[Adopted 12-11-2017 by Ord. No. 17-08]
A.
CESSPOOL
GRINDER PUMP SYSTEM
NOTICE
SANITARY SEWER
SANITARY SEWER LATERAL
SEPTIC TANK
STORM SEWER
SURFACE DRAINAGE WATERS
TOWNSHIP
As used in this article, the following words shall have the meaning
indicated, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
An underground container designed and intended for the temporary
storage of wastewater and water-carried wastes.
A system of pipes, pumps and other facilities designed and
intended to assist in the collection and conveyance of wastewater
and water-carried wastes from the interior of a structure to the sanitary
sewer system serving the property. A grinder pump system shall be
designed so as to collect and convey wastewater and water-carried
wastes from and through the interior plumbing of a structure to a
holding tank that is part of the grinder pump system. Once the wastewater
and water-carried waste within the holding tank reaches a specified
level, a pump will activate that grinds any and all waste into fine
slurry, and then pumps the wastewater and water-carried wastes to
the sanitary sewer system serving the property.
Any written notice provided for or required under this article
may be made and/or delivered either by personal service made at the
subject property, or by registered mail, return receipt requested,
sent to the last known address of the property owner.
A system of pipes and other collection and conveyance facilities
designed and intended to transport or convey wastewater and water-carried
wastes, including but not limited to human water-carried wastes, from
both residential and nonresidential structures to sanitary sewage
treatment and disposal facilities.
A pipe or pipes designed and intended to transport or convey
wastewater and water-carried wastes (excluding surface drainage water)
from the interior of a structure and connecting into the sanitary
sewer system serving the property.
See cesspool.
A system of pipes and other collection and conveyance facilities
designed and intended to transport or convey only surface drainage
waters to stormwater collection and management facilities and/or to
drainage channels, tributaries, creeks, streams, lakes, and/or ponds.
Diffuse waters originating from rain, sleet, melting snow
or other similar natural sources, which runs off or from public and/or
private property and public and/or private streets and into storm
sewers, drainage channels, tributaries, creeks, streams, lakes, and/or
ponds.
The Township of Middletown, its officers, directors, employees,
designees, agents and assigns.
A.
Every owner of improved property within the Township that abuts or
adjoins any street, road, lane, alley, paper street, or any other
public highway or right-of-way in which sanitary sewer collection
and/or conveyance facilities are located, or that is otherwise accessible
to such a sanitary sewer system, upon written notice of the availability
of sanitary sewer collection and/or conveyance services and facilities
from the Township and/or from the applicable municipal authority or
other operator of the subject sanitary sewer system and/or facilities
for the subject property, shall connect such property to the subject
sanitary sewer collection and/or conveyance facilities and/or system
in accordance with the rules and regulations of the applicable municipal
authority or operator of such sanitary sewer system and/or facilities.
B.
As sanitary sewer collection and/or conveyance services and facilities
shall, from time to time, become available to improved properties
within the Township limits for which such sanitary sewer systems or
facilities are previously unavailable, or as unimproved properties
already accessible to such a sanitary sewer systems become improved,
then each and every owner of such properties, upon written notice
of the availability of sanitary sewer collection and/or conveyance
services and facilities from the Township and/or from the applicable
municipal authority or other operator of the subject sanitary sewer
system and/or facilities for the subject property, shall likewise
connect such property to the subject sanitary sewer collection and/or
conveyance facilities and/or system in accordance with the rules and
regulations of the applicable municipal authority or operator of such
sanitary sewer system and/or facilities.
C.
Whenever the Township and/or applicable municipal authority or other
operator of a sanitary sewer system located and operating within the
Township shall have given such written notice as is set forth in this
section to the owners of properties located within the Township, it
shall thereafter be unlawful for the owner of that subject property
to operate, employ, utilize, use or maintain upon that subject property
a cesspool, septic tank, vault, privy or similar receptacle designed
or intended for holding, storing and/or disposing of wastewater, water-carried
waste, and/or human waste, and/or to connect and/or discharge any
such cesspool, septic tank, vault, privy or similar receptacle into
any sanitary sewer system or storm sewer system. No owner of an improved
property within the Township shall construct and/or install a cesspool,
septic tank, vault, privy or similar receptacle designed or intended
for holding, storing and/or disposing of wastewater, water-carried
waste, and/or human waste on, in or upon any property that abuts or
adjoins any street, road, lane, alley, paper street, or any other
public highway or right-of-way in which sanitary sewer collection
and/or conveyance facilities are located, or any property that is
otherwise accessible to such a sanitary sewer system.
