No person shall discharge or dispose of any
wastewater, sanitary sewage, industrial waste or other objectionable
wastewater on public or private property within the Borough except
into an existing and properly functioning on-site sewage disposal
system or in conformity with this Part 1. All such discharges or disposal
are hereby declared to be public nuisances and are subject to abatement
as provided by law.
The owner of any property in the Borough which
abuts or adjoins any easement, alley, street or highway in which a
sanitary sewer of the sewer system owned by the Borough is located
or through which a sewer of such sewer system is constructed and upon
which property there is generated sanitary sewage or industrial waste
shall, upon receipt of written notice from the Borough, connect such
improved property to the sewer system without delay in accordance
with the rules and regulations of the Borough.
If any owner of such property required to be
connected to said sewer system shall neglect or refuse to connect
thereto after written notice to do so, the Borough may give such owner
written notice making reference to this section and ordering such
owner to make the required connection within 60 days of the date of
said notice; and, upon failure of such owner to make the required
connection within said sixty-day period, the Borough or its agents
may enter upon such property and construct such connection and, upon
completion of the work, send an itemized bill of the cost of the construction
of such connection to the property owner, which bill shall be payable
forthwith. In case of neglect or refusal by the owner of such property
to pay said bill, it shall be the duty of the proper Borough officials
and Solicitor to file municipal liens for said construction within
six months of the date of the completion of the construction of said
connection.
If any owner of improved property within the
Borough shall have failed to connect such property with the sewer
system as required and the Borough shall have given such owner written
notice, and if such owner shall have failed within said sixty-day
period to make the required connection, such failure shall be and
hereby is declared a violation of this Part 1; and such owner shall,
upon conviction thereof, forfeit and pay to the use of the Borough
the sum of $300 for each day such violation shall persist, together
with costs of prosecution.
It shall be unlawful, 60 days from receipt of
written notice, for any person, firm or corporation to own, maintain,
operate or use within the Borough a privy, cesspool, vault, septic
tank or similar receptacle for sanitary sewage upon any property now
or hereafter improved which is accessible to a collection sewer line
of said sewer system or to connect any such privy, cesspool, vault,
septic tank or similar receptacle with any such collection sewer line.
No owner of property shall be permitted to discharge
into the sewer system any waste or drainage other than sanitary sewage
except as may be expressly permitted by the rules and regulations
of the Borough currently in effect.
Notices to property owners under this Article III may be given either by personal service or by certified mail sent to the last known address of such owner. In the event that such notice is returned as unclaimed, the Borough may enter into the property as provided herein.
If any person shall fail for 60 days after written
notice from the Borough to remedy any unsatisfactory conditions with
respect to a building sewer, the Borough may refuse to permit such
person to use the sewer system until such unsatisfactory condition
shall have been remedied to the satisfaction of the Borough Engineer.
The Borough reserves the right to refuse to
any person, customer or nonresidential user 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.
No private sewer system, industrial establishment
or nonresidential user shall increase the quantity of wastewater discharge
through an existing connection or construct a new connection to the
sewer system without first obtaining approval from the Borough. Any
such increase in wastewater flow may require additional connection
and/or usage charges in accordance with this Part 1.
All outside sewer facilities shall be equipped
with metering facilities at the connection point to the Borough sewer
system. Such device shall be approved by the Borough Engineer and
record the instant flow rate and total daily volume.
