(A) The United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection have directed municipalities to take such steps as are necessary to eliminate sanitary sewer overflows or face civil penalties and other sanctions.
(B) The Borough Council has determined that the sanitary sewer facilities of the borough may be receiving stormwater, surface water and other non-sanitary discharges that exceed the hydraulic capacity of the borough’s sanitary sewer system and cause or contribute to sanitary sewer overflows.
(C) The Borough Council has determined that inflows of stormwater, surface water and other non-sanitary discharges into the sanitary sewer system result in wasteful expenditures for wastewater treatment.
(D) The Borough Council has determined that it is in the best interest of the residents of the borough to eliminate inflows of stormwater, surface water and other non-sanitary discharges into the borough sanitary sewer system.
(E) The Borough Council has determined that the procedures, fees and penalties provided by this subchapter are necessary to achieve the purposes of this subchapter.
(Ord. 1041, passed 12-21-2004)