25 Pa. Code § 73.11 - General

(a) No person may install, and no sewage enforcement officer may issue a permit for or approve, a sewage system which violates this chapter.

(b) A structure may not be occupied before the sewage system is finally inspected, approved and covered. Except when the sewage enforcement officer requires a change to the installation schedule because of weather and soil conditions, the permit may be modified with conditions to be established by the local agency to allow use of a septic tank as a temporary holding tank. In these instances, §§ 71.61 and 71.63(b)(1) and (2), (c)(1) and (2), 73.61 and 73.62(b) do not apply. Absorption areas shall be covered by the permittee within 5-calendar days after final inspection and approval to prevent damage.

(c) Liquid wastes, including kitchen and laundry wastes and water softener backwash, shall be discharged to a treatment tank. A sewage system may not discharge untreated or partially treated sewage to the surface of the ground or into the waters of this Commonwealth except as specifically permitted under sections 202 and 207 of the Clean Streams Law (35 P. S. §§ 691.202 and 691.207) and individual residential spray irrigation systems permitted by local agencies under section 7.3 of the act (35 P. S. § 750.7c).

(d) Where additional absorption area is installed to increase the total area of an existing system and flows are generated from a common treatment tank, loading per square foot of the new area and the existing area shall be equal.

(e) Discharge from roof gutters, foundation drainage, floor drains not from sewage generating connections and surface runoff may not be discharged to a treatment tank; nor may the discharges be permitted to flow over an absorption area or spray fields.

(f) The discharge of inadequately disinfected effluent or the discharge of effluent in a manner inconsistent with the system design specifications from an individual residential spray irrigation system shall constitute a nuisance.

Notes

25 Pa. Code § 73.11

The provisions of this § 73.11 adopted August 2, 1971, effective 8/14/1971, 1 Pa.B. 1649; amended April 26, 1974, effective 5/13/1974, 4 Pa.B. 817; amended August 30, 1974, effective 9/16/1974, 4 Pa.B. 1805; amended January 21, 1983, effective 1/22/1983, 13 Pa.B. 508; amended January 9, 1987, effective 1/10/1987, 17 Pa.B. 172; amended November 7, 1997, effective 11/8/1997, 27 Pa.B. 5877.

The provisions of this § 73.11 amended under section 9 of the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act (35 P. S. § 750.9); The Clean Streams Law (35 P. S. §§ 691.1-691.1001); and section 1920-A of The Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P. S. § 510-20).

This section cited in 25 Pa. Code § 71.63 (relating to retaining tanks).