CONNOQUENESSING TWP — Residents of the Golden L mobile home park are once again facing eviction unless the park's owner repairs malfunctioning sewage systems at the 7-acre park.

Supervisors Wednesday night voted 3-0 to revoke the permit and fine the Golden L's owner, Faye Bennett, $2,000 per week until the systems are repaired or the mobile home park is closed. Bennett must also pay attorney's fees and court costs, plus interest.

The decision denies Bennett's appeal of a March 1 decision by supervisors that also revoked the park's sewage permit for the violating state law on the disposal of sewage.

Under the law, human excrement or material containing human excrement cannot be placed, buried or otherwise disposed where it is likely to gain access to groundwater.

Bennett has 30 days to appeal the supervisors' decision.

The township's legal action against Bennett and the mobile home park began in December 2004 when supervisors fined Bennett $1,000 per week for not repairing a septic tank that became clogged and overflowed into toilets and the soil.

Since then, the park installed a sand mound septic system to serve five trailers with malfunctioning systems. But since the initial repair, legal troubles with the township regarding the disposal of sewage have continued.

After voting Wednesday, supervisors agreed that sewage overflows continue, as do repairs that do not include permits.

Board chairman Steve Misko said Golden L's sewage system is a "catastrophic failure" that, based on testimony at the Nov. 20 appeal hearing, is ongoing.

He said testimony by Justin Herp, manager of the mobile home park, that he is continuing to make repairs to the system is evidence of system malfunctions.

Supervisor Ray Kroll said that during visits to the park just off of Route 422 he has watched as sewage puddled between homes.

At the hearing, Golden L attorney William Robinson Jr. argued that the park's previous sewage problems that caused sewage to overflow have been solved and the system is no longer discharging sewage.

Elizabeth Speicher, a certified sewage enforcement officer who testified on behalf of the mobile home park, said that dye testing as recently as September showed no surface discharges.

Speicher, who also designed the mobile home park's sand mound system, testified that she did not perform any lab tests to determine the presence of sewage.

But Colleen Martin, the township's sewage enforcement officer, testified that even though the dye tests did not show any discharging sewage, lab tests were needed.

Thomas Hartwig, an engineer with Malcolm Pirnie, testified at the November hearing that the type of soil at the mobile home park makes the location unsuitable for the type of on-lot systems it currently has.

About 30 of Golden L's 32 units are occupied.

Neither Bennett nor Herp attended Wednesday's meeting.