(A) No person or persons shall discharge or cause to be discharged through any leak, defect, or connection any unpolluted waters such as stormwater, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, or cooling water to any sanitary sewer, building sewer, building drain, or building plumbing. The Superintendent or his representative shall have the right, at any time, to inspect the inside or outside of buildings or smoke test for connections, leaks, or defects to building sewers, and require disconnection or repair of any pipes carrying such water to the building sewer. Such waters shall not be removed through the dual use of a sanitary drain sump or a sump pump to building sanitary sewer. Discharge of such waters by a manual switch-over from sanitary sewer to storm drainage will not be an acceptable method of separation. In case both storm and sanitary sewage is present, separate drainage or pumping systems shall be included.
(B) Stormwater, groundwater, and all other unpolluted drainage may be discharged to such sewers as are used as storm sewers approved by the Superintendent. Unpolluted cooling water or unpolluted process waters may be discharged, on approval of the Superintendent, to a storm sewer or natural outlet. Under no circumstances shall sanitary sewage be discharged to a storm sewer.
(C) The owners of any building sewers having such connections, leaks, or defects shall bear all costs incidental to removal of such sources.
(Ord. 5-1996, passed 2-12-96)
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Cross reference:
Penalty for violation, see § 30.999