(A) Water and sanitary sewer systems.
(1) Each lot in all subdivisions within the corporate limits of the town shall be provided, at the subdivider’s expense, with an extension of the municipal water and sanitary sewer systems.
(2) Each subdivision in the extraterritorial area of the town may be connected at the subdivider’s expense to the municipal water and sanitary sewer systems if approved by the Board of Commissioners.
(3) Water and sanitary sewer lines, connections and equipment shall be in accordance with the town standards and policies. Water and sewer taps and meters, meter curb boxes and conservation stops shall be installed at the subdivider’s expense on each lot within the corporate limits of the town, or if the subdivider is utilizing the town’s water and sewer system in a subdivision outside the corporate limits, in each lot within the subdivision.
(4) All lots in subdivisions not connected to municipal or county water or sanitary sewer systems must have a suitable source of water supply and sanitary sewage system, which complies with the regulations of the applicable county and state agencies.
(B) Storm water drainage system. The subdivider shall provide a surface water drainage system constructed to the standards of the state’s Department of Transportation, as reflected in the current issue of the Handbook for the Design of Highway Surface Drainage Structures, subject to review by the Director of Public Works and Utilities.
(1) No surface water shall be channeled or directed into a sanitary sewer.
(2) Where feasible, the subdivider shall connect to an existing storm drainage system.
(3) Where an existing storm drainage system cannot feasibly be extended to the subdivision, a surface drainage system shall be designed to protect the proposed development from water damage.
(4) Surface drainage courses shall have side slopes of at least three feet of horizontal distance for each one foot of vertical distance, and courses shall be of sufficient size to accommodate the drainage area without flooding, and designed to comply with the standards and specifications for erosion control of the state’s Sedimentation Pollution Control Act, G.S. Ch. 113A, Article 4, and state’s Administrative Code Title 15A, Ch. 4, and any locally adopted erosion and sedimentation control ordinances.
(5) The minimum grade along the bottom of a surface drainage course should be a vertical fall of at least one foot in each 200 feet of horizontal distance.
(6) Streambanks and channels downstream from any land disturbing activity shall be protected from increased degradation by accelerated erosion caused by increased velocity of runoff from the land disturbing activity in accordance with the state’s Sedimentation Pollution Control Act, G.S. § 143-34.12, Ch. 113A, Article 4 and the state’s Administrative Code Title 15, Ch. 4.
(7) Anyone constructing a dam or impoundment within the subdivision must comply with the state’s Dam Safety Law of 1967, being G.S. §§ 143-215.33 through 143-215.37, and Administrative Code Title 15, subchapter 2K.
(8) In all areas of special flood hazard, all subdivision proposals shall have adequate drainage provided to reduce exposure to flood damage.
(C) Street lights. All subdivisions in which the size of the smallest lot is less than 40,000 square feet shall have street lights installed throughout the subdivision in accordance with the standards of the town.
(Ord. 21- , passed - -2021) Penalty, see § 151.99