[Ord. 8/11/1988, § 1]
This part may be cited as the "Montour Township Sewage Disposal
System Maintenance Regulations."
[Ord. 8/11/1988, § 2]
Unless otherwise expressly provided, the following words and
phrases shall, for the purposes of this Part, have the following meanings:
ABSORPTION AREA
A component of an individual or community sewage system where
the liquid from a septic tank or other treatment tank seeps into the
soil; it consists of an aggregate-filled area containing piping for
the distribution of liquid into the soil or sand/soil combination
located beneath the aggregate.
ALTERNATE SEWAGE SYSTEM
A system employing the use of demonstrated technology in
a manner not specifically recognized by Chapter 73 of the Rules and
Regulations of the Department of Environmental Protection.
COMMUNITY SEWAGE SYSTEM
Any system, whether publicly or privately owned, for the
collection of sewage or industrial waste of a liquid nature from two
or more lots and for the treatment or disposal of the sewage or industrial
waste on one or more lots or at any other site.
EXPERIMENTAL SEWAGE SYSTEM
Any method of sewage disposal not described in Chapter 73
of the Rules and Regulations of the Department of Environmental Protection
which is proposed for the purpose of testing and observation.
INDIVIDUAL SEWAGE SYSTEM
A system of piping, tanks or other facilities serving a single
lot and collecting and disposing of sewage in whole or in part into
the soil or into any waters of the commonwealth or by means of conveyance
to another site for final disposal.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any liquid, gaseous, radioactive, solid or other substance
which is not sewage resulting from manufacturing or industry or other
plant or works and mine drainage, silt, coal mine solids, rock, debris,
dirt and clay from coal mines, coal collieries, breakers, other coal
processing operations, quarries or iron mines. The term shall include
all such substances whether or not generally characterized as waste.
MALFUNCTION
Any one or more of the following conditions:
1.
Sewage flow is blocked or restricted in the sewage system which
causes the back-up of sewage into a building, structure or part thereof.
2.
Sewage rises to the surface of the ground over a septic tank
or flows out of a septic tank vent.
3.
Sewage rises to the surface of the ground over the absorption
area or downgrade from the absorption area at the bank or road cut.
4.
Untreated or partially treated sewage, liquid kitchen or laundry
waste, or shower or bathtub wash water is discharged to the surface
of the ground or into the waters of the commonwealth without specific
approval by the Department of Environmental Protection.
5.
Sewage enters the water table without complete treatment resulting
in pollution of drinking water or the waters of the commonwealth.
PERSON
Includes any individual, association, public or private corporation
for profit or not-for-profit, partnership, firm, trust or estate.
SEPTAGE
The scum, grease, sludge and liquid which accumulates in
a septic tank.
SEPTIC TANK
A watertight tank designed to retain sewage long enough for
satisfactory bacterial decomposition of the solids to take place prior
to its discharge to an absorption area.
SEWAGE
Any substance that contains the waste products or excrement
or other discharge from the bodies of human beings and 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 or which constitutes pollution under
the Clean Streams Law, 35 P.S. § 691.1 et seq.
SEWAGE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER (SEO)
The person or persons designated by the Township of Montour
to review and approve permit applications and conduct inspections
pursuant to the provisions of Chapters 71 and 73 of the Rules and
Regulations of the Department of Environmental Protection.
SEWAGE SYSTEM
Any alternate, experimental, community or individual sewage
system.
SHOWER FLOW RESTRICTOR
A valve, insert or other control device which is placed in
the water supply line to a showerhead and restricts the flow rate
to three gallons per minute or less at 60 pounds per square inch of
pressure.
TOILET TANK DAM
A brick, bottle, retaining dam or other device which is inserted
into the toilet tank and reduces the amount of water used per flush
by one gallon or more.
WATER CONSERVATION PRACTICES
Very low or no-cost ways to reduce water usage such as repairing
leaky faucets, running dish and clothes washers only when full, reducing
the length of showers, reducing the use of running water while shaving
or washing, etc.
WATER-SAVING SHOWERHEAD
A showerhead designed to discharge 2.5 gallons of water per
minute or less at 60 pounds per square inch of water pressure.
WATERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH
Rivers, streams, creeks, rivulets, impoundments, ditches,
watercourses, storm sewers, lakes, dammed water, ponds, springs and
all other bodies or channels of conveyance of surface and underground
water or any of their parts, whether natural or artificial, within
or on the boundaries of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
[Ord. 8/11/1988, § 6; as amended by Ord. 9/11/1997, § 1]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of this Part or fail to comply with an order made by the SEO under §
18-305, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before a Magisterial District Judge in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall 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 90 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.