No property owner shall contribute or discharge, or cause to
be contributed or discharged, directly or indirectly, any pollutant,
wastewater or water-carried waste that will interfere with the operation
or performance of any sanitary sewer system. Any and all contributions
and/or discharges into any sanitary sewer system shall comply, in
all respects, with the current specifications, rules, and regulations
of the Township and/or of the applicable municipal authority or operator
of such sanitary sewer system and/or facilities for the same as may
be in effect from time to time.
A.
In any and all structures in which grease-laden waste is generated,
including but not limited to structures containing restaurants, hotel
kitchens, bars, factory cafeterias, school cafeterias, or other similar
food preparation and/or grease-laden waste generating areas of the
same, a grease interceptor shall be required to receive any and all
drainage, wastewater and water-carried waste from any and all such
areas of such structures. Food waste grinders shall not discharge
to a building drainage system through a grease interceptor.
B.
Grease interceptors shall be installed and maintained in an accessible
location, and shall remain accessible and unobstructed at all times.
C.
Grease interceptors shall be cleaned not less than two times per
week, or at such frequency as may be determined necessary in the discretion
of the Township and/or of the applicable municipal authority or operator
of the sanitary sewer system and/or facilities serving the subject
property. Property owners shall maintain an ongoing written log or
record of all grease interceptor cleanings for a period of not less
than 24 months.
D.
Grease interceptors shall be subject to inspection at the discretion
of the Township and/or of the applicable municipal authority or operator
of the sanitary sewer system and/or facilities serving the subject
property to insure compliance with this section. The Township may
from time to time establish, by resolution, an annual fee associated
with the inspection of grease interceptors.
E.
For all properties and/or structures identified in this section,
grease interceptors shall be required for all new or existing connections
to the sanitary sewer system, which such connections shall also be
in conformance with the International Building Plumbing Code, as adopted
by the Township, without exception.
A.
A property owner is solely responsible, in all respects, for the
proper installation, operation, maintenance, repair and replacement
of any and every sanitary sewer lateral located on a property.
B.
No property owner may permit the discharge of stormwater into the
sanitary sewer system, and all property owners shall maintain the
sanitary sewer laterals connected to their buildings and structures
in such fashion as to prevent the infiltration of stormwater into
the sewer system.
C.
All private building sewer laterals shall be fitted with vent caps
which are manufactured to fit the type and size of vent pipe affixed
to the lateral, and which shall provide a tight seal against the inflow
of stormwater under high precipitation conditions. Vent caps must
be set a minimum of four inches above grade, but not less than a height
sufficient to preclude the flow of stormwater into the vent.
D.
Cleanout caps on sanitary sewer laterals shall be appropriately fitted
and secured to provide a tight seal against inflow of stormwater under
high precipitation conditions.
E.
All lateral joints shall be tight and all pipes shall be sound to
prevent exfiltration by wastewater or infiltration by groundwater
or stormwater.
F.
A sanitary sewer lateral pipe shall be free of any structural defects,
cracks, breaks, rodent holes, or missing portions thereof, and the
grade or pitch of such lateral shall be uniform without sags or offsets.
G.
Area drains, foundation drains, roof leaders, sump pumps or other
direct connections into a sanitary sewer lateral that allow stormwater
or groundwater to enter into that sanitary sewer lateral are prohibited.
H.
Sanitary sewer laterals may flow by either gravity or by pressurized
systems, such as a grinder pump system.
I.
Sanitary sewer laterals and grinder pump systems shall be subject
to inspection at the discretion of the Township and/or of the applicable
municipal authority or operator of the sanitary sewer system and/or
facilities serving the subject property to insure compliance with
this section. Further, the Township may inspect or require proof of
inspection of any building sewer lateral connection, in order to insure
the integrity of the connection and compliance with this section,
prior to the issuance of any use and occupancy permit for any property
and/or any structure located thereupon. The Township may from time
to time establish, by resolution, an annual fee associated with the
inspection of sanitary sewer lateral connections.
Any person, organization, firm or corporation who shall violate
any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof in an
action brought before a Magisterial District Judge in the manner provided
for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules
of Criminal Procedure, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less
than $100 and not more than $600, plus costs, and in default of payment
of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 90
days. A separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day or
part of each day during which a violation occurs or continues. Each
day that a violation of this article continues or each section of
this article which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute
a separate offense. The sum herein forfeited shall be considered a
penalty.
