[Ord. No. 67-1977, § 1, 5/10/1977]
Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
AUTHORITY
South Hanover Township Sewer Authority, a Pennsylvania municipality authority, acting by and through its board or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized representatives.
BOD (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in ppm, utilized in the biochemical oxidation 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 of the Examination of Water and Wastewater," published by the American Public Health Association.
BILLING UNIT
Includes, as applicable, each of the following: a commercial establishment, a dwelling unit, an industrial establishment and an institutional establishment.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or enclosure used or intended for use in the operation of one business enterprise for the sale and distribution of any product, commodity, article or service or used or intended for use for any social, amusement, religious, educational, charitable or public purpose and containing plumbing facilities for kitchens, toilet or washing facilities.
DWELLING UNIT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by a family or other group of persons living together or by a person living alone.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes resulting from preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property upon which there is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or waterborne wastes or form of energy rejected 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.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure which does not constitute a commercial establishment, a dwelling unit, or an industrial establishment.
MULTIPLE UNIT
Any improved property in which shall be located more than one billing unit.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society, corporation, or other group or entity, including a municipal authority and any municipal subdivision.
pH
The logarithm 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.
PPM
Parts per million, by weight.
PROPERLY CHOPPED GARBAGE
Garbage that has been chopped to such a degree that all its particles will be carried freely under normal sewer flow conditions, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any improved property.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
The plant and facilities owned by the Derry Township Municipal Authority and used for the purpose of treatment and disposition of sanitary sewage and certain industrial wastes.
SEWER
Any pipe, main or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system and used or usable for collection and transportation of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting, transporting, and pumping of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, situated in or adjacent to the Township, owned by the authority and leased to the Township for operation and use.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids neither dissolved nor floating on the surface of the liquid, as determined by appropriate procedures found in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" published by the American Public Health Association.
TOTAL SOLIDS
All solids as determined by appropriate procedures found in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" published by the American Public Health Association.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of South Hanover, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, a municipal subdivision of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting by and through its Board of Supervisors or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized representatives.
TOXIC SUBSTANCE
Any poisonous substance, including blood, copper, cyanide, chromium, beryllium, cadmium, lead, nickel, tin and zinc ions, and any phenolic bodies or radioactive isotopes.
WATER SYSTEM
The facilities owned by any person and used for the supply of water to the public in and adjacent to the Township.
[Ord. No. 67-1977, § 2, 5/10/1977; Ord. No. 3-1995, 9/12/1995]
No person shall connect any improved property with any part of the sewer system without first making application for and securing a permit, in writing, from the Township. Such application shall be required for each connection to be made to a collecting sewer even though such connection is to be made by a unit within a planned development, the main collection lines for which are being constructed or have been constructed by or at the expense of the developer and even though the authority has waived the connection charge. The application must be completely filled out in all parts and signed by the customer. The initial application shall be accompanied by the proper connection charge. Further application shall be made on a form to be provided by the Township.
[Ord. No. 67-1977, § 3, 5/10/1977]
Sewer rentals or charges are imposed upon and shall be collected from the owner of each improved property which shall be connected with the sewer system, for use of the sewer system, whether such use shall be direct or indirect, and which shall be payable as provided herein.
[Ord. No. 67-1977, § 5, 5/10/1977; Ord. No. 91-1978, 9/26/1978; Ord. No. 95-1979, § 1, 2/13/1979; Ord. No. 109-1980, 12/28/1980; Ord. No. 113-1981, 3/10/1981; Ord. No. 116-1981, § 1, 7/14/1981; Ord. No. 1-1987, §§ 1, 2, 1/20/1988; Ord. No. 4-1993, § 1, 12/28/1993; Ord. No. 5-1994, §§ 1 — 3, 12/27/1994; Ord. No. 4-1998, § 1, 12/22/1998; Ord. No. 4-2000, § 1, 12/26/2000; Ord. No. 5-2019, 11/12/2019]
1. 
Flat rates for dwelling units, commercial establishments and institutional establishments. Sewer rentals or charges for sanitary sewerage discharged into the sewer system from any improved property constituting a dwelling unit, a commercial establishment or an institutional establishment shall be on a flat rate basis for the following classification at the following rates per month:
Classification
Rate per Month
A.
