(a) Backfill and Grading. Basement excavations and/or excavations for foundation walls for buildings and structures served by a public sewer shall be backfilled immediately upon completion of construction of the basement wall or other foundation wall. The earth surface surrounding such wall shall be graded so as to direct the drainage water away from such wall to a point of disposal at minimum in accordance with the provisions of Section 1470.06. During stages of construction of the building, temporary downspouts and connections directing the storm water away from the building shall be provided, and the owner and/or contractor or person in charge of the premises shall be jointly and severally liable for maintaining such drainage during all times the building is connected to a public sewer.
(b) Disallowed Connections to Sanitary Sewer. No person shall make or allow connection of any roof downspouts, foundation or footing drains, areaway drains, or other sources of surface runoff and/or groundwater to a building sewer or building service sewer which is in turn connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer. No person shall allow to be maintained any connection of any roof downspout through any footing drain, areaway drain or other source, which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
(c) Mandatory Discharge Point; Eavestrough, Gutter, Downspout Where Footing Drain Connected to Sanitary Sewer. All buildings, existing and proposed, shall be equipped with adequate eavestroughs, gutters and downspouts, splashguards, and similar connections, extended so as to discharge storm water through an impermeable structure or impermeable surface to a discharge point at least five feet (1-52/100 (1.52) meters) perpendicularly away from all building walls. The point of discharge to the grounds shall slope away from the building so that surface water will be effectively disposed of away from the building. Building service drains and other storm discharge facilities shall be designed, installed and maintained to avoid discharge upon paved surfaces and public rights of way designed for pedestrian and vehicular traffic, and the owner and/or occupants or builders, jointly and severally, shall provide for an appropriate design and/or maintenance to avoid hazards of freezing and thawing on paved surfaces. The provisions of this section requiring discharge five feet perpendicular shall not apply where footing drains are not directly or indirectly connected to a public sanitary sewer.
(d) Notice to Correct; Enforcement by Township; Lien for Reimbursement of Expenses Incurred by Township. The responsibility and cost for providing changes to existing building drainage pursuant to this section is decreed to be the joint and several responsibility of the owner/lessee and/or occupant, and the continuation of drainage contrary to the provisions of this chapter is decreed to be a public nuisance to be abated. Following notification in writing by either the Superintendent of the Department of Public Works, the Superintendent of the Department of Water and Sewers, or his or her designee, the owner/lessee and/or occupant, jointly and severally, shall have sixty calendar days to disconnect the areaway drains to a public sanitary sewer or to install eaves, gutters, downspouts and gradiing so as to comply with the provisions of this chapter. Thereafter, the Township may enter upon the premises and perform necessary work, with such expenses to be imposed as a lien upon the property, to be collected in the same manner as prescribed by the general laws of the State relative to ad valorem real property taxes, including an additional administration fee of ten percent of the actual costs incurred. Costs incurred shall be calculated by the actual material costs, and the man hours on the project shall be calculated at the regular rate plus any overtime, if applicable, and any and all applicable fringe benefits the Township employees utilized.
(Ord. 290-A-2. Passed 4-14-97.)