(a) No person, firm or corporation shall discharge or cause to be discharged, either directly or indirectly, any storm water, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water or unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary sewer.
(1) Any connections made either before or after the effective date of this chapter shall be considered illegal and shall be subject to immediate removal by the owner of the premise so connected and at such owner's expense.
(2) Should the owner of an illegally connected premise fail to remove the connection within ninety days, the City shall cause the connection to be removed per Section 933.06(p).
(b) No sewer, or system of sewers, shall be constructed, which connects either directly or indirectly to sanitary sewerage facilities controlled by the City until the owner of the sewer, or system of sewers, can demonstrate to the City that quality of the wastewater to be conveyed by this sewer can meet the requirements of Section 933.09.
(c) No person, firm or corporation shall discharge or cause to discharge to any natural outlet or storm sewer any sanitary sewage or other polluted waters. Effluent from privately owned individual household disposal devices shall not be discharged to storm sewers.
(d) Storm water and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged into sewers which are specifically designed and designated as storm sewers or to a combined sewer or a natural outlet approved by the City.
(e) No person, firm, corporation or municipality constructing a sanitary sewer, building or house connection, shall leave same open, unsealed or incomplete in such a fashion as to permit storm, surface or subsurface water to enter the sewers.
(f) No person shall open, enter or allow to remain open, any manhole in any public sewer without a permit from the City of Ashtabula.
(Ord. 2016-50. Passed 3-21-2016.)