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(A) Fees shall be assessed to users for wastewater discharges into the POTW and for executing or enforcing the provisions of this chapter.
(B) These charges shall be developed by the Superintendent and approved by the Board of Aldermen of the town no less frequently than annually in accordance with the user charge system and other ordinances and policies of the town and applicable statutes of the state.
(C) Charges shall be developed for the following purposes:
(1) Industrial monitoring inspections and surveillance procedures;
(2) Reviewing accidental discharge procedures and construction;
(3) Reviewing permit applications;
(4) Reviewing appeals;
(5) Special industrial discharges;
(6) Toxic substance discharges to the POTW;
(7) Recovering capital related expenditures; and
(8) Other charges, including user charges based on billable flow and excessive pollutant discharges to the POTW, necessary to recover the operation and maintenance costs of the wastewater disposal system.
(D) Charges for items in divisions (C)(1) through (C)(6) above shall be based on the actual cost to the town for each specific user or incident; however, a fixed rate may be proposed by the Superintendent, subject to the Board of Aldermen of the town approval, for those procedures that are repetitive and do not differ substantially within each class of users. Charges for items in divisions (C)(7) and (C)(8) above shall be developed and assessed in accordance with the user charge system. The town may, under applicable state statutes and town ordinances, levy ad valorem taxes for general obligation bond principal and interest payments and any other purpose provided by law not related to the operation and maintenance costs of the wastewater disposal system.
(E) The charges and fees developed in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter shall be presented to the Board of Aldermen of the town for approval in the form of a sewer rate ordinance.
(Prior Code, § F-VI-1)
SEWER REGULATIONS
(A) Unauthorized deposits. It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the town or in any area under the jurisdiction of the town any human or animal excrement, garbage or objectionable waste. It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or deposit any material or substance in any public sanitary sewer line that will, in any manner, obstruct the line.
(B) Discharge; natural outlets. It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the town or in any area under the jurisdiction of the town any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter and with regulations of the Division of Environmental Management, Department of Natural Resources and Community Development of the State.
(C) Septic tank and other facilities. Except as hereinafter provided, 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. Also see § 54.041.
(D) Required connections. The owners of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within the town 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 sewer of the town, is hereby required at the owner’s expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect those facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within 90 days after date of official notice to do so, provided that the public sewer is within 150 feet of the property line. Also see § 54.043.
(Prior Code, § F-II-1) Penalty, see § 54.999
(A) Public sanitary sewer not available.
(1) Where a public sanitary sewer is not available, the building sewer shall be connected to a private wastewater disposal system complying with the provisions of this subchapter. Before commencement of construction of a private wastewater disposal system, the owner(s) shall first obtain permits from the Gaston County Inspection Department (GCID) and Department of Public Health (DPH) and Division of Environmental Management (DEM) of the state.
(2) The owner(s) shall provide any plans, specifications and other information as deemed necessary by the GCID, DPH and DEM. No permit shall be issued for any private wastewater disposal system employing subsurface soil absorption facilities where the area of the lot is less than 20,000 square feet. No septic tank or cesspool shall be permitted to discharge to any natural outlet. The owner(s) shall operate and maintain the private wastewater disposal facilities in a sanitary manner at all times, at no expense to the local government.
(B) Public sanitary sewer made available. At a time as a public sanitary sewer becomes available to a property served by a private wastewater disposal system, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer within 60 days. Under unusual and/or special circumstances, the local government may waive this provision.
(Prior Code, § F-II-2)
(A) Tapping or connecting with sanitary sewer mains. No person shall make any service lateral tap or make any connection whatsoever with any sanitary sewer main owned or controlled by the town, and all taps and connections shall be made only by the town or its duly authorized agents or employees.
(B) Tap and lines.
(1) Application; fee.
(a) Service lateral tap. Any person desiring a service lateral tap to any sanitary sewer main owned or controlled by the town shall make application to the Town Clerk’s office and shall pay in advance to the town the set fee(s) established by the Board of Aldermen, which shall be filed with the Town Clerk, for making the service lateral tap.
