[Adopted 6-7-1971 by Ord. No. 26]
Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms and phrases used in this
article shall be as follows:
A program administered by the City, the Authority, or another
publicly owned treatment works for the pretreatment of industrial
wastes which has been approved by the United States Environmental
Protection Agency or the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection.
[Added 6-13-2011 by Ord. No. 224]
Suburban Lancaster Sewer Authority, a Pennsylvania municipality
authority.[1]
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the lateral of a sewer.
The City of Lancaster, Lancaster County, a Pennsylvania municipal
corporation.
[Added 6-13-2011 by Ord. No. 224]
Any property located within this Township upon which there
is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation,
occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure
sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
Any improved property located in this Township used wholly
or in part for the manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering
or assembly of any product, commodity or article, or any other improved
property located in this Township from which wastes, in addition to
or other than sanitary sewage, are discharged.
Any and all wastes discharged from an industrial establishment,
other than sanitary sewage.
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
curbline or, if no such lateral shall be provided, then "lateral"
shall mean that portion of, or place in, a sewer which is provided
for connection of any building sewer.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group or entity.
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any
improved property.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
transporting, pumping and disposing of sanitary sewage and/or industrial
wastes, owned, maintained and operated by or in behalf of the Authority.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewage collection
system used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
The Township of West Lampeter, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
acting by and through its Board of Supervisors or, in appropriate
cases, by and through its authorized representatives.
A.
The owner of any improved property located in this
Township adjoining or adjacent to or whose principal building is within
150 feet from the sewage collection system shall connect such improved
property to the sewage collection system, in such manner as this Township,
the Authority, or the City may require, within 60 days after notice
to such owner from this Township to make such connection, for the
purpose of the discharge of all sanitary sewage and industrial wastes
from such improved property, subject to such limitations and restrictions
as shall be established herein or otherwise shall be established by
this Township, the Authority, or the City from time to time.
[Amended 6-13-2011 by Ord. No. 224]
B.
All sanitary sewage and industrial wastes from any improved property, after connection of such improved property with a sewer shall be required under Subsection A or has been made, shall be conducted into a sewer, subject to such limitations and restrictions as shall be established herein or otherwise shall be established by this Township, the Authority, or the City, or their successors and assigns, from time to time.
[Amended 6-13-2011 by Ord. No. 224]
C.
No person shall place or deposit or permit to be placed or deposited upon public or private property within this Township any sanitary sewage or industrial wastes in violation of Subsection A. No person shall discharge or permit to be discharged to any natural outlet within this Township any sanitary sewage or industrial wastes in violation of Subsection A, except where suitable treatment has been provided which is satisfactory to this Township.
D.
No privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle shall be used and maintained at anytime upon any improved property which has been connected to a sewer or which shall be required under Subsection A to be connected to a sewer. Every such privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle in existence shall be abandoned and, at the discretion of this Township, shall be cleansed and filled under the direction and supervision of this Township; and any such privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle not so abandoned and, if required by this Township, cleansed and filled, shall constitute a nuisance and such nuisance may be abated as provided by law, at the expense of the owner of such improved property.
E.
No privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or
similar receptacle at any time shall be connected with a sewer.
F.
The notice by this Township to make a connection to a sewer, referred to in Subsection A, shall consist of a written or printed document requiring such connection in accordance with the provisions of this article and specifying that such connection shall be made 60 days from the date such notice is given. Such notice may be given at any time after a sewer is in place which can receive and convey sanitary sewage and industrial wastes for treatment and disposal from the particular improved property. Such notice shall be served upon the owner either by personal service or by registered mail or by such other method as at the time may be provided by law.
G.
Any person
discharging industrial wastes into the sewage collection system shall
do so in accordance with the industrial pretreatment and discharge
regulations of Chapter 249 of the Code of the City of Lancaster as
set forth in Ordinance No. 21-2017, adopted by Lancaster City Council
on December 19, 2017, and any future amendments or corresponding provisions
thereof, which regulations are incorporated herein by reference as
though fully set forth herein and made a part hereof, and in accordance
with any other approved pretreatment program. The Authority, the City
and any other publicly owned treatment works within the service area
of this Township shall have the authority to enforce the pretreatment
program requirements of 40 CFR § 403(f) or any future corresponding
regulations.
[Added 6-13-2011 by Ord. No. 224; amended 9-10-2018 by Ord. No. 251]
H.
