[Ord. 1977-12, 10/17/1977, § 101]
This Chapter shall be known as the Sewer Code of Doylestown
Borough.
[Ord. 1977-12, 10/17/1977, § 102]
Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this code shall be as follows:
Doylestown Borough.
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in parts per million (ppm)
by weight, utilized in the biochemical oxidations of organic matter
under standard laboratory procedure for five days at 20° C. The
standard laboratory procedure shall be that found in the latest edition
of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Sewage" published
by the American Public Health Association.
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the service lateral of a collection sewer.
A complete sanitary sewage system installed on any improved
property for future connection to the collection sewer system.
The Borough's sanitary sewers located under highways,
roads, streets and rights-of-way which branch service laterals that
collect and convey sanitary sewage or industrial wastes or a combination
of both and into which storm, surface and ground waters or unpolluted
industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
The amount of chlorine, in parts per million by weight, which
must be added to sewage to produce a specific residual chlorine content,
or to meet the requirements of some other objective, in accordance
with procedures set forth in "Standard Methods".
Each individual building or house whether constructed as
a detached unit or as one of a pair or row which is designed or adaptable
to separate ownership for use as a family dwelling unit or for commercial
or industrial purposes. A school, factory, apartment house, cooperative
or condominium apartment house, office building or other multiple
unit structure whose individual apartments or units are connected
to a common internal sewage system and which are not commonly subject
to separate ownership shall be considered as one connection unit.
A duly qualified engineer designated by the Borough as its
consulting engineer.
Solid wastes resulting from preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from handling, storage and sale of food products and produce.
The residue from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food that has been shredded to such degree that all particles will
be carried freely in suspension under the flow conditions normally
prevailing in public sewers with no particle greater than 1/2 inch
in any dimension.
Any property within the sewered area upon which there is
erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation,
occupancy or use by human beings and from which structure sanitary
sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance discharged, permitted
to flow or escaping in the course of any industrial, manufacturing,
trade, or business process or in the course of the development, recovery
or processing of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
permissible.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, or any property located in the sewered area.
A weight-to-weight ratio; the parts per million value multiplied
by the factor 8.345 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons
of water.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group or entity.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of
hydrogen ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, and indicates
the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any
improved property.
A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes or a combination
of both, and into which storm, surface, and ground waters or unpolluted
industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
That part of the sewer system from the collection sewer to
the curb line or right-of-way line.
The Doylestown Borough facilities operated for such purpose
by the Borough to which the sewer system is to be connected.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sanitary sewer
system used or usable for sewage collection purposes and to which
ground, surface and storm water is not intentionally admitted.
All facilities, as of any particular time for collecting,
pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial
wastes, situated in the sewered area and owned and/or operated by
the Borough.
The Borough.
Mandatory.
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which,
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow,
exceeds for any period of longer duration than 15 minutes, more than
five times its average hourly concentration or flow.
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the
most recent edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water,
Sewage, and Industrial Wastes," published jointly by the American
Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and
the Water Pollution Control Federation.
A sewer that carries storm, surface and ground water drainage
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
Any street, highway, road, lane, court, alley and public
square.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtration. The standard laboratory procedure shall be that found
in the latest edition of "Standard Methods".
Any poisonous substance, including copper, cyanide and chromium
ions.
Any water or liquid containing none of the following: free
of emulsified grease or oil; acids or alkalis, substances that may
impart taste-and-odor or color characteristics; toxic or poisonous
substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution, odorous or
otherwise obnoxious gases. It shall contain not more than 1,000 parts
per million by weight of dissolved solids, and not more than five
parts per million each of suspended solids or biochemical oxygen demand.
Analytical determinations shall be made in accordance with procedures
set forth in "Standard Methods".
[Ord. 1977-12, 10/17/1977, § 103]
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit
to be deposited in an unsanitary manner upon public or private property
within the Borough, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said
Borough any human excrement, garbage, or other objectionable waste.
[Ord. 1977-12, 10/17/1977, § 104]
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any creek, stream or other
area which may be continuously or from time to time carry a natural
flow of surface or sub-surface water within the Borough or in any
area under the jurisdiction of said Borough, any sanitary sewage,
industrial wastes, or other polluted waters, except where suitable
treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions
of this code and any applicable laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
relating to sewage and industrial waste.
[Ord. 1977-12, 10/17/1977, § 105]
1.Â
Notice.
A.Â
Whenever any sewer constituting a branch or extension of the Borough
sanitary sewer system has been completed and is ready for public use,
it shall be the duty of the Borough to cause a printed or written
notice of the completion of such sewer to be served in the manner
hereinafter provided on the owner as defined in § 105.2.C.
B.Â
Such notice in each instance to state that it is the duty of such
owners to cause buildings erected on their premises requiring sewage
drainage to be connected therewith at their own expense and subject
to the payment of the annual sewer rental for the use of the same,
and subject to the payment of the tapping fee required by § 308.
2.Â
Duty to Connect.
