The construction and reconstruction of earth pit privies, concrete wall privies and non-water-carried sewage disposal systems is prohibited in this township. Existing facilities of these types shall be made to conform to minimum requirements of the Pennsylvania Department of Health within one year from the effective date of this Part 4 of this chapter.
No seepage or waste from any disposal system, whether now established or hereafter installed, shall under any circumstances be permitted to come to ground surface, and it shall be the responsibility of every property owner, tenant or other person having control over the disposal system to prevent the overflow of cesspools, septic tanks, drain lines an drain fields and to provide such drainage facilities as will adequately dispose of all sanitary waste material under the ground surface.
[Amended 3-6-1961 by Ord. No. 32]
No septic tank or cesspool effluent or material shall be dumped upon any land in the township without an immediate provision being made for covering the same, and such covering with clean earth shall be effected within 24 hours of the commencement of dumping, provided that the time may be extended at the discretion of the Sanitary Officer for a period up to 30 days when weather or ground conditions warrant such extension. No septic tank or cesspool material shall be brought into or dumped in the township from places outside Lower Providence Township. No septic tank or cesspool material shall be dumped in any stream, creek, river or watercourse in the township. No well or hole connecting or entering into any underground water supply or stream shall be used for the disposition of sanitary effluent.
Whenever any condition or place in the township is found by the Sanitary Officer to be a nuisance or a menace to the health of the people of the township, he shall issue a written order of abatement directed to the owner or agent of the owner of the premises, stating that the condition specified therein constitutes a nuisance and a menace to health and ordering an abatement thereof within such time as may be specified by him in such order, and the time specified shall ordinarily be 10 days unless, in the opinion of the Sanitary Officer, a longer time is required to abate such nuisance or menace to public health. In case such nuisance or menace is not abated within the time specified therein, the Sanitary Officer shall remove and abate the same, and such order of abatement shall be executed by him and his subordinates and workmen and the expense thereof shall be recoverable from the owner of the premises on and from which the nuisance or menace to health is abated or removed, in the same manner as debts of like character are now collected by law. The Sanitary Officer may proceed to enforce such other remedy and inflict such penalty as hereinafter prescribed.
All individual sanitary disposal systems shall be cleaned from time to time as may be required to maintain their efficient operation and to prevent seepage as prohibited by § 117-56 hereof.
[Added 3-6-1961 by Ord. No. 32]
A soil log shall be kept whenever any well is drilled for any purpose. The log shall contain the following information: depth of well, description of type of soil, depth at which water is first found, percolation rate (if a test hole), amount and type of casing, method of sealing and rate of flow in gallons per minute.