PREAMBLE
REFERENCES
913.001 Method of using references.
GENERAL
913.010 Definitions.
SEWER INSTALLATION
913.020 Authorization to work on sewers.
913.021 Destruction of sewage works equipment.
913.022 Unauthorized liquid discharge in sewers.
913.023 Unauthorized material discharges in sewers.
913.024 Bonding and license required for sewer workers.
913.025 Sewer permits.
913.025A Residential or commercial building sewer application.
913.025B Industrial sewer connection application.
913.025C Storm drainage connection application.
913.026 Plumbing Inspector’s approval.
913.027 Permit registration with Utilities Director.
913.028 Cost of sewer installation.
913.029 Required independent sewers.
913.030 Old building sewers.
913.031 Sewer installation methods.
913.031.1 Sewer easements.
913.032 Sewer blockage inspection.
913.033 Sewer elevation.
913.034 Prohibition of connection of surface water.
913.035 Regulations of sewer construction.
913.035.1 Existing sewer system rehabilitation equipment.
913.036 Sewer connection inspection.
913.037 Work inspection and regulations.
913.038 Acceptance of sewers.
913.039 Fees for final inspection.
913.040 Sewer size.
913.041 Guarding excavations and repairing public property.
913.042 Pavement opening permit required.
913.043 Sewer permit conditional.
913.044 Grease and sand traps.
913.048 Manhole cover obstruction.
USE OF PUBLIC SEWERS
913.050 Introduction; findings; declaration of policy.
913.051 Definitions.
913.052 Purpose and intent.
913.053 Prohibition of unsanitary deposits.
913.054 Prohibition of drainage into sanitary sewers.
913.055 Prohibition of unpolluted water in sanitary sewers.
913.056 Unpolluted water discharges.
913.057 Sanitary sewer lateral responsibility.
913.069 Prohibition of new private treatment facilities.
913.070 Required sewer use.
913.071 Operation of private treatment facilities.
913.072 Charges of discharges into streams of polluted waters.
ADMINISTRATIVE
913.200 Types of accounts.
913.201 Application and contract for water/sewer service.
913.202 Reserved for future legislation.
913.203 Reserved for future legislation.
913.204 Application for service by delinquent customers.
913.205 Bankruptcy proceedings.
913.206 Billing and collection periods.
913.207 Time limit on payments.
913.208 Estimated bills.
913.209 No partial payments accepted.
913.210 Bills must be paid in the order contracted.
913.211 Extension of time of payment.
913.212 Service charge for bad checks.
913.213 First bill - new account.
913.214 Final bills.
913.215 Owner may have tenant pay water/sewer bill.
913.216 Delivery of bills.
913.217 Charges for water/sewer are a lien against property.
913.218 Applicants must agree to conform to bylaws.
913.219 Reserved for future legislation.
913.220 Water may be shut off against delinquents.
913.221 Water to be turned off at main for protection and charge therefor.
913.222 Water/sewer may be refused delinquent persons.
913.223 Adjustment of bills.
913.224 If meter fails to register.
913.225 No allowance or rebate on account of leaks.
913.226 Remote register failure.
913.227 Water for public improvements, when to be paid.
913.228 Deduction of water used for fire protection.
913.229 Seasonal accounts.
913.230 Sewer only accounts.
913.240 Principal landlord list.
913.241 Reserved for future legislation.
913.242 Providing notice to a purchaser of real property as to the status of the water and sewer account.
913.246 Rights of purchaser.
913.249 Addendum: listing of charges.
SANITARY SEWERAGE
SYSTEM - TAP-IN, SERVICE
CHARGE AND CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENT CHARGES
913.250 Sanitary sewage system tap-in and service charge.
913.251 Sewer tap-in application.
913.251A Sanitary sewer application.
913.252 Issuance of permit.
913.253 No waiver of permits fees.
913.254 Deduction from tap-in and service charge.
913.255 Capital improvement fee.
913.256 Description and method for distributing cost of Lorain- Sheffield Township Elyria Township Sanitary Sewer District of the City of Lorain southeast interceptor sewer.
913.257 Description and method for distributing cost for new federally funded sanitary sewers in the City of Lorain under Federal Grant No. C-391087-03.
913.258 Description and method for distributing cost of the newly constructed sanitary sewers in City of Lorain not federally funded under Federal Grant No. C-391087-03.
