(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the town or in any area under the jurisdiction of the town, any human excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
(B) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any sanitary sewer under the jurisdiction of the town, either directly or indirectly, storm water, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, noncontact cooling water, or other unpolluted water.
(C) Storm water, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, noncontact cooling water, or other unpolluted water may be admitted to storm sewers under the jurisdiction of the town which have adequate capacity for their accommodation. No person shall connect to such storm sewers, however, without the specific written permission of the Superintendent.
(D) No person shall place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the jurisdiction of the town, any wastewater, sewage or other water containing pollutants except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter and an NPDES permit.
(E) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any natural outlet in the town, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the town, any wastewater, sewage or other polluted water except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with provisions of this subchapter and an NPDES permit.
(F) Except as provided in the county private sewage disposal system ordinance, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain in the town any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
(G) The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now or may hereafter be located a public sanitary sewer under the jurisdiction of the town, is hereby required at the owner’s expense to install suitable toilet and sanitary facilities therein and to connect such facilities with the proper public sanitary sewer in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter, within 90 days after date of official notice to do so, provided that said public sanitary sewer is within 300 feet of the property line. Any septic tanks, cesspools and similar private sewage disposal facilities shall be abandoned and filled with suitable material.
(H) No new connection to the town’s sewage works shall be approved that would create either a hydraulic or organic overload on the treatment plant, which is herein defined as any discharge that will exceed 10% of the dry weather design capacity of the collection system or treatment plant, without an approved containment or pretreatment plan.
(Ord. 383, passed 12-6-1999; Ord. 596, passed 3-6-2017) Penalty, see § 52.99