Inside sanitary facilities and a sanitary sewage
disposal system shall be provided for every improvement hereafter
erected and intended to be used as a dwelling, even though such structure
is fabricated or manufactured elsewhere and placed on a lot and intended
to be used as a dwelling, whether affixed hereto permanently or temporarily,
and whether mobile or immobile.
A.
The design of individual sewage disposal systems shall
take into consideration location, with respect to wells or other sources
of water supply, topography, water table, soil characteristics, available
area and the maximum occupancy of the buildings, in relation to each
unit of the disposal system to be designed to adequately treat the
estimated volume of waste to be discharged from the premises to be
served.
B.
When inside sanitary facilities are to be provided,
the sewage disposal system shall contain a septic tank, a distribution
box and a tile field disposal area, with the minimum sizes and capacities,
and the manner of construction and location of the different units
of the systems are to be in accordance with the requirements of the
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the Township
of Upper Gwynedd.
[Amended 5-28-1996 by Ord. No. 96-6]
C.
This section applies only when a tie in to the public
sewer system is not available.
Any sewer line or lines connecting the inside
sanitary facilities to the septic tank shall be carefully constructed
of approved materials, and all joints in the line shall be carefully
sealed and made watertight.
Neither abandoned wells nor drilled wells nor
drilled holes nor dug holes over 10 feet in depth nor any device,
the use of which might pollute the underground streams, shall be used
in connection with or become a part of a sewage disposal system.
Prior to the commencement of construction or
erection of any building intended to be used as a dwelling or any
structure to be provided with inside sanitary facilities or prior
to occupancy of any mobile unit intended to be used as a dwelling,
plans and specifications of the proposed sanitary sewer disposal system
to be incorporated with said dwelling or building shall be submitted
to the Township Commissioners by the builder, owner or proposed occupier
thereof for their approval, which plans and specifications shall clearly
disclose the details of the proposed sewage disposal system and all
materials to be used therein. The Board of Commissioners may require
to be made such alterations in the plans or specifications as to it
may deem advisable.
In the event that such plans and specifications
shall be approved by the Board of Commissioners as originally presented
or as revised by said Board, a permit shall be issued to the applicant
upon the payment of a fee, for the use of the Township, in accordance
with a fee schedule to be adopted by a resolution of the Board of
Commissioners. No construction or installation of any proposed sanitary
sewage system, or any part thereof, shall be commenced unless or until
such permit shall have been obtained.
The Township Commissioners shall be notified
by the holder of such permit before final coverage of the sewage disposal
system, and an inspection shall be made by the Board of Commissioners
or its duly designated agent to ensure that the approved plans and
specifications have been faithfully followed. No dwelling, whether
mobile or immobile, shall be occupied until final approval of the
sanitary sewer disposal system has been given by the Board of Commissioners.
If any person shall fail for 60 days after written
notice from the Township to remedy any unsatisfactory conditions with
respect to a building sewer, the Township may refuse to permit such
person to use the sewer system until such unsatisfactory condition
shall have been remedied to the satisfaction of the Township.
The Township reserves the right to refuse to
any person the use of the sewer system or to compel the pretreatment
of industrial waste in order to prevent discharge into the sewer system
of harmful wastes.
Every building sewer of any improved property
shall be maintained in a sanitary and safe operating condition by
the owner of such improved property.
Whenever the Township has reason to believe
any building sewer has become defective, such building sewer shall
be subject to test and inspection. Defects found upon such test and
inspection, if any, shall be corrected as required by the Township
in writing, at the cost and expense of the owner of the improved property
served through such building sewer.
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts,
foundation drains, sump pump 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 the sewer system.
Wherever a public sanitary sewer shall be available
to any dwelling or structure which has an individual sewage disposal
system, said dwelling or structure shall connect to the public system.
No new connections shall be permitted to the
public sanitary sewer system unless there is sufficient capacity,
which is not committed to any other users, to adequately convey and
treat the wastewater which the new connection will contribute.
Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent
any agreement with any user of the wastewater facilities whereby wastewater
of unusual strength is accepted into the system and specially treated
subject to any payments or user charges as may be applicable.
[Amended 5-28-1996 by Ord. No. 96-6]
No person other than an employer or duly authorized
person of the Authority or Township shall open or remove any manhole
cover or lid.
