[Adopted 8-11-1977 by Ord. No. 66]
All sewers and branches thereof for the disposal
of sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes within the township at
any time heretofore and hereafter constructed or otherwise acquired
by the township and/or any municipal authority the township may have
or may cause to be created for such purposes are hereby adopted and
declared to be, for the purposes of this article, a common system
of sanitary sewers for the township and are hereinafter called the
"sewer system."
The owner or owners of each property accessible
to and whose principal building, heretofore and/or hereafter constructed,
is within 150 feet of the sewer line of the sewer system shall connect
therewith at any time within 60 days after notice to make such connection
is served on such owner or owners by the Township Supervisors, either
by personal service or by registered mail. The terms "to connect,"
the "connection" and the "sewer connection," as used herein, shall
mean the extension of the sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes
drainage system of the building or premises to the Y's or T's or extensions
thereof forming a part of the sewer system.
In case any property owner or owners of such
building or premises shall neglect or refuse to connect with the sewer
system within the sixty-day-period immediately following service of
the notice to connect with the sewer system, the Township Supervisors
or their agent may enter upon such property and construct such sewer
connection. Upon construction of such sewer connection by the Township
Supervisors or their agent, the Township Supervisors shall send an
itemized bill of costs of the construction of such sewer connection
to the owner or owners of such property, which bill shall be payable
forthwith. In case such owner or owners neglect or refuse to pay such
bill of costs, the Township Supervisors may file a municipal lien
for the costs of said construction within six months after the completion
of the construction of such sewer connection, as provided by law,
or the Township Supervisors may pursue any other legal or equitable
remedy available to them to collect such bill of costs. This section
is not intended to restrict or limit any legal or equitable remedy
that the township may have with respect to the failure of a property
owner to connect to the sewer system.
No person shall be authorized to uncover, make any connections with or opening into, alter or disturb the sewer system without having received an annual permit from the township to do so, having registered with the Township Secretary and posted with the Township Secretary a bond payable to the township as the township's interests may appear, complying with the requirements set forth in §
160-16 hereof as applicable to such person.
No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any
connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb the sewer
system without the owner or owners of the building or premises affected
first obtaining a written sewer connection permit. The owner or owners
of a building or premises desiring or required to connect with the
sewer system shall first make application therefor, in writing, to
the Township Supervisors or their agent, who, upon approval of the
application, shall refer it to the Township Secretary.
If the owner or owners of such building or premises
will have to connect with the sewer system by means other than through
an existing Y or T on any sewer system and extension thereof to the
curbline or cartway line of the road or street or public right-of-way
line, as the case may be, the Township Secretary, upon receipt of
the approved application, shall prepare and deliver to the applicant
a form of bond payable to the township in the sum of $2,000, with
sufficient corporate sureties to indemnify the township and any municipal
authority it may have, if applicable, against all damages for injury
to the sewer system, to replace in good condition any curbing, pavement
or earth disturbed, to indemnify and save harmless the township and
any municipal authority it may have, if applicable, for two years
from the completion of the work, from all damages, repairs, costs
and expenses, injuries and such actions and suits as are caused or
occasioned by defective materials and workmanship and from all damages
from any accident and from all costs and attorneys fees incurred by
reasons of any matter or thing done, committed or omitted by such
owner, his agents or employees under such permit, and to comply in
all respects with the ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations
of the township or any other governmental agency having jurisdiction
with respect to the same now in force or hereafter to be passed. Upon
receipt by the Township Secretary of the bond duly executed, he shall
submit the bond to the Township Supervisors or their agent for approval.
Upon the return to the Township Secretary of
the bond approved by the Township Supervisors or their agent in all
cases where a bond is required as above provided and in all cases
upon payment of the sewer connection charge hereinafter provided,
the Township Secretary shall issue a sewer connection permit authorizing
the approved applicant to connect such building or premises with the
sewer system.
The sewer connection charge shall be paid by
the owner or owners of such building or premises being connected to
the sewer system in accordance with the following schedule: the greater
of the actual cost incurred by the township and/or the owner of the
sewer system in connection with such connections or $350 for a single-family
dwelling unit and, for connections of other than single-family dwelling
units, at such sewer connection charge as the Township Supervisors
may set from time to time by resolutions duly adopted.
All costs and expenses incident to the installation
of the sewer connection and the connection of such building or premises
with the sewer system shall be borne by the owner or owners of such
building or premises. Such owner or owners shall indemnify and save
harmless the township and any municipal authority it may create, if
applicable, from any loss or damage directly or indirectly caused
by or arising out of such installation and connection.
A separate sewer connection shall be provided
for every principal building, except that where a building stands
at the rear of another and no separate connection to the sewer system
can be made through an adjoining alley, court, yard or driveway, the
sewer connection from the front building may be extended to the rear
building upon written approval of the Township Supervisors or their
agent.
All sewer connections, materials therefor, jointing
materials and methods used shall at all times be subject to the direction,
supervision and approval of the Township Supervisors or their agent
according to uniform rules and standards as adopted from time to time
by the Township Supervisors.
The size and slope of the sewer connection shall
be subject to the approval of the Township Supervisors or their agent,
but in no event shall the diameter be less than four inches nor shall
the slope of such four-inch pipe be less than 1/8 of an inch per foot.
The invert of the sewer connection at the point of connection with
such building or premises shall be at the same or at a higher elevation
than the invert at the point of connection with the sewer system.
No person or persons shall connect with the
sewer system other than through, by or into Y's and T's in the sewer
system without a special sewer connection permit and the designation
of the location of the Y's and T's by the Township Supervisors or
their agent. No person shall drill into or tap any of the sewer system
without written permission from the Township Supervisors or their
agent.
The owner or owners holding sewer connection
permits shall notify the Township Supervisors or their agent when
the sewer connection is ready for inspection and connection with the
sewer system. In no case shall backfill be placed until such inspection
has been made.
All excavations for sewer connections shall
be adequately guarded with barricades and lights to protect the public
from hazards. All streets, sidewalks and public property disturbed
in the course of making a sewer connection shall be restored to the
same condition they were in prior to such disturbance, to the extent
practicable, in a manner satisfactory to the Township Supervisors
or their agent.
After 60 days have lapsed since such owner or
owners received notice to connect with the sewer system as above provided,
such owner or owners shall forthwith abandon all privies, cesspools,
sinkholes, septic tanks and other receptacles on the premises for
receiving sewage and/or industrial wastes (unless specific written
permission to the contrary has been given by the Township Supervisors)
and shall not at any time thereafter erect, construct, use or maintain
any pipe, conduit, drain or other facility for the discharge of sewage
and/or industrial wastes except into the sewer system; and all privy
vaults or cesspools or similar receptacles for human excrement shall
be cleansed and filled under the direction of the Township Supervisors
or their agent; and no connection shall be permitted from any privy
vault or cesspool to the sewer system.
No such owner or owners shall discharge or permit
the discharge of any stormwater, surface water, roof runoff, swimming
pool waters, subsurface drainage, cooling water or unpolluted industrial
process waters into the sewer system.
Any person violating any of the provisions of
this article shall, upon conviction thereof before any District Justice,
be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $300 for each and every
offense and costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs,
to be imprisoned in the Beaver County Jail for a period not exceeding
30 days until such fine and costs are paid. Whenever such person shall
have been notified in writing by the Township Supervisors or its agent
that such person is violating this article, each full week that he
shall continue such violation after receipt of such notification shall
constitute a separate offense punishable by a like fine hereunder
upon conviction thereof.