Each dwelling unit
$40 for remainder of 2019
$45 beginning January 1, 2020
$50 beginning January 1, 2021
$54 beginning January 1, 2022
$58 beginning January 1, 2023
$63 beginning January 1, 2024
B.
Commercial establishments:
(1)
Each fire house or municipal building
$59.97 for remainder of 2019
$67.47 beginning January 1, 2020
$74.96 beginning January 1, 2021
$80.96 beginning January 1, 2022
$86.96 beginning January 1, 2023
$94.45 beginning January 1, 2024
(2)
Each church
$48.14 for remainder of 2019
$54.16 beginning January 1, 2020
$60.17 beginning January 1, 2021
$64.99 beginning January 1, 2022
$69.80 beginning January 1, 2023
$75.82 beginning January 1, 2024
(3)
Each retail gasoline station without car washing facilities
$59.97 for remainder of 2019
$67.47 beginning January 1, 2020
$74.96 beginning January 1, 2021
$80.96 beginning January 1, 2022
$86.96 beginning January 1, 2023
$94.45 beginning January 1, 2024
(4)
Each retail gasoline station with car washing facilities
$119.93 for remainder of 2019
$134.92 beginning January 1, 2020
$149.91 beginning January 1, 2021
$161.90 beginning January 1, 2022
$173.90 beginning January 1, 2023
$188.89 beginning January 1, 2024
(5)
Each motel or hotel
$19.99 per unit for remainder of 2019
$22.49 per unit beginning January 1, 2020
$24.99 per unit beginning January 1, 2021
$26.99 per unit beginning January 1, 2022
$28.99 per unit beginning January 1, 2023
$31.48 per unit beginning January 1, 2024
Wherever a restaurant or bar room is conducted in connection with any motel or hotel, a separate sewer rental or charge shall be imposed for such facilities in accordance with the classification set forth under Subsection B(6) below.
(6)
Each restaurant, bar room or other commercial establishment which regularly dispenses food or beverages for consumption on the premises.
$7.93 per month per employee plus $3.99 per month for each seat regularly intended for customer use, subject to a minimum charge of $79.93 per month for the remainder of 2019.
$8.92 per month per employee plus $4.49 per month for each seat regularly intended for customer use, subject to a minimum charge of $89.92 per month beginning January 1, 2020.
$9.91 per month per employee plus $4.99 per month for each seat regularly intended for customer use, subject to a minimum charge of $99.91 per month beginning January 1, 2021.
$10.71 per month per employee plus $5.39 per month for each seat regularly intended for customer use, subject to a minimum charge of $107.90 per month beginning January 1, 2022.
$11.50 per month per employee plus $5.79 per month for each seat regularly intended for customer use, subject to a minimum charge of $115.90 per month beginning January 1, 2023.
$12.49 per month per employee plus $6.28 per month for each seat regularly intended for customer use, subject to a minimum charge of $125.89 per month beginning January 1, 2024.
This sewer rental or charge shall be computed on the basis of the average daily number of employees for the month immediately proceeding the date of the bill.
(7)
All other commercial establishments not separately classified under Subsections B(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6) above and not constituting a combination dwelling unit and commercial establishment as classified in Subsection C below.
$5.99 per month per employee, plus $59.93 per month for each public restroom, subject to a minimum charge of $89.94 per month for the remainder of 2019.
$6.74 per month per employee, plus $67.42 per month for each restroom, subject to a minimum charge of $101.18 per month beginning January 1, 2020.
$7.49 per month per employee, plus $74.91 per month for each restroom, subject to a minimum charge of $112.42 per month beginning January 1, 2021.
$8.09 per month per employee, plus $80.90 per month for each restroom, subject to a minimum charge of $121.42 per month beginning January 1, 2022.
$8.69 per month per employee, plus $86.90 per month for each restroom, subject to a minimum charge of $130.41 per month beginning January 1, 2023.
$9.43 per month per employee, plus $94.39 per month for each restroom, subject to a minimum charge of $141.66 per month beginning January 1, 2024.
The sewer rental or charge shall be computed on the basis of the average daily number of employees for the month immediately preceding the date of the bill.
C.
