(A) Property owners of all buildings and places where people live, work, or assemble shall provide for the sanitary disposal of domestic sewage. This subchapter shall establish minimum standards designed to ensure that the waste discharged to various individual sewage disposal systems:
(1) Do not contaminate any drinking water supply;
(2) Are not accessible to insects, rodents, or other possible carriers of diseases which may come into contact with food or drinking water;
(3) Do not pollute or contaminate the waters of any bathing beach, fish breeding grounds, or stream used for public or domestic water supply purposes or for recreational purposes;
(4) Are not a public health hazard;
(5) Are not accessible to children;
(6) Do not give rise to a nuisance due to odor or unsightly appearance; or
(7) Will not violate any other laws or regulations governing water pollution or sewage disposal.
(B) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged untreated wastewater or the effluent from private sewage disposal systems, directly or indirectly, to any stream, ditch, lake, pond, bathing area, ground surface, or abandoned well, or maintain or operate an onsite wastewater treatment system in a manner that it becomes offensive, dangerous, or prejudicial to public health. Repeated pumping of a septic because of system failure is not an acceptable solution.
(Ord. O-114-1-15, passed 1-8-2015) Penalty, see § 53.99