(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, permit to be deposited or discharge to any natural outlet within the city or any area under the jurisdiction of the city 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 within the corporate limits of the city.
(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 stormwater, 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 city and abutting on any street, alley, right-of-way or easement in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary or combined sewer of the city, 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 city from entering into an agreement between the city and any industrial discharger whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength or character may be accepted by the city 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 their building to the public sewer. It shall be the responsibility of the property owner to pay for the cost of maintaining their sewer lateral from the building to the where it connects to the public sewer.
(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 Wastewater Department to meet all requirements of new sanitary sewer laterals.
(K) The Wastewater Department shall develop and submit to the Board for approval written construction standards for the construction of sewer laterals, sewer mains, manholes and other appurtenances that are connected to the City of Butler sewer system. The Wastewater Department shall revise the construction standards as appropriate and on a regular basis.
(L) The construction of all sewers, components, systems or private sewers that connect to the Butler sewer system shall comply with the requirements of the Wastewater Department’s construction 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 Butler sewer system.
(M) The construction of combined sewers is prohibited. All new sewers constructed within the Butler wastewater system must be constructed as separate sanitary sewers or as separate storm sewers per the standards described.
(N) Any new building connection that may contribute inflow or clear water to an existing combined sewer must be approved by the Superintendent before construction and must be made separate and distinct from the sanitary waste connection to facilitate disconnection of the inflow or clear water connection if and when a separate storm sewer subsequently becomes available.
(O) When required by the Superintendent, the owner of any property served by a building sewer (lateral) carrying industrial wastes or commercial wastes shall install one or more suitable control manholes in the building sewer to facilitate observation, sampling, and measurement of wastes. Such manholes, when required, shall be accessibly and safely located, and shall be constructed in accordance with plans approved by the Superintendent. The manholes shall be installed by the owner at his expense, and shall be maintained by him to be safe and accessible at all times.
(P) All measurements, tests, and analyses of the characteristics of wastewater shall be determined in accordance with the current edition “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Sewage” or the methods in the current version of 40 C.F.R. 136, and shall be determined at the control manhole or on suitable samples taken at that control manhole. In the event no special manhole has been required, the control manhole shall be considered to be the nearest downstream manhole in the public sewer to the point in which the building sewer is connected.
(Ord. 710, passed 9-7-71; Am. Ord. 1260, passed 5-20-96; Am. Ord. 1476, passed 6-18-07; Am. Ord. 1639, passed 12-19-16) Penalty, see § 52.999