(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, permit to be deposited or discharge to any natural outlet within the town, or any area under the jurisdiction of the town, any sanitary, commercial, industrial or polluted wastewaters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with this chapter.
(B) Except as herein provided, no person shall construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other wastewater treatment facility intended or used for the treatment and/or disposal of sewage.
(C) No person shall construct, repair, modify or alter a sewer lateral, public sewer, manhole or other sewer system appurtenance without first obtaining a permit from the Superintendent.
(D) No person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure, appurtenance, pipe or equipment which is part of the sewage system.
(E) No person shall discharge, or cause to be discharged, any storm water, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, parking lot runoff, cooling water or unpolluted industrial process waters into any sanitary sewer.
(F) The owners of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purpose situated in the town, and abutting any street, alley, right-of-way or easement in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary sewer of the town, are hereby required at their own expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities and industrial waste outlets directly with the public sewer in accordance with this chapter within 90 days after the date of official notice to do so, provided that such public sewer is within 300 feet of the property line.
(G) No statement contained in this chapter shall be construed as preventing the town from entering into an agreement between the town and any industrial discharger whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength or character may be accepted by the town for treatment subject to payment for treatment services by the industrial discharger.
(H) It shall be the responsibility of the property owner to pay for the cost of constructing the sewer lateral from the building to the public sewer. It shall be the responsibility of the property owner to pay for the cost of maintaining the sewer lateral from the building to the limit of the public right-of-way or easement of the public sewer. The town is responsible for the maintenance and repair of the sewer lateral from the right-of-way or easement line to the public sewer main including the sewer lateral fitting which connects the sewer lateral to the public main.
(I) A separate and independent sanitary sewer lateral shall be provided for each and every building, except present sewer structures in use; and except that where one building stands at the rear of another on the same lot and no sanitary sewer can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court, yard or driveway, the sewer lateral from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole sewer lateral considered as one sewer lateral for the single property.
(J) Old building sanitary sewer laterals may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found on examination and testing by the Superintendent to meet all requirements of new sanitary sewer laterals.
(K) The Superintendent shall develop and submit to the Town Council for approval written construction standards for the construction of sewer laterals, sewer mains, manholes and other appurtenances which are connected to the town sewer system. The Superintendent shall revise the construction standards as appropriate and on a regular basis.
(L) The construction of all sewers, components, systems or private sewers which connect to the town’s sewer system shall comply with the requirements of the town’s standards. The acceptance of the applicability of these standards to all sewers shall be considered part of the terms for the approval of connection to the town’s sewer system.
(Ord. 2021-03, passed 6-14-2021) Penalty, see § 54.999