[Adopted 7-6-1965 by Ord.
No. 241; amended in its entirety 11-3-1975 by Ord. No. 303 (Ch.
144, Art. IV, of the 2005 Code of Ordinances)]
A.
No person, except upon written permission of this Borough, shall
discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, surface water,
groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water or unpolluted
industrial or commercial process water into any sewer.
B.
Except as otherwise provided in this article, no person shall discharge
or cause to be discharged any of the following described wastes or
waters into the sewer system:
(1)
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150° F.
(2)
Any water or waste containing more than 100 milligrams per liter
(mg/l) by weight of fats, oils or greases.
(3)
Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, solvent or other flammable
or explosive liquid, solid or gas which, by reason of its nature or
quality, may cause fire or explosion or which, in any other way, may
be injurious to persons or to the sewer system or to the sewage treatment
plant.
(4)
Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance which, either singly or
by interaction with other wastes, shall be capable of creating a public
nuisance or hazard to life or of preventing entry into any sewer or
the sewage treatment plant for maintenance and repair.
(5)
Any garbage, except properly chopped garbage.
(6)
Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags,
bones, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, paunch manure, butchers'
offal or any other solid or viscous substance which shall be capable
of causing obstruction to the flow in any sewer or other interference
with the proper operation of the sewer system or the sewage treatment
plant.
(7)
Any water or waste having a pH (as determined by this Borough) lower
than six or higher than nine or having any other corrosive property
or scale capable of causing damage or hazard to structures or equipment
of the sewer system or the sewage treatment plant or to personnel
engaged in operation and maintenance thereof.
(8)
Any water or waste containing any toxic substance in quantity sufficient
to constitute a hazard to humans or animals or to interfere with any
sewage treatment process of the sewage treatment plant or that will
pass through the sewage treatment plant in such condition so that
it will exceed state, federal or other validly existing requirements
for the receiving stream.
(9)
Any water or waste containing total solids in excess of three pounds
per 1,000 gallons or of such character and quantity that unusual attention
or expense shall be required to handle such water or waste at the
sewage treatment plant for sewage treatment processes.
(10)
Any drainage from building construction.
(11)
Any water or waste containing BOD in excess of 2.5 pounds per
1,000 gallons and of such character that unusual attention or expense
shall be required to handle such water or waste at the sewage treatment
plant for sewage treatment processes.
(12)
Any water or waste having a chlorine demand in excess of 0.1
pound per 1,000 gallons.
(13)
Any water or waste prohibited by any permit issued by the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania or any department or agency thereof.
C.
This Borough reserves the right to refuse permission to connect to
the sewer system, to compel discontinuance of use of the sewer system
or to compel pretreatment of industrial wastes in order to prevent
discharges into the sewer system deemed harmful or to have a deleterious
effect upon any portion of the sewer system.
D.
Nothing contained in this article shall be construed as prohibiting
any special agreement or arrangement between this Borough and any
person whereby industrial wastes of unusual strength or character
may be admitted into the sewer system by this Borough, either before
or after preliminary treatment.
A.
Required survey data. Any person desiring to make a connection to
the sewer system through which industrial wastes shall be discharged
into the sewer system shall file with this Borough an "Industrial
Wastes Report," which shall supply pertinent data, including estimated
quantity of flow and chemical and bacteriological analyses, to this
Borough with respect to industrial wastes proposed to be discharged
into the sewer system.
B.
Screening and holding tanks.
(1)
Industrial establishments shall install fine screens to remove husks,
hulls, vegetable skins, peelings, threads, lint, grease and other
such non-settleable and floating solids, or other organic or inorganic
substances, determined by this Borough to overload, impair the efficiency
of or cause difficulties in operation of the sewage treatment plant
used to treat and dispose of the wastes or in maintaining required
quality of the sewage treatment plant effluent.
(2)
Any improved property discharging 20,000 gallons or more of sanitary
sewage and/or industrial wastes per day into the sewer system and
having large variations in the rate of discharge of such within a
twenty-four-hour period shall install suitable holding tanks for equalizing
the rate of discharge uniformly over the entire twenty-four-hour period.
The average rate of discharge during any twenty-four-hour period shall
not be exceeded by more than 50% at any time during such twenty-four-hour
period.
C.
Control manholes.
(1)
Any person who shall discharge industrial wastes into the sewer system,
when required by this Borough, shall construct and thereafter properly
shall maintain, at his own expense, a suitable control manhole to
facilitate observation, measurement and sampling by this Borough.
(2)
Any such control manhole, when required by this Borough, shall be
constructed at an accessible, safe, suitable and satisfactory location
in accordance with plans approved by this Borough prior to commencement
of construction.
D.
Sewage sampling. Industrial wastes being discharged into the sewer
system shall be subject to periodic sampling, inspection and determination
of character and concentration. Such sampling, inspection and determination
shall be made by this Borough as frequently as may be deemed necessary.
Representative samples for a full working day shall be obtained by
taking hourly samples and compositing them in accordance with the
flow at the time of sampling. Sewage sampling facilities shall be
accessible to this Borough at all times. Due care shall be exercised
in the collection and preservation of all samples to insure preservation
thereof in as nearly the natural state as possible, including refrigeration
of all samples which are intended for analysis by biochemical methods.
E.
Analysis.
(1)
This Borough shall be responsible for analysis of samples of industrial
wastes, at such intervals as this Borough shall determine or at the
request and expense of the industrial establishment.
(2)
Laboratory methods used in the analysis of samples of industrial
wastes shall be those set forth in the latest edition of "Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Sewage" as published by the
American Public Health Association; provided, however, that alternate
methods for the analysis of industrial wastes may be used, subject
to mutual agreement between this Borough and the person discharging
such industrial wastes into the sewer system.
F.
Changes in type of wastes. Any owner of an improved property who
is discharging or permitting to be discharged industrial wastes into
the sewer system and who contemplates a change in the method of operation
which will alter the type of industrial wastes at the time being discharged
into the sewer system shall notify this Borough, in writing, at least
10 days prior to consummation of such change.
This Borough shall have the right of access at reasonable times
to any part of any improved property served by the sewer system as
shall be required for purposes of inspection, observation, measurement,
sampling and testing and for performance of other functions relating
to service rendered by this Borough through the sewer system.
The owner of each improved property connected to the sewer system
shall be responsible for all acts of tenants or other occupants of
such improved property insofar as such acts shall be governed by provisions
of this article.
This Borough reserves the right to adopt, from time to time,
such additional rules and regulations as it shall deem necessary and
proper in connection with use and operation of the sewer system, which
rules and regulations shall be, shall become and shall be construed
as a part of this article.
In the event any provision, section, sentence, or clause of
this article shall be held to be invalid, such invalidity shall not
affect or impair any remaining provision, section, sentence, or clause
of this article, it being the intent of this Borough that such remainder
shall be and shall remain in full force and effect.
It hereby is declared that the enactment of this article is
necessary for the protection, benefit and preservation of the health,
safety and welfare of the inhabitants of this Borough.
