(A) Notification by District. When a public sanitary sewer becomes available to a property served by a private wastewater disposal system, or when a public sanitary sewer becomes available to a non-district wastewater collection system, the District shall provide notification to the owner of such property.
(B) Application procedures for new connections. Upon notification by the District that the public sanitary sewer is available to a residential or non-residential property, the owner can obtain a permit for connection to the public sanitary sewer. To obtain a permit for connection, the owner of such property shall make application for connection to the public sanitary sewer as follows:
(1) If the owner of a residential or non-residential property is a resident of the District:
(a) The owner must apply to SCWSD in Camden, N.C.
(c) All required fees must be paid prior to the issuance of any permits by the District.
(d) The Building Inspector requires a clean-out inspection of the sewer system for the residential or non-residential property, in order to issue a certificate of occupancy (CO), the inspection will not be approved nor the certificate of occupancy (CO) issued until such time as the owner submits all documents and payment for all applicable fees and charges to the district.
(e) The owner shall be responsible for all fees until such time as notification of change in ownership of the property is made to the District. Upon notification of a change in ownership, a new application for service shall be made by the new owner in accordance with divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section.
(2) If the owner of a residential or non-residential parcel resides outside the District, and/or a contractor, developer or other party will be obtaining a permit on behalf of the owner, the following application procedures shall be required:
(a) Upon payment of all required fees, the contractor, developer or other party may obtain a permit on behalf of the owner.
(b) The contractor, developer or other party shall provide the mailing address of the owner so that all required documents may be mailed directly to the owner for completion. A service fee set from time to time may be charged to cover the cost of mailing the documents.
(c) The owner must complete, sign and have notarized all required documents and return the documents to the District in Camden, NC, within 30 days from the date of notification by the District.
(d) The Building Inspector requires a clean-out inspection of the sewer system for the residential or non-residential property, in order to issue a certificate of occupancy (CO), the inspection will not be approved nor the certificate of occupancy (CO) issued until such time as the owner submits all documents and payment for all applicable fees and charges to the district.
(e) The owner shall be responsible for all fees until such time as notification of change in ownership of the property is made to the District. Upon notification of a change in ownership, a new application for service shall be made by the new owner in accordance with divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section.
(C) Application procedures for changes in service.
(1) The owner must notify the District of the following:
(a) Change in ownership;
(b) Request for change in billing methods;
(c) Transfer of ownership between properties within the District; and
(d) Request for termination of service.
(2) The owner may notify the District in person or by telephone of any changes in service. If notification is made by telephone, the District will mail all required documents to the owner for completion and required signatures. If applicable, an administrative fee set from time to time will be applied to the owner’s account. If fees, other than the administrative fee, are required in accordance with §§ 52.105 through 52.112, the owner must complete and sign all required documents and all required fees paid as specified in division (B) of this section.
(D) Installation of the connection. Most connections to the public sanitary sewer will require the construction and addition of a service line, a connection (tap) and a cleanout. The responsibilities for provision of these elements are separately discussed below and further requirements are stated in §§ 52.025 through 52.033.
(1) Service line. The owner is solely responsible for constructing the service line that connects each building to the public sanitary sewer.
(2) Connection (tap).
(a) Upon a single-family residential owner’s payment of a sewer service connection fee pursuant to the fee schedule, the District will provide a tap that will provide the owner’s service line access to the sewer lateral.
(b) Connection fees for users other than single-family residential shall be borne by the owner and shall follow the District’s specifications. The District shall be made aware 48 hours prior to construction of the tap to the sewer main so that a representative of the District may be present to inspect the connection.
(3) Sewage meter. In certain cases the District may require the owner to install and pay for a sewage meter in lieu of a water meter; such installation shall be in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the District.
(4) Metal cleanout boxes required. All sewer cleanouts on public and/or private property shall be protected with a cast iron cleanout box for commercial and industrial sewer customers, when applicable. The cleanout stack shall include threaded cleanout cap, or other approved device, under the cast iron cleanout box.
