That part of the Shamokin Dam Borough sewer system that connects to the Eastern Snyder County Regional Authority (ESCRA) pumping station, hereinafter called pump station tributary, has been determined to cause an hydraulic overload at the pump station. It is determined that this overload is the result of excessive inflow and infiltration of surface water and the ground water table into the Shamokin Dam Borough sewer system. Shamokin Dam Borough has been directed by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources to cease connection to sewers tributary to the pump station. The Borough recognizes that correction of the problem will take time and that with each element of correction some sewer capacity will become available for use. In the interest of fairness to all those who will seek the limited capacity to be made available by corrections to the system and to assure that such capacity is used and not returned for speculation, the Borough deems it necessary to regulate the awarding and use of the finite sewer capacity in the Shamokin Dam Borough sewer system that tributaries to the Eastern Snyder County Regional Authority (ESCRA) pump station. Another part of the Borough sewer system, hereinafter called the "gravity tributary" is not subject to capacity limitations.

(Ord 91-4, 4/22/1991, §1; as amended by Ord. 2014-5, 6/2/2014, §3)