[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of the Township of Cheltenham 5-27-2003 by Ord. No. 2035-03. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
A.
The intent of this chapter is to establish rules and
regulations governing connections to and use of the Township of Cheltenham
("Township") wastewater collection sewer ("Township collection system")
System, and to establish the penalty structures required to operate
said wastewater collection system insofar as the public health, safety,
and general welfare of the Township must be protected.
B.
The rules and regulations governing the use of the
Township collection system have been defined:
(1)
To set forth uniform requirements for direct and indirect
contributors to the Township collection system owned and operated
by the Township and to enable the Township to comply with all applicable
state and federal laws required by the Clean Water Act of 1977, as
amended, and the General Pretreatment Regulations (40 CFR Part 403)
and the National Categorical Pretreatment Standards (40 CFR Chapter
I, Subchapter N).
(2)
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the
Township's and the City of Philadelphia's ("City's") wastewater system
which will:
(a)
Interfere with the operation of the system;
(b)
Contaminate the resulting sludge;
(c)
Cause the wastewater system to violate the City's
NPDES discharge permit;
(d)
Pass through the system, inadequately treated,
into receiving waters or the atmosphere; and/or
(e)
Be otherwise incompatible with the system.
(3)
To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim
wastewaters and sludge from the system.
This chapter regulates certain connections to
and the use of the Township collection system. These regulations provide
for the regulation of direct and indirect contributors to the City
of Philadelphia's wastewater system through issuance of permits to
certain nondomestic users and industrial users and through enforcement
of general requirements for the other users; authorize monitoring
and enforcement activities; require user reporting and compliance
schedule submissions. In interpreting and applying the provisions
of this chapter, they shall be held to be the minimum requirements
required for compliance. Provisions of this chapter shall be deemed
to supplement any and all laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
the United States Environmental Protection Agency and other ordinances
of this Township, provided that where this chapter imposes a greater
restriction than imposed by said other laws and ordinances, the provisions
of this chapter shall control. Where the City of Philadelphia's wastewater
control regulations impose a greater restriction than the Township
of Cheltenham, the Philadelphia wastewater control regulations shall
take precedence.