A.Â
It shall be the duty of every owner, as defined in subparagraph C,
hereof of existing premises to cause each old or new building erected
thereon requiring sewage drainage to be separately connected to the
Borough sewer within 60 days from the time of the receipt of the aforesaid
notice.
B.Â
If a new building is erected on any premises the duty to connect
shall arise upon completion of said building and must be completed
within 60 days of said completion.
C.Â
Owner, for the purpose of § 105 shall mean the owner or
owners of any type of building or structure which contains sewage
facilities.
D.Â
If at any time the Borough shall deem it necessary for the public
health to require that any building erected on premises abutting on,
adjoining, or adjacent to any Borough sewer, wheresoever any such
building may be located on such premises, shall be connected with
such sewer, it shall cause to be served upon the owner or owners of
any such building, in the manner hereinafter provided, a copy of this
code and a printed or written notice directing that the necessary
connections be made within 60 days from the date of its service.
3.Â
Failure to Connect. If any owner of premises situate along the line
of a Borough sewer shall fail to heed the notice, the Borough shall
cause the necessary connections to be made, and, upon completion of
the work for the same shall render a bill covering the cost of said
work to the owner of such premises. All such bills shall contain a
notice that, if bills are not paid within 60 days after date thereof,
the same shall be collected in the manner provided by law.
4.Â
Obtaining Permit to Connect. No person shall uncover, connect with,
make any opening into or use, alter or disturb, in any manner, any
sewer or sewer system without first obtaining written permission from
the Borough. Such permission will be issued to owners required to
connect to a borough collection sewer by this code. The improved property
owner shall apply to the Borough for the required permit, stating
his desire and intention to connect to the sewer system and noting
the type of existing facilities to be abandoned. At least 24 hours
notice prior to the connection shall be given the Borough so arrangements
can be made to inspect and test the connection works. (See also §§ 302,
304 and 309, 310.)
[Ord. 1977-12, 10/17/1977, § 106]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this code shall
become liable to the Borough for any expense, loss or damage occasioned
to the Borough by reason of such violation.
[Ord. 1977-12, 10/17/1977, § 107]
Each property owner shall give the Borough written notice of
any change of ownership of any improved property.
[Ord. 1977-12, 10/17/1977, § 108]
Where pursuant to the provisions of this code, the owner of
improved property is required by the Borough to install sewage facilities
in quantities, sizes and/or capacities in excess of the minimum requirements
as provided in this code; the owner of said improved property shall
be responsible for all costs incident to the construction, installation
and connection of such facilities; provided that the Borough shall
be responsible for, but only for, that portion of the costs of such
construction, installation and connection which would not have been
incurred by the owner had the owner not been required to install sewage
facilities in quantities, sizes and/or capacities in excess of the
minimum requirements as provided for in this code; but provided further,
that the Borough shall not be responsible for costs incident to any
requirements for sewage facilities in excess of the minimum requirements,
where such excess was necessary in order to accommodate the larger
sewage disposal needs of a building or buildings erected on a particular
property.
[Ord. 1977-12, 10/17/1977, § 109]
If any person shall fail or refuse, upon receipt of written
notice of the Borough, to remedy any unsatisfactory conditions or
violations of this code within 60 days of receipt of such notice,
the Borough may refuse to permit such person to discharge sanitary
sewage and industrial wastes into the sewer system until such unsatisfactory
condition shall have been remedied to the satisfaction of the Borough
or consulting engineer.
[Ord. 1977-12, 10/17/1977, § 110]
In order to prevent discharge into the sewer system of wastes,
the discharge of which is in violation of the provisions of this code
or which may be deemed by the Borough to be harmful to the sewer system
or to have a deleterious effect on sewage treatment process, or to
have a deleterious effect on the public health, welfare or safety,
the Borough shall refuse to any person the privilege of connection
of any improved property to a sewer, or to compel discontinuance of
use of a sewer by any person, or to compel the pretreatment of industrial
and harmful wastes.
[Ord. 1977-12, 10/17/1977, § 111]
1.Â
The Borough shall not be liable for any damages, expenses, costs,
or other injury resulting from leaks, stoppages or defective plumbing,
or from any other cause occurring to any premise or within any house
or building.
2.Â
The Borough shall not be liable for any breaking, stoppage or any
damage or expense to any service lateral or building sewer, where
the cause thereof is found to be in the building sewer or service
lateral.
3.Â
The Borough shall not be liable for any costs, damages, expenses
or other injury caused or occasioned by or in connection with a deficiency
or failure of service when occasioned by an emergency, required repairs,
or failure from any cause beyond control.
[Ord. 1977-12, 10/17/1977, § 112]
The Borough will furnish sewage service only in accordance with
the prevailing, and as hereafter revised, Sewer Code of the Borough,
which Sewer Code is made a part of every application, permit and contract
entered into between the property owner or customer and the Borough.
The Borough hereby reserves the right, so often as it may deem
necessary, to alter, amend and/or repeal the Sewer Codes in part or
in whole, to substitute new Sewer Codes which altered and/or amended
new Sewer Code shall forthwith, after due notice, become and thereafter
be a part of every application, permit and contract for sewage service
in effect at the time of such alteration, amendment and/or adoption.
