[Adopted 10-8-1987 by Ord. No. 1987-10 (Ch. 18, Part 1B, § 18-132
of the 2003 Code)]
Based on the report of the Township's Sewer
Engineer dated May 8, 1987, the Board of Supervisors finds that further
development in the southeastern portion of the Township will overburden
the sewer pumping stations presently serving that area. The Board
further finds that the most feasible means of addressing the problem
is to replace the three existing pump stations with a new pumping
facility having sufficient capacity to service existing sewage flows
and the projected future flow from property which is now unimproved.
As the existing facilities are adequate for the present flows, it
would be inequitable to impose the entire cost of the new pump station
upon either the present users within the affected area or upon all
users of the Township's sewer system generally. It is therefore, deemed
to be in the public interest that landowners with unimproved lots
in the subject area pay a reasonable charge to be applied to the necessary
costs of constructing the new pump station when making application
for a building permit to improve any lot.
When used in this article, the following words,
terms and phrases shall have ascribed to them the meanings herein
set forth:
The Southeastern Sewer Pumping District established by this
article.
Any room, group of rooms, house, trailer or other structure
or enclosure occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living
quarters by a family or persons living together or by persons living
alone. The volume of sanitary sewage generated by one EDU is stated
to be 350 gallons per day.
The legal or beneficial owner or owner of land, including
the holder of an option or contract to purchase, a lessee, if he is
authorized under the lease to exercise the rights of the owner, or
other persons having a proprietary interest in land.
A parcel of land unimproved with any building or structure
required to be connected to the public sanitary sewer system.
There is hereby established in Springettsbury
Township a special sewer district to be known as the "Southeastern
Sewer Pumping District." Said district shall be composed of the area
shown on the location plan designated as Exhibit No. 1 attached hereto
and made a part hereof.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Exhibit 1 is on file at the
Township office.
There is hereby imposed upon the landowner of
each improved lot within the district a one-time fee or charge at
the rate of $382 for each EDU of any building or structure erected
on such lot which is required to be connected to the public sanitary
sewer system and for which a building permit is obtained after September
24, 1987. Said charge shall be paid at the time the landowner applies
to the Township for a building permit for the construction or installation
of such building or structure and the payment thereof shall be a condition
precedent to the issuance of such building permit.
All revenue received by the Township from the
fee or charge imposed by this article shall be segregated from all
other revenue of the Township and deposited in a separate and distinct
account. Such revenue shall be deemed general revenue of the Township
for a special purpose and the same shall in no events be construed
to be "sewer revenues" as defined or referred to in a certain agreement
of lease dated as of June 1, 1983, between the Township and the Springettsbury
Township Sewer Authority, as amended.
The revenue received by the Township from the
fees or charges imposed by this article shall be expended and disbursed
from the segregated account for the construction and installation
of a new sewer pump station with appurtenant facilities within the
district only and for no other purposes. This article shall not be
deemed to prohibit the Township from contributing such funds to the
Springettsbury Township Sewer Authority.
