915.01 Description and purpose.
915.02 Definitions.
915.03 Use of public sewers required.
915.04 Private wastewater disposal.
915.05 Building sewers and connections.
915.06 Use of public sewers.
915.07 Control of industrial wastewater.
915.08 Powers and authority of inspectors.
915.09 Tampering.
915.10 Highland County Sewer District No. 2.
915.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
Power to license sewer tappers and vault cleaners- see Ohio R.C. 715.27
Power to regulate water closets and privies - see Ohio R. C. 715. 40
Power to construct sewerage system - see Ohio R. C. 715.40, 717.01
Compulsory sewer connections - see Ohio R. C. 729.06
Management and control of sewerage system - see Ohio R. C. 729.50
Regulations to control house sewers and connections- see Ohio R. C. 729.51
Untreated sewage- see Ohio R.C. 3701.59
Interference with sewage flow- see Ohio R.C. 4933.24
Sewage districts - see Ohio R. C. 727.44 et seq.
Household sewage disposal systems - see OAC Ch. 3701-29
Sewer charges - see S. U. & P. S. Ch. 917
The sanitary sewerage system of the City consists of trunk, interceptor and collection sewers, laid in streets, alleys, rights of way, and easements, and one wastewater treatment plant, the location of which are shown on plans and drawings filed in the office of the City Engineer, and all other appurtenances which are used in whole or in part in connection with the collection, treatment, and disposal of sanitary and industrial wastewaters; and all other extensions, additions and improvements which may be made to such system. Its purpose is to provide for the collection and treatment of sanitary wastewater and such industrial wastewaters as are permitted by this chapter, in order to protect the health, safety, and general welfare of the residents of the City. The purpose of this chapter is to protect the wastewater collection and treatment facilities by controlling the quantity, quality and manner of discharge of wastewater into the sanitary sewerage system and to satisfy existing requirements of the State and Federal Environmental Protection Agencies.
(a) Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(1) "City" means the City of Greenfield, Ohio.
(2) "County" means Highland County, Ohio.
(3) "Facilities Planning Area" or "Service Area" means the area which has been delineated by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for sanitary sewer service, and which is shown and fully described in the Greenfield Regional Facilities Plan.
(4) "Segmented Facilities Planning Area" means a sub-area or portion of the Facilities Planning Area, generally associated with a specific drainage area.
(5) "Sewer District" means any of the sanitary sewer districts and their extension or extensions and/or any drainage area or areas now existing or subsequently created by Council or by the Board of County Commissioners of the County and covered by contract providing for City service to the area under contract.
(6) "Agreement" means any and all agreements, including amendments thereto, between the City and Highland County for cooperative action in the planning, financing, design, construction and operation of sewerage facilities.
(7) "Director" means the Safety-Service Director or his designated representative.
(8) "Superintendent" means the administrator and chief operator of the water and wastewater treatment facilities of the City, or his designated representative.
(9) "Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group. In case of a corporation, a person shall be a company officer directly in charge of discharges to sewers.
(10) "Owner" means any person in title or having any interest in real property in the Facilities Planning Area, including any of the sanitary sewer districts and their extensions and/or drainage area or areas now existing or subsequently created by the City and/or County, or covered by contract providing for City service to the area under contract.
(11) "Department of Public Service" or "Department" means the Department established by the City responsible for managing and operating the water works and sewage works of the City.
(12) "Water Works" or "System" means all facilities for water supply, filtration plant, pumping plant, storage reservoirs, water lines and services and booster stations for obtaining, treating and distributing potable water.
(13) "Sewage" or "Sewerage Works" or "System" means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of wastewater, including industrial wastewater.
(14) "Wastewater Treatment Plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating wastewater both domestic and non-domestic.
(15) "Influent" means wastewater, raw or partially treated, flowing into any wastewater treatment device or facilities.
(16) “Effluent” means wastewater, water or other liquid, after some degree of treatment, flowing out of any treatment device or facility.
(17) “OEPA” means the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(18) "USEPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(19) “Federal Act” means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 Public Law 92-500, and any amendments thereto, including the Clean Water Act of 1977 (P. L. 95-217); as well as any guidelines, limitations, and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
(20) “NPDES permit” means the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.
(21) "Wastewater" means the spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may be present.
(22) “Sanitary or Domestic Wastewater" or "Sewage" means a combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, commercial, industrial and manufacturing establishments contributed by reason of human occupancy.
(23) "Industrial Wastewater" or “Process Wastewater" means the liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business establishments, or from the development, recovery, or processing of natural resources, as distinct from "Sanitary or Domestic Wastewater".
(24) "Normal Strength Wastewater" as defined for the purpose of determining surcharges, means wastewater having an average daily suspended solids concentration of not more than 250 mg/1, an average daily BOD5 of not more than 200 mg/l, an average daily concentration of not more than 10 mg/1, and containing not more than 100 mg/1 of Freon soluble matter (grease and oil).
(25) "Clean Wastewater" or “Unpolluted Water" means water of a quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria established by the OEPA, or water that would not cause violation receiving water quality standards and would not be improved by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
(26) "Cooling Water" means the water discharged from any system of condensation, air cooling, refrigeration, or other sources. It shall be free from odor and oil and shall contain no polluting substances. Cooling water shall be considered Industrial Wastewater if it is discharged to the sanitary sewer system.
(27) "Pollutant" means dredged spoils, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge, munitions, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, Municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water.
(28) "Compatible Pollutant" means BOD5, suspended solids, pH, and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the NPDES permit if the publicly owned treatment works was designed to treat such pollutants, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree. Examples of such additional pollutants may include:
A. COD;
B. Total organic carbon;
C. Phosphorus and phosphorus compounds;
D. Nitrogen and nitrogen compounds;
E. Fats, oils and greases of animal or vegetable origin; except as limited under Section 915.06
(f).