Combination dwelling unit and commercial establishment located in one structure and owned, occupied and operated by the same person; provided, however, that this subsection shall not be applicable in those cases where the commercial establishment shall constitute a restaurant, bar room or other commercial establishment which regularly dispenses food and/or beverages for consumption on the premises.
$59.97 for the remainder of 2019
$67.47 beginning January 1, 2020
$74.96 beginning January 1, 2021
$80.96 beginning January 1, 2022
$86.96 beginning January 1, 2023
$94.45 beginning January 1, 2024
D.
Schools:
(1)
Each public or private school per pupil based upon the daily average number of pupils enrolled on days when the school was in session during the immediately preceding full school term at the base rate per pupil plus one of either (a), (b), or (c) hereunder listed. Teachers and employees shall be classified and treated as pupils for purposes of this article.
$6.10 for the remainder of 2019
$6.86 beginning January 1, 2020
$7.62 beginning January 1, 2021
$8.23 beginning January 1, 2022
$8.85 beginning January 1, 2023
$9.61 beginning January 1, 2024
(a)
Schools with no cafeteria, gym or shower facilities
$1.90 per month per pupil for remainder of 2019
$2.14 per month per pupil beginning January 1, 2020
$2.37 per month per pupil beginning January 1, 2021
$2.56 per month per pupil beginning January 1, 2022
$2.76 per month per pupil beginning January 1, 2023
$2.99 per month per pupil beginning January 1, 2024
(b)
Schools with a cafeteria, but no gym or shower facilities
$2.47 per pupil for remainder of 2019
$2.78 per month per pupil beginning January 1, 2020
$3.09 per month per pupil beginning January 1, 2021
$3.33 per month per pupil beginning January 1, 2022
$3.58 per month per pupil beginning January 1, 2023
$3.89 per month per pupil beginning January 1, 2024
(c)
Schools with cafeteria, gym and shower facilities
$3.04 per month per pupil for remainder of 2019
$3.42 per month per pupil beginning January 1, 2020
$3.80 per month per pupil beginning January 1, 2021
$4.10 per month per pupil beginning January 1, 2022
$4.41 per month per pupil beginning January 1, 2023
$4.79 per month per pupil beginning January 1, 2024
2. 
Metered rates for industrial establishments.
A. 
Sewer rates or charges for sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, not subject to special charge hereunder, which shall be discharged into the sewer system from any improved property constituting an industrial establishment shall be based upon volume of water usage, adjusted, if appropriate, as provided in this article, where the volume of water usage shall be metered in connection with the water system or otherwise.
B. 
Sewers rentals or charges for sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, not subject to a special charge hereunder, which shall be discharged into the sewer system from any improved property constituting an industrial establishment may be based upon actual metered volume of discharge, as permitted in this article.
C. 
In either of the foregoing cases, such sewer rentals or charges shall be computed in accordance with the following metered rate schedule, subject, however, to a minimum sewer rental or charge per month, regardless of volume of water usage or of volume of actual metered waste discharged of:
(1) 
$54.37 per month or $5.45 per employee for the remainder of 2019;
(2) 
$61.17 per month or $6.13 per employee beginning January 1, 2020;
(3) 
$67.96 per month or $6.81 per employee beginning January 1, 2021;
(4) 
$73.40 per month or $7.36 per employee beginning January 1, 2022;
(5) 
$78.84 per month or $7.90 per employee beginning January 1, 2023;
(6) 
$85.63 per month or $8.58 per employee beginning January 1, 2024.
D. 
Based upon the daily average number of employees for the month immediately preceding the month for which the bill is rendered, whichever is larger:
(1) 
Metered rate schedule. Per monthly water consumption of:
(a) 
$8.88 per 1,000 gallons metered waste discharge for the remainder of 2019;
(b) 
$9.99 per 1,000 gallons metered waste discharge beginning January 1, 2020;
(c) 
$11.10 per 1,000 gallons metered waste discharge beginning January 1, 2021;
(d) 
$11.99 per 1,000 gallons metered waste discharge beginning January 1, 2022;
(e) 
$12.88 per 1,000 gallons metered waste discharge beginning January 1, 2023;
(f) 
$13.99 per 1,000 gallons metered waste discharge beginning January 1, 2024.
