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GENERAL PROVISIONS
(A) All downspouts, gutters, leaders, roof, lawn, and storm water drains and appurtenances are hereby ordered to be disconnected from the sanitary sewer system, and the private storm water drainage line plugged with a watertight seal so that no storm water can enter the sanitary sewer system; no such connections shall hereafter be made.
(B) All costs associated with the procedures stated in this section shall be borne by each person, firm, or corporation in violation of this section.
(Ord. 1-1986, passed 4-28-1986) Penalty, see § 52.99
(A) Grease and oil interceptors (traps) shall be provided by all users of the waste water treatment system when, in the opinion of the City Council, with recommendations from the Mayor and Superintendent, they are necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing floatable grease and/or oil in excessive amounts; except that such interceptors shall not be required for private living quarters or dwelling units.
(B) All interceptors shall be of type and capacity approved by the city and shall be located as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection by the city.
(C) In the maintaining of these interceptors, the owner shall be responsible for the proper removal and disposal by appropriate means of the captured material and shall maintain records of the dates and means of disposal. The city may require reporting of such information for its review. Any removal and hauling of the collected materials not performed by owner’s personnel must be performed by currently licensed waste disposal firms.
(D) All interceptors shall comply with the applicable regulations of the County Health Department.
(Ord. 7-1988, passed 8-15-1988)
CONNECTION WITH MUNICIPAL SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM
For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AVAILABLE. The system or sewers are AVAILABLE if any premises abuts upon any street, road, alley, public way, or easement in which there is installed a sewer pipe, a main, lateral, or other structure or installation of the system capable of receiving flowable sewage wastes, or if such premises shall be situated within 100 feet of a system installation.
PREMISES. All places and properties where people live or congregate, or where flowable sewage wastes are otherwise generated, which should be drained and disposed of in the interests of public health, safety, and general welfare, and specifically includes, but not by way of limiting the generality of the foregoing: all homes; houses; apartments; hotels; motels; trailer camps; manufacturing, business, commercial, or industrial establishments; and other structures of any and every nature whatsoever.
SYSTEM, SANITARY SEWERS, or SEWERS. The municipal SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM of the city, which is a part of the city’s combined waterworks and sewer system.
(Ord. 3A-1990, passed 7-25-1990)
(A) Where and when the system is capable of receiving and disposing of the flowable sanitary system of, and is available to, any premises not already connected thereto, the city shall give written notice to the owner or occupant of such premises that a sanitary sewer connection is available, and that the premises shall be connected thereto within 90 days after the notice is given. All owners and occupants of premises where sewer service is presently or hereafter available shall, within 90 days from the date of the notice, connect therewith all sanitary sewage drain pipes and sewage outlets of such premises.
(B) All connections to the system shall be made under and in conformity with such regulations as the city may from time to time establish by ordinances or by resolution and municipal order. Failure to effect such connection within the prescribed time is declared to be unlawful and to constitute a public nuisance; and the same shall be abated, subject to the penalties hereinafter prescribed.
(C) No sewer tap or connection shall be made by any person, firm, or corporation except under the direction and supervision of the city’s Water Superintendent and Sewer Superintendent and in conformity with proper health standards. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as requiring the city to furnish a sewer connection or sewer service to any premises where a city sewer facility is not available at the time the application is made.
(Ord. 3A-1990, passed 7-25-1990) Penalty, see § 52.99
From and after the time when a sewer connection is made available to any premises, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to construct or maintain a privy, vault, cesspool, septic tank, or other similar contrivance for the reception of flowable sewage wastes, and all privies, vaults, cesspools, septic tanks and similar contrivances whereby flowable sewage wastes are cast, drained, or deposited into a container above or below the surface of the ground, or upon or into the soil, or into any running or percolating stream of water, or into any cistern or well, are hereby declared to be unlawful and to constitute a public nuisance; and the same shall be removed by the owners or occupants or all premises where the sewer connection is made available.
(Ord. 3A-1990, passed 7-25-1990) Penalty, see § 52.99
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