No landowner, tenant nor lessee shall use or allow to be used land or structures in a way that threatens to or creates any of the following conditions:

Township Removal of Hazards. If the Zoning Officer becomes aware of a serious threat to the public health and safety, the Zoning Officer may, but is not required to, order the property owner to resolve the hazard. If the hazard is not resolved within a reasonable specified period of time after such notice, the Township may remove the hazard or contract for its removal. In such case, the property owner shall be required to compensate the Township for all such expenses for such work and any reasonable accompanying legal and administrative costs. However, the Township does not take responsibility for identifying or removing all hazards.

All permits of the Township are issued on the condition that the applicant complies with federal and state wetlands regulations, and such permits may be revoked or suspended by the Zoning Officer for noncompliance with such regulations.

Seeps, Vernal Pools, Wetlands, and Springs. In any area suspected of possibly including a spring, vernal pool, wetland, or seep, the Zoning Officer may request the applicant to have field research conducted on the property to identify and map any seeps, vernal pools, wetlands, or springs.

Setbacks. A minimum setback of 50 feet shall be required between any new principal building for which a building permit is issued after the effective date of this chapter and any identified seep, vernal pool, or spring and any delineated "wetland." A minimum fifty-foot setback shall also apply between the cartway of a proposed street and any seep, vernal pool, spring or wetland.

Floodplains. All uses and structures shall comply with the Salisbury Township Floodplain Ordinance (Chapter 8) as a condition of this chapter.

Setbacks from Surface Waterways. No building, off-street parking or commercial or industrial storage or display area shall be located within 100 feet of the top edge of the primary bank of a major surface waterway and 75 feet of the top edge of a minor surface waterway. Current field generated topography for the site, including the top of embankment and the normal water surface elevations, shall be provided when requested by the Township to determine the actual setback locations. Major surface waters are defined as the Lehigh River. Minor surface waters are defined as the Little Lehigh Creek, Trout Run Creek and Cedar Creek.

Exemption. The setbacks of this section shall not apply to public utility facilities or publicly owned recreational facilities.

Setback Areas and Construction. During any filling, grading or construction activity, all reasonable efforts shall be made to leave the setback areas of this section undisturbed, except at approved approximately perpendicular crossings.

See the requirements of the State Fire Code, as amended.

Waterways.

Contingency Plans. Any use that will involve the manufacture, storage or handling of hazardous substances (as defined in Part 2) or that will involve the use of toxic substances shall only be allowed if the applicant files a copy of a current emergency preparedness, prevention and contingency plan (EPPC) with the Township Zoning Officer and Emergency Management Coordinator. The EPPC shall meet all state requirements for EPPC plan preparation and shall, at a minimum, protect the tributary waterway from uncontrolled discharges during the 100-year storm. The Township Zoning Officer may request the EPPC be reviewed by the Township Engineer for design adequacy if necessary.

All hazardous substances shall be properly labeled.

All manufacture and/or storage of hazardous materials (current State of Pennsylvania definition) shall meet all state and federal requirements.

No use shall generate a sound level exceeding the limits established in the table below, when measured at the specified locations:

For any source of sound which emits a pure tone, the maximum sound level limits set forth in the above table shall be reduced by five dBA.

Noise Exceptions. The maximum permissible sound level limits set forth in the above table shall not apply to any of the following noise sources:

Odors and Dust. No use shall generate odors or dust that is significantly offensive to persons of average sensitivities beyond the boundaries of the subject lot. This restriction shall not apply to odors or dust created by permitted agricultural uses that are using normal farming practices within Act 133 of 1982, as amended, the State Right to Farm Act, 3 P.S. § 951 et seq.; or an official agricultural security area. This odor restriction shall apply to uses that do not follow the farming practices referenced in those state laws, such as if manure is not plowed under within a reasonable period of time.

Air and Water Pollution. All uses shall comply with federal and state air and water pollution regulations as a condition of any Township permit.

Streetlighting Exempted. This section shall not apply to streetlighting that is owned, financed or maintained by the Township or the state.

All streets, off-street parking areas and driveways, except a driveway and off-street parking area accessory to a single-family detached dwelling, a semidetached dwelling (twin) or a single-family attached dwelling (townhouse), shall be illuminated adequately during the hours between sunset and sunrise when the use is in operation. Such minimum lighting on all parking spaces shall be one footcandle. A higher level of illumination may be required by the Township, based upon the most-current I.E.S. Lighting Handbook.

Adequate shielding on the luminaire or buffer planting shall be provided to protect adjacent residential properties from the glare of such illumination and from that of automobile headlights using such streets, off-street parking areas and driveways.

Parking lot and streetlighting standards luminaires that are within 300 feet of a residential lot line shall have a mounting height of 20 feet or less above finished grade. Elsewhere, lighting standards shall have a mounting height of 30 feet or less above finished grade.

Definitions. "Mounting height" is hereby defined as the distance that the bottom of the luminaire is above the finished grade. "Luminaire" is defined as the light unit on a lighting standard. The vertical dimension of the luminaire shall not exceed 36 inches.

At any property boundary which abuts a residential lot line, the illumination level from the luminaire shall not exceed 1/2 footcandle. No light source shall be visible at a point 50 feet from the lot line at a height of more than four feet above grade.

It shall be noted that additional approval by PPL is required for PPL installation, but Township approval shall not be contingent upon approval by PPL.

Spotlights shall not be directed from one property into an abutting dwelling or onto the porches of an abutting dwelling.

Placement. Whenever reasonable, commercial, industrial and institutional outdoor machinery that could create a noise nuisance shall be placed towards a side of a building that does not face an abutting existing dwelling, residential district, school or other noise-sensitive use.

Safety. General types of toxic, biological, electrical and other significant hazards involving stationary outdoor machinery and storage shall be marked with signs.

Solid Waste Containers.

Fencing of Outdoor Storage and Machinery. The following shall be secured by fencing or walls that are reasonably adequate to make it extremely difficult for children under the age of nine to enter, unless the applicant proves in writing to the satisfaction of the Zoning Officer that such fencing or walls are not needed:

No use shall routinely cause electrical, radio or electromagnetic disturbances to equipment on other lots, except for overhead electric lines that comply with Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission standards.

No radioactive wastes shall be disposed of in any district, and no radioactive wastes shall be stored on a lot for longer than 90 days after their active use is completed. See also Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection regulations.

Cutting Trees Prior to Construction.

Tree Harvesting. Tree harvesting shall be permitted in all zoning districts in accordance with the provisions of the Salisbury Township Tree Maintenance, Removal, and Replacement Ordinance (Chapter 25) and all other provisions of this chapter.

This § 27-515 shall regulate new or increased groundwater or spring water withdrawals averaging more than 10,000 gallons per day from a lot for off-site consumption.

The regulations of this § 27-515 shall not apply to any of the following:

If the water will be trucked off site, the applicant shall provide a written report by a professional engineer with substantial experience in traffic engineering. Such study shall analyze the suitability of the area street system to accommodate the truck traffic that will be generated.

If the water will be trucked off site, any area used for loading or unloading of tractor-trailer trucks shall be set back a minimum of 150 feet from any adjacent residential lot.

Any bottling or processing operations shall be considered a distinct use and shall only be allowed if "food or beverage manufacturing" is an allowed use under § 27-306.

Any zoning permit is conditioned upon receiving approval, as applicable, from the Delaware River Basin Commission.