The owners of all homes, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, business, recreation or other purposes, situated within the town and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which is located a public sewer of the town within 150 feet of the property line, is hereby required, at their sole expense, to install suitable toilet facilities and drains therein and to connect such facilities and drains by building sewer directly to such public sewer, in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter.
(A) Therefore, it shall be unlawful for any person to discharge any sewage or permit any sewage to be discharged in any natural outlet within the town or under the jurisdiction of the town.
(B) Therefore, it shall be unlawful for any person to construct or maintain any septic tank, cesspool, privy vault, privy or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage, human or animal excrement or other objectionable waste.
(C) It shall be unlawful to discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof run-off, subsurface drainage, cooling water or unpolluted industrial process waters to any public sewer, except when said public sewer is classified as combined or storm sewer.
(D) It shall be unlawful to discharge or cause to be discharged to any public sewer any harmful waters or wastes, whether liquid, solid or gas, capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers; damage or hazard to structures, equipment and personnel of the sewer works; or other interference with the proper operation of the sewage works.
(E) Grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be provided when, in the opinion of the Inspector, they are necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing grease in excessive amounts, any flammable wastes, sand or other harmful ingredients, except that such interceptors shall not be required for private living quarters or dwelling units. When installed, they shall be maintained by the owner, at his or her expense, and continuously operate efficiently at all times.
(F) The admission into public sewers of any waters having harmful or objectionable characteristics shall be subject to the review and approval of the Superintendent, who may prescribe limits on the strength and character of these waters or wastes. When necessary, in the opinion of the Superintendent, the owner shall provide, at his or her expense, such preliminary treatments as may be necessary to heat these wastes prior to discharge to the public sewer. Plans, specifications and any other pertinent information relating to proposed treatment facilities shall be submitted for approval by said Superintendent and the State Department of Environmental Management, and no construction of said facilities shall commence until said approvals are obtained in writing. Where preliminary treatment facilities are provided for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained continuously in satisfactory and effective operation by the owner at said owner’s expense.
(G) (1) When required by the Superintendent, the owner of any property served by a building sewer carrying industrial waste shall maintain at his or her expense a suitable control manhole in the building sewer to facilitate observation, sampling and measurement of waste.
(2) All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of waters and wastes shall be determined in accordance with Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Sewage and shall be determined at the control manhole or upon suitable samples taken at said control manhole.
(3) In the event that no special control manhole has been required, the control manhole shall be considered to be the nearest downstream manhole in the public sewer to the point at which the building sewer is connected.
(Am. Ord. 4, 2018, passed 5-21-2019) Penalty, see § 50.99