[Adopted 10-24-1978 by Ord. No. 146[1]]
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Editor's Note: Original Art. I, Definitions, Art. IV, Use of Public Sewers, Art. VI, Powers and Authority of Inspectors, and Art. VII, Penalties, of Ord. No. 146, were repealed 7-3-1989 by Ord. No. 211. See now Art. V, Direct and Indirect Contributions into Wastewater Collection System, of this chapter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place,
deposit, or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public
or private property within the Borough, or in any other area under
the jurisdiction of said Borough, any human or animal excrement, garbage,
or objectionable waste.
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural
outlet within the Borough, or in any area under the jurisdiction of
said Borough, any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where
suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent
provisions of this article.
The owner of all houses, buildings or properties
used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes,
situated within the Borough and abutting on any street, alley, or
right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be
located a public sanitary or combined sewer of the Borough, is hereby
required, at the owner's expense, to install suitable toilet facilities
therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public
sewer in accordance with the provisions of this article, within 365
days after the date of official notice to do so, provided that connection
is feasible under normal engineering practices.
No unauthorized person or persons shall uncover,
make any connections with or opening into, use, alter, or disturb
any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a
written permit from the Superintendent.
There shall be two classes of building sewer
permits: (1) for residential and commercial service, and (2) for service
to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the
owner or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished
by the Borough. The Superintendent shall have the authority to prescribe
the items to be included in the permit application. The application
for the permit shall list the name of the property owner and the name
of the registered plumber who is going to make the connection to the
public sewer. This permit application shall be supplemented by any
plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in
the judgment of the Superintendent or PWTA. A permit and inspection
fee, as set forth from time to time by resolution of the Borough Council,
for a residential or commercial building sewer permit and for an industrial
building sewer permit shall be paid to the Borough at the time the
application is filed. All building sewer permit applications under
clause (2) above shall be reviewed and approved, in writing, by PWTA
prior to permit issuance. The permit fees described in this section
are independent of and in addition to any charges, connection fees,
or assessments the Borough may have against property owners for financing
the construction of the entire public sewer system in the Borough
itself.
All costs and expenses incidental to the installation
and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner.
The owner shall indemnify the Borough and PWTA 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, unless the Superintendent determines
that the property can be adequately served by less than one building
sewer for each building with negligible effect on the health, welfare,
and safety of the occupants and users of the property as well as the
public at large.
Old building sewers may be used in connection
with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test
by the Superintendent, to meet all requirements of this article.
The size, slope, alignment, and materials of
construction of a building sewer and the methods to be used in excavating,
placing of the pipe, jointing, testing, and backfilling the trench
shall all conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing
code or other applicable rules and regulations of the Borough. In
the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials
and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the American
Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and Water Pollution Control
Federation (WPCF) Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
Whenever possible, the building sewer shall
be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor.
In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit
gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such
building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged
to the building sewer.
No person or persons shall make connection of
roof downspouts, sump pumps, foundation drains, areaway drains, or
other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer
or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly
to a public sanitary sewer.
All connections to the public sewer shall be
made by a plumber registered by the Borough to perform plumbing work
in the Borough or a person deemed capable by the Borough. The Superintendent
shall require a hydraulic (water) or air test, at the expense of the
property owner, on each connection to the public sewer, and the Superintendent
shall have authority to approve the kind and matter of the hydraulic
(water) or air test.
The connection of the building sewer into the
public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the building and
plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulations of the Borough
or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM
and the WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall
be made acceptably gastight or watertight and verified by proper testing.
Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be
approved by the Superintendent before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit
shall notify the Superintendent when the building sewer is ready for
inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection and
testing shall be made under the supervision of the Superintendent
or his representative. The type of pipe and connection for the sewer
pipe shall be approved by the Superintendent.
All excavations for building sewer installation
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 Borough.
No excavation, construction or connection work
shall be commenced within a Borough right-of-way until the owner,
his agents or independent contractor shall have first filed a bond
in double the amount of the cost of the work to be performed, to be
determined by the Borough, agreeing to indemnify and save harmless
the Borough against any and all loss, damages, costs, and expenses
which the Borough may thereafter suffer, incur, be put to or pay by
reason of the failure to complete properly any of the aforesaid excavation,
construction, or connection work.
