[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Cheswick as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
ATTACHMENTS
Attachment 1 - Rules and Regulations for Water Service
[Adopted 2-26-1979 by Ord. No. 607]
[Amended 12-15-1981 by Res. No. 15-81; 2-16-1982 by Res. No. 5-82; 2-15-1983 by Res. No. 1-83; 4-21-1987 by Ord. No. 659; 12-18-2019 by Ord. No. 799-C]
A. 
All water shall be metered and charged for in the Borough of Cheswick at the rates set out in the schedule of fees on file in the office of the Borough Secretary.
B. 
The owner of the property which is being metered, including rental properties, is responsible for the timely paying of the metered charges.
C. 
Cheswick Borough water bills may include, in addition to charges for water, charges for other services provided by the Borough including refuse charges and sewage charges. Payment of the water bills will be applied against services in the following order: first for refuse charges, second for sewage charges, third for other service charges and lastly for water charges.
D. 
Customers are required to provide Borough officials, or their duly appointed representatives, access to all meters and related remote sensors for the purpose of inspecting, reading, installing, or removing said meters. All obstacles that impede access to the meters, in any manner, must be removed by the customer. Should the customer fail to give such access to Borough officials, or their duly appointed representatives, water service may be discontinued, following due notice.
E. 
Cheswick Borough Rules and Regulations for Water Service are attached and hereby made part of this article by reference. The rules and regulations may be updated or revised by resolution.
The Borough Council may, when it is in the best interest of the Borough of Cheswick and where the same is required, increase or decrease the water rates or other attendant charges as set forth in this article by formal resolution.
[Amended 8-18-1981 by Res. No. 9-81]
A. 
The service charges for repairing a frozen meter, for meter inspections, for deposits for residential and for commercial occupancy, for turning on and turning off water and for making taps into a water main shall be as set forth in the schedule of fees on file in the office of the Borough Secretary.
[Amended 4-21-1987 by Ord. No. 659]
B. 
If the actual cost to the Borough exceeds the minimum fee, then the applicant shall pay the minimum fee, plus any additional costs which may be incurred by the Borough above the minimum fee as set forth in the schedule of fees.
[Amended 4-21-1987 by Ord. No. 659]
C. 
Payment of bills. The rules governing the payment of the bills shall be as follows:
(1) 
The bill shall be payable on a quarterly basis, commencing on March 5, 1979, except where the meter is one inch or larger, then the reading and billing shall be on a monthly basis.
(2) 
Payment shall be on the net amount of the bill, and said amount shall be payable between the fifth and 30th day of the month.
[Amended 3-8-1980 by Res. No. 7-80]
(3) 
Payment of the net amount, plus 5% penalty between the 30th day of the month and the 30th day of the next succeeding month. If payment is not made within the time period stated in the first sentence of this subsection, a finance charge of 1.75% shall be assessed for each month that the bill is delinquent. Service of water may, due to delinquency, be suspended and a lien filed if payment is not made pursuant to this section.
[Amended 3-8-1980 by Res. No. 7-80; 8-17-1982 by Ord. No. 629]
(4) 
The owner and lessee shall be jointly and severally liable for the payment of the charge for water service and penalties herein described for delinquent payment thereof.
(5) 
Effective immediately, all water meters installed in the Borough of Cheswick must be purchased from the Borough of Cheswick only, at the prevailing rate.
[Added 8-17-1982 by Ord. No. 629]
Any customer who does not pay a water bill by the 30th day of the month in which the bill is received shall be subject to termination of water service in the following manner:
A. 
If payment is not received by the 30th day of the month in which the bill is received, the Borough of Cheswick, or its duly appointed representative, shall forward to the delinquent customer a delinquent notice by registered mail, notifying the delinquent customer that if the entire amount due on the delinquent notice is not paid in full within 30 days from the date of the delinquent notice, the water service of the customer will be terminated.
B. 
If the delinquent bill is not paid as per Subsection A of this section, the Borough of Cheswick, or its duly appointed representative, shall post at the address of the delinquent customer the delinquent notice at least 10 days prior to the date of water service termination. During this ten-day period, the Borough of Cheswick, or its duly appointed representative, shall make all reasonable attempts to contact the delinquent customer to give notification of the water service termination.
C. 
If payment is not received by the water service termination date, the Borough of Cheswick, or its duly appointed representative, with approval of the Chairman of the Water Committee of the Borough, shall direct the appropriate personnel of the Borough, who shall be accompanied by a representative of the Cheswick Borough Police Department, to terminate the water service of the delinquent customer's residence.
D. 
If the delinquent water bill, along with any and all other charges, are paid subsequent to the date of termination of the water service, the water service will be reinstated to the customer upon payment of a fee set out in the schedule of fees on file in the office of the Borough Secretary, or the actual costs incurred by the Borough of Cheswick in terminating the water service, whichever is greater.
