[Ord. 674, 6/11/2014]
As used in this Part, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Includes any food establishment in any building, room or
place, or any portion thereof or appurtenance thereto, where human
food or drink is mixed, cooked, or otherwise prepared, offered for
sale, sold, served or given with or without charge to patrons, customers
or guests for consumption on the premises; provided, however, that
this does not include the mixing, cooking or other preparation and
serving of food in single-family dwellings to the resident family
or its guests.
An interceptor whose rated flow exceeds 35 gpm and which
is located underground outside the building and generally intercepts
all flows from kitchen/food processing areas.
An interceptor whose flow rate is 35 gpm or less and which
is located inside the building and generally intercepts flows from
three compartment sinks only. Grease traps shall be rated for a minimum
of 22.5 gpm.
Includes any public eating place where regular meals are
prepared, offered for sale, sold and served to patrons, customers
or guests for compensation based on the price charged for and generally
paid at the conclusion of each meal. The words "regular meals," as
used herein, mean meals generally consisting of courses embracing
some kind of meat or its equivalent, vegetables, bread, pastry, beverage
and accompaniments, served at more or less regular intervals.
[Ord. 674, 6/11/2014]
Every building or room occupied or used as a public eating place
or restaurant shall be well drained. All soil pipes, drains or other
plumbing fixtures shall be of adequate size to enable passage of any
waste intended to pass through it to the main public sewer. All drains,
sewers, waste and soil pipes, traps and water and gas pipes shall,
at all times, be kept in good repair and order so that no gases or
odor shall escape therefrom and so that the same shall not leak, and
all vent pipes shall be kept in good order and repair and free from
obstruction.
[Ord. 674, 6/11/2014]
1.
Every owner or occupant of any building, room or space or part thereof
used as a restaurant or food preparation facility, whether new or
existing, shall install or cause to be installed a grease interceptor
or grease trap. The type of installation shall be determined by the
total fixture flow-through rate of potential grease-laden fixtures
discharging through the building sewage lines as determined by the
Allegheny County Health Department Plumbing Division. For flow-through
rates of 35 gpm or less, an internal grease trap may be installed
in certain existing structures used as restaurants and food preparation
facilities. For flow through rates exceeding 35 gpm, an external,
underground grease interceptor must be installed in all new structures
or changes of use involving restaurants or food preparation facilities.
2.
Said grease trap or interceptor shall be installed at an appropriate
location along the sewer line between the restaurant and/or food preparation
facility and the lines entry into the main public sewer line. An inspection
site tee shall be installed between the interceptor discharge and
the connection to the public sewer system. All installations shall
be in accordance with Article 15 of the Allegheny County Health Department
Plumbing Code and Regulations.
3.
No solid waste devices, such as waste grinders, disposals, potato
peelers, etc., shall discharge through the grease trap or grease interceptor.
Only potential grease-laden fixtures may discharge through the trap
or interceptor.
4.
All new restaurants or food preparation facilities shall be required
to install an exterior, underground grease interceptor of a minimum
1,000 gallons' capacity, regardless of flow-through rate.
5.
In all existing restaurants or food preparation facilities, there
shall be installed a grease interceptor or grease trap as determined
by flow-through rate, as detailed above.
6.
In existing facilities where it is determined by the Township that
a grease trap is not sufficient, the Township may require that a grease
interceptor (as detailed above) be installed. Such insufficiency shall
be evidenced by excessive amounts of grease being discharged into
the public sewer system by a facility. All existing restaurants or
food preparation facilities shall, at a change of ownership or alteration,
install an exterior, underground grease interceptor of a minimum 1,000
gallons' capacity. In all existing structures, buildings or parts
thereof in which there is an increase in size, change of use or occupancy
to that of a restaurant or food preparation facility, there shall
be installed a grease interceptor, minimum 1,000 gallons' capacity,
regardless of flow-through rate.
[Ord. 674, 6/11/2014]
1.
All grease interceptors and grease traps shall be maintained and
kept in good working order at all times. The interceptor or trap shall
limit the amount of grease discharged into the public sewer system
to levels not exceeding those permitted by the Allegheny County Sanitary
Authority (ALCOSAN). Oil/grease discharges shall not exceed 100 ppm
downstream of the interceptor or trap.
2.
It shall be the duty and responsibility of the owner, lessee or agent
of any restaurant or food preparation facility to, at a minimum of,
annually inspect the grease interceptor or trap. A written record
shall be kept of all inspections. The inspection record shall, at
a minimum, list the name (inspector and company), address, and phone
number of the inspection/disposal company, the method and frequency
of cleaning schedule, and the date of the cleaning/inspection. Additionally,
there shall be maintained a copy of the disposal schedule, disposal
location and the quantities of grease disposed of by the licensed
hauler that cleans and disposes of the accumulated material from each
grease trap or grease interceptor. Such records shall be presented
to the Township at least annually or more frequently if determined
by the Township. A more-frequent cleaning/inspection schedule may
be ordered to be performed by the facility when it is determined by
the Township that the facility is discharging excessive amounts of
grease to the public sewer system.
[Ord. 674, 6/11/2014]
1.
Any person or user who is found to have failed to comply with the
provisions of this Part regarding grease traps may be fined up to
$1,000 per day per violation. Each day of violation shall be a separate
offense.
2.
Wherever a user has been notified of violation of the provisions
of this Part and has not abated the violation within the deadline
as ordered by the Township, the Township may arrange with the water
supplier for water service to the user to be severed and for service
to recommence, at the user's expense, after the user has satisfactorily
come into compliance. The user shall pay all water-termination-related
charges of the water supplier.
