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Pennsylvania Code (Last Updated: April 5, 2016) |
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Title 25. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION |
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PART I. Department of Environmental Protection |
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Subpart C. Protection of Natural Resources |
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Article I. Land Resources |
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Chapter 73. Standards for Onlot Sewage Treatment Facilities |
| Section 73.1. Definitions |
| Section 73.2. Scope |
| Section 73.3. Policy |
| Section 73.11. General |
| Section 73.12. Site location |
| Section 73.13. Minimum horizontal isolation distances |
| Section 73.14. Site investigation |
| Section 73.15. Percolation tests |
| Section 73.16. Absorption and spray field area requirements |
| Table A. Minimum Aggregate Absorption Area Requirements for Treatment Tank Effluent: |
| Table B. |
| Section 73.17. Sewage flows |
| Section 73.21. Specifications |
| Section 73.22. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.23. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.31. Standards for septic tanks |
| Section 73.32. Standards for aerobic treatment tanks |
| Section 73.33. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.34. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.35. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.41. General |
| Section 73.42. Gravity distribution |
| Section 73.43. Pressurized distribution |
| Section 73.44. Pressurized distribution design |
| Section 73.45. Dosing tanks |
| Section 73.46. Dosing pumps, siphons and lift pumps |
| Section 73.47. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.51. General |
| Section 73.52. Standard trenches |
| Section 73.53. Seepage beds |
| Section 73.54. Subsurface sand filter beds and trenches |
| Section 73.55. Elevated sand mounds |
| Section 73.61. General |
| Section 73.62. Standards for holding tanks |
| Section 73.63. Standards for privies |
| Section 73.64. Chemical toilet or other portable toilet |
| Section 73.65. Recycling toilet, incinerating toilet or composting toilet |
| Section 73.66. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.71. Experimental sewage systems |
| Section 73.72. Alternate sewage systems |
| Section 73.73. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.74. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.75. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.76. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.77. General requirements for bonded disposal systems |
| Section 73.81. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.82. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.83. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.84. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.91. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.101. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.111. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.121. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.131. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.141. [Reserved] |
| Section 73.151. Standards for financial assurances |
| Section 73.161. General |
| Section 73.162. Intermittent sand filters |
| Section 73.163. Spray fields |
| Section 73.164. Chlorine contact/storage tanks |
| Section 73.165. Disinfection |
| Section 73.166. Design of pressure distribution for individual residential spray irrigation systems |
| Section 73.167. Operation and maintenance |
| Appendix A. [Reserved] |
| Appendix B. [Reserved] |
Notation
The provisions of this Chapter 73 issued under section 1920-A of The Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P. S. § 510-20); sections 5 and 402 of The Clean Streams Law (35 P. S. § § 691.5 and 691.402); and section 9 of the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act (35 P. S. § 750.9), unless otherwise noted.
The provisions of this Chapter 73 amended through January 21, 1983, effective January 22, 1983, 13 Pa.B. 508, unless otherwise noted.
This chapter applies only to subsurface absorption areas or retention in holding tanks and thus is inapplicable to the proposed above ground spray irrigation system. Haycock Township v. Department of Environmental Resources, 530 A.2d 514 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1987); appeal denied 544 A.2d 1343 (Pa. 1988).
This chapter cited in 6 Pa. Code § 21.27 (relating to domiciliary care home certification and recertification standards); 7 Pa. Code § 49.45 (relating to sewage); 7 Pa. Code § 78.73 (relating to sewage disposal); 7 Pa. Code § 82.10 (relating to sewage disposal); 25 Pa. Code § 71.21 (relating to content of official plans); 25 Pa. Code § 71.62 (relating to individual and community onlot sewage systems); 25 Pa. Code § 71.73 (relating to sewage management programs for sewage facilities permitted by local agencies); 25 Pa. Code § 72.2 (relating to scope); 25 Pa. Code § 72.21 (relating to general); 25 Pa. Code § 72.33 (relating to well isolation distance exemption); 25 Pa. Code § 171.5 (relating to sewage disposal); 25 Pa. Code § 302.103 (relating to scope); 28 Pa. Code § 18.5 (relating to sewage disposal); 28 Pa. Code § 19.6 (relating to sewage disposal); and 28 Pa. Code § 20.22 (relating to sewer connection); 34 Pa. Code § 403.1 (relating to scope); and 34 Pa. Code § 403.21 (relating to Uniform Construction Code).