EDITOR'S NOTE: Sewer rates are not codified herein as they are subject to frequent amendment. Consult the Clerk-Treasurer for the latest legislation in this area.
925.01 Purpose.
925.02 Definitions.
925.03 Use of public sewers required.
925.04 Private and independent sanitary sewerage disposal.
925.05 Building sewers and connections.
925.06 Sewer tappers' qualifications and bond.
925.07 Substances prohibited.
925.08 Substances limited.
925.09 Authority for control of wastewater discharges.
925.10 Control of industrial wastes.
925.11 Protection from damage.
925.12 Powers and authority of inspectors.
925.13 Normal concentrations of wastes.
925.14 Pollutants in excess of normal concentrations.
925.15 Volume of wastewater.
925.16 User class.
925.17 User charges; wastes of normal concentration.
925.18 Extra strength surcharges.
925.19 Debt service charges.
925.20 Use of funds. (Repealed)
925.21 Billing and collection.
925.22 Appeals.
925.23 Control manholes.
925.24 Testing.
925.25 Analyses.
925.26 Validity.
925.27 Tapping into Willow Drive storm sewer prohibited.
925.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
Sewers generally - see Ohio R. C. 729.31 et seq.
Management and control of sewerage system - see Ohio R. C. 735.273
Water and Sewer Department - see ADM. Ch. 145
Water regulations - see S. U. & P. S. Ch. 921
Electricity - see S. U. & P. S. Ch. 929
Inspections of sewer taps - see S. U. & P. S. 933.03
Flushing of private sewers - see S. U. & P. S. 933.04
As used in this chapter:
(a) "Administrator" means the Village Administrator of the Village of Milan, Ohio or his authorized representative.
(b) "Biochemical Oxygen Demand" (BOD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20oC.
(c) "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning three feet (1.0 meters) outside the outside face of the building wall.
(d) "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, also called house connection.
(e) "Chemical oxygen demand" (COD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures expressed in milligrams per liter.
(f) "Combined sewer" means a sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
(g) "Compatible Pollutant" means a waste constituent which does not interfere with the operation or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
(h) "Council" means the Council of the Village of Milan, Ohio.
(i) "Debt Service Charge" means a charge levied on the users of the wastewater treatment works for the cost of the principal and interest payments on the Village's share of the wastewater treatment works construction.
(j) "Domestic" means a residential user of the wastewater treatment works. Domestic wastes from industries are defined as wastes originating from sanitary conveniences. Domestic wastes do not include trade or process wastes.
(k) "Environmental Protection Agency" means the Federal (or United States) EPA, or any person authorized to act for that agency.
(l) "Federal Act" or "Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, Public Law 92-500, and any amendments thereto; as well as any guidelines, limitations, and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
(m) "Garbage" means the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and serving of food.
(n) "Grease" means a constituent in wastewater as identified in "Standard Methods for the Examination of Wastewater".
(o) "Incompatible pollutant" means a waste constituent which interferes with the operation and performance of the wastewater treatment works.
(p) "Industrial wastes" means the wastewater from industries as defined herein.
(q) "Intercepting sewer" means a sewer intended to receive flows from both combined sewers and sanitary sewers; or a sewer whose primary purpose is to transport wastewater from collector (local) sewers to a WWTP.
(r) "May" is permissive; "Shall" is mandatory.
(s) "Natural outlet" means any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
(t) "NPDES" or "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System" permit means any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued by the State water pollution control agency to regulate the discharge of pollutants.
(u) "Owner" or "person" means any individual, firm, company, industry, association, society, corporation or group.
(v) "pH" means the reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution.
(w) "Pollutant" means any noxious chemical or other refuse material that impairs the purity of water.
(x) "Properly shredded garbage" means the wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particles greater than 1/2-inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
(y) "Pretreatment" means the treatment of wastewater from sources before introduction into the wastewater treatment works.
(z) "Public sewer" means a common sewer controlled by a governmental agency, public utility or public authority.
(aa) "Reimbursable expense" means an expense for operation and maintenance of the system which is paid for directly from funds other than user charges.
(bb) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industries, and institutions, together with minor quantities of ground, storm and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
(cc) "Sanitary Sewer Charge" means the aggregate of rate increments established by three separate revenue systems, i.e., Basic Service Charge User Charges, Extra Strength Surcharges and Debt Service Charges.
(dd) "Septage" means the solid matter retained in septic tank.
(ee) "Sewer" means a pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
(ff) "Slug" means any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen minutes more than five times the average twenty-four hour concentration of flows during normal operation and shall adversely affect the performance of the wastewater treatment works.
(gg) "Storm sewer" (sometimes termed "storm drain") means a sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source.
(hh) "Suspended solids" means total suspended matter than either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" and referred to as nonfilterable residue.
(ii) "Toxic pollutants" includes, but not necessarily is limited to aldrindieldrin, benzidine, cadmium, cyanide, DDT-endrin, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) and toxaphene. Pollutants included as "toxic" shall be those promulgated as such by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
(jj) "Unpolluted water" means water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of the receiving water quality standards and would not be benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment works provided.