[Ord. No. 67-1977, § 5, 5/10/1977; Ord. No. 91-1978, § 1, 9/26/1978; Ord. No. 109-1980, § 1, 10/28/1980; Ord. No. 113-1981, 3/10/1981; Ord. No. 116-1981, 7/14/1981; Ord. No. 7-1989, § 1, 1/23/1990; Ord. No. 4-1993, § 2, 12/28/1993; Ord. No. 4-1995, § 1, 12/26/1995; Ord. No. 2-2010, § 1, 11/23/2010; Ord. No. 4-2012, § 1, 12/26/2012]
1. 
Sewer rentals or charges imposed by this article shall be payable monthly.
2. 
All bills with respect to billing units shall be rendered each month on the 25th day of each month for service during the preceding month.
3. 
Sewer rentals or charges shall be due and payable five days after mailing or delivery by or on behalf of this Township to the person responsible for payment thereof and shall be payable at the South Hanover Township Building or such other location as this Township shall designate. If sewer rentals or charges are not paid within 20 calendar days after the same become due and payable, an additional sum of 10% of the net bill shall be added to such net bill, which net bill, plus such additional sum, shall constitute the gross bill. Payment made or mailed and postmarked on or before the last day of such twenty-day calendar day period shall constitute payment within such period. If the end of such twenty-calendar day period falls on a legal holiday or on a Sunday, payment made on or mailed and postmarked on the next succeeding business day which is not a legal holiday shall constitute payment within such period.
A. 
Whenever service to any improved property shall begin after the last day or shall terminate before the last day of any monthly billing period, sewer rentals or charges for such period shall be prorated equitably, if appropriate, for that portion of the monthly billing period during which such improved property was served by the sewer system.
B. 
The Board of Supervisors may from time to time by resolution provide a discount in such amount as the Board may determine to every owner of property upon whom sewer rentals or charges are imposed on a flat rate basis, provided that such owner shall make payment of the total annual rental or charge on or before January 20 of the calendar year in which such rentals or charges shall otherwise become due and payable.
4. 
Every owner of improved property which is connected to the sewer system initially shall provide this Township with and thereafter shall keep this Township advised of his correct address. Failure of any person to receive monthly bills for sewer rentals or charges shall not be considered an excuse for nonpayment nor shall such failure result in an extension of the period of time during which the net bill shall be payable.
[Ord. No. 67-1977, § 6, 5/10/1977; Ord. No. 3-1995, 9/12/1995; as amended by Ord. No. 3-2018, 4/24/2018]
Sewer rentals where charges are imposed by this article shall be a lien on the improved property connected to and served by the sewer system; and any such sewer rentals or charges which are not paid within 60 days after each monthly billing date applicable to the particular improved property shall be filed as a lien against the improved property so connected and served by the sewer system, which lien shall be filed in the office of the Prothonotary of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and shall be collected in the manner provided by law for filings collected by municipal claims; and/or, in the case of a property which is connected to a public water system, when any such sewer rentals or charges are not paid within 60 days after each monthly billing date applicable to take from improved property, said water service may be terminated in accordance with applicable law.
[Ord. No. 67-1977, § 7, 5/10/1977; Ord. No. 3-1995, 9/12/1995]
1. 
Method of measuring volume.
A. 
Whenever the entire water supply of an improved property or, if applicable, a billing unit or billing units located therein, constituting an industrial establishment, which shall be discharging sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes into the sewer system, is supplied by the water system, the volume of water furnished, as determined from meter readings of the water system, shall be used as the measure of discharge of sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes in computing sewer rentals or charges, subject to adjustments, if appropriate, as provided in this article.
B. 
Whenever an improved property or, if applicable, a billing unit or billing units located therein, constituting an industrial establishment which shall be discharging sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes into the sewer system, shall have a source or sources of water supply in addition to or other than the water system, the owner of such improved property shall provide a meter or meters on such additional or other source or sources of water supply. The total volume consumed, as determined from the meter readings of the water system and the meter readings of the meter or meters on such other source or sources of water supply, as appropriate, shall be used as the measure of discharge of sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes in computing the sewer rentals or charges, subject to adjustment, if appropriate, as provided in this article.
C. 
