[Adopted 10-6-1958 by Ord. No. 754 (Ch. 18, Part 1, of the
2006 Code of Ordinances)]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
PERSON
Any natural person, association, partnership, firm or corporation.
The singular shall include the plural and the masculine shall include
the feminine.
Every property in the Borough adjoining or abutting upon any
street or alley in which a public sewer is now or shall hereafter
be located, shall be connected with such sewer in such manner and
within such time as the Borough may order, for the purpose of the
discharge of all fecal matter, human excrement, kitchen and laundry
wastes and other sewage from such premises. All such sewage shall,
after connection, be conducted into such sewer. Every such property
shall be connected separately and independently with the sewer through
the house connection branch directly opposite the building or nearest
in a downstream direction. Grouping of buildings upon one house sewer
shall not be permitted, except under special circumstances and for
good sanitary reasons, with special permission granted by Council
upon recommendation of the engineer.
If the owner of any property, after 45 days notice from the
Borough to make connection of such property with a Borough sewer,
shall fail to make such connection, the Borough may make such connection
and may collect the cost thereof from such owner by a municipal claim
or in an action of assumpsit as is provided by law.
[Amended 9-11-1979 by Ord. No. 1081; 4-10-1990 by Ord. No. 1229]
No person shall make or cause to be made any connection of his
property with any of the Borough sewers until he has fulfilled all
of the following conditions:
A. He shall submit plans to the secretary showing the location and grade
of all storm and sanitary sewers and showing how all sewage and surface
waters are to be disposed of.
B. He shall have obtained a permit from the engineer for such connection and shall have paid a fee as set forth in Subsection
D below.
C. He shall notify Council of his desire and intention to make such
connection.
D. He shall pay a sewer connection and permit fee of $300 which shall
be payable to the Secretary for use of the Borough. In the event connection
is desired for a multiple-unit dwelling, then he shall pay a sewer
connection fee of $240 for each unit within that multiple unit dwelling
which shall be connected to the system.
E. He shall have applied and obtained a permit to excavate in the street
if such excavation is necessary, in accordance with any Borough ordinances
regulating the same.
F. He shall have given the Secretary at least 24 hours' notice of the
time when such connection shall be made, in order that the engineer
or his authorized agent can be present to approve and supervise the
work of the connection.
A. Where subdevelopment is proposed of lots which require a system of drainage facilities, the foregoing method of procedure shall be followed as outlined in §
424-10 with additional conditions with regard to inspection and testing of the sewer system.
B. All subdevelopment drainage systems shall be inspected continuously
during construction and all inspection costs shall be borne by the
developer.
C. Upon installation of a part or all of the system, but prior to backfilling
the portions installed, the system shall be subjected to a hydraulic
exfiltration or infiltration test conducted by the engineer. The system
or portion so tested shall be within the limits of leakage set up
by the engineer; where the leakage exceeds those limits, the developer
shall make necessary repairs so as to meet the requirements under
subsequent tests. The cost of these tests shall be paid for by the
developer on the basis of the actual time spent by the engineer and
his assistants on the tests. The engineer shall furnish a certified
copy of each test so conducted to the developer.
A. All work of making connections to any of the Borough sewers shall
be done under the personal supervision of the engineer or his authorized
agent and shall conform to the following requirements:
(1) All sewer connections shall be made at the place where the wye in
the Borough sewer is provided, but if no wye is provided in the Borough
sewer, then the property owner making such connection shall, at his
expense, put in the wye in making connection.
(2) All joints shall be sealed and made watertight, and shall be made
smooth and clean inside, with all sewers in straight alignment and
of proper grade, so as to provide free flow of sewage matter without
any obstruction and to be made in accordance with the Borough's
specification for its sanitary sewers.
B. All work pertaining to the connection with the Borough's sewers
shall be, financially and otherwise, the responsibility of the owner
of the property with which connection is made, subject to the right
of supervision hereby reserved by the Borough.
No person shall connect or cause to be connected with any of
the public sewers in the Borough, directly or indirectly, any steam
exhaust, boiler blowoff, sediment trap, or any pipe carrying or constructed
to carry hot water or acid, germicide, grease, brewery mash, gasoline,
naphtha, benzine, oil or any other substance detrimental to the sewers
or to the operation of the sewage system or the sewage disposal works
of the Borough.
No privy vault, cesspool or similar receptacle for human excrement
shall at any time, now or hereafter, be connected with any of the
Borough sewers.
No privy vault, cesspool or similar receptacle for human excrement
shall hereafter be maintained upon any premises from which connection
with any of the Borough sewers shall have been made. Every such privy
vault, cesspool or other receptacle shall, within 30 days after final
enactment of this article in the case of premises now connected with
a sewer, and within the 30 days after connection with a sewer in the
case of premises hereafter so connected, be abandoned, cleansed and
filled under the direction and supervision of the health office of
the Borough. Any such privy vault, cesspool or other receptacle not
abandoned, cleansed and filled as required by this section shall constitute
a nuisance and such nuisance may be abated on order of the Board of
Health as provided for by law, at the expense of the owner of such
property.
