Opinion

Greater Greensburg Sewage Authority v. Hempfield Township

  • 5 Pa. Commw. 495
  • 291 A.2d 318
  • 1972 Pa. Commw. LEXIS 514
Court
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Filed
May 26, 1972
Status
Published
Author
Rogers
On the bench
Blatt, Bowman, Crumlish, Kramer, Mencer, Rogers, Wilkinson
Cited by
16 cases
Authority
More cited than 9.0%

invalidating as in conflict with the Sewage Facilities Act an ordinance requiring the authority to obtain a license before dumping sludge in accordance with a permit and letter authorization of the county department of health

How later courts described this case

  • invalidating as in conflict with the Sewage Facilities Act an ordinance requiring the authority to obtain a license before dumping sludge in accordance with a permit and letter authorization of the county department of health

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

*503 Concurring Opinion by

Judge Rogers :

I concur with, what the court has here done and with most of what it writes. I do not concur, however, with the implication of the concluding paragraphs of the majority opinion that by reason of asserted preemption by the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act, 35 P.S. §750.1, et seq., and the Solid Waste Management Act, 35 P.S. §6001, et seq., a municipality may not impose its zoning regulations upon an Authority’s activity of dumping sludge or other solid waste. Upper Dublin Township Authority v. Piszek, 420 Pa. 536 , 218 A. 2d 328 (1966). See also School District of Philadelphia v. Zoning Board of Adjustment, 417 Pa. 277 , 207 A. 2d 864 (1965).

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