EDITOR'S NOTE: The City sanitary sewer system is part of Medina County Sewer District No. 500. Pursuant to an agreement dated December 27, 1972, between the City and the County, the City of Medina granted to the County the use of the City's sanitary sewer system and the sole responsibility for the maintenance, management and operation thereof. The agreement is for a period of fifty years, effective January 1, 1973, and was authorized by Ordinance 101-72, passed November 27, 1972.
913.01 Definitions.
913.02 Required use of public sewers.
913.03 Private sewage disposal systems.
913.04 Charges a lien: billing; service disconnection.
913.05 Sewer maintenance charge.
913.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
Power to license sewer tappers and vault cleaners - see Ohio R.C. 715.27
Power to regulate water closets and privies - see Ohio R.C. 715.40
Eminent domain - see Ohio R.C. 719.01 et seq., 743.39 et seq.
Sewerage districts - see Ohio R.C. 727.44 et seq.
Assessments - see Ohio R.C. Ch. 729
Compulsory connections - see Ohio R.C. 729.06
Sewers - see Ohio R.C. 729.31 et seq.
Sewerage rates - see Ohio R.C. 729. 49, 729.52
Management and control - see Ohio R.C. 729.50
House sewers and connections - see Ohio R.C. 729.51
Weekly deposit of collected sewer rentals - see Ohio R.C. 729.52
Untreated sewage - see Ohio R.C. 3701.59
Interference with sewage flow - see Ohio R.C. 4933.24
Criminal damaging - see GEN. OFF. 541.03
Storm sewers - see S. U. & P. S. Ch. 915
As used in this chapter, unless the context specifically indicates otherwise:
(a) "City" means the City of Medina, Ohio, represented by the Director of Public Service or his authorized superintendent of sewers, superintendent of the sewage treatment plant, or the County Health Department with whom the City is under a contractual agreement.
(b) "Owner" means the owner of the real property on which the building or structure is located for which a sewer is proposed.
(c) "Municipal wastes" means a combination of the water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm water as may be present.
(d) "Sanitary sewage" means domestic wastes contributed by reason of human occupancy containing not more than 300 parts per million (ppm) of suspended solids and 240 ppm of B. O. D., as determined by Standard Methods Examination of Water and Sewage Treatment, and free from storm or surface water and industrial wastes.
(e) "Industrial wastes" means liquid, gaseous or solid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.
(f) "Normal sewage" shall be regarded as "normal" for the City if analyses show by weight, a daily average of not more than the following, each per million gallons of daily flow:
2,500 pounds (300 ppm) of suspended solids 2, 000 pounds (240 ppm) of B.O. D. 417 pounds ( 50 ppm) of soluble matter pH of 5.5 minimum or 9.5 maximum Phenols, .5 ppm maximum |
(g) "Unpolluted waters" or "unpolluted wastes" means cooling water or water containing none of the following:
Emulsified grease or oil Acid or alkali Phenols or other substances imparting taste or odor in receiving waters Toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution Noxious or odorous gases B.O.D. and suspended solids |
(h) "Cooling water" means the water discharged from any system of condensation, air conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other, but which shall be free from odor and oil. Cooling water shall contain no polluting substances which would produce B.O.D. or suspended solids.
(i) "Garbage" means solid wastes from the preparation of cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage or sale of produce.
(j) "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.
(k) "B. O. D. " (Biochemical Oxygen Demand) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20 degrees C., expressed in parts per million by weight.
(l) "pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(m) "Sewage treatment plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
(n) "Sanitary sewers" means the public sewers in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, which are designed to carry Municipal wastes, and to which storm, surface or ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(o) "Storm sewers" means sewers, pipes, tile or conduits which carry storm and surface waters and drainage, but exclude Municipal wastes.
(p) "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives and discharges wastes from soil, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning three feet outside the building wall.
(q) "Building sewer" means the extension of the building drain from three feet outside the building wall to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(r) "Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(s) "Waters of the State" means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems and other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, which are situated wholly or partially within or border upon this State or within its jurisdiction, except those private waters which do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters.
(t) "Health Department" means the County Health Department which, by contractual agreement, represents the City in health matters.
