degradation of water quality resulting
in damage to the aquatic community of wildlife in and adjacent to
the affected water body or potability or threaten injury to any of
the inhabitants of this municipality, either in their health, comfort
or property.
Shall mean the introduction or presence of a pollutant in
or about the Township waterways.
Shall mean and include lakes, streams, brooks, channels,
rivers and all other natural watercourses and their adjoining shorelines.
[1972 Code § 14B-2]
No person shall put, place, drain, or store, or permit or allow
the putting, placing, drainage or storage of any substance in such
a manner as to cause the pollution of any waterway in this Township.
Any owner of lands appurtenant to a waterway upon which such pollution
shall have occurred shall be deemed to have committed a violation
of this chapter, upon a finding that such waterway has been polluted
and that the pollution emanated from lands of said owner. Such violation
will be deemed to have occurred without regard to the participation
of such owner in the creation of the pollution, except that where
the owner shall prove by clear and convincing evidence that the pollution
occurred as a result of the vandalism of others or as the result of
the negligence of a third party, the owner shall not be deemed to
have committed a violation of this chapter.
[1972 Code § 14B-3]
No person shall alter, divert or change the level, shape or
flow of any waterway in the Township so as to interfere with the passage
of waters at the site upstream or downstream without the receipt of
appropriate local, County or State and Federal permits.
[1972 Code § 14B-4]
No person shall construct or cause to be constructed any structure
in, on or over any waterway within the Township without the receipt
of appropriate local, County, State and Federal permits.
[1972 Code § 14B-5]
Any person responsible for the violation of any of the above
sections shall immediately undertake to restore the waterways and
affected properties. If the person responsible fails to or refuses
to take corrective action to the Township's satisfaction, the
Township may undertake the restoration of waters and may retain agents
and contractors for such purpose who shall operate under the direction
of the Township. All costs accrued in correction of violations may
be placed as a lien on the property in violation or may be recovered
in a civil suit.
[1972 Code § 14B-6]
Township jurisdiction will reside with the Business Administrator
and/or those designated by the Administrator with such authority.
[1972 Code § 14B-7; New]
[1972 Code § 14B-8]
This chapter does not apply to any local, State or Federal employees
or their agents in the performance of their authorized duties.