[Amended 4-21-1987 by Ord. No. 659]
The Borough of Cheswick shall adopt a plan, which plan shall designate the minimum requirement of street restoration made necessary by any new water connection or repair of existing lines. A copy of such requirements is attached hereto and marked as Exhibit A.[1] The Borough, along with the Borough Engineer, shall also adopt and review, from time to time, a plan which shall designate the location of proposed tap-ins and also the minimum requirement for such water connections relative to the supply of both commercial and residential water in the Borough of Cheswick. A copy of such is attached hereto and marked as Exhibit B.[2]
[1]
Editor's Note: For minimum requirements for street restoration referred to herein as "Exhibit A," see Exhibit A attached to Ch. 135, Sewers.
[2]
Editor's Note: For the information referred to herein as "Exhibit B," consult the Borough Engineer.
[Adopted 10-17-2000 by Ord. No. 721-C]
The purpose of this article is to protect the public water supply from contamination or pollution by isolating, within a customer's water system, contaminants or pollutants which could back flow through the service connection; to eliminate or control cross-connections between potable and nonpotable water supplies; and to provide a continuing program of cross-connection control to prevent contamination or pollution of the water supply system.
This article shall apply to all premises served by the Borough of Cheswick public water supply system at any time, now or hereafter connected or served.
A. 
No water service connection shall be installed or maintained where actual or potential cross-connections to the public water supply exist unless such connections are controlled as provided in this article and as provided by rules and regulations adopted from time to time by the Borough Council.
B. 
No connection to the public water supply shall be installed or maintained whereby water from an auxiliary water system or supply may enter the public water supply system or a consumer's water system unless such auxiliary system shall have been installed and/or maintained as provided in this article and the regulations adopted pursuant to this article.
As a condition of public water supply service from the Borough of Cheswick, the customer's premises shall be open to inspection at reasonable times to representatives of the Borough for the purpose of determining whether or not there are cross-connections installed or maintained in violation of this article.
A. 
The Borough Council is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt such rules and regulations concerning the installation, connection, specifications and design, construction, maintenance and use of backflow preventers and cross-connection control devices which Council may deem necessary from time to time to effectuate the purposes of this article. Such rules and regulations may be adopted and thereafter amended by resolution of the Borough Council in the customary manner of adoption and amendment of resolutions.
B. 
All such rules and regulations adopted by the Borough Council shall be in conformity with the provisions herein, all other ordinances of the Borough and statutes of the commonwealth and the United States, and all applicable laws and applicable rules and regulations of administrative agencies of the United States, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the County of Allegheny.
A. 
An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed prior to the first branch line leading off each service line to a customer's water system.
B. 
An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each service line to a consumer's water system where the following conditions exist:
(1) 
Systems having an auxiliary water supply, unless such auxiliary line is approved by the Department of Environmental Resources.
(2) 
Systems where any substance is utilized in such a manner as to create a public health hazard to the public water supply if it were to be released into the public water supply.
(3) 
Systems having cross-connections which are not correctable or where it cannot be determined whether or not cross-connections exist.
(4) 
Systems which have had two or more cross-connections.
(5) 
An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each line to a consumer's service line unless the public water supplier determines that no actual or potential hazard exists: hospitals, mortuaries, clinics or other medical facilities, nursing homes or long-term-care facilities, laboratories, piers, docks or any consumer water systems located in the floodplain area, sewage treatment facilities including pumping stations, treatment plants or stormwater pumping stations, food or beverage plants, chemical plants, metal processing plants, petroleum processing or storage facilities, radioactive material processing plants and vehicle washes.
C. 
The type of backflow prevention device required shall be as specified from time to time by the rules and regulations adopted to implement this article.
D. 
Backflow prevention devices required by this article shall be installed in a location and in a manner approved by the Borough and by a person properly qualified to install such devices, as close to the water meter as is practicable and prior to any other connection, and shall be maintained as shall be prescribed from time to time by regulation of the Borough. Pits or vaults shall be watertight and constructed so as to prevent flooding and shall be maintained free of standing water and shall not connect to a sanitary sewer and shall not permit flooding of the pit or vault by reverse flow. Adequate access and lighting for inspection shall be maintained.
E. 
It shall be the duty of the owner of the premises to maintain backflow prevention devices, booster pumps or similar devices required by or ancillary to equipment required by this article in accordance with the rules and regulations established by resolution from time to time. Any inspection or maintenance records shall be available to the Borough for review.
F. 
No lawn-care company may attach a hose or any other connection to a spigot or other outlet of a consumer's water system.
A. 
Any person who violates any provision of this article shall upon conviction thereof be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $300 and in default of said final costs to undergo imprisonment in the county jail for a period not in excess of 30 days. Each day that the premises are not in compliance shall be a separate violation.
B. 
In addition to any other remedies provided in this article, any violation of this article shall constitute a nuisance and shall be abated by the Borough of Cheswick or the Borough Council by seeking mitigation of the nuisance, abatement of the nuisance or other appropriate equitable or legal relief from a court of competent jurisdiction.
C. 
The Borough shall not deny or discontinue water service to any premises where backflow prevention devices are required by this article or its implementing regulations unless the Borough shall have first given reasonable notice to the owner of the premises of the violations and the owner shall have had at least 30 days to install devices and at least five days to reinstall a device removed in violation of this article or its regulations, or to repair or properly maintain installed devices.