Borough of Oakmont, PA Article III Discharge of Sanitary Sewage to Public Sanitary Sewerage System

§ 157-5 Mandatory connection.

A. All persons owning any occupied building now erected within the corporate limits of the Borough of Oakmont upon premises accessible to the public sanitary sewerage system shall, at their own expense, make a sewer service connection to the public sanitary sewerage system, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within three months after notice to do so from the Borough, if they are not already connected.

B. All persons owning any premises within the Borough that are accessible to the public sanitary sewerage system and upon which an occupied building is subsequently erected shall, at their own expense, make a sewer service connection to the public sanitary sewerage system, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, at the time of erection.

C. All persons owning any occupied building within the Borough upon premises which subsequently become accessible to the public sanitary sewerage system shall, at their own expense, make a sewer service connection to the public sanitary sewerage system, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within three months after notice to do so from the Borough.

D. All sewer service connections to the public sanitary sewerage system shall be made in accordance with the requirements of Article VIII of this chapter and other applicable Borough ordinances.

§ 157-6 Prohibited facilities.

A. It shall be unlawful for any person owning any occupied building within the Borough on premises accessible to the public sanitary sewerage system to erect, construct, use or maintain any privy, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or other receptacle for receiving sanitary sewage on such premises.

B. The erection, construction or maintenance of any such privy, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or other receptacle for receiving sanitary sewage on premises within the Borough that are accessible to the public sanitary sewerage system shall be deemed and is hereby declared to be a public nuisance which may be abated in the manner provided by law.

§ 157-7 Exclusion of stormwater runoff.

A. The discharge of stormwater runoff to separate sanitary sewers is hereby prohibited, and any persons who connected to the public sewer system after 1958 who are presently discharging stormwater runoff to separate sanitary sewers shall cease and desist such practice within three months after the effective date of this chapter.

B. All persons proposing to connect to the public sanitary sewerage system shall provide adequate means for excluding stormwater runoff in the event that the connection is to be made to a sanitary sewer.

C. No person connected to a sanitary sewer after 1958 shall connect any roof drain or foundation drain thereto or permit any such drains to remain connected thereto, nor shall be permit, allow or cause to enter into any sanitary sewer any spring water or surface water from any other source.

D. The provisions of this chapter do not prohibit the present or future discharge of stormwater runoff to any combined sewers or directly to any natural watercourses within the Borough.