No sewer shall be laid on a grade such that the mean velocity
of flow when full or half full is less than two foot per second when
using Kutter's or Manning's formula with a roughness coefficient
of n = 0.013.
In the design of the system the capacity of the sewers, both
collecting and transporting, which in the future will be installed
by property owners or owners of subdivisions should conform to and
adhere to the following:
A. The sewer capacity of any sanitary sewer from a single dwelling shall
not be less than six inches and to a multiple dwelling shall not be
less than eight inches in diameter. Where it is deemed advisable by
the engineer, larger sewers at adequate grades shall be supplied as
may be required by the engineer in his sound discretion.
The sewerage system proposed is that for the conveyance, transportation
and final treatment of sanitary sewage and other allied wastes such
as industrial wastes which can be adequately treated by the system
and which will not tend to destroy or damage the system. By "sanitary
wastes" are meant the sanitary sewage discharged from any property
exclusive of ground water seepage, surface or roof and foundation
drainage.
Industrial wastes will only be accepted into the sanitary sewerage
system after adequate analysis and certified conditions as to strength,
quantity, etc., have been presented to the Borough and the Borough
has examined the submission and determined that it will not harm or
be detrimental to either the system used in conveyance or the treatment
plant operations. It may be that certain industrial wastes before
acceptance may require pretreatment, in which event the applicant
shall adequately control and pretreat the wastes before delivery to
the system.
Mineral oils and greases will not be accepted for transportation
and treatment, and all applicants shall eliminate such wastes from
the sanitary sewerage before discharge into the Borough's system
providing proper equipment for such separation. This equipment, in
the form of grease traps or oil separators, shall be adequately operated
and maintained by the applicant so as to prevent such discharge.
No inflammable or explosive fluids, such as gasoline, naphtha
or similar volatile wastes, shall be discharged into the sewage system
whereby explosions or damage to the sewage system may occur or cause
danger to the maintenance force of the Borough in performing their
ordinary duties. Such fluids shall be adequately and thoroughly removed
or separated from the sanitary wastes before discharge.
Strong acids or alkalies which would damage the sewerage system
will not be accepted except after proper dilution or neutralization.
Before any such acids or alkalies are discharged to the system, the
Borough shall be notified and will prescribe the requirements necessary
to obtain permission to discharge such wastes to the sewers.
No basement seepage, ground water drainage or any other uncontaminated
source of water shall be discharged to the sanitary sewerage system
and all applicants desiring connection to the sewerage system shall
certify that no groundwater or seepage drains are connected to their
system. After connection to the Borough's sewer is made, the
applicant shall maintain his house system in such a manner that no
such seepage or drainage enters his sanitary sewerage system. A penalty
will be charged for any violation of this rule in the amount of triple
the annual bill for the length of time the situation has existed after
connection to the Borough's system.
[Amended 2-9-1988 by Ord. No. 1187]
A. No downspouts, roof drainage or surface or areaway drainage shall
be connected into the sanitary sewerage system, and before attachment
of the sanitary sewers to the Borough's system, the property
owner or applicant for servicing shall remove such connections and
adequately and tightly plug his system to prevent the entrance of
any downspout, roof surface or area drainage.
B. All property owners who own property adjacent to Talisman Alley or
Swamp Alley, between Water Street and Mercer Street, within the Borough
of Greenville, Pennsylvania, shall be obligated, at their own expense,
to connect any of their downspouts or roof drains, and basement or
foundation drains to any storm sewer that may be hereafter constructed
or rehabilitated by the Borough of Greenville, adjacent to said owner's
property within 30 days of being notified to do so by the Borough,
and keep the same in repair so that waters are not expelled upon the
public way.
Each user of the system, before connections are made thereto,
shall provide in his main sewerage system just outside the building
wall, a trap with vents, both ahead and after, to permit cleaning
and to provide proper ventilation for the system. These vents shall
not be less than four inches in diameter.
No cross-connections shall be made between the sanitary sewerage
system and the potable water system whereby vacuums or back siphonage
could permit sanitary wastes to enter the potable water system. No
cross-connections shall be made between the sanitary sewerage system
and the storm drains or storm sewers.
Any contributor shall permit the Borough's representative
to inspect or test his sanitary house system at any reasonable or
proper time upon adequate notice from the Borough's representative.
[Amended 8-8-2006 by Ord. No. 1455]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay
a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment
of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30
days. Every day that a violation of this article continues, after
notice thereof, shall constitute a separate offense.