(29) "Incompatible Pollutant" means any pollutant which is not a "compatible pollutant" as defined in subsection (28) hereof.
(30) "Toxic Pollutants" includes but is not necessarily limited to aldrin-dieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) and toxaphene. Pollutants included as "toxic" shall be those promulgated as such by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(31) "Garbage" means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
(32) "Properly Shredded Garbage" means the wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
(33) "Sewer" means any pipe or conduit for conveying wastewater.
(34) "Public Sewer" means a sewer which is owned and controlled by a public authority.
(35) "Sanitary Sewer" means a sewer which carries wastewater and to which storm, surface and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
(36) "Storm Sewer" or "Storm Drain" means a sewer which carries storm, surface waters and drainage, but which excludes sanitary wastewater and industrial wastewater, other than unpolluted wastewater and cooling water.
(37) "Combined Sewer" means a sewer which is designed to carry sanitary wastewater, industrial wastewater and storm water runoff.
(38) "Interceptor sewer" means a sewer which receives wastewater from one or more lateral or local sanitary sewers.
(39) "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system carrying wastewater which receives discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building, and conveys it to the Building Sewer, which begins five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(40) “Building Sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, also called "House Connection".
(41) "User" means any person or premises receiving wastewater treatment services.
(42) “Industrial Plant” means any facility which discharges industrial wastewater. Associated service industries shall be considered as industrial plants. For example, commercial power plants (electric), commercial laundries, restaurants, hotels, filling stations, water works or other establishments having dan industrial wastewater discharge.
(43) “Major Contributing Industry” means an industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that:
A. Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day;
B. Has a flow greater than five percent (5%) of the flow carried by the Municipal system receiving the waste;
C. Has in its waste, a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under Section 307(a) of the Federal Act; or
D. Is found by the permit issuance authority, in connection with the issuance of an NPDES permit to the publicly owned treatment works receiving the waste, to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on that treatment works or upon the quality of effluent from that treatment works.
(44) “Significant Contributing Industry” means an industrial user which contributes greater than ten percent (10%) of the design flow or design pollutant loading of the treatment works.
(45) “Pretreatment” means the treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into publicly owned wastewater treatment facilities.
(46) “Control Manhole” means a structure that is accessible for the purpose of observing, measuring and sampling the wastewater flow in a building sewer. A control manhole may be used for inspecting and/or maintaining the building sewer.
(47) “Slug” means any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen minutes more than five times the average twenty-four hour concentration or flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment facilities.
(48) “Standard Methods” means the laboratory procedures set forth in the latest edition, at the time of analysis, of “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater” prepared and published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
(49) “EPA Methods” means “Methods for Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes”, 1971, Environmental Protection Agency, Analytical Quality Control Laboratory, Cincinnati, Ohio.
(50) “mg/l” means milligrams per liter.
(51) “ppm” means parts per million by weight or milligrams per liter.
(52) “Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD5) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five days at 20oC, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(53) “Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)” means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of inorganic and organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
(54) “Suspended Solids” means total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in “Standard Methods” and referred to as “Nonfilterable Residue”.
(55) “Total Solids” or “Total Residue” means the sum of suspended and dissolved solids.
(56) “pH” means the logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution. Low values indicate the presence of acids or acid forming salts. High values indicate the presence of acids or acid forming salts. High values indicate the presence of alkaline material. A pH or 7.0 is considered neutral.
(57) “Floatable Oil” means oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
(58) “Grease” and “Oil” means any material which is extractable from an acidified sample of a wastewater by Freon, Hexane, or other designated solvent.
(59) “Volatile Organic Matter” means the material in the wastewater solids transformed to gases or vapors when heated at 550 degrees C. for fifteen to twenty minutes.
(60) “Watercourse” or “waterway” means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(61) “Natural Outlet” means any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
May is permissive; shall is mandatory.
(a) Prohibitive Dumping. Except for “Sanitary Landfills” designated by the City, no person shall place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the City, any human or animal excrement, garbage, trash or other objectionable waste as determined by the City.
(b) Unlawful Discharge. No person shall discharge to any natural outlet or storm sewer in the City, or in nay area under the jurisdiction of the City, any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
(c) Privies, Septic Tanks, Cesspools. Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage or other wastewater.
(d) Public Sanitary Sewer Available. The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of 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 sewer, is hereby required at his expense to install suitable plumbing and toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sanitary sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within six months after such service is certified in writing to be available by the City, and provided that such public sanitary sewer is:
(1) Within 100 feet of the property line;
(2) Within 300 feet of the building served; and
(3) Able to be served by gravity flow.
A copy of such certification shall be sent to each property owner to be connected.
(e) Notice of Connections. If the connection is not made within the six months connection period, the Director shall cause written notice to be given to each property owner to which connections are to be made, which notice shall state the number and size of connections required. The Director may also compel the making of sewer and water connections whenever he deems it necessary by reason of contemplated street paving. The notice to be serviced on the property owners shall be served in the manner provided for the service of summons in civic actions, and the report of the person serving the notice or a certified copy thereof shall be prima- facie evidence of the serving of the notice. If any of such owners are nonresidents of the City, or cannot be located, the notice may be given by publication twice in a newspaper of general circulation within the City.
(f) Injunctive Action by City. If the connections are not constructed within sixty days after such service of notice or day of first publication thereof, the City may petition the Common Pleas Court for a mandatory injunction requiring compliance by the owners with the provisions of this Section.
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