(A) Public wastewater collection facilities are required to be used for the deposit of human wastes, garbage, or other liquid wastes that cannot be discharged into a receiving stream or disposed of in any other manner in accordance with federal and state statutes and state administrative regulations and approved by the state’s Environmental Protection Agency.
(B) No building or facility shall be connected to any sewer unless the entire property on which the building or facility is situated is located within the corporate limits of the village, except as provided in § 52.24.
(C) No person shall place, deposit, or discharge, or cause to be placed, deposited, or discharged, upon public or privately-owned property, any wastewaters within the corporate limits of the village unless done so within adequately sized holding facilities approved by all applicable federal, state, and local agencies.
(D) No person shall deposit or discharge, or cause to be deposited or discharged, to any wastewater collection facilities, any solid, liquid, or gaseous waste unless through a connection approved under the terms of this chapter.
(E) No person shall discharge any sewage, waste material, industrial waste, or any polluted water into a stream or in the air or onto the land, except where the person has made and provided for treatment of such wastes which will render the content of such wastes’ discharge in accordance with applicable village, state, and federal laws, ordinances, and regulations.
(F) In case of natural outlet discharges, at the time construction of the waste treatment works is commenced, each owner or operator shall furnish the village an approved National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit setting forth the effluent limits to be achieved by such pretreatment facilities and a schedule for achieving compliance with such limits by the required date. The NPDES permit shall be kept on file with the Board of Public Affairs and updated by such information as periodically required by the village, local, state, and/or federal agencies.
(G) Any person owning property within the corporate limits of the village and the property is improved with one or more residences, houses, buildings or structures for or intended for human use, occupancy, employment, or any other similar purpose whatever, and the property abuts on any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there is located a sewer within 100 feet from the nearest property line, shall, within 90 days after such sewer is in service, at his or her expense, install suitable toilet and waste disposal facilities in the residences, houses, buildings, or structures and connect the facilities with the sewer in accordance with the terms and provisions of this chapter; provided, however, that in the event compliance with this section causes economic hardship to the person, he or she may apply to the village for exemption. An application for exemption shall state in detail the circumstances which are claimed to cause the economic hardship. Exemptions shall only be granted to residential users and shall not apply to commercial and industrial users. Any connection to the sewer under this chapter shall be made only if the village determines that there is capacity, including BOD and TSS capacity available in all downstream sewer lift stations and sewer lines and in the treatment plant.
(H) Persons described in divisions (E) through (G) above shall not avoid connection to the sewer by reason of the actual distance between the building or structure and the connecting point of the sewer line.
(I) Whenever sanitary sewers or portions thereof are laid at the expense of the village without the cost of such line or lines being paid for, or assessed against, all the property owners abutting such line and benefitted thereby, the owner of any of the abutting property to be serviced by such line or lines and for which property the cost thereof has not been paid or assessed shall pay his or her pro rata share of such line or lines before tapping therein.
(Ord. 1983-15, passed 12-5-1983) Penalty, see § 52.99