(b) Existing taps and lines. If a new applicant can find an existing tap and its sewer lateral where an old building existed, the new applicant may use the tap and its sewer lateral along with the buildings lateral if, in the opinion of the Superintendent, they are in acceptable structural condition and operate satisfactorily.
(2) Separate connections. Excluding industrial plant sites or other sites which have written approval from the Superintendent for single discharge points, a separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building, except where one building stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, courtyard or driveway, the front building sewer may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer; but the town does not and will not assume any obligation or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any single connection aforementioned.
(3) Point of connection. The town or its duly authorized agents or employees shall install its proportion of the sewer lateral from its main sanitary sewer line to the edge of right-of-way and the owner’s property line. All connections to the town’s lateral line shall be made secure and water-tight, and subject to acceptance by the Superintendent.
(4) Pipes. No service shall be installed unless it conforms with the State Building Code, Volume II, Plumbing.
(5) Excavations. All excavations for installing service pipes or repairing the same shall be made in compliance with the ordinance provisions relating to making excavations in streets (§ 94.001); provided that it shall be unlawful to place any service pipe in the same excavation with, or directly over, any drain or water pipe.
(6) Repairs. It shall be the responsibility of the property owner(s) to keep and maintain the building sewer connected to the public sewer in good repair. The owner(s) shall be responsible for making necessary repairs, at his or her own expense, to the building sewer when notified in writing by the town that repairs are necessary. Should the owner fail to repair the building sewer within 60 days after receiving written notification by the town that the repairs are necessary, the town may make the necessary repairs to the building sewer and shall assess the owner(s) for the cost of the repairs.
(7) Down spouts and the like. No person(s) shall make connection of roof down spouts, foundations drains, area way drains or other sources of infiltration/inflow to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
(8) Grease, oil and sand interceptor.
(a) Commonly referred to as "grease traps" or "grease interceptors", these devices shall be required to be installed, at the exclusive cost of the property owner, when, in the opinion of the Superintendent, they are, or become necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing floatable oil, grease complexes, sand, or other harmful ingredients in excessive amounts. Grease interceptors shall not be required for single or multi-family dwelling units or other private living quarters, except that, in the case of mobile home parks or campgrounds, wherein individual sewer connections from each mobile home or camp-site space join together to become a common flow prior to entering the town system, and such common flows, in any instance, exhibit excessive amounts of floatable oil, grease complexes, sand or other harmful ingredients, then the Town Manager, or designee, shall order the owner(s) of said mobile home park, or campground at his/their exclusive cost to properly install and maintain a grease interceptor in a location "upstream" and prior to the mobile home park common flow entering the town system. All interceptors shall be of a type and capacity, and to precise engineering specifications, as approved by the Superintendent, and shall be located as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection. Where installed, all greases, oil, and sand interceptors shall be maintained by the owner(s) at his/their expense in continuously efficient operation at all times. If the owner(s) fail(s) to timely comply with an order to install a grease interceptor as described herein, the town shall arrange for and complete said installation and all costs associated therewith shall be assessed against said owner(s) and become a liability of the owner(s) so assessed.
(b) In the maintaining of these interceptors, the owner(s) shall be responsible for the proper removal and disposal by appropriate means of the captured material(s) and shall maintain records of the dates and means of disposal which are subject to review by the Superintendent. Any removal and hauling of the collected material(s) not performed by owner(s) personnel must be performed by currently licensed waste disposal firms.
(9) Indemnification. The owner(s) shall indemnify the town from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer; provided, however, that the indemnification shall not extend to loss or damage due solely to willful misconduct or negligence on the part of the town.
(Prior Code, § F-II-3) (Ord. passed 9-8-2015)
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge or cause to be discharged any pollutant or wastewater which will interfere with the operation and/or performance of the POTW.
(B) These general prohibitions apply to all the users of the POTW whether or not the user is subject to national categorical pretreatment standards or any other nation, state or local pretreatment standards or requirements.