No permit granted by the Superintendent shall
be construed to permit any interference with or disturbance of any
state or county or other municipal highway pavement or any excavation
in any road, street, or public place unless the permit shall expressly
so provide. No permit shall be granted for such interference or disturbance
of said pavement or for excavation for sewer purposes in any public
street or public place unless the applicant shall first have obtained
from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, county, or municipality,
as the case may be, a permit therefor in accordance with requirements
of the municipality having jurisdiction. The applicant shall provide
such liability insurance as may be required before such permit is
issued. Any permit fee, bonding or other expense in connection with
issuance of a permit for opening any street or pavement shall be deemed
to authorize only those activities stated in the application therefor.
The permittee or his duly authorized representative shall guard, barricade,
and light all excavations and restore all public property in a manner
satisfactory to the Borough.
[Amended 10-24-1978 by Ord. No. 149]
All steel holding tanks, steel septic tanks,
and other on-site disposal systems shall be cleaned out and filled
in or shall be removed and the remaining space filled in within 30
days of the connection of the property to the public sewer system
or by such time as the Superintendent shall permit beyond the 30 days
for good cause, unless the property owner requests and the Superintendent
approves that the holding tank or space not be filled in after cleaning,
provided that the Superintendent is satisfied that the tank or space
will not present a health or safety hazard.
[Added 10-24-1978 by Ord. No. 149]
The Superintendent may issue a permit for connection
before PWTA permits actual discharge of sewage into the system, provided
that such connections are "dry." That is, an extension of the public
sewer through private property into buildings can be made, provided
that such extensions are not actually connected to internal or external
plumbing in use but are capped instead until such connections are
permitted by PWTA. All such dry connections shall be made pursuant
to such conditions and regulations as the Superintendent shall stipulate.
Any owner desiring such dry connections shall be billed by the Sewer
Secretary for the hourly cost of the Superintendent for such second
inspection and tests as the Superintendent shall require.
No person or persons shall maliciously, willfully,
or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface, or tamper
with any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the
wastewater facilities. Any person or persons violating this provision
shall be subject to prosecution under the laws of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Silverdale Borough Council shall appoint a Sewer Secretary, who shall be an agent of the Superintendent and who shall hereby be authorized to perform the following duties: to issue written permits as an agent of the Superintendent for uncovering, making connections to, opening into, using, altering or disturbing the public sewer or appurtenances thereof; to collect permit and inspection fees, connection fees and reserve sewer capacity fees and sewer rentals, penalties for delinquent sewer rental payments and all other sums which may now or hereafter be chargeable under this article or Article IV, Sewer Connection Charges and Sewer Rentals, or both, and any amendments hereinafter enacted in connection with the same; to issue bills for any and all such fees, charges, rentals, payments, costs and the like; to perform correspondence for the Superintendent and for Silverdale Borough in connection with its operation of the Silverdale Borough sewer system; to establish dates and times of inspections; to establish hours and places and addresses for receipt of payments of the aforementioned sums and, in that connection, to maintain a post office box; and to provide such other secretarial, bookkeeping, or administrative services as the Superintendent may, from time to time, delegate, as well as such services as the Borough Council of Silverdale Borough may designate.
The Superintendent and Sewer Secretary shall
be independent contractors and shall be required to enter into a written
agreement with respect to the services they shall perform respectively
for Silverdale Borough.
The Sewer Secretary is authorized to permit prepayment of sewer rentals and such other charges, fees and costs as are set forth in this article or Article IV, Sewer Connection Charges and Sewer Rentals, or both, provided that, in the event that any such rates are increased prior to the expiration of the time period for which they were prepaid, the excess of the new rate over the previous rate must be paid by the person or persons paying the same.
The Superintendent shall, in addition to performing
the duties of the Superintendent set forth in this article, suggest
to the Borough Council of Silverdale Borough for its approval written
instructions to be followed with respect to making connections to
the sewer system and establish procedures in connection therewith.
Such instructions and procedures, when approved by resolution of the
Borough Council, shall be complied with by all persons and property
owners subject to the provisions of this article.
The Sewer Secretary shall maintain a registry
for all plumbers who propose to effect connections to the sewer system.
No connections shall be made by any plumber to the sewer system unless
and until his name and address have been registered with the Sewer
Secretary and his qualifications have been approved by the Superintendent
and until he has paid a registration fee, as set forth from time to
time by resolution of the Borough Council, to the Sewer Secretary
for the Borough. A plumber need pay only one registration fee regardless
of the number of connections he proposes to make in the Borough.
This article shall be designated as the "Sewer
Connection Ordinance of Silverdale Borough.”
