EDITOR’S NOTE: Because of the frequency of change, sewer usage rates are not codified. Copies of the latest relevant legislation may be obtained, at cost, from the Manager.
Section
1044.01 Definitions.
1044.02 Administration.
1044.03 User classification; determination of sewer charges; analysis of waste.
1044.04 Permit required for connection; fees.
1044.05 Qualified contractor to tap main.
1044.06 Sewer connection specifications and standards.
1044.07 Notice of intent to make connection required.
1044.08 Permit for service line; specifications.
1044.09 Repairs.
1044.10 Privies, cesspools prohibited when public sewers available.
1044.11 Downspouts, drains and sump pumps.
1044.12 Disposal of scavenger and septic tank wastes.
1044.13 Regulation of discharges; system standards.
1044.14 Billing; rates and charges.
1044.15 Storm drainage districts and drainage areas.
1044.16 Sanitary Sewer District No. 1.
1044.17 Deduct meter program.
1044.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
Sewerage rates - see Ohio R.C. 729.49, 729.52
Regulations to control house sewers and connections - see Ohio R.C. 729.51
Bathroom facilities to be connected to approved sewer system - see B. & H. 1484.03
Maintenance of utilities - see B. & H. 1486.24
For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
“BOD (biochemical oxygen demand)” means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter, under standard laboratory procedure, in five days at 20°C, expressed in milligrams per liter.
“Building drain” means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and drainage pipes and other similar connections, inside the walls of the building, and conveys it to the building sewer beginning five feet (one and one-half meters) outside the interface of the building.
“Building sewer” means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
“Commercial user” means any user who is not a residential or industrial user.
“Control manhole” means a structure that is accessible for the purposes of maintaining, metering the flow in or collecting samples from a building sewer.
“Cooling water” means the water discharge from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling refrigeration or other source. Such water shall contain no polluting substances which would produce BOD or SS each in excess of ten parts per million by weight, toxic substances as limited in this chapter, or other polluting substances which may be limited in this chapter.
“Discharge” means sewage, water or other liquid flowing out of any residential, commercial or industrial establishment.
“Domestic sewage” and “sanitary sewage” mean sewage derived principally from dwellings, business buildings, industries, institutions and the like, originating as wastes from kitchens, water closets, lavatories, bathrooms and showers.
“Effluent” means sewage, water or other liquid, after some degree of treatment, which is flowing out of any treatment device or facility.
“Garbage” means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
“Grease” and “fats” mean any material which is extractable from an acidified sample of a waste by hexane or other designated solvent.
“Ground garbage” means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has been shredded or comminuted to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely in suspension in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
“Hauler” means any person engaged in the transportation or conveyance of liquid wastes to the Municipal Treatment Plant for disposal.
“House system” and “sewer service line” mean any system of sewers which carries sanitary sewage from a house, apartment building, business place, hospital or other building in the municipality.
“Industrial user” means any manufacturing plant, place of business or similar facility that discharges trade, process or toxic wastewater, or has a daily average flow in excess of 25,000 gallons.
“Influent” means sewage, raw or partly treated, flowing into any sewage treatment device or facility.
“Laboratory determination” means the measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of waters and wastes in accordance with the provisions of 40 CFR, Part 136 - “Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pollutants” or in accordance with other equivalent methods approved by the municipality. These methods are contained in the latest edition of the following publications: Standard Methods for Examination of Water and Wastewater, a joint publication of the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation; ASTM Annual Book of Standards, Part 23 “Water Atmospheric Analysis, 1972,” a publication of the American Society for Testing Materials; and EPA Methods, which means Methods for Chemical Analyses of Water and Wastes, a publication of the Environmental Protection Agency.
“Meter measurement” means the act or result of determining the quantity of water supplies to, or being discharged by, a user and determined by an instrument or device used for such measurement and approved by the municipality.
“mg/l” means milligrams per liter.
“NPDES (national pollutant discharge elimination system) permit” means the same as such is defined in the Code of Federal Regulations, 40 C.F.R., Part 125, and in Pub. Law No. 92- 500, § 402 being 33 U.S.C. § 1342.
“Operation and maintenance” means the process and act of keeping all facilities used for the collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage in a good state of repair and functioning properly, including the replacement of such facilities when necessary.
“Owner” means the owner of record of the premises or the responsible person in control of the premises (i.e. the lessee, and the like) if different than the owner.
“Person” means any individual, firm, company, premises, association, society, corporation, municipality or group.
“pH” means the negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration in moles per liter.
“ppm” means parts per million by weight and/or milligrams per liter.
“Premises accessible to the sanitary sewerage system” means any real estate, building or premises which adjoins, abuts or is adjacent to the public sanitary sewerage system, or any real estate which abuts upon a street, public way or easement containing a public sanitary sewer accessible to the premises or to any structure thereon.
“Pretreatment facilities” means structures, devices or equipment used for removing deleterious wastes from sewage generated from any premises prior to its discharge into a public sewer.
“Public Law 92-500 (Pub. Law No. 92-500, being 33 U.S.C. § 1342)” means the 1972 Amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
“Public Law 95-217 (Pub. Law No. 95-217, being 33 U.S.C. § 1342)” means the 1977 Amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
“Public sewer” means a sewer which is owned and/or controlled by public authority.