Whenever an improved property or, if applicable, a billing unit or billing units located therein, constituting an industrial establishment shall use water from the water system and/or water from a source or sources of supply in addition to or other than a water system for cooling or unpolluted commercial or industrial process purposes and all or part of the water so used shall not be discharged into the sewer system, the volume used as the measure of discharge of sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes in computing sewer rentals or charges may be adjusted by one of the following methods:
(1) 
By installing a meter or other measuring device on the connection to the sewer system. The readings from such meter or measuring device shall be used as the measure of discharge of sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes in computing sewer rentals or charges.
(2) 
By installing a meter or other measuring device to measure the volume not being discharged into the sewer system. The readings from such meter or measuring device shall be deducted from the total water meter readings and the remainder shall be used as the measure of discharge of sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes in computing sewer rentals or charges.
(3) 
If it is not practical, in the opinion of this Township, to install a meter or other measuring device to determine continuously the volume not discharged into the sewer system, this Township shall determine, in such manner and by such method as it may prescribe, the percentage of metered water which is being discharged into the sewer system. The quantity of water used as the measure of discharge of sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes in computing sewer rentals or charges shall be the percentage so determined of the quantity measured by the water meter or meters. Any dispute as to such estimated percentage shall be submitted to this Township, after notice of such estimate. The decision of this Township with respect to the matter shall be final for the then current calendar year.
D. 
Whenever an industrial establishment shall discharge only industrial wastes into the sewer system, the volume of water used, measured as herein provided, shall be used as a measure of the quantity of industrial wastes so discharged.
2. 
Measuring devices. Meters or other measuring devices which shall not be available in connection with the water system, but which shall be required or permitted under provisions of this article, shall be furnished and installed in accordance with specifications of this Township by the owner of the improved property at his expense, shall be under the control of this Township and may be tested, inspected or repaired by this Township whenever necessary. The owner of the improved property upon which such meter or other measuring device shall be installed shall be responsible for its maintenance and safekeeping; and all repairs thereto shall be made at the expense of the owner, whether such repairs shall be made necessary by ordinary wear and tear or other causes. Bills for such repairs, if made by this Township, shall be due and payable immediately upon completion of such repairs and shall be collected in the same manner as monthly bills for sewer rentals or charges.
3. 
Meter readings. This Township, except to the extent that meter readings are made by any other person in connection with the water system and are made available to this Township for purposes of this article, shall be responsible for the reading of all meters or other measuring devices and the same shall be available to this Township at all reasonable times.
[Ord. No. 67-1977, § 8, 5/10/1977]
1. 
Approval required for industrial wastes.
[Amended by Ord. No. 4-2018, 9/25/2018]
A. 
The discharge into the sewer system of industrial wastes having: a five-day BOD greater than 250 ppm; a suspended solids content greater than 256 ppm; a total phosphorous concentration greater than 11.0 ppm; or any quantity of substances possessing characteristics described in § 18-309 shall be subject to prior review and approval of this Township and shall also be subject to prior review and approval of the Derry Township Municipal Authority.
B. 
The Township hereby adopts Article IX of the Rates, Rules and Regulations for the Sewer System of the Derry Township Municipal Authority, as amended and supplemented, and all industrial waste disposers in the Township shall be governed thereby.
2. 
Preliminary treatment and handling of industrial wastes.
A. 
Whenever necessary, in the opinion of this Township, the owner of an improved property shall provide, at his expense, such facilities for preliminary treatment and handling of industrial wastes as may be necessary to:
(1) 
Reduce BOD to 250 ppm, suspended solids to 256 ppm and total phosphorus to 11.0 ppm.
[Amended by Ord. No. 4-2018, 9/25/2018]
(2) 
Reduce objectionable characteristics or constituents to come within the maximum limits permitted in this article.
(3) 
Control the quantities and rates of discharge over a twenty-four-hour day and seven-day week.
B. 
Plans, specifications, and any other pertinent information relating to proposed facilities for preliminary treatment and handling of industrial wastes shall be submitted to the Township sanitary engineer for review and comment, and no construction of any such facility shall be commenced until approval thereof first shall have been obtained, in writing, from this Township, and until approval thereof first shall have been obtained from any governmental regulatory body having jurisdiction, including, but not limited to, the Derry Township Municipal Authority.
C. 