(C) A user may not discharge the following substances to the POTW:
(1) Unpolluted waters. Any unpolluted waters such as infiltration/inflow to any sanitary sewer. Storm water and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged to the sewers as are specifically designed as storm sewers or to a natural outlet approved by the Superintendent and DEM. Unpolluted industrial cooling water or process waters may be discharged on approval of the Superintendent and DEM to a storm sewer or natural outlet;
(2) Liquids, solids or gas that causes fire or explosion. Any liquids, solids or gases which by reason of their nature or quantity are, or may be, sufficient either alone or by interaction with other substances to cause fire or explosion or be injurious in any other way to the POTW or to the operation of the POTW. At no time shall two successive readings on an explosion hazard meter, at the point of discharge in the system (or at any point in the system) be more than 5% nor any single reading over 10% of the Lower Explosive Limit (LEL) of the meter. Materials specifically prohibited from discharge into the POTW include gasoline, kerosene, naphtha, fuel oil and any other substances which the town, the state or EPA has notified the user is a fire hazard or a hazard to the system;
(3) Solid or viscous substances; obstruction. Solid or viscous substances which may cause obstruction to the flow in a sewer or other interference with the operation of the POTW such as, but not limited to, floatable oil, garbage with particles greater than one-half inch in any dimensions, animal guts or tissues, paunch manure, bones, hairs hides or fleshing, entrails, whole blood, feathers, ashes, cinders, sand, spent lime, stone or marble dust, metal, glass, straw, shavings, grass clippings, rags, spent grains, spent hops, waste paper, wood, plastics, gas, tar, asphalt, residues, residues from refining or processing of fuel or lubricating oil, mud or glass grinding or polishing wastes;
(4) pH factor. Any wastewater having a pH less than 6.0 or greater than 9.0 or wastewater having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, and/or personnel of the POTW;
(5) Toxic substances. Any wastewater containing toxic substances in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other pollutants, to injure or interfere with any wastewater treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, create a toxic effect in the receiving waters of the POTW, or to exceed the limitation set forth in a categorical pretreatment standard;
(6) Noxious or malodorous liquids, gas or solids. Any noxious or malodorous liquids, gases or solids which either singly or by interaction with other wastes are sufficient to create a public nuisance or hazard to life or are sufficient to prevent entry into the sewers for their maintenance and repair;
(7) Unsuitable for reclamation. Any substance which may cause the POTW’s effluent or any other product of the POTW such as residues, sludge or scum, to be unsuitable for reclamation process where the POTW is pursuing a reuse and reclamation program. In no case shall a substance discharged to the POTW cause the POTW to fail to be in compliance with sludge use or disposal criteria, guidelines or regulations developed under § 405 of the Act being 33 U.S.C. § 1345; any criteria, guidelines or regulations affecting sludge use or disposal developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act being 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 et seq., the Clean Air Act being 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq., the Toxic Substances Control Act, being 15 U.S.C. §§ 2601 et seq. or state criteria applicable to the sludge management method being used;
(8) Substance which affects permits. Any substance which will cause the POTW to violate its NPDES and/or state disposal system permit or the receiving water quality standards;
(9) Color. Any wastewater with objectionable color not removed in the treatment process, such as, but not limited to, dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions;
(10) Temperature. Any wastewater, liquid or vapors having a temperature higher than 150°F;
(11) BOD. Any pollutants, including oxygen demanding pollutants (BOD and the like) releasing at a flow and/or pollutant concentration which a user knows or has reason to know will cause interference;
(12) Radioactive wastes. Any wastewater containing any radioactive wastes or isotopes of a half-life or concentration as may exceed limits established by the town in compliance with applicable state and/or federal regulations; or
(13) Slug. Quantities of flow, concentrations or both which constitute a slug as defined herein.
(D) When the Superintendent determines that a user(s) is discharging any of the above-enumerated substances in amounts as to interfere with the operation of the POTW, the Superintendent shall:
(1) Advise the user(s) of the impact of the discharge; and
(2) Develop effluent limitations for the user(s) to correct the discharge.
(Prior Code, § F-II-4) Penalty, see § 54.999
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