16.48.040 Sanitary disposal facilities for areas not served by city sewers.
   A.   Minimum lot area shall be not less than twenty-five thousand square feet for lots served by septic tanks and seepage fields.
   B.   Septic tanks and seepage fields are not to be connected to storm drainage facilities.
   C.   The subdivider shall furnish percolation and other test results to dictate that the lots are of adequate size for proper sanitary waste disposal. This information shall be prepared by the registered professional engineer.
   D.   The area used for seepage field shall not be under any proposed driveways, parking areas, buildings, nor on public property for streets or easements.
   E.   Such disposal shall be in accordance with the latest edition of the Illinois State Plumbing Code, in the section entitled Individual Sewage Disposal System, all as published by the Illinois Department of Public Health. The covenant for the subdivision shall require the owner to comply with the previously mentioned regulations.
   F.   Lots served by wells and individual sanitary waste disposal systems shall not be less than twenty-five thousand square feet in area.
   G.   If the test results of the soil percolation indicated that septic tanks and seepage fields will not perform adequately consideration may be made of the following:
      1.   Buried sand filter according to requirements in Section 8.01, Private Sewage Disposal Licensing Act and Code, Department of Public Health, State of Illinois, 1974.
      2.   Recirculatory sand filter according to requirements in Section 8.02, Private Sewage Disposal Licensing Act and Code, Department of Public Health, State of Illinois, 1974.
      3.   Mechanichal sewage treatment units, seepage fields and chlorination of surface discharge.
(Ord. 81-10 § 12.1, 1980).