The Township
appoints the Authority and the City as agents of this Township for
the enforcement of this article as it relates to the discharge of
sanitary sewage and industrial wastes into the sewage collection system
and for the enforcement of any approved pretreatment program. All
sanitary sewage and industrial wastes shall be discharged into the
sewage collection system subject to such limitations and restrictions
as shall be established herein or shall otherwise be established by
this Township, the Authority, the City or other applicable approved
pretreatment program from time to time, including future amendments
thereto. The Township shall not be responsible for any costs or expenses
incurred by the Authority, the City or any other publicly owned treatment
works in connection with the administration and enforcement of any
sanitary sewage or industrial waste limitations and restrictions,
including but not limited to any approved pretreatment program.
[Added 6-13-2011 by Ord. No. 224]
A.
Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, each
improved property shall be connected separately and independently
with a sewer through a building sewer. Grouping of more than one improved
property on one building sewer shall not be permitted, except under
special circumstances and for good sanitary reasons or other good
cause shown, and then only after special permission of this Township
and the Authority, in writing, shall have been secured.
B.
All costs and expenses of construction of a building
sewer and all costs and expenses of connection of a building sewer
to a sewer shall be borne by the owner of the improved property to
be connected; and such owner shall indemnify and save harmless this
Township and the Authority from all loss or damage that may be occasioned,
directly or indirectly, as a result of construction of a building
sewer or of connection of a building sewer to a sewer.
C.
Connection specifications.
(1)
A building sewer shall be connected to a sewer at
the place designated by the Authority and where the lateral is provided.
(2)
The invert of a building sewer at the point of connection
shall be at the same or a higher elevation than the invert of the
sewer. A smooth, neat joint shall be made and the connection of a
building sewer to the lateral shall be made secure and watertight.
D.
If the owner of any improved property located in this Township and accessible to and whose principal building is within 150 feet from the sewage collection system, after 60 days' notice from this Township, in accordance with § 211-2A, shall fail to connect such improved property, as required, this Township may make such connection and may collect from such owner the costs and expenses thereof. In such case, this Township shall forthwith, upon completion of the work, send an itemized bill of the cost of the construction of such connection to the owner of the improved property to which connection has been so made, which bill shall be payable forthwith. In case of neglect or refusal by the owner of such improved property to pay said bill, this Township shall file a municipal lien for said construction within six months of the date of the completion of the construction of said connection, the same to be subject in all respects to the general law providing for the filing and recovery of municipal liens.
A.
Where an improved property, at the time connection
to a sewer is required, shall be served by its own sewage disposal
system or device, the existing house sewer line shall be broken on
the structure side of such sewage disposal system or device and attachment
shall be made, with proper fittings, to continue such house sewer
line, as a building sewer.
B.
No building sewer shall be covered until it has been
inspected and approved by this Township and the Authority. If any
part of a building sewer is covered before so being inspected and
approved, it shall be uncovered for inspection at the cost and expense
of the owner of the improved property to be connected to a sewer.
C.
Every building sewer of any improved property shall
be maintained in a sanitary and safe operating condition by the owner
of such improved property.
D.
Every excavation for a building sewer shall be guarded
adequately with barricades and lights to protect all persons from
damage and injury. Streets, sidewalks and other public property disturbed
in the course of installation of a building sewer shall be restored,
at the cost and expense of the owner of the improved property being
connected, in a manner satisfactory to this Township.
E.
If any person shall fail or refuse, upon receipt of
a notice of this Township or the Authority, in writing, to remedy
any unsatisfactory condition with respect to a building sewer, within
60 days of receipt of such notice, this Township or the Authority
may refuse to permit such person to discharge sanitary sewage and
industrial wastes into the sewage collection system until such unsatisfactory
condition shall have been remedied to the satisfaction of this Township
and the Authority.
F.
This Township reserves the right to adopt, from time
to time, additional rules and regulations as it shall deem necessary
and proper relating to connections with a sewer and the sewage collection
system, which additional rules and regulations, to the extent appropriate,
shall be and shall be construed as part of this article.
[Amended 4-11-2005 by Ord. No. 188; 6-13-2011 by Ord. No. 224]
A.
Any person
who commits, takes part in, or assists in a violation of this article
commits a summary offense and upon conviction therefor shall be subject
to a fine of $1,000 for a violation of any approved pretreatment program
and of not less than $100 and not more than $1,000 for any other violation,
together with costs of prosecution. Each day or a portion thereof
in which a violation exists shall be considered a separate violation
of this article, and each regulation of this article which is violated
shall be considered a separate violation. In default of payment of
any fine and costs, such person shall be liable to imprisonment for
a period not exceeding 30 days. The amount of any fine imposed by
a magisterial district judge or a court shall be in addition to any
other fine or penalty which may be imposed under any other ordinance
of this Township or under any statute including, but not limited to,
the Publicly Owned Treatment Works Penalty Law, 35 P.S. § 752.1
et seq.
It is declared that enactment of this article
is necessary for the protection, benefit and preservation of the health,
safety and welfare of inhabitants of this Township.
