(a) No person shall discharge into any natural outlet within the City of East Palestine, Ohio, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said City, any wastewater or other polluted waters.
(b) No person shall 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 City.
(c) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any storm water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water or unpolluted industrial process water into any sanitary sewer.
(d) No person shall discharge into the building sanitary sewer the surface water which collects in the basement of foundation excavations. If the guiding 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 owners of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within the City 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 City, are hereby required, at their own expense, to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly to the proper public sewer in accordance with this chapter within thirty days after the date of official notice to do so, provided that the foundation wall of the structure from which sewage or other wastes originated is less than 1,000 feet from the nearest boundary of the right-of-way within which the sewer is located.
(f) No person shall be permitted to connect to or discharge wastewater into the East Palestine, Ohio, sewerage system unless it has been determined by the City that there is sufficient capacity in the system to collect, convey and treat the proposed wastewater discharge of such person.
(g) All new or replacement sewers that are now connected to or that will be connected to the City of East Palestine sewage collection system and thereby discharging into the wastewater treatment plant shall be constructed in accordance with the specifications of the City of East Palestine, Ohio.
(Ord. 2-97. Passed 3-10-97.)