East Norriton Township will be performing  sewer line smoke testing.  For more information on these tests click here.

 East Norriton Township maintains about 60 miles of underground sewer lines and nine (9) sanitary sewer pumping stations located throughout the Township. The township's sewer facilities transport and pump an average of 1.8 million gallons of effluent per "dry" day to the Authority's treatment plant located in Plymouth. There the sewage is treated, processed and ultimately discharged into the Schuylkill River at that location. However, during heavy rain storms the system transports far in excess of its capacity and occasionally we experience "overflows" at one or the other pumping stations. The township continues to address this very serious environmental concern, but seeks the assistance of all of the property owners. Unfortunately some property owners continue to discharge "wet basements" into the sewer lines through sump pumps which are illegally connected to the house laterals which empty into the sewer mains located in the streets. It is not uncommon that the system during steady, heavy rains process in excess of 5 million gallons of "water effluent" per day. Since our payments to the Joint Sewer Authority are based on the amount of sewage we deliver to the plant, our sewer rental charges will continue to rise unless we address the serious sewage infiltration problems together.

The Township had contacted the property owners in the west end of the Township advising that it is illegal to connect sump pumps to the sanitary sewer system but it did not appear to have helped reduce the flows during rain events. The Township aggressively pursued an I&I study utilizing ARRO Engineers who televised all of the Township's main lines as well as the lateral lines on each property. Based on the televising performed, it appears that a significant amount of the I&I is generated from leaking sewer lateral lines.

Sub Basins #3, #5 and #6

The Board of Supervisors held a public meeting on August 28, 2006 with the initial affected property owners and reviewed the I&I study process that took place, the results of the I&I study and the necessary repairs to these leaking sewer lateral lines which are the responsibility of the private property owners.

Following the public meeting on August 28, 2006, letters with detailed individual repair reports were mailed to "Priority A" properties on September 22, 2006 outlining the repairs which must be made to their sanitary sewer laterals because of the Inflow and Infiltration problems. These same letters and the individual repair reports were then mailed to "Priority B" and "Priority C" properties.

On October 24, 2006, the Board of Supervisors held a public meeting with the "Priority A" property owners where ARRO provided a presentation on how the repair process will work and answered some frequently asked questions. ARRO explained that the Township had contracted with a private contractor to perform this work if the property owners so desire. As part of the project, residents had the option to select either the Township contractor or their own contractor to perform the repair work.

As of September 2008, all repairs have been made and this project is complete.

Sub Basins #2 and #4

Now that the necessary sewer lateral repairs have been made in the original three (3) sub basins (#3, #5, & #6), the Township has now started the same process for Sub Basins #2 & #4. On July 28, 2008, letters were mailed to every property owner in the 2 sub basins notifying them that ARRO Engineers will be contacting them to perform a property inspection to determine if illegal connections to the sanitary sewer system exist. The Township will also begin the process of televising the sewer lateral pipes for each property to determine the condition of these underground pipes.

• View the map of the Sub Basins in the Germantown Pike Pump Station drainage area.