[Adopted 8-2-1993 by Ord. No. 4]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
A. 
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
AUTHORITY
The Township of Fermanagh Board of Supervisors.
BUILDING DRAIN
Part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
Piping carrying liquid wastes from a building to the treatment or holding tank or to the public sewer main.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
COMMUNITY SEWAGE SYSTEM
Any system, whether publicly or privately owned, for the collection and disposal of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature, or both, including various devices for the treatment of such sewage or industrial wastes serving three or more individual lots.
DEPARTMENT
Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
A person or agency appointed to perform inspections and issue permits in connection with individual sewage systems and community sewage systems.
LAND DEVELOPMENT
Any of the following activities:
(1) 
The improvement of one lot or two or more contiguous lots, tracts or parcels of land for any purpose involving:
(a) 
A group of two or more residential or nonresidential buildings, whether proposed initially or cumulatively, or a single nonresidential building on a lot or lots regardless of the number of occupants or tenure; or
(b) 
The division or allocation of land or space, whether initially or cumulatively, between or among two or more existing or prospective occupants by means of, or for the purpose of streets, common areas, leaseholds, condominiums, building groups or other features;
(2) 
A subdivision of land.
(3) 
"Land development" does not include development which involves:
(a) 
The conversion of an existing single family detached dwelling or single family semidetached dwelling into not more than three residential units, unless such units are intended to be a condominium;
(b) 
The addition of an accessory building, including farm building, on a lot or lots subordinate to an existing principal building; or
(c) 
The addition or conversion of buildings or rides within the confines of an enterprise which would be considered an amusement park. For the purposes of this subsection, an amusement park is defined as a tract or area used principally as a location for permanent amusement structures or rides. This exclusion shall not apply to newly acquired acreage by an amusement park until initial plans for the expanded area have been approved by the proper authorities.
LOT
A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by a plat or otherwise as permitted by law and to be used, developed or built upon as a unit.
PERSON
Any natural person, partnership, association or corporation. When-ever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty, or imposing a fine or imprisonment, or both, the term "person" shall include the members of an association and the officers of a corporation.
PUBLIC SEWAGE SYSTEM
Sewer system and the treatment facility owned, operated, or maintained by the Authority approved by the Department under a permit issued pursuant to the Clean Streams Law, Act of June 22, 1937, P.L. 1987, No. 394, 35 P.S. § 691.1 et seq. (1982), as hereafter amended, supplemented, modified or reenacted by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania.
SEWAGE
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals, and any 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.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
STORM SEWER
Sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
B. 
In this article, the singular shall include the plural; the plural shall include the singular; and the masculine shall include the feminine and neuter.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of this article 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 article that is violated shall also constitute a separate offense. The Township shall not be limited to this remedy and may pursue any other remedy available under applicable law.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances which are inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
If any sentence, clause, section, or part of this article is for any reason found to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, sections or parts of this article. It is hereby declared as the intent of the Township Supervisors that this article would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid sentence, clause, section or part thereof not been included herein.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
If the owner of any property, after 90 days' notice from the Township of Fermanagh to make connection of such property with the public sewage system shall fail to make such connection, the Township may make the connection and collect the costs thereof in the manner provided by law.
From time to time in the future, as public sewage services become available to additional properties within the Township by reason of additions to the public sewage system or improvements on abutting properties, each and every owner of such property shall be required to make the necessary connection to the abutting or adjoining sewer lines, and any septic tanks, cesspools, holding tanks and similar devices connected to an individual sewage system shall be abandoned and filled with new material.
The Sewage Enforcement Officer or his authorized agent, and agents of the Authority shall have access at all reasonable hours of the day to all parts of the premises to which sewage service is supplied to make necessary inspections.
No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connection with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any part of the public sewage system or appurtenance thereto without first obtaining a permit from the Sewage Enforcement Officer.
Before making a connection with the sewer system, each property owner shall make a written application therefor in the manner prescribed by the Authority and pay such fees as shall be established from time to time pursuant to resolution of the Authority.
All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the Township and Authority from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building. Exceptions to this provision shall be made where one building stands to the rear of another on an interior lot and no sewer line is available or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court, yard or driveway, in which case the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building only on approval by the Sewage Enforcement Officer. Such connection of the two buildings to the sewer lines shall be considered as two building sewers.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with a building only when such connection is approved by the Enforcement Officer, and they meet the requirements of this article or rules and regulations adopted pursuant hereto.
The building sewer shall be cast iron soil pipe, ASTM specifications or equal; vitrified clay sewer pipe, ASTM specification or equal; or other suitable material approved by the Sewage Enforcement Officer. Joints shall be tight and waterproof. Any part of the building sewer that is located within 10 feet of a water service pipe shall be constructed of cast iron soil pipe with leaded joints. Cast iron pipe with leaded joints may be required by the Sewage Enforcement Officer where the building sewer is exposed to damage by tree roots. If installed in filled or unstable ground, the building sewer shall be of cast iron soil pipe, except that nonmetallic material may be accepted if laid on a suitable concrete bed or cradle as approved by the Sewage Enforcement Officer. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing or any other provisions herein, all materials and all work shall comply with any applicable standards set by Twin Boroughs Sanitary Authority.
The size and slope of the building sewer shall be subject to the approval of the Sewage Enforcement Officer, but in no event shall the diameter be less than six inches. The slope of such six-inch pipe shall be not less than 1/8 inch per foot.
Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. No building sewer shall be laid parallel to or within three feet of any bearing wall, which might thereby be weakened. The depth shall be sufficient to afford protection from frost. The building sewer shall be laid at uniform grade and in straight alignment insofar as possible. Changes in direction shall be made only with properly curved pipe and fittings.
All excavations required for the installation of a building sewer shall be open trench work unless otherwise approved by the Sewage Enforcement Officer. Pipe laying and backfill shall be performed in accordance with ASTM specifications, except that no backfill shall be placed until the work has been inspected and approved.
A. 
All joints and connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Cast iron pipe joints shall be firmly packed with oakum or hemp and filled with molten lead, according to federal specifications, not less than one inch deep. Lead shall be run in one pouring and caulked tight. No paint, varnish, or other coating shall be permitted on the jointing material until after the joint has been tested and approved.
B. 
All joints in vitrified clay pipe or between such pipe and metals shall be made with approved hot-poured jointing materials or cement mortar.
C. 
Other jointing materials and methods may be used only after approval from the Sewage Enforcement Officer.
The connection of the building sewer to the public sewerage system shall be made at the Y-branch if such branch is available at a suitable location. If the public sewer line is 12 inches in diameter or less, and no properly located Y-branch is available, the owner shall at his expense install a Y-branch in the public sewer at the location specified by the Sewage Enforcement Officer. Where the public sewer is greater than 12 inches in diameter, and no properly located Y-branch is available, a neat hole may be cut into the public sewer to receive the building sewer, with entry in the downstream direction at an angle of about 45°. A 45° elbow may be used to make such connection, with the spigot and cut so as not to extend past the inner surface of the public sewer. The invert of the building sewer at the point of connection shall be at the same or at a higher elevation then the invert of the public sewer. A smooth, neat joint shall be made, and the connection made secure and watertight by encasement in concrete. Special fittings may be used for the connection only when approved by the Sewage Enforcement Officer.
The permit holder shall notify the Sewage Enforcement Officer when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection with the public sewer, and the connection shall be made under his supervision.
All excavations for building sewer installation and connection shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the Township.
No person shall connect a combined sewer or storm sewer to the public sewage system. Any combined sewer shall be replumbed to separate sewage from non-sewage effluent, and only the sewage effluent shall be permitted to be drained into the public sewage system.