As used herein, the following terms shall have
the meanings stated:
Code Enforcement Officer, Township Manager, Township Engineer
determined by the Board to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
The Township of Skippack Board of Supervisors.
The wastewater extension from the wastewater drainage system
or any pressure line associated with a user installed and owned grinder
pump system of any improved property to the point of connection with
the street lateral or wastewater system serving such improved property.
A permanent or portable nonflushing toilet using chemical
treatment in the retaining tank for odor control.
The system of public sewers, including laterals from street
mains to curb or property lines, to be located within Skippack Township,
designed for the collection of sanitary sewage and operated by the
Board.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and its various departments
and bureaus.
A device for holding and processing human and organic kitchen
waste, employing the process of biological degradation through the
action of microorganisms to produce a stable, humus-like material.
Solids that are dissolved in wastewater and cannot be settled,
but can be determined by evaporation pursuant to the procedures set
forth in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater," published by the American Public Health
Association, Inc.
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes discharged
from any property.
Any room, apartment, condominium, cooperative, room, group
of rooms, house trailer or other enclosure occupied or intended for
occupancy as separate living quarters by a family or other group of
persons living together or by Persons living alone.
A unit of measure pursuant to the definition of the Lower
Perkiomen Valley Sewer Regional Authority in the Treatment Agreement.
A tank, whether permanent or temporary, to which sewage is
conveyed by a water-carrying system.
Any property within the Township upon which there is erected
a residential structure intended for continuous or periodic occupancy
or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sewage
shall or may be discharged and which would ordinarily be served by
public sanitary sewers, but for a sewer connection ban.
A device capable of reducing waste materials to ashes.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or form of energy
rejected or escaping in the course of any industrial, manufacturing,
trade or business process or in the course of the development, recovery
or processing of natural resources, as distinct from domestic waste
and shall also have the meaning ascribed to it in the Act of June
22, 1987 (PL. 1987, No. 39-4), known as the "Clean Stream Law" and
the regulations adopted thereunder.
The Lower Perkiomen Valley Regional Sewer Authority.
Each structure for continuous or periodical human occupancy
from which sanitary sewage is or may be discharged and includes, without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, dwellings, flats, apartments,
stores, shops, offices and business or industrial establishments.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property located in the Township.
Any person or persons, male or female, corporation, partnership,
association, company, individual, owner, occupant, lessee, tenant
or any organization.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, indicating the degree
of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
A tank designed to receive sewage where water under pressure
is not available.
Property which adjoins, abuts on or is adjacent to a public
sewer or a street or highway in which a public sewer is located, but
shall not include any property on which the principal occupied building
is located more than 150 feet from a public sewer.
Facilities (including any part of but not necessarily the
entirety of a system of such facilities) operated by the Board for
the collection of sanitary sewage within this Township. Such term
includes lateral lines from a main street sewer to the curb or right-of-way
line where such lateral lines are constructed by a sewer authority
or the Board.
A device in which the flushing medium is restored to a condition
suitable for reuse in flushing.
A watertight receptacle, which receives and retains sewage
and is designed and constructed to facilitate the ultimate disposal
of the sewage at a location permitted to treat and dispose of sewage.
The normal, water-carried household and toilet wastes resulting
from human occupancy of residences and other establishments.
Solids that settle in an Inhoff Cone from a standard sample
of wastewater pursuant to the procedures set forth in the latest edition
of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater,"
published by the American Public Health Association, Inc.
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals
and any noxious or deleterious substance being harmful or inimical
to the public health or to animal or aquatic life or to the use of
water for the domestic water supply or for recreation.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping, treating and disposing of domestic waste and/or industrial
wastes, acquired, constructed, owned and operated by Skippack Township.
The Township of Skippack or any sewer committee or department
of the Township or of the Board or any other agency operating public
sewers for or at the request of the Board.
That part of the wastewater system extending from a wastewater
main, normally located in the street right-of-way, to the building
wastewater system, including pressure line associated with a user
installed and owned grinder pump system, serving an improved property.
If there shall be no improvement on the property, the "lateral" shall
mean that part of the wastewater system extending from said wastewater
main to a point of future connection to the building wastewater system,
if and when said property is improved.
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of,
or is suspended in, water, wastewater or other liquids and which is
removable by laboratory filtering pursuant to the procedures set forth
in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of
Water and Wastewater," published by the American Public Health Association,
Inc.
The Township of Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,
acting by and through its Board or, in appropriate cases, acting by
and through its authorized representatives.
The liquid- and water-carried industrial, nondomestic and
domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial and
manufacturing facilities and institutions, whether treated or untreated,
which discharge directly or indirectly into the wastewater system.
Any pipe or conduit constituting part of the wastewater system
used or usable for wastewater collection purposes.
All street laterals, wastewater mains and transmission facilities,
including pumping facilities at any particular time, acquired, constructed,
operated and/or owned by Skippack Township.
Upon the completion of any public sewer, the
Board charged with the operation thereof shall cause notice of that
fact to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in
the Township, such notice to state that the owners of property accessible
to such sewer and upon which there is an occupied building are compelled
to make connection therewith, pursuant to this article. The notice
shall specify that such connection shall be made within 60 days from
the date such notice is given. A copy of such notice, together with
a copy of this article and any ordinance then in effect imposing sewer
connection fees and sewer rents, shall be mailed to each person, or
be delivered by such other method as at that time may be provided
by law, known to the Board to own property accessible to such sewer,
but failure to mail such copies or a defect in the mailed copies or
defect in the mailing thereof shall not affect the validity of the
notice.
