The Board of Supervisors of Franconia Township hereby finds and determines
that it is necessary to conserve and protect the existing water supply for
the greatest public benefit by ensuring its continued availability by instituting
general water conservation measures and by requiring the installation of demand
reduction fixtures and equipment on all new and remodeled plumbing systems.
Customers shall be encouraged not to permit any water furnished by any
private well or by any authorized water purveyor to run to waste in any gutter
or other impervious surface.
Each resident or property owner in Franconia Township is urged to install
fixtures which will reduce the quantity of water required to flush toilets
and to reduce the flow rates of showers and faucets.
Where the surface water pressure to a building is expected to exceed
60 pounds per square inch, a water pressure reducing valve with strainer shall
be installed just downstream of the building's main valve, so as to be accessible.
The valve shall provide for pressure adjustment within the range of 50 to
60 pounds per square inch. The valve shall conform to the requirements of
product standard ASSE 1003. Exemptions to this section are sewer lines to
sill cocks, outside hydrants and main supply risers to buildings where pressure
from the mains does not exceed 60 pounds per square inch at the fixture branches
or at individual fixtures.
Replacement of blowout toilet and urinal fixtures with like type fixtures
may be granted by local officials upon request where adequate justification
of special need is provided.
Any person(s) may apply to Franconia Township for an exception to the
terms of this chapter, which exception may be granted, in the discretion of
the Board of Supervisors, upon proof that some other device, system or procedure
will save as much or more water as those set forth herein or that those set
forth herein cannot be complied with without undue hardship.
[Amended 9-12-1988 by Ord.
No. 147; 6-10-1996 by Ord.
No. 237]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter shall,
upon being liable therefor in a civil enforcement proceeding commenced by
the township, pay a fine not exceeding $600, plus all court costs, including
reasonable attorney's fees incurred by the township. No judgment shall be
imposed until the date of the determination of violation by the District Justice.
If the defendant neither pays nor timely appeals the judgment, the township
may enforce the judgment pursuant to the applicable Pennsylvania Rules of
Civil Procedure.