“Residential user” means any place of permanent residence, including single-family houses, duplexes, apartments, condominiums, and the like, but excluding temporary residences such as motels, hotels, boarding houses, campgrounds, and the like.
“Sampling” means the periodic collection of sewage as it flows from any premise through a building sewer.
“Scavenger waste” means any liquid waste from sources such as septic tanks, package plants or industrial processes, which waste is removed from premises by means other than a sewer or building drain.
“Sewage” means a combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
“Sewage flow meter” means a device that measures and records the flow of sewage. Such device may also measure the rate of flow.
“Sewage treatment plant” means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
“Sewer” means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
“Sewerage” means all facilities used for the collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
“Slug” means any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which, in the concentration of any given constituent or in the quantity of flow, exceeds for longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24 hour concentration or flow during normal operation.
“Storm drain” and “storm sewer” mean a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, excluding sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
“Surcharge” means that part of the sewer service charge which is applied to extra strength wastes to cover added operation and maintenance costs.
“Suspended solids (SS)” means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
“System” means the sewerage system of the municipality, including all treatment and disposal facilities, interceptor sewers owned and operated by the municipality, all sewage collection systems and all appurtenances connected thereto.
“Testing” means the analysis of samples of sewage.
“Toxic substance” means any substance, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, which, when discharged to the sewerage system in sufficient quantities, may tend to interfere with the sewage treatment process, or constitute a hazard to human beings or animals, or inhibit aquatic life, or create a hazard to recreation in the receiving waters of the effluent from the sewage treatment plant.
“Unpolluted water” means water discharged in its original state or water discharged which, after use for any purpose, is at least equal chemically, physically and biologically to the water from its original source, i.e. potable water, ground water and river and stream water.
“User” means any person or premises receiving waste treatment services.
“User charge” means the charge assigned to each user which defrays a proportionate share of the cost of the operation and maintenance of the sewerage system.
“Wastewater” means a combination of water-carried waste from residences, buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface or storm water as may be present.
(Ord. 73A-O-29, passed 5-1-1973; Ord. 80-O-477, passed 1-15-1980)
(a) Administration by municipality. The administration of this chapter shall be by the staff of the municipality under the direction of the Manager and Council.
(b) Administrative rules. The municipality may adopt, amend and alter written rules governing the administration of this chapter. Such rules shall not conflict with or waive any of the provisions of this chapter, nor shall such rules be the basis for any penalty for a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter.
(c) Sewer Collection Coordinator. There is hereby created the office of Sewer Collection Coordinator. The Coordinator shall be appointed by the City Manager. The Coordinator shall have a Class III license and shall be under the supervision and direction of the Public Service Director and Manager. He or she shall supervise all residential, commercial and industrial sewer connections and excavations for the purpose of installing or repairing the same and shall have such further duties and authority as the Manager may direct from time to time.
(Ord. 80-O-477, passed 1-15-1980; Ord. 98-O-1696, passed 9-15-1998; Ord. 07-O-2401, passed 9-4-2007)
(a) User classification. The municipality shall classify all users of its facilities as residential, commercial or industrial users.
(b) Determination of the volume of waste discharged. In order to determine the volume and concentration of waste discharged by any person, for the purpose of determining the applicable sewer service rate, the municipality may use as the figure representing the number of gallons of sewage discharged into the sewer system the amount of water supplied to the premises, the number of gallons of sewage discharged into the sewerage system, as determined by meter measurements taken at a control manhole installed by the owner at the owner’s expense, or a figure determined by any combination of the foregoing.
(c) Analysis for industrial or high-strength discharges.
(1) Any user classified as an industrial user shall submit an analysis of the discharge from such industry showing a determination of the concentration of wastes contained in such discharge. The municipality retains the right to sample and test, at the expense of the municipality, the discharge from any user suspected of discharging a high-strength waste. If tests confirm the presence of a high-strength discharge, the user shall be required to make future samples and tests, at intervals determined by the municipality, at the user’s expense.
(2) After the initial classification of a user by the municipality, the municipality may from time to time request a repeat analysis of any user in order to ensure the accuracy of sewer service charges.
(d) Validation of analysis by municipality. The municipality shall have the right to make its own analysis of a user’s discharge in order to validate the analysis submitted by such user.
(e) Special charges for high-strength wastes (surcharges). The municipality may impose special charges over and above the user charges set out in § 1044.14 if a particular waste causes additional expense to the municipality in its handling and treatment of such waste. To determine the acceptability of any such waste and the charge for treatment thereof, the municipality shall require persons wishing to discharge such wastes to submit a written analysis of the characteristics of such wastes. Such analysis may be validated by the municipality as provided for in division (d) hereof.
(f) Method of analysis. The handling, storage and analysis of all samples for the determination of the characteristics of the waste shall be performed by laboratory determinations.
(g) Industrial Cost Recovery System. The Industrial Cost Recovery System (ICRS) Regulations, as published by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, are hereby adopted by the municipality in their entirety. An ICRS shall be implemented, when necessary, by the municipality, pursuant to the applicable agency regulations.
(Ord. 80-O-477, passed 1-15-1980)
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