DISTRICT AREA STORM
DRAINAGE FACILITIES
TAP-IN AND SERVICE
CHARGE
913.270 District area storm drainage system tap-in and service charge.
913.271 Sewer tap-in application.
913.271A Sewer tap-in application form.
913.272 Issuance of permit.
913.273 No waiver of permit fees.
913.274 Deduction from tap-in and service charge.
SANITARY SEWER RATES
913.300 Need for sewer rental charge.
913.301 Sewer Revenue Fund.
913.302 Readiness to serve charge. (Repealed)
913.303 Sanitary sewer rental charge.
913.304 Determination of application of rates as to inside and outside of the City limits.
913.305 Rates for sewer rental outside City limits.
913.306 Rate payment penalty. (Repealed)
913.307 Exceptions to the sanitary sewer rental charges.
PRIVATE SEWAGE
DISPOSAL
913.450 Prohibition of new private sewage disposal facilities.
913.451 Installation permit and operation permit.
913.452 Home sewage disposal rules.
913.453 Allowance of existing private disposal facilities.
913.454 Required abandonment of private disposal facilities.
913.455 Regulation of private disposal facilities.
913.456 Inspections of private sewage treatment.
913.458 New additional requirements of private disposal systems.
SEPTIC TANK WASTE
DISPOSAL
913.500 License to operate septic tank cleaning units.
913.501 Prohibition of septic tank discharges.
913.502 Annual tank truck permit.
913.502A Septic tank waste discharge permit.
913.503 Tank truck waste treatment fee.
913.505 Holding tank requirement.
913.506 Prohibited wastes.
913.507 Sampling.
913.508 Marina waste.
913.509 Trucked and hauled wastes.
POWERS AND AUTHORITY
913.600 Power to enter premises.
913.601 Injury or loss while on premises.
913.602 Power to enter easement properties.
913.603 Power to accept or reject wastes.
913.604 Power to determine surcharge for special wastes.
913.605 Power to establish regulations.
913.606 Regulating and enforcing agencies.
913.607 Power to regulate foreign accounts in sewer system.
913.608 Power to regulate foreign accounts in waterways.
913.609 Written notice of violations.
913.610 Continuance of violation.
913.611 Power to issue citations.
913.612 Liability to City.
913.612.1 Determination of damage costs.
913.613 Determination of penalties.
PENALTIES
913.650 Penalties.
913.651 Payment of penalties.
PERMITS TO DISCHARGE
INTO NATURAL
WATERWAYS
913.700 Classes of permits.
913.701 Permit to discharge into waterways.
913.702 Requirements of discharge permit into waterways.
913.703 Obtaining of permit.
913.704 Waterway jurisdiction area.
STREAM QUALITY
STANDARDS
913.800 Minimum conditions for stream quality standards.
913.801 Protection of high quality waters.
913.802 Water quality design flow.
913.803 Stream-quality criteria.
913.804 Dumping debris into waterways.
913.805 Obstruction of waterways.
913.806 Litter in waterways.
913.807 Dredging into waterways.
WATER POLLUTION
CONTROL BOARD
913.900 Water Pollution Control Board members.
913.901 Authority of Water Pollution Control Board.
913.902 Right to appeal.
WATER, SEWER AND
WATER POLLUTION
APPEAL BOARD
913.950 Appointment of Appeal Board.
913.951 Required quorum.
913.952 Salary of Appeal Board members.
913.953 Deposit for hearing.
913.954 Right to appeal.
913.955 Time and place of hearing.
913.956 Amendment to orders.
913.957 Procedure.
913.958 Rules of evidence.
MISCELLANEOUS
913.980 Repeal of conflicting ordinances.
CROSS REFERENCES
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 sewerage - see Ohio R.C. 3701.59
Interference with apparatus of sewerage disposal - see Ohio R.C. 4933.24
Water pollution control - see Ohio R.C. Ch. 6111
PREAMBLE
The adoption of rules and regulations is not for the purpose of imposing unnecessary or burdensome regulations upon the use of the sewerage system, sewage treatment plant, or wastewater treatment plant of the City of Lorain, Ohio, the use of public and private sewers and drains, private sewage treatment, the installation and connections of building sewers, and the discharge of waters and wastes into public sewer systems and water courses, but only to provide for the orderly conduct of the business of the City Utilities Department, in order to prevent the pollution of our natural waterways and the protection of our environment.
(Ord. 19-91. Passed 3-18-91.)
REFERENCES
In order to establish a format which shall enable persons to read and interpret this chapter easily, references have been inserted. References shall be made both to specific Sections and to whole groups of titled Sections which shall be called Sub-Chapters.
