[Adopted 8-3-1926 by Ord. No. 28]
A system of sanitary sewers for the disposal
of sewage matter in the Township of Springfield as shown by the comprehensive
plan thereof prepared by Damon and Foster, Civil Engineers, and Norman
Foster, Township Engineer, designated "Sewer Plan of Springfield Township,
Delaware County, Pennsylvania" and this day lodged with the Secretary
of the Board of Commissioners of Springfield Township, be and the
same is hereby adopted, subject to the final approval of the Sanitary
Water Board.
The Township of Springfield does hereby establish
and shall proceed to construct in whole or in part, as needs of said
Township shall require, a system or systems of sanitary sewers on
the public or private lands thereof in substantial compliance with
the said comprehensive plan, or in accordance with such alterations
or amendments to the said plan as shall hereafter be made by the Board
of Township Commissioners with the approval of said Sanitary Water
Board.
The said sewer shall, unless otherwise provided,
consist of mains, interceptors, lateral lines and appurtenances as
the same are shown on the comprehensive plan this day filed with the
Secretary of the Board of Commissioners.
A.
Lateral sewers in the Township of Springfield shall
be located and placed in such convenient public roads as the Board
of Commissioners may from time to time deem necessary and shall designate,
having due regard to said plan, provided that the said Board of Commissioners
may accept any private road for such purpose on such terms and conditions
as the Board may deem proper, by a resolution duly adopted and made
part of the minutes of the said Board, and provided further that,
nothing in this ordinance or said plan above referred to, and nothing
done thereunder except pursuant to such resolution, shall be construed
to be an acceptance of any private road.
The work of construction of the sanitary sewers
of Springfield Township shall commence as soon as practicable after
the adoption of this ordinance and the approval of the sewer plan
or any part thereof by the Sanitary Water Board, and the granting
of their permit therefor and may be carried on either as a whole or
by sections and either at one time or from time to time as the Sewer
Committee and the Board of Commissioners shall recommend and the Board
shall by resolution direct, but no work shall be done until the necessary
permit from the Sanitary Water Board or other proper authority for
that portion of said system of sanitary sewers, is in the possession
of the Commissioners.
The said sanitary sewers shall be constructed
under the supervision of the said Sewer Committee in accordance with
plans and specifications prepared by the Township Engineer and approved
by the said Committee, and the contracts therefor shall be let by
the Board of Commissioners to the lowest and best bidder or bidders
after due advertisement. Contracts to the successful bidders shall
be signed on behalf of the Township by the President and Secretary
of this Board.
The system of sewers hereby established and
designated upon the said comprehensive plan shall be laid as far as
is practicable, along the lines of the present public roads of the
Township or such public roads as may hereafter be opened or accepted,
and through private property, the consent of the owners of such private
property shall be first obtained, if possible, and if not, such sewerage
system shall be constructed through such private property after providing
for compensation in accordance with the Acts of Assembly in such case
made and provided.
The portion of said Township benefited by said
sewer or sewers, shall at the discretion of the Board of Commissioners,
be hereafter divided into sewer districts, and the due proportion
of the cost of said sewerage system which would equitably be charge
on each of said districts shall be then declared and established by
ordinance.
Upon the completion of any of the said sanitary
sewers separately contracted for, the cost thereof including the expense
incidental thereto legally chargeable, shall be charged upon the abutting
properties accommodated or benefited thereby in the several districts
by assessment, in proportion to the frontage abutting on the sewer
or by assessment in proportion to benefits, as the Board of Commissioners
shall by ordinance provide.
Connections between lateral sewers hereafter
constructed and the curblines of abutting property may be made by
the general contractor, in accordance with the plans and specifications
of the standard contract approved by the said Committee, at the written
request of any property owner filed with the Sewer Committee and at
the expense of such property owner during the construction of said
lateral sewers, without permit charge therefor. The terms and conditions
upon which house connections may be made by property owners with the
said street connections installed during such construction, and upon
which subsequent street and house connections with the said system
of sewers may be made, and the terms and conditions upon which the
same shall thereafter be used shall be hereafter prescribed by ordinance
and not otherwise.
After the sewer system hereby established shall
have been constructed in whole or in part, it shall be unlawful to
place, throw or deposit any offal, garbage or dead animals or obstruction
of any kind whatsoever in any sewer, pipe or inlet to the same, and
any person offending against the provisions hereof shall be liable,
upon conviction, to a penalty of $10 for each and every offense and,
in default thereof, to imprisonment not exceeding 10 days.
Any person injuring, breaking or removing any
portion of a sewer pipe or inlet or other property belonging to the
sewer system or obstructing the mouth of any sewer connecting with
a sewer or interfering with the work of construction of said sewer
system or injuring any of the material during construction or after
completion shall, upon conviction, be subject to a penalty not exceeding
$100 or, in default thereof, to imprisonment not exceeding 30 days
for each and every offense in addition to the liability incurred under
the general law.
