As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
APPROVING AUTHORITIES
The municipal officials charged with the approving of permits
to construct private sewage disposal units and to connect to the municipal
sewerage system.
BUILDING SEWER
That portion of the sewer system extending from the outside
of the building or end of the inside plumbing system to and including
the connection with the municipal system.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE
That liquid from bathrooms, toilet rooms, kitchens and home
laundries.
INDUSTRIAL SEWAGE
That liquid resulting from processes employed in industrial
establishments.
LATERAL
A sewer pipe extending from the sewer line to the curb or
property line.
[Added 4-14-1986 by Ord. No. 596]
MAIN TRUNK LINE
That portion of the municipal sewer system to which building
sewers are attached, which convey sewage to the municipal sewage treatment
plant.
[Added 4-14-1986 by Ord. No. 596]
MUNICIPAL SEWER SYSTEM
The sanitary sewers and storm sewers owned by the Borough
of Columbia or leased thereby from a Municipal Authority.
[Amended 11-23-1954 by Ord. No. 283]
PARTY
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
RECEIVING WATER
That body of waters receiving the discharge waters from the
sewerage system or sewage treatment plant.
SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM
Conduits intended to receive domestic sewage and such industrial
sewages and/or wastes, with or without treatment, as are acceptable
to the municipality.
STORMWATER SEWER SYSTEM
Sewers intended to receive surface water from storms, street
washings, roof drainage and sewage and industrial sewage that have
been treated to the extent required for discharge into the receiving
waters.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Borough employee appointed by the Borough Council to
be responsible for the operation of the municipal sewage treatment
plant and sewer lines connected therewith.
[Amended 4-14-1986 by Ord. No. 596]
The owner of every building sewer which is discharging
industrial sewage from any plant or establishment into the municipal
sewerage system may be required, at the discretion of the approving
authorities, to construct a sampling manhole for the purpose of ascertaining
the quality and quantity of the waste flowing in the building sewer.
The manhole shall be located in a suitable and satisfactory location,
and it shall be not less than three feet in inside diameter and built
in a manner designated by the approving authorities.
[Amended 11-20-1950 by Ord. No. 232]
Whenever it is found that any person, firm or
corporation is violating any of the provisions or requirements set
forth in this article, a written notice stating the offense and setting
a time limit, not exceeding 30 days, for the correction thereof shall
be served upon the offender by the police of the Borough of Columbia
or by registered mail. The offender shall, within the time limit stated
in the notice served upon him, forever cease all violations. Anyone
who shall continue to violate any of the provisions of this article
after notice is served upon him as herein set forth shall, upon conviction
thereof before any District Justice, be sentenced to pay a fine not
exceeding $600 for each 90 days or fraction thereof that such violation
shall persist, plus costs of prosecution, to be collected as other
fines and costs are by law collectible, and, in default of payment
thereof, be subject to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 30 days.