(a) Whenever a reference is made to a specific Section, for example Section 913.055, only that Section referred to is pertinent.
(b) Whenever a reference is made to a specific Sub-Chapter, for example Sub-Chapter 913.400, the whole group of Sections within the titled Sub-Chapter shall be considered and any pertinent Sections shall apply.
(Ord. 19-91. Passed 3-18-91.)
GENERAL
(a) Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(1) "Act" or "The Acts" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251, et. seq.
(2) "Administrator" means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, or any person authorized to act for him.
(3) "Appeal Board" means that Board as designated in Sub-Chapter 913.950.
(4) "A.S.T.M." means the American Society of Testing Materials.
(5) "BOD" (denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees Centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(6) "Building drains" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building wall.
A. "Building drain - combined" means a building drain which conveys sewage and storm water or other drainage.
B. "Building drain - sanitary" means a building drain which conveys sewage only.
C. "Building drain - storm" means a building drain which conveys storm water or other drainage, but no sewage.
(7) "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
A. "Building sewer - combined" means a building sewer which conveys both sewage and storm water or other drainage.
B. "Building sewer - sanitary" means a building sewer which conveys sewage only.
C. "Building sewer - storm" means a building sewer which conveys storm water or other drainage, but no sewage.
(8) "Chemist" means a person employed at the City Water Pollution Control with a degree in chemistry or microbiology from an accredited university.
(9) "City" means the City of Lorain, Ohio.
(10) "City Engineer" means a person employed by the City with a degree in civil, sanitary, or chemical engineering and who supervises the Engineering Department for the City of Lorain.
(11) "COD"(Chemical Oxygen Demand) means the quantity of oxygen required to satisfy the carbon in a waste as determined by chemical oxidation of the waste with a strong oxidation agent - acid solution.
(12) "Combined sewer" means a sewer receiving both surface drainage and runoff from roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, street drains, etc., and also sanitary sewage.
(13) "Cooling water" means water discharged from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling, refrigeration, or any other systems and shall have the quality characteristics of an "unpolluted water."
(14) "Direct discharge" means the discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the State of Ohio.
(15) "Director of Public Service and Safety" means the duly appointed Director of all the Service and Safety Departments in the City of Lorain as agent for the Mayor and as defined and designated by the Ohio Revised Code.
(16) "Director of Utilities" means the duly appointed supervisor of the Utilities Department for the City of Lorain.
(17) "District area storm drainage" means the stream or conduit transporting the major storm drainage within its natural water shed area or total catchment basin. This major storm drainage provision is in addition to providing the storm drainage facility for the initial storm run off, varying from an expected frequency of recurrence of once in two years, to once in five years, in the district subcatchment areas and discharged into a subcatchment tributary stream or conduit. Provisions shall be made to obviate major property damage and loss of life for that storm run off expected to occur once each twenty-five years Such provisions are known as major drainage systems in an area district.
(18) "Environmental Protection Agency" or "EPA" means the United States or Federal Environmental Protection Agency, or where appropriate the term may also be used as a designation for the Administrator or other duly authorized official of said agency.
(19) "Federal Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, Public Law 92-500, and any amendments thereto; as well as any guidelines, limitations, and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
(20) "Foreign accounts" means the water or sewerage accounts of any political subdivision, other than the City, which supplies or is supplied sewerage service.
(21) "Garbage" means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, or dispensing of food, or from the handling, storage, or sale of produce.
(22) "Grab sample" means a sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of time.
(23) "Holding tank waste" means any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum pump tank trucks.
(24) "Incompatible pollutant" means a waste constituent which interferes with the operation and performance of the wastewater treatment works.
(25) "Indirect discharge" means the discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants from any source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act, (33 U.S.C. 1317), into the POTW (including holding tank waste discharged into the system).
(26) "Intercepting sewer" means a sewer intended to receive flows from both combined sewers and sanitary sewers; or a sewer whose primary purpose is to transport wastewater from collector (local) sewers to a Wastewater Treatment Plant.
(27) "Maintenance" means the upkeep and repair costs required to maintain the wastewater treatment works structures and equipment in efficient operating condition during the service life of such works.
(28) Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or groundwater.
(29) "NPDES" or "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Systems permit" means any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued by the State water pollution control agency to regulate the discharge of pollutants from the wastewater treatment works.
