Sewage in Second Class Townships

Gafford, Deputy Attorney General,

This department is in receipt of your communication reinstating a former request for an opinion as to whether the Sanitary Water Board has the authority to require the supervisors of a second class township, the population of which discharges sewage into the waters of the Commonwealth, to abate such discharge or to submit for the approval of the board plans for the construction of sewers or a sewer system and a sewage disposal works, or a plant for the treatment of such sewage. In the latter instance, it would follow that after the approval of the submitted…