Whenever facilities for preliminary treatment and handling of industrial wastes shall have been provided by the owner of such improved property, such facilities continuously shall be maintained, at the expense of the owner, in satisfactory operating condition; and this Township shall have access to such facilities at reasonable times for purposes of inspection and testing.
[Ord. No. 67-1977, § 9, 5/10/1977]
1. 
No person, except upon written permission of this Township, shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, roof or surface drainage or any cooling water or unpolluted industrial or commercial process water into any sewer.
2. 
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:
A. 
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150° Fahrenheit;
B. 
Any water or waste containing more than 100 ppm of fats, oils or greases;
C. 
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 the sewer system or the sewage treatment plant;
D. 
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;
E. 
Any garbage, except properly chopped garbage;
F. 
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 substances 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;
G. 
Any water or waste having a pH (as determined by this Township) lower than 6.0 or higher than 9.0 or having any corrosive property 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;
H. 
The maximum allowable industrial loads (MAIL) listed in Schedule A are established to control the influent pollutant loads discharge to the DTMA wastewater treatment plants from regulated industrial dischargers:
Schedule A*
Parameter
MAIL
(pounds per day)
Copper
4.290
Mercury
0.029
Molybdenum
0.706
Zinc
8.018
*
The discharge of industrial wastes by regulated industrial users shall be controlled so as not to exceed the total daily MAIL limits set forth in Schedule A. The MAIL limits may be applied to individual industrial users by means of limitations on the concentration or the mass loadings, as appropriate.
I. 
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, 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;
J. 
Any water or waste containing total solids 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;
K. 
Any drainage from building construction; unless otherwise permitted, authorized or approved, with or without special charge by this Township and if required by law, by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or any governmental unit, board, commission or department having jurisdiction.
3. 
This Township 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 deemed harmful or to have deleterious effect upon any portion of the sewer system.
4. 
Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as prohibiting any special agreement or arrangement between this Township and any person whereby industrial wastes of unusual strength or character may be admitted into the sewer system by this Township, either before or after preliminary treatment.
[Ord. No. 67-1977, § 10, 5/10/1977; Ord. No. 3-1995, 9/12/1995]
1. 
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 Township an industrial wastes report which shall supply pertinent data, including estimated quantity of flow and chemical and bacteriological analyses, to this Township with respect to industrial wastes proposed to be discharged into the sewer system.
2. 
Screening and holding tanks.
A. 
Industrial establishments shall install fine screens to remove husks, hulls, vegetable skins, peeling, threads, lint, grease and other such non-settleable and floating solids, or other organic or inorganic substances, determined by this Township 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.
B. 
Any improved property discharging 3,000 cubic feet 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.
3. 
Control manholes.
A. 
Any person who shall discharge industrial wastes into the sewer system, when required by this Township, shall construct and thereafter properly shall maintain, at his own expense, a suitable control manhole to facilitate observation, measurement and sampling by this Township.
B. 
Any such control manhole, when required by this Township, shall be constructed at an accessible, safe, suitable and satisfactory location in accordance with plans approved by this Township prior to commencement of construction.
4. 
Sewage samplings. 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 Township 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 exercised in the collection and preservation of all samples to insure preservation thereof in as nearly the natural state as possible, including the refrigeration of all samples which are intended for analysis by biochemical methods.
5. 
Analysis.
A. 
This Township shall be responsible for analysis of samples of industrial wastes, at such intervals as this Township shall determine or at the request and expense of the industrial establishment.
B. 
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 Wastewater," 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 Township and the person discharging such industrial wastes into the sewer system.
6. 
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 Township in writing at least 10 days prior to consummation of such change.
7. 
Penalties. Any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding $1,000 and costs and, in default of payment thereof, shall be subject to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days. Each day that a violation of this article continues shall constitute a separate offense.
[Ord. No. 67-1977, § 11, 5/10/1977]
This Township shall have the right of access at reasonable times to any part of the 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 Township through the sewer system.
[Ord. No. 67-1977, § 12, 5/10/1977]
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.
[Ord. No. 67-1977, § 13, 5/10/1977]
The Township reserves the right to adopt, from time to time, 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 part of this article.
[Ord. No. 67-1977, § 16, 5/10/1977]
It hereby is declared that the adoption of this article is necessary for the protection, benefit and preservation of the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of the Township.