A. City Approval And County Permit Required:
1. No person shall construct a private sanitary sewer disposal system without first securing approval from the city.
2. No private sanitary sewer disposal system shall hereafter be constructed without first obtaining a permit from the county board of health.
B. Definition Of Private Sewage System; Prohibitions: Private sewage disposal systems include, but are not limited to, mechanical treatment systems, septic tanks, lagoons and reservoirs. Manure pits, privy vaults and cesspools are prohibited.
C. Compliance With Provisions: Owners of private sewage disposal systems are not relieved from the responsibility of satisfying the requirements of this article.
D. Design, Construction, Operation And Maintenance Of System: Design, construction, operation and maintenance of private sanitary sewer disposal systems shall comply with all requirements of the city, the county board of health and the Iowa administrative code environmental protection division 567, chapter 69, as amended.
E. Location:
1. No private sewage disposal system shall be constructed or installed in water bearing strata supplying water used for drinking or culinary purposes, nor in any porous soil where seepage or percolating surface or ground water may carry the pollution or infection of the contents of such system into a well, spring or any other source of water used as a public or domestic water supply.
2. No private sewage disposal system shall be constructed within fifty feet (50') of any spring, well or watercourse, within ten feet (10') of any property line or within twenty five feet (25') of any building used for human occupancy.
F. Discharges From System: No private sewage disposal system shall discharge effluent onto any street, alley or watercourse. Aerobic systems shall discharge effluent directly into the city's wastewater treatment works. Anaerobic systems shall discharge effluent to a subsurface absorption system. (1978 Code §33-20.23)
Notes
| 1 | 1. See also subsection 6-1-2G of this code. |