The construction and reconstruction of earth pit privies, concrete wall privies and non-water-carried sewage disposal systems is prohibited in this township. Existing facilities of these types shall be made to conform to minimum requirements of the Pennsylvania Department of Health within one year from the effective date of this Part
4 of this chapter.
No seepage or waste from any disposal system,
whether now established or hereafter installed, shall under any circumstances
be permitted to come to ground surface, and it shall be the responsibility
of every property owner, tenant or other person having control over
the disposal system to prevent the overflow of cesspools, septic tanks,
drain lines an drain fields and to provide such drainage facilities
as will adequately dispose of all sanitary waste material under the
ground surface.
[Amended 3-6-1961 by Ord. No. 32]
No septic tank or cesspool effluent or material
shall be dumped upon any land in the township without an immediate
provision being made for covering the same, and such covering with
clean earth shall be effected within 24 hours of the commencement
of dumping, provided that the time may be extended at the discretion
of the Sanitary Officer for a period up to 30 days when weather or
ground conditions warrant such extension. No septic tank or cesspool
material shall be brought into or dumped in the township from places
outside Lower Providence Township. No septic tank or cesspool material
shall be dumped in any stream, creek, river or watercourse in the
township. No well or hole connecting or entering into any underground
water supply or stream shall be used for the disposition of sanitary
effluent.
Whenever any condition or place in the township
is found by the Sanitary Officer to be a nuisance or a menace to the
health of the people of the township, he shall issue a written order
of abatement directed to the owner or agent of the owner of the premises,
stating that the condition specified therein constitutes a nuisance
and a menace to health and ordering an abatement thereof within such
time as may be specified by him in such order, and the time specified
shall ordinarily be 10 days unless, in the opinion of the Sanitary
Officer, a longer time is required to abate such nuisance or menace
to public health. In case such nuisance or menace is not abated within
the time specified therein, the Sanitary Officer shall remove and
abate the same, and such order of abatement shall be executed by him
and his subordinates and workmen and the expense thereof shall be
recoverable from the owner of the premises on and from which the nuisance
or menace to health is abated or removed, in the same manner as debts
of like character are now collected by law. The Sanitary Officer may
proceed to enforce such other remedy and inflict such penalty as hereinafter
prescribed.
All individual sanitary disposal systems shall be cleaned from time to time as may be required to maintain their efficient operation and to prevent seepage as prohibited by §
117-56 hereof.
[Added 3-6-1961 by Ord. No. 32]
A soil log shall be kept whenever any well is
drilled for any purpose. The log shall contain the following information:
depth of well, description of type of soil, depth at which water is
first found, percolation rate (if a test hole), amount and type of
casing, method of sealing and rate of flow in gallons per minute.