(A) Any owner found to be in violation of the Authority’s Rules and Regulations by allowing any quantity of inflow and infiltration into the sanitary sewer system shall be required to bring all buried pipelines into compliance. In the event the borough identities any illegal connections or leaking, deteriorating, or poorly constructed private sewer lateral and/or sanitary sewer service connections, the Borough Manager shall give written notice of same to the owner that such illegal connections be eliminated and/or that said connections be repaired, replaced, or rehabilitated, at the owner’s expense, within six months of the date of the notice.
(B) Compliance must be proven at the time of inspection by an air pressure test, as outlined in the International Plumbing Code § 312. If a portion(s) of the said system fails to meet compliance standards, additional repairs must be completed and rested until the entire system has been determined to be in compliance, all within the original six-month time frame.
(C) Failure to bring all buried pipelines into compliance within the six-month time frame shall be deemed a violation of the Rules and Regulations. In such circumstances, the borough may take one or more of the following enforcement actions:
(1) The borough and/or Authority may file a civil action in order to enforce the penalty within § 52.99(B);
(2) The borough may apply a surcharge, as determined from time to time by the Authority, to the customer’s service charge until such time that required repairs are made;
(3) The borough may discontinue water service to the property, and disconnect the non-compliant sewer lateral from the sewer main; and/or
(4) The borough and/or Authority may enter the property to correct the condition(s) and collect the cost of such correction(s) plus 10% of all costs.
(Ord. 2022-03, passed 3-7-2022) Penalty, see § 52.99