(u) "Ohio Water Pollution Control Board" is a board with administrative regulatory and quasi-judicial powers created by the Water Pollution Control Act of Ohio, passed by the Ohio General Assembly in 1951.
(Ord. 43-61. Passed 1-8-62.)
(a) No person, firm, company, association or corporation shall place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any 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, any sanitary sewage, industrial wastes or other polluted waters, except wastes conforming to Section 913.01(g).
(c) Except as provided in Section 913.03, no person shall construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sanitary sewage.
(d) The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within the City, and abutting upon any street, alley or right of way, in which there is now located, or may in the future be located, a public sanitary sewer, is hereby required, at his expense, to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the public sanitary sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter within sixty days after date of official notice to do so, provided that such public sanitary sewer is within 100 feet of the property line.
(Ord. 43-61. Passed 1-8-62.)
(a) Where a public sanitary sewer is not available under the provisions of Section 913.02, the building sewer shall be connected to a private sewage disposal system complying with this section.
(b) Before commencement of construction of a private sewage disposal system, the owner shall first obtain a written permit signed by the County Health Department. The permit shall not become effective until the installation is completed to the satisfaction of the County Health Department. The inspector shall be allowed to inspect the work at any stage of construction and, in any event, the applicant for the permit shall notify the Health Department when the work is ready for final inspection and before any part of the underground work is covered. The inspection shall be made within forty-eight hours of the receipt of notice by the Health Department, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
(c) Applicants for permits to install private sewage disposal systems must be registered with the County Health Department.
(d) The type, capacity, location and layout of a private sewage disposal system shall comply with all recommendations of the County Health Department. No permit will be issued for any private sewage disposal system employing subsurface soil absorption facilities where the area of the lot is less than one acre in size. No septic tank or cesspool shall be permitted to discharge into a public sanitary sewer or to a natural outlet.
(e) At such time as a public sewer becomes available to a property served by a private sewage disposal system, as provided in Section 913.02, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer in compliance with this chapter, and any septic tanks, cesspools and similar facilities shall be abandoned and filled with suitable material.
(f) The owner shall operate and maintain the private sewage disposal facilities in a sanitary manner at all times at no expense to the City.
(g) No statement contained in this section shall be construed to interfere with any additional requirements that may be imposed by the County Health Department.
(Ord. 43-61. Passed 1-8-62.)
(a) The sewer charges levied shall be billed and become payable with the City's water bill to the premises, and shall be billed quarterly or monthly in accordance with the billing period for City water furnished to the premises. In case of failure to pay any bill for sewer charges when due, a penalty of ten percent (10%) shall be added to the bill.
(Ord. 40-82. Passed 5-10-82.)
(b) Each sewer charge levied pursuant to this chapter is made a lien upon the premises charged therewith and if the same is not paid within thirty days after it becomes due and payable, it shall be certified to the County Auditor who shall place the same on the tax duplicate with interest and penalties allowed by law, and be collected as other municipal taxes are collected. The City shall have the right in the event of nonpayment as aforesaid to discontinue service to the premises until the unpaid sewer charges have been fully paid.
(Ord. 188-70. Passed 12-14-70.)
As the method of levying the fee to be paid by the inhabitants of the City for the sewer maintenance charge, there is levied and assessed upon each lot, parcel of land, building or premises having any sewer connection with the sanitary sewerage system of the City or otherwise discharging sewage, industrial wastes, water or other liquids, either directly or indirectly into the sanitary sewerage system, a sewerage service charge or rental payment which shall be a percentage as determined by the Director of Finance and as approved by the Water and Sewer Committee of Council of the total water consumption charge for the regular water billing period for domestic use, and an equal percent of the water consumption charge for the amount of sanitary sewage and industrial waste that enters the sewerage system as determined by the Medina County Sanitary Engineer for commercial and industrial use.
The basis for such determination shall be the contract currently in effect between the City and the County setting forth therein the rates in Sewer District 500. An additional flat rate charge as determined by the County Commissioners shall be levied against each unit of service as determined by the County Sanitary Engineer.
(Ord. 17-82. Passed 2-22-82.)
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