(A) Where a public sanitary sewer system is accessible to or plans approved by the Borough Council provide for the installation of such public sanitary facilities within four years, the developer shall provide the development with a complete sanitary sewer system ready to be connected to the existing or proposed sanitary sewer system.
(1) The plan for the installation of a sanitary sewer system must be prepared for the development and approved by the Borough Engineer and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. The Borough Engineer must inspect the sewer line before it is covered over. Upon completion of the sanitary sewer installation, the plan for the system as built must be filed with the borough.
(2) Any sewer pipe main must be at least eight inches in diameter and any sewer lateral must be at least four inches, six inches for commercial. Storm sewers may not be connected with sanitary sewers.
(3) Manholes shall be located generally at intervals of 250 feet and in no case more than 400 feet. Manholes are also required at all points of change of course or grade and at all points of intersection of sewer lines.
(B) (1) Where installation of a public sanitary sewer system is not required, the developer or owner of the lot shall provide for each lot, at the time improvements are erected thereon, a private sewerage disposal system consisting of a septic tank and tile absorption field or other sewerage disposal system approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
(2) If on-site subsurface or alternate sewage disposal systems are feasible, they must be laid out in accordance with the minimum standards of the Sewage Facilities Act, 35 P.S. §§ 750.1 et seq. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection must inspect and approve each on-site sewage disposal system.
(C) All new or replacement sanitary sewer systems located in flood-prone areas, whether public or private, shall be flood-proofed up to an elevation of one foot above the base flood elevation.
(2006 Code, § 22-607) (Ord. 90-9, passed 9-10-1990, § 607; Ord. 94-02, passed 5-2-1994, Art. III; Ord. 2006-3, passed 7-10-2006) Penalty, see § 153.999