A.
This chapter consolidates and updates existing Borough ordinances
relative to the public sanitary sewerage system and sets forth uniform
requirements for the discharge of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes
to the public sanitary sewerage system, enabling the Borough to comply
with all applicable state and federal laws required by the Clean Water
Act of 1977,[1] as amended, and the General Pretreatment Regulations (40
CFR, Part 403).
[1]
Editor's Note: See 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
B.
The basic purpose of this chapter is to promote the health, safety
and welfare of the people of the Borough and to protect the substantial
investment which the Borough has made in the public sanitary sewerage
system. This chapter meets this purpose by enacting provisions which:
(1)
Require mandatory sewer connection for all properties accessible
to the public sanitary sewerage system;
(2)
Regulate the manner in which all sewer connections and sewer extensions
shall be constructed;
(3)
Prohibit the discharge of stormwater runoff to separate sanitary
sewers;
(4)
Prohibit the discharge of certain wastes into the public sanitary
sewerage system;
(5)
Regulate the discharge of industrial wastes to the public sanitary
sewerage system;
(6)
Impose sewer service charges, additional charges, special industrial
user charges and surcharges for use of the public sanitary sewerage
system;
(7)
Establish billing practices and collection procedures for all charges,
including late payment penalties and the filing of liens for delinquent
accounts; and
(8)
Establish enforcement procedures, penalties and remedies for handling
violations of the regulations governing the use of the public sanitary
sewerage system contained in this chapter.
C.
The basic objectives of the industrial waste discharge provisions
of this chapter are:
(1)
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the public sanitary
sewerage system which will interfere with the operation of the system
or contaminate the resulting sludge;
(2)
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the public sanitary
sewerage system which will pass through the system, inadequately treated,
into receiving waters or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible
with the system;
(3)
To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewaters and
sludges from the system; and
(4)
To provide for equitable distribution of the cost of the industrial
waste discharge control or pretreatment program established herein.
D.
This chapter provides for the regulation of direct and indirect industrial
waste contributors to the public sanitary sewerage system through
the issuance of permits to certain nondomestic users and through enforcement
of general requirements for the other users, authorizes monitoring
and enforcement activities, requires user reporting, assumes that
existing customer's capacity will not be preempted and provides
for the setting of fees for the equitable distribution of costs resulting
from the pretreatment program established herein.
This chapter shall apply to each person and any political subdivision
who, by contract or agreement with the Borough, avails himself of
sanitary sewer service, and every such person or political subdivision,
by availing himself of sanitary sewer service, agrees to be bound
by the provisions of this chapter.