(kk) "User Charge" or "UC" means a charge levied on users of the wastewater treatment works for the cost of operation, maintenance, replacement and improvement of such works.
(11) "Operation and maintenance" means the administration, monitoring, inspections, reviewing applications, maintenance of equipment, and treatment and collection of wastewaters, necessary to assure adequate wastewater collection and treatment on a continuing basis which conforms to applicable regulations and assures optimal long term facility management, including a reserve amount that in the opinion of the Village Administrator is sufficient to maintain adequate working capital.
(mm) "Replacement" means the obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances necessary during the service life of the Wastewater Treatment Works to maintain, improve or expand the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
(nn) "User Class" means any class of users of the wastewater works, defined as follows:
(1) "Residential user" means any user that discharges waste to the sanitary sewer system from a dwelling unit. A dwelling unit can mean, but is not limited to, houses, apartments and mobile homes used primarily for residential occupancy.
(2) "Industrial user or Industry" means any nongovernmental user discharging a trade or process waste to a publicly owned treatment works as identified as a "Division A, B, D, E, or I" industry in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented. A user in the Division A, B, D, E or I may be excluded if it is determined that the industry will introduce primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(3) "Commercial user" means non-residential or non-industrial user that discharges waste to the sanitary sewer system from a commercial establishment. A commercial establishment can mean but is not limited to retail establishments, service enterprises and other businesses or community activity.
(4) "Monthly Customers" means all customers of the municipal sanitary sewer system whose water meters are read and billed monthly.
(oo) "Village" means the Village of Milan, Ohio.
(pp) "Wastewater" or "wastes" means the spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industries and institutions, together with any ground water, surface water, and stormwater that may be present.
(qq) "Wastewater treatment plant" or "plant" means that portion of the wastewater treatment works required to treat wastewater and dispose of the effluent.
(rr) "Wastewater treatment works" or "works" means the structures, equipment, parcels of land, easements and processes required to collect, carry away and treat wastewater and dispose of the effluent of the Village. Wastewater treatment works shall include sanitary sewers and intercepting sewers, but shall not include storm sewers.
(Ord. 930-3-93. Passed 3-12-93.)
(a) No person shall place, deposit or permit to be deposited in an unsanitary manner upon public or private property within the Village, or in any area under the jurisdiction of such Village, any human excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
(b) No person shall discharge to any natural outlet within the Village or in any area under the jurisdiction of such Village, any sanitary sewage, industrial wastes or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
(c) Except as hereinafter provided in this chapter, 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 sewage.
(d) Every owner or occupant of any property, which is convenient of access to or bounds or abuts upon any sanitary sewer in this Village, shall make adequate connections with such sanitary sewers. Such sanitary sewer connections must be made within nine months of the sewer availability, according to the regulations of Council and by proper underground connections. In any case where there is failure by the property owner to comply with the foregoing, notice shall be given to such owner, tenant or occupant to make such connections forthwith, and if, within such nine months time of the sewer availability such connection is not made, the Village shall then proceed to make such connection at the expense of the owner and assess it upon the property.
(e) In all cases where property is served by an adequate sanitary sewer, the failure on the part of the property owner to connect into the sanitary sewer within the required nine months shall then necessitate the Village to charge the property owner such sanitary sewer charges as are currently in effect and to collect same according to the regulations of the Department of Water and Wastewater Treatment.
(f) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, uncontaminated cooling water, or unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary sewer.
(g) Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated as storm drain or to a natural outlet approved by the Administrator and other regulatory agencies. Unpolluted industrial cooling water or process waters may be discharged on approval by the Administrator to a storm sewer, or natural outlet.
(h) No person shall deposit septage into a public sewer, storm sewer, sanitary sewer or drainage systems. Septage shall be transported to the wastewater treatment plant and disposed of in a manner acceptable to the Administrator.
(i) Each user shall provide protection from accidental discharge of prohibited or limited substances regulated by this chapter. Facilities to prevent accidental discharge of substances shall be provided when required by the Administrator and maintained at the owner or user's own cost and expense. Detailed plans showing facilities and operating procedures to provide this protection shall be submitted to the Administrator for review, and shall be approved by the local government before construction of the facility. Review and approval of such plans and operating procedures shall not relieve the responsibility to modify the facility as necessary to meet the requirements of this chapter.
(j) In the case of an accidental discharge, it is the responsibility of the user to immediately telephone and notify the Administrator of the incident. The notification shall include location of discharge, type of waste, concentration and volume, and corrective actions. Within five days following an accidental discharge; the user shall submit to the Administrator a detailed written report describing the cause of the discharge and the measures to be taken to prevent similar future occurrences. Such notification shall not relieve the user of any expense, loss, damage, or other liability which may be incurred as a result of damage to the wastewater disposal system, fish kills, or any other damage to person or property; nor shall such notification relieve the user of any fines, civil penalties, or other liability which may be imposed by this chapter or other applicable law.
(k) A notice shall be permanently posted on the user's bulletin board or other prominent place advising employees whom to call in the event of a dangerous discharge. Employers shall insure that all employees who may cause such a discharge to occur or suffer from the discharge are advised of the emergency notification procedure.
(Ord. 930-3-93. Passed 3-12-93.)
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