Call the Municipality at 610-458-9400 (weekdays 8:00-5:00) or Clean Water Inc. at 610-593-5710 (after 5:00 p.m. or on weekends) if you see any blinking lights and/or hear any alarms associated with your community system, or if you detect any harsh or acrid odor.
Municipal Authority History
The Authority, established in 1989, consists of 5 members appointed by the Board of Supervisors to a 5-year term; with responsibility to operate existing community-on-lot-disposal systems, to promulgate and issue regulations governing such systems, and to ensure safe and reliable operations - both technical and financial.
The Authority has been instrumental in the planning, design, construction and operation of the Route 100 Centralized Sewer Facility, located off Route 100 on Fellowship Road. This state-of-the-art facility is a joint effort of the Township and a group of private developers. The facility, costing over $6,000,000 has been designed for extra capacity for the Township's needs.
Under the Authority's direction, the Township's capacity will bring public sewer to the Villages of Byers and Eagle, and will also allow many of our older residential developments to receive public sewer!
While the Centralized Facility's treatment of the wastewater is a technical marvel, the method of disposing the wastewater is at the forefront of the march towards "Greener Horizons". Every drop of the treated (harmless) wastewater is destined to be land disposed. Whether by spray irrigation (3-foot "shower heads") or drip irrigation (3/4 tubing below the surface), our disposal methods replenish the groundwater in an environmentally friendly way!
In conjunction with the Facility, the Township has also successfully negotiated a 17-acre tract adjacent to the Facility which is currently under design as an active recreation facility with ballfields, walking trails and a concession stand.
Municipal Authority News
The Village of Eagle’s Business District is now serviced by public sewer.
The recently completed Greenridge Wastewater Facility is treating and disposing wastewater from the abandoned Stonehedge facility which was built in 1986, and after having numerous failures, was taken off-line in 2006.
The Lakeridge Facility, located on West Township Line Road, will undergo much-needed repairs in 2008, such as a new ventilation system and new, longer-lasting ingress / egress doorways.
The Eaglepointe Facility, which serves the Acme Development and Eaglepointe Buildings, is poised to undergo an extensive overhaul in 2008, with facility upgrades that will result in reduced operating costs.
Following are the do’s and don’ts for homeowners, whether you’re on a community system or individual on-lot system. Once again, we stress that one of the most positive actions you can take to prolong your system’s life is to limit the amount of liquids entering the system. This can be achieved by converting all of your commodes to low-flush commodes.
DO NOT use garbage disposals, as they produce solids which could ultimately make their way into the subsurface bed area by clogging the lines.
DO NOT connect any outside storm water drain pipes to the system.
DO take diligence in ensuring your commodes and other water-using devices are functioning properly. If you believe your commode is leaking, fix it!
DO consider converting to the new low-flush toilets, which save approximately one-half the water usage.
DO call the Municipality at 610-458-9400 (weekdays 8:00-5:00) if you see any blinking lights and/or hear any alarms associated with your community system, or if you detect any harsh or acrid odor. (Call Clean Water Inc. at 610-593-5710 after 5:00 p.m. or on weekends.)
All costs associated with public sewer service are paid for by the users. No tax dollars are spent on sewer-related costs, so if your home has an on-lot system, you are paying $0.00 for someone else’s sewer treatment.
Those homes on a community system are billed quarterly by the Township’s Municipal Authority.
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