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USE OF PUBLIC SEWERS
(A) The owner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within the city and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary sewer of the city, is hereby required at the owner's expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect the facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within 30 days after date of official notice to do so, provided that the public sewer is within 100 feet of the property line.
(B) It shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of waste water where public sanitary sewer service is available, as defined in division (A), except as provided for in §§ 53.030 and 5.031. The existence within the city, wherever the services of the city sanitary sewage collection, treatment and disposal facilities are available, or may hereafter be made available, of septic tanks, seepage laterals, privies, earth pits, cesspools, sanitary waste vaults, sewage drainage fields, private sewage disposal systems or any other such facilities or works for the disposition of sanitary sewage wastes other than the facilities of the city, is hereby declared to be a menace to the public health, safety and general welfare of the citizens and inhabitants of the city and is hereby determined and declared to constitute a public nuisance. The existence of such facilities as toilets, sinks, wash basins, showerbaths, bathtubs, any commercial or industrial machinery or device producing a liquid waste product and the like in or upon any improved property or premises in the city where the facilities of the city's sewage collection, treatment and disposal system are available or may hereafter be made available is similarly declared to be a menace to the public health and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants, unless the facilities are connected to the city sewage collection, treatment and disposal system. The Superintendent may prescribe the type and manner of connection to those facilities, and may require that each connection be supervised and inspected by an authorized and qualified agent of the City Sewer Department.
(C) At the time that a public sewer becomes available to a property served by a private wastewater disposal system, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer system in compliance with this chapter, and any septic tanks, cesspools and similar private wastewater disposal facilities shall be cleaned of sludge and filled with suitable material or salvaged and removed.
(1997 Code, § 621.1) (Ord. 91-05, passed 9-2-1991) Penalty, see § 53.999
(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 city or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city or into any sewer which connects to the storm sewer system of the city, any objectionable wastewater or industrial wastes.
(B) It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the city or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter. No provision of this chapter shall be construed to relieve the owner of a discharge to any natural outlet of the responsibility for complying with applicable state and federal regulations governing the discharge.
(1997 Code, § 621.2) (Ord. 91-05, passed 9-2-1991) Penalty, see § 53.999
The discharge of any wastewater into the public sewer system by any person is unlawful except in compliance with the provisions of this chapter, and any more stringent state or federal standards promulgated pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, the Clean Water Act of 1977, being 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq. and subsequent amendments.
(1997 Code, § 621.3) (Ord. 91-05, passed 9-2-1991)
(A) No person(s) shall discharge or cause to be discharged through any leak, defect or connection any unpolluted waters such as stormwater, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage or cooling water to any sanitary sewer, building sewer, building drain or building plumbing. The Superintendent or his or her representative shall have the right, at any time, to inspect the inside or outside of buildings or smoke test for connections, leaks or defects to building sewers and require disconnection or repair of any pipes carrying the water to the building sewer. These waters shall not be removed through the dual use of a sanitary drain sump or a sump pump to building sanitary sewer. Discharge of the waters by a manual switch-over from sanitary sewer to storm drainage will not be an acceptable method of separation. In case both storm and sanitary sewage is present, a separate drainage or pumping system shall be included.
(B) Stormwater, groundwater and all other unpolluted drainage may be discharged to the sewers used as storm sewers approved by the Superintendent. Under no circumstances shall sanitary sewage be discharged to a storm sewer.
(C) The owner(s) of any building sewers having any connections, leaks or defects shall bear all costs incidental to removal of those sources.
(1997 Code, § 621.4) (Ord. 91-05, passed 9-2-1991) Penalty, see § 53.999
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