(30) "Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA)" means the department of the State of Ohio assigned and designated as the legal authority of administration, supervision and regulation of wastewater (municipal, private, and industrial) treatment plants in Ohio, under amended State Bill 397, and any subsequent amendments.
(31) "0, M & R Contingency Fund" means a separate fund under the Capital Improvements section of the annual budget that must be kept at a certain percentage of the previous year's actual operation, maintenance and replacement cost.
(32) "O, M & R Cost" means the operation, maintenance and replacement cost to efficiently operate and maintain the City of Lorain's wastewater works as defined in this chapter.
(33) "Operation" means any physical and mechanical actions, processes or functions required to efficiently operate the wastewater treatment works as defined herein.
(34) "Person, enterprise, establishment, or owner" means any individual, partnership, firm, company, association, society, corporation or any other entity using the sewage works or sewerage system.
(35) "pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(36) "Phosphorus" means a constituent in wastewater as identified in "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater."
(37) "Pollutant" means any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water.
(38) "Pollution" means the man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological integrity of water.
(39) "POTW"(Publicly Owned Treatment Works) means a treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act, (33 U.S.C. 1292) which is owned in this instance by the City. This definition includes any sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW treatment plant, but does not include pipes, sewer, or other conveyances not connected to a facility providing treatment. For the purposes of this chapter, "POTW" also includes any sewers that convey wastewaters to the POTW from persons outside the City of Lorain who are, by contract or agreement with the City of Lorain, users of the City of Lorain's POTW
(40) "POTW treatment plant" means that portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment of wastewater.
(41) "Properly shredded garbage" means the wastes from the preparation, cooking, or 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 (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
(42) "Public sewer" means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and is controlled by public authority.
(43) "Replacement" means expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances necessary to retain design capacity and performance of the wastewater treatment works throughout the City's jurisdiction.
(44) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which carries sewage and industrial waste and to which storm, surface, or groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
(45) "Sewage" means a combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface or stormwaters as may be present.
(46) "Sewage service charge" means the fee required to maintain sewers and to cover the cost of treating "normal sewage" in the City of Lorain, at a rate passed by Council in ordinance.
(47) "Sewage treatment plant", "wastewater treatment plant", or "water pollution control plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
(48) "Sewage works", "wastewater treatment works", or "sewerage system" means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating or disposing of sewage.
(49) "Sewer" means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
(50) "Shall" is mandatory; "May" is permissive.
(51) "S-Meter" means:
A. A meter or meters used on a water supply other than a municipal water supply, such as wells, private water company, etc., and/or surcharge.
B. A meter or meters used to supplement the meter or meters measuring a municipal water supply and considered necessary in the determination of the sewerage service charge and/or surcharge.
(52) "State" means the State of Ohio.
(53) "Storm drain" or "storm sewer" means a pipe or conduit which carries storm and/or surface waters and/or drainage, but excludes sewage and/or industrial wastes; it may, however, carry cooling waters and/or unpolluted waters.
(54) "Storm water" means any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
(55) "Superintendent" means the Superintendent of Water Pollution Control of the City of Lorain.
(56) "Suspended solids" means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
(57) "Unpolluted water or waste" means the minimum conditions applicable to all waters at all places and at all times.
(58) "User" means any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater into the City's POTW.
(59) "User charge" means a charge levied on users of the wastewater treatment works for the operation, maintenance and replacement costs of such works.
(60) "Volatile organic matter" means the material in the sewage solids transformed to gases or vapors when heated at 550 degrees Centigrade for fifteen to twenty minutes.
(61) "Wastewater" or "sewage" means the liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and storm water that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the POTW.
(62) "Water distribution system" means all the facilities for treating, pumping, or distribution of potable water.
(63) "Water pollution control plant" means any arrangement of services or structures used for treating sewage.
(64) "Water supply meter" means any meter used on any water supply line supplying water to a premise from any source, whether municipal or private, such as meters on service branches from municipal water mains, meters on service branches from private water company water mains, meters on lines from wells or any other meters as shall be determined by the City of Lorain.
(65) "Watercourses" means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(66) "Waters of the State" as referred to under Ohio R.C. 6111.01(H), means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, which are situated wholly or partly within, or border upon, this State, or are within its jurisdiction, except those private waters which do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters. Also those waters which drain to or effect a junction with other waters draining to the Black River and Lake Erie from the territory within the Lake Erie watershed.
(67) "W.P.C.F." means the Water Pollution Control Federation.
(Ord. 19-91. Passed 3-18-91.)
SEWER INSTALLATION
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