(E) (1) Voluntary requests for connections to the District’s sewer system may arise in several situations: request for District acceptance of a previously constructed sewer system in the District; request for District approval and acceptance of a newly created sewer system in the District; or a developer’s construction in the District’s sewer jurisdiction of an extension connecting his system to the District’s system. The first two cases involve situations in which the private system is presumably adjacent to the District’s existing system; the last case anticipates an applicant’s desire to extend sewer service to an area covered by the District’s master plan in advance of the District’s construction time frame. In all cases, however, the application procedures for District acceptance of a private sewer system remain the same. Consequently, acceptance procedures for all sewer systems are described in § 52.047, while specific additional requirements for extensions are described in § 52.048.
(2) Development located outside the proximity of the District’s sewer system may desire to connect to the District’s sewer transmission/collection system. Such extensions can be approved by the District on a voluntary basis and shall be installed in accordance with the NCDENR standards and specifications.
(F) (1) Tracts of land adjacent to or spanning the limits of the active construction phase of the District sewer plan may receive service through the District provided adequate capacity in the District system and treatment facility is available. Such connection required to provide the service will be temporary. The proposed collection system will be designed to permanently tie into the District system at a future date. All costs of the proposed collection systems and connections to the District systems will be at the expense of the developer. “Adjacent” is defined as a parcel or tract of land within the distance described in Appendix A and shall be within the distance described to a right-of-way containing sewer collection/transmission system owned and operated, or operated on behalf of, the District.
(2) If the proposed development is within the proximity of the District’s sewer transmission/collection system, as described in Appendix A, and a District owned and operated sewer transmission and/or collection main is scheduled to be constructed within a three-year period, the Developer may post a performance bond with the District in an amount necessary to engineer and construct the system required to connect the development with the District’s sewer system in accordance with the NCDENR sewer construction standard specifications and details, in lieu of constructing said connection prior to the District’s sewer system being available.
(G) Reimbursement agreement for developers requesting to extend sewer transmission mains to be connected to the District’s sewer system can be approved by the Board. A developer of land within the prescribed distance of a District sewer/wastewater collection system outlined in Appendix A shall be responsible for all engineering and construction costs associated with the transmission line installation from the development site to the closest point of connection to the District’s system. The closest connection point to the District’s system shall be linearly determined and disputed distances shall be resolved by the Board. Upon completion of construction of the line, said line shall be dedicated to the District for operation and maintenance. The developer that incurs the costs for the construction of the transmission lines shall be eligible for reimbursement up to but not exceeding 100% of the costs associated with construction of the line for a period of 20 years in the following manner:
(1) The District’s minimum standard pipe size for gravity sewer transmission mains shall be eight inches and force main sewer transmission mains shall be four inches (nominal diameter).
(2) When sound engineering demonstrates the proposed development or project requires a sewer transmission greater than described in division (G)(1) then that size becomes the minimum pipe size by which this agreement is based upon;
(3) Once the minimum pipe size is determined, the cost difference shall be determined between the pipe size required to provide sewer service to the proposed development or project and the pipe size required by the District to serve the development or project and others, either existing and/or future. the developer shall be eligible for reimbursement for no more than 100% this cost difference.
(4) The cost difference established in division (G)(3) above shall then be used in determining the reimbursement for which the developer shall be eligible for as related to the betterment, defined as the up-sizing or over-sizing of lines, wet wells, pump stations to a size greater than what is required to serve the individual development or project, as may be required by the District. The developer shall be eligible for no more than 100% of the cost of the betterment;
(5) Each developer that develops a tract of land that is adjacent and accessible to a sewer transmission line constructed by another developer shall pay a pro rata portion equal to one-half of the documented construction cost of the betterment based on the location and distance from the subsequent development site to the original connection point to the District’s system. The distance/length of line upon which the subsequent developers pro rata charges will be based shall be determined by the Board. Pro rata payments collected by the District shall be reimbursed to the initial developer during the 20-year period following completion of construction of the line. In no case shall any developer be reimbursed more than the actual documented construction cost for the original line betterment. Pro rata payments collected by the District that exceed the documented initial construction cost of a particular transmission line shall be retained by the District and used for system upgrades, expansions and payment of debt service. Pro rata transmission line payments shall be submitted to the District by the affected developer(s) prior to connecting to the District’s system.
(6) The term of a reimbursement agreement shall not exceed 20 years from the time of approval by the Board. Reimbursement payments shall be made to the Developer that constructs the initial transmission line, on an annual basis on or before the 31st day of January from capital recovery fees as paid and available.
(Ord. 2005-01-01, passed 2-21-05)