City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2006-0200

• File #: 2006-0200
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed Finally
• File created: 3/14/2006
• In control: Committee on Finance & Budget
• Final action: 3/28/2006
• Enactment date: 3/28/2006
• Enactment #: 3
• Effective date: 4/5/2006
• Title: Ordinance Supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Four: Public Places and Property, Article III: Sewers, by adding a new Chapter 433: Illegal Storm Water Connections, requiring disconnection of illegal surface storm water connections to city sanitary sewers; establishing provisions for dye testing to determine if storm or surface water is entering the sanitary sewer system; requiring evidence of compliance as a condition precedent to the issuance of city lien verification letters and authorizing the setting of fees for the implementation and operation of review process and issuance of city lien verification letters; requiring evidence of compliance upon the sale of real property; granting authority to the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority to enforce this ordinance:
• Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 04 - PUBLIC PLACES

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/5/2006	2	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
3/28/2006	2	City Council	Passed Finally	Pass
3/22/2006	1	Committee on Finance & Budget	AMENDED	Pass
3/22/2006	2	Committee on Finance & Budget	Affirmatively Recommended as Amended	Pass
3/15/2006	1	Committee on Finance & Budget	Held in Committee	Pass
3/14/2006	1	City Council	Read and referred
3/14/2006	1	City Council	Waived under Rule 8	Pass

Presenter
Presented by Mr. Shields

Title
Ordinance Supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Four: Public Places and Property, Article III: Sewers, by adding a new Chapter 433: Illegal Storm Water Connections, requiring disconnection of illegal surface storm water connections to city sanitary sewers; establishing provisions for dye testing to determine if storm or surface water is entering the sanitary sewer system; requiring evidence of compliance as a condition precedent to the issuance of city lien verification letters and authorizing the setting of fees for the implementation and operation of review process and issuance of city lien verification letters; requiring evidence of compliance upon the sale of real property; granting authority to the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority to enforce this ordinance:

Body
WHEREAS, the City of Pittsburgh (“City”) and the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority (“PWSA”) entered into a Consent Order and Agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) and the Allegheny County Health Department (“ACHD”) on or about January 29, 2004 (“Order”); and

WHEREAS, Section 210 of the Clean Streams Law, 35 P.S. § 691.210, requires a municipality to diligently comply with any Order issued pursuant to Section 203 of the Clean Streams Law; and

WHEREAS, the Order mandates, among other things, that the City promulgate an ordinance regarding the dye testing of surface storm water connections to certain portions of the City Sewer System that are designed as Sanitary Sewers, the entire Sewer System being owned by the City and leased and operated by PWSA pursuant to the Capital Lease Agreement entered into by the City and PWSA, effective July 27, 1995; and

WHEREAS, the aforesaid Order specifically requires in Paragraph 7 thereof that:

a. By May 31, 2007, the [City] and [PWSA] shall for their sanitary sewer system:

(i) Complete dye testing or other testing methods (excluding the use of sm...