(a) It shall be unlawful to discharge into any natural outlet within Canal Winchester, Ohio, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said Municipality, any wastewater or other polluted waters.
(b) It shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of wastewater without first obtaining the required permits from the Municipality.
(c) No person, firm, or corporation shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water, or unpolluted industrial process water to any sanitary sewer.
(d) It shall be unlawful to discharge into the building sanitary sewer, the surface water which collects in basement or foundation excavations. If the building sanitary sewer is complete before the plumbing can be connected thereto, the builder or sewer tapper shall keep the end of the building sanitary sewer tightly closed with a plumber’s plug or other watertight plug.
(e) The owner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within the Municipality and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary or combined sewer of the Municipality, is hereby required at the owner’s expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly to the proper public sewer in accordance with the rules and regulations within thirty days after date of official notice to do so, provide the foundation wall of the structure from which sewage or other wastes originated is less than 200 feet from the nearest boundary of the right-of-way within which the sewer is located.
(f) No person, firm, or corporation shall be permitted to connect to or discharge wastewater to the Canal Winchester, Ohio, sewage system unless it has been determined by the Municipality that there is sufficient capacity in the system to collect, convey, and treat the proposed wastewater discharge of such person, firm, or corporation.
(g) No person shall discharge any wastewater treatment plant effluent, cooling water, or unpolluted water into any separate storm sewer or watercourse unless such discharge is authorized by an NPDES permit or is exempt from NPDES permit regulations and is not otherwise prohibited by this section.
(h) No person shall place any dam or other flow restricting structure or device in any drainage facility or watercourse without first having obtained approval from the Municipal Engineer.
(i) No person shall place or deposit into any outfall, drainage facility, storm sewer or watercourse within the Municipality any garbage, trash, yard waste, soil, rock or similar material, or any other substance which obstructs flow in the system or damages the system or interferes with the proper operation of the system or which constitutes a nuisance or a hazard to the public.
(Ord. 41-05. Passed 5-2-05.)