ADMINISTRATION
The Administration Department oversees the operations of the Township's departments and acts as a liaison between the residents of the township and the Board of Commissioners. The Administration Department is responsible for coordinating departmental activities, monitoring township expenditures and revenues, providing customer service, creating community publications, performing human resource and risk management, processing accounts payable/receivable, and payroll, and managing employee benefits.
DOG LICENSES
Dog Licenses are required by Dauphin County and are sold by the Township after January 1 through March 31. Licenses can also be purchased at the Dauphin County Court House and the Humane Society.
WARD MAP AND POLLING PLACES
WARD 4 POLLING PLACE: Dauphin County has changed the polling place for Ward 4 residents. The new polling place is the Living Water Community Church, 206 Oakleigh Avenue, Harrisburg, PA.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM
The purpose of this web page is to help foster public awareness regarding Swatara Township’s implementation of the Municipal ‘separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) as part of the Federal Phase II Stormwater Management Program.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
In 2003, Swatara Township became a Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) under the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit regulations.
These state regulations enabled Swatara Township to establish its own Stormwater Management Program. This program adopted the DEP-approved Act 167 plan, which adopted DEP’s protocols.
The DEP’s protocols provide our township with suitable guidelines to design a local program that address the DEP’s six Best Management Practices (or BMP’s), which are also known as “control measures.” These six BMP’s are designed to reduce the discharge of pollutants from MS4s, to the maximum extend practicable, to protect water quality, and to satisfy the appropriate requirements of the federal Clean Water Act. The six BMP categories are:
· Public Education & Outreach Control Measure.
· Public Participation & Involvement Control Measure.
· Illicit Discharge Detection & Elimination Control Measure.
· Construction Site Stormwater Runoff Control Measure.
· Post Construction Stormwater Management in New Development & Redevelopment Control Measure.
· Pollution Prevention and Good Housekeeping for Municipal Operations & Maintenance Control Measure.
The federal regulations provide flexibility within these six categories of BMP’s.
If anyone is seeking any information or have issues regarding stormwater, please contact Paul K. Cornell, Administrator, 717-564-2551.
Please contact Swatara Township if you witness a pollution incident that is impacting a storm sewer system or surface waterway, or even if it threatens a storm sewer system or waterway (such as if you see an oil spill that could enter the storm sewer if it rains). We can be reached at 717-564-2551.
Please visit these websites for more information regarding stormwater.