A.
Any person owning property accessible to a public sewer on which there is an occupied building shall, at his/her own expense, install sanitary facilities in such building and connect the same to the public sewer within 60 days after publication of the notice of completion of the sewer specified in § 152-2.
B.
Any person owning property accessible to a public
sewer on which an occupied building is hereafter erected shall, at
the time of erection and at his/her expense, install sanitary facilities
in such building and connect the same to the public sewer.
C.
Persons owning properties accessible to a public sewer
on which there are occupied buildings more than 150 feet from such
sewer and persons owning properties not accessible to a public sewer
who are nevertheless able to arrange for connections thereto through
intermediate properties shall be permitted to make such connections.
Except as otherwise provided in this section,
each improved property shall be connected separately and independently
with a sewer through a building sewer. Grouping of more than one improved
property on one building sewer shall not be permitted, except under
special circumstances and for good sanitary reasons or other good
cause shown, and then only after special permission of this Township,
in writing, shall have been secured and subject to such rules, regulations
and conditions as may be prescribed by this Township.
All sanitary sewage and industrial wastes from any improved property, after connection of such improved property with a sewer as required under § 152-2, shall be conducted into the sewer, subject to such limitations and restrictions as shall be established herein or as otherwise shall be established by this Township, from time to time.
No privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank
or similar receptacle at any time shall be connected with a sewer.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning or occupying a property on which there is a building required to be connected to a public sewer under the provisions of § 152-3 hereof to construct or use on such property any privy, privy vault, cesspool, septic tank or other device for the disposal of sanitary sewage, and any such prohibited devices shall be cleaned and filled in with clean bank-run gravel or dirt within 30 days following the date on which the aforesaid connection is required to be made. Any such privy, privy vault, cesspool, septic tank or other device constructed or used in violation hereof is hereby declared to be a nuisance which shall be abated as provided by law, at the expense of the owner of such improved property.
No person shall uncover, connect with, make
any opening into or use, alter or disturb, in any manner, any sewer
or the sewer system without first making application for and securing
a permit, in writing, from this Township.
Application for a permit required under § 152-11 shall be made by the owner of the improved property to be served or his duly authorized agent.
A.
No person shall make or cause to be made a connection
of any improved property with any public sewer, make any connections
with or openings into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance
thereof, until such person shall have fulfilled each of the following
conditions:
(1)
Such person shall have notified the Secretary of this
Township of the desire and intention to connect such improved property
to a sewer.
(2)
Such person shall have applied for and obtained a permit issued by the Board pursuant to § 152-9.
(3)
Such person shall have given the Township Secretary
at least 48 hours' notice of the time when such connection will be
made so that this Township may supervise and inspect the work of connection
and necessary testing.
(4)
Such person shall have furnished satisfactory evidence
to the Township Secretary that any tapping fee charged and imposed
by the Board against the owner of each improved property who connects
such improved property to a sewer has been paid.
B.
No such sewer connection permit shall be valid after
the expiration of one year from the time of its issuance. As to permits
outstanding on the effective date of this subsection, such one-year
period shall commence to run upon said effective date. After the expiration
of the permit by virtue of the operation of this subsection, the property
with respect to which it was issued shall be in a status as if it
had never been applied for, and such expired permit shall have no
validity whatsoever.
All costs and expenses of construction of a
building sewer and all costs and expenses of connection of a building
sewer to a sewer shall be borne by the owner of the improved property
to be connected; and such owner shall indemnify and save harmless
this Township and the Board from all loss or damage that may be occasioned,
directly or indirectly, as a result of construction of a building
sewer or of connection of a building sewer to a sewer.
A.
A building sewer shall be connected to a sewer at
the place designated by this Township or the Board and where the lateral
is provided.
B.
The invert of a building sewer at the point of connection
shall be the same or a higher elevation than the invert of the sewer.
A smooth, neat joint shall be made and the connection of a building
sewer to the lateral shall be made secure and watertight.
If any person required to make a connection to a public sewer by § 152-3 hereof fails to do so after reasonable notice and opportunity, the Board may proceed as permitted by law and as required by § 152-24 to enter upon the property and make such connection. In such case, this Township shall forthwith, upon completion of the work, send an itemized bill of the cost of the construction of such connection to the owner of the improved property to which connection has been so made, which bill shall be payable forthwith. In case of neglect or refusal by the owner of such improved property to pay said bill, this Township shall file a municipal lien for said construction within six months of the date of the completion of the construction of said connection, the same to be subject in all respects to the general law provided for the filing and recovery of municipal liens.
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully
or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with
any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the sewage
works. Any person violating this provision shall be subject to immediate
arrest under any and all criminal charges applicable under Title 18.
Only employees of Skippack Township or the Board,
sewer contractors authorized by the Board or plumbing contractors
licensed by Skippack Township are permitted to do work on or near
any sewer pipes, interceptors or sewer mains situate within Skippack
Township, including but not limited to the making of sewer connections
and/or repairs. All work related to sewer connections and/or repairs
shall be done in the presence of the Township authorized agent. No
sewer connections and/or repairs shall be done unless the Township
authorized agent has been given reasonable notice thereof and is present
at the time of the connection and/or repair.
Each property owner shall be responsible for
maintenance and repair of any and all laterals partially or fully
located on the property of the owner from the building to the curbline
or edge of paved roadway of the property.
