[Adopted 2-27-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-04 (Ch. 18, Part 1B, § 18-133
of the 2003 Code)]
Based on the report of the Township's Sewer
Engineers, dated November 19, 2002, the Board of Supervisors finds
that the current aging Eden Road sanitary sewer pump station presently
serving a section of the northwestern portion of the Township is past
its useful life and needs completely replaced. The Board further finds
that the most feasible means of addressing the problem is to replace
the existing pump station with a new gravity sanitary sewer line,
which will connect to the Township's Codorus Creek Interceptor and
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 sanitary sewer line
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 sanitary sewer line 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 North Western Sanitary Sewer Collection System 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 owners 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 "North Western
Sanitary Sewer Collection System District." Said district shall be
composed of the area shown on the Location Plan designated as Exhibit
1 attached hereto and made a part hereof.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Location Plan, Exhibit, 1 is
on file at the Township Office.
There is hereby imposed upon the landowner of
each unimproved lot with the district a one-time fee or charge at
the rate of $721, Exhibit 2[1] 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 enactment
of this article. Said charge shall be paid at the time the landowner
applies to the Township for a building permit for the construction
of installation of such building or structure and the payment thereof
shall be a condition precedent to the issuance of such building permit.
[1]
Editor's Note: Exhibit 2 is on file at the
Township Office.
All revenue received by the Township from the
fee or 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.
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 gravity sanitary sewer line with appurtenant facilities within
the district only, and for no other purpose.