3.
In addition to the penalties and remedies contained herein, the Township
may take any action at law or in equity to seek redress for violation
of this Part.
[Ord. 674, 6/11/2014]
In the discharge of duties, the Township Code Enforcement Officers,
Consulting Engineer or other authorized representative shall have
the authority to enter, at any reasonable hour, any restaurant or
food preparation facility in the jurisdiction to enforce the provisions
of this Part.
[Ord. 674, 6/11/2014]
The Board of Commissioners may, by resolution adopted at a public
meeting, adopt rules and regulations for the administration, implementation
and enforcement of the grease trap requirements of this Part, including
amending or adding technical requirements, procedures for recordkeeping
or notices and adopting a schedule of fees applicable to property
owners or occupants under this Part.
[Ord. 674, 6/11/2014]
1.
Should the Township determine any user to be in violation of these
regulations, it may, in addition and not in lieu of filing a citation
with the District Justice seeking fines for violation, serve upon
such person a written notice stating the nature of the violation.
Within 20 days from the date of said notice, the user must supply
to the Township a written explanation for the violation and a plan
for the satisfactory correction of the violation and a schedule for
coining into full compliance. Submission of such a plan does relieve
the user of liability for any violation occurring before or after
receipt of the notice of violation.
2.
Any person aggrieved by the issuance of a violation notice under
this Part may file a written appeal to the Township Secretary within
20 days of such notice of violation requesting a Local Agency Law
hearing. Upon the filing of such appeal, the Board of Commissioners
will provide for such a hearing and may assign a hearing officer to
conduct a hearing, make findings of fact and recommendations, and/or
to issue a determination. Any request for an appeal hearing shall
be accompanied by a nonrefundable hearing fee of $50, and the applicant
shall be responsible for payment of all costs incurred by the Township
in connection with the hearing, including, but not limited to, court
reporter costs, costs of transcripts, cost of publication of notices,
etc.
3.
Upon written request from any person, the Township Engineer may approve
a modification of any substantive requirement herein, provided that
such modification is needed to avoid undue hardship, adequate measures
are taken to preserve the proper operation of the sanitary sewer system,
and the modification poses no danger to the public health.
[Ord. 674, 6/11/2014]
1.
All applications for the installation of a credit meter or auxiliary
meter service must be first submitted to Collier Township, and they
will be forwarded to ALCOSAN for approval and the initial reading
and inspection. Copies of each application must include the required
attachments at the time they are submitted to the Township.
2.
The customer is responsible for the payment of any and all charges
established by ALCOSAN for the processing of the application for auxiliary
meter service and/or the inspection of the installation of the auxiliary
meter.
3.
The property owner shall be responsible, on an annual basis, for
reading of the auxiliary meter and submitting to the Township, in
writing, on a form provided by the Township, the actual credit meter
reading.
4.
Each property owner must, on or before October 31 of each year, submit
in writing to the Township, and on the form provided by the Township,
the credit meter reading in order to be eligible for consideration
of a credit for the current calendar year.
5.
The failure of the property owner to submit, in writing on the Township
form, the meter readings on or before the above-listed dated (October
31) shall be treated as full and complete waiver of any credit due
or owing the property owner for that current year and any prior years.
This self-reading procedure places the entire responsibility for the
timely submission of the written credit application on the property
owner, and any failure of the property owner to timely deliver the
credit request form shall constitute a complete waiver of any refund
that the property owner may be able to claim.
6.
The Township reserves the right to inspect and read the credit meter
as often as the Township believes that a physical reading of the meter
is necessary.
7.
The property owner agrees that, by the installation of the credit
meter and the request for credit, the Township, its agents, servants
and employees, or designated representatives have the unconditional
and absolute right to enter onto and go upon the property of the customer
for the purposes of reading the credit meter, which must be accessible
from the outside of the property.
8.
Collier Township establishes an annual charge of $25 as a service
fee for the recordkeeping and processing credit forms and credit applications
for each credit meter installed within the service area of Collier
Township, which fee may be changed by resolution of the Board of Commissioners.
9.
The annual fee shall be deducted from any credit amount established
by the credit meter reading. Should the credit meter reading not be
in excess of the annual charge, the property owner shall be responsible
for the balance, which shall be invoiced on an annual basis.
10.
A property owner may, at any time, discontinue the credit meter by
notifying the Township, in writing, that the credit meter application
is being discontinued.
11.
Should the property owner discontinue the utilization of the credit
meter, any request for reinstating of a credit meter for the property
address where the credit meter has been withdrawn must be returned
to the Township by the close of business on March 31 and shall be
subject to approval by the Township and shall be subject to a charge
in the amount of $50 for actual reading of the meter and administrative
costs. No credit meter will be reactivated if the Township determines
that the owner or prior owner inaccurately submitted credit readings
to the Township unless and until the applicant refunds the full amount
of any improper credit refunded to the owner or prior owner.
12.
The sale or transfer of the property, after the discontinuance of
the credit meter, shall not guarantee the new purchaser with the opportunity
of having installed, or putting in place, a residential, commercial
or industrial sewage meter.
13.
The Township will physically read the credit meter prior to the issuance
of any no-lien letter for the sale or transfer of the property in
question. The property owner shall be responsible for any excess credit
made to the property owner and which was based on the property owner's
self-reading of the meter.
[Ord. 674, 6/11/2014]
All sanitary sewer lateral connections shall conform to the
detail and specifications set forth in Exhibit A attached to this
Part.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Exhibit A is included as an attachment to this chapter.
