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CHAPTER 943: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SEWERS, RULES AND REGULATIONS
Section
943.01   Definitions
943.02   Certain prohibited discharges; privy vaults and septic tanks
943.03   Connection to public sewer required
943.04   Private sewage treatment
943.05   Building sewers and connections
943.06   Water and waste discharges; grease, oil and sand traps
943.07   Sewage system improvements, enlargements and extensions
943.08   Protection from damage, destruction or tampering
943.09   Right of entry for inspection and sampling
943.10   Sewer tapper’s license; fee; bond and insurance; revocation
943.99   Penalty
Cross-reference:
   Installation, tap-in charges, see § 941.04
   Requirements for licensed water contractor, see § 941.12
Statutory reference:
   Interference with sewage flow, see R.C. § 4933.24
   Regulations to control house sewers and connections, see R.C. § 729.51
   Tampering with water hydrants, pipes or meters; unauthorized connections, see R.C. § 4933.22
§ 943.01 DEFINITIONS.
   (a)   Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows.
      B.O.D. (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic or other unstable matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20°C expressed in parts per million by weight.
      BUILDING DRAIN. The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of any building, and conveys the discharge to the building sewers, beginning three feet outside the outer face of the building wall.
      BUILDING SEWER. The part of the horizontal piping of a drainage system which extends from the end of the building drain and which receives the discharge of the building drain and conveys it to a public sewer, private sewer, individual sewage disposal system, or other point of disposal.
      CROSS CONNECTIONS. Any physical connection or arrangement between two otherwise separate piping systems, one of which contains potable water and the other of unknown or questionable safety, whereby water may flow from one system to the other, the direction of the flow depending on the pressure differential between the two systems.
      DIRECTOR. The Public Utilities Director of the municipality, as appointed by the City Manager, or his or her authorized deputy, agent or representative.
      GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
      INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The liquid wastes resulting from the processes employed in industrial establishments.
      INSPECTOR. The person or persons duly authorized by the City Manager to inspect and approve the installation of building sewers and their connection to the public sewer system.
      NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
      pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
      PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
      PRIVATE SEWER. A sewer privately owned and not directly controlled by public authority.
      PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to 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 in any dimension.
      PUBLIC SEWER. A common sewer directly controlled by public authority.
      SANITARY SEWER. A pipe which carries sewage and excludes storm, surface and ground water.
      SEWAGE. Any liquid waste containing animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution, and may include liquids containing chemicals in solution.
      SEWAGE WORKS SYSTEM. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage.
      SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
      SHALL. Is mandatory; MAY is permissive.
      SLOPE. The grade or pitch of a line of pipe in reference to a horizontal plane. In drainage it is usually expressed as the fall in a fraction of an inch per foot length of pipe.
      STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN. A sewer used for conveying rain water, surface water, condensate, cooling water or similar liquid wastes, exclusive of sewage and industrial waste.
      SUSPENDED SOLIDS. 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.
      TRAP. A device designed and installed so as to separate and retain deleterious, hazardous or otherwise undesirable matter such as grease, oil or sand from normal wastes and permit only normal sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into the disposal terminal by gravity.
      WATER RECLAMATION PLANT. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
      WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
   (b)   Any American Society for Testing and Materials or federal specifications referred to in this chapter shall mean the latest published specifications including amendments or revisions applicable at that time.
(Ord. 90-61, passed 5-14-1990)
§ 943.02 CERTAIN PROHIBITED DISCHARGES; PRIVY VAULTS AND SEPTIC TANKS.
   (a)   No person shall place, deposit or permit to be deposited in an unsanitary manner upon public or private property within the city or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
   (b)   No person shall discharge to any natural outlet within the city, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any sewage, industrial waste or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
   (c)   Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facilities intended to be used for the disposal of sewage.
   (d)   No person shall discharge to any storm sewer within the city, or any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any sewage, industrial waste or other polluted waters.
(Ord. 90-61, passed 5-14-1990)
§ 943.03 CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER REQUIRED.
   The owner of all houses, buildings or properties, used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes situated within the city and abutting any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sewer of the city, is hereby required at his or her expense to connect the facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within nine months after date of official notice to do so, provided that the public sewer is within 100 feet of the property line.
(Ord. 90-61, passed 5-14-1990)
§ 943.04 PRIVATE SEWAGE TREATMENT.
   (a)   Where a public sanitary sewer is not available under the provisions of § 943.03, the building sewer shall be connected to a private sewage treatment system complying with all recommendations of the State Environmental Protection Agency and County Health Department.
   (b)   At a time as a public sewer becomes available to a property served by a private sewage treatment system as provided in § 943.03, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer in compliance with this chapter, and any private sewage treatment facility shall be abandoned, and removed or emptied and backfilled with earth or bank-run gravel. Septic tank contents or effluent shall not be emptied into the public sewer system, except under the direction and supervision of the Public Utilities Director only, and he or she may direct that water be added to dilute the contents at the expense of the owner. The permit shall so state that permission to empty the septic tank contents or effluent is requested.
   (c)   The owner shall operate and maintain the private sewage treatment facilities referred to in division (a) above, in a sanitary manner at all times, at no expense to the city.
   (d)   No statement contained in this chapter shall be construed to interfere with any additional requirements that may be imposed by the Health Authority having jurisdiction.
(Ord. 90-61, passed 5-14-1990)
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