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It is the purpose of this chapter to establish guidelines, policies, procedures, rates and penalties for the safe, efficient and sound fiscal operation of the wastewater collection and treatment system owned by the Village of Minerva. This chapter is required to comply with certain requirements of the United States and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agencies.
The objectives of this chapter are:
(a) To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the Village's wastewater system which will interfere with the normal operation of the system or contaminate the resulting sludge;
(b) To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the Village's wastewater system which do not receive adequate treatment in the Village's treatment facilities and which pass through the system into the receiving waters or the atmosphere or which are otherwise incompatible with the system; and
(c) To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewater and sludge from the system.
(Ord. 21-94. Passed 6-28-94.)
(Ord. 21-94. Passed 6-28-94.)
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms in this chapter and Chapter 925
and any regulations issued pursuant to this chapter shall be as follows:
(1) ACT: Shall mean the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act and Public Law 92-500, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251, et seq., as well as any regulations, guidelines, limitations and standards issued thereafter.
(2) APPLICABLE PRETREATMENT STANDARD: Shall mean the pretreatment limit or prohibitive standard (Federal, State and/or local) deemed to be the most restrictive, with which non-domestic users are required to comply.
(3) APPROVAL AUTHORITY: Shall mean the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(4) ASTM: Shall mean the most recent standards published by the American Society for Testing and Materials.
(5) AUTHORITY: Shall mean the Village of Minerva, Ohio, acting through its designated representatives for all areas in the Village of Minerva included in the respective sewer district tributary to the Authority's WWTP.
(6) AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER: Shall mean
A. A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice president, if the industrial user is a corporation;
B. A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively;
C. A duly authorized representative of the individual designated above, if such representative is responsible for the overall operation of the facilities from which the discharge originates.
(7) AVERAGE MONTHLY DISCHARGE LIMITATION: Shall mean the highest allowable average of "daily discharges" over a calendar month, calculated as the sum of all daily discharges measured during a calendar month divided by the number of daily discharges measured during the month.
(8) BENEFICIAL USES: Shall include, but are not limited to, domestic, municipal, agricultural and industrial uses, power generation, recreation, aesthetic enjoyment, navigational uses, the preservation and enhancement of fish, wildlife and other aquatic resources or reserves, and other uses, both tangible and intangible, as specified by State or Federal law.
(9a) BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD): Shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter, under standard laboratory procedure, in five days at twenty degrees Centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
(9b) "BMP's" means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in OAC 3745-3-04. BMPs also include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge waste disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage.
(10) BUILDING DRAIN: Shall mean 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 a building and conveys it to the lateral, beginning three feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(11) BUILDING SEWER: (or Lateral) Shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(12) CAPITAL COST: Shall mean that portion of the cost of the sewage treatment system which is directly attributable to the cost of principal and interest obligations issued to finance acquisition and construction of the wastewater system.
(13) CARBONACEOUS BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (CBOD): Shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter, not including nitrification, under standard laboratory procedure, in five days at twenty degrees Centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
(14) CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS: Shall mean the National Pretreatment Standards of the Clean Water Act specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants which may be discharged to a treatment plant by a specific discharger.
(15) CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD): Shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures, expressed in terms of parts per million by weight in accordance with procedures set forth in the latest edition of Standard Methods.
(16) CLEAN WATER ACT: See ACT.
(17) COMBINED SEWER: Shall mean a sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
(18) COMMERCIAL USER: Shall mean any aggregation of space, including office, laundry, restaurant, store, tavern, shop, and other like unit space, which is equipped with one or more water fixtures draining into the wastewater disposal system, separate and distinct from other users of service. In office buildings or other premises containing more than one tenant, only those tenants who occupy space equipped with a distinct opening or fixture or set of fixtures for the use of water separately from other tenants and with waste draining into the wastewater disposal system, shall be classified as users of service. "Commercial user" is further defined as any user of the sewerage system not specifically categorized as residential or industrial and generally classified in the Standard Industrial Classification (S.I.C.) Manual of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget in Division F - Wholesale Trade; Division G - Retail Trade; Division H - Finance, Insurance and Real Estate; portions of Division I - Services; and Division J - Public Administration.
(19) COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT: Shall mean BOD, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the Authority's NPDES permit if the treatment works was designed to treat such pollutants and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree.
(20) COMPOSITE SAMPLE: Shall mean a sample which contains a minimum of eight discrete samples taken at equal time intervals over the compositing period or proportional to the flow rate over the compositing period. More than the minimum number of discrete samples will be required where the wastewater loading is highly variable.
(21) CONTROL MANHOLE: Shall mean a structure which provides access to a building sewer. A control manhole may be used as an inspection chamber and may contain certain testing equipment.
(22) COOLING WATER: Shall mean the water discharge from any use such as air- conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, or during which the only constituent added to the water is heat.
(23) DAILY DISCHARGE: Shall mean the discharge of a pollutant measured during a calendar day or any twenty-four hour period that reasonably represents the calendar for purposes of sampling.
(24) DEBT RETIREMENT CHARGE: Shall mean the charge to sewer users for the debt service.
(25) DEBT SERVICE: Shall mean the funds required to retire the sewage works from debt through cash generated during the period of time that the debt is outstanding.
(26) DISSOLVED SOLIDS: Shall mean solids in suspension in water, sanitary sewage or industrial waste, which will not readily settle.
(27) DOMESTIC SEWAGE: Shall mean sewage derived principally from dwellings, business buildings, institutions and the like, which originates within the building, including waste from kitchens, water closets, lavatories, bathrooms, showers, and laundries.
(28) EPA OR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY: Shall mean the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and may also be used, where appropriate, as a designation for the Administrator or other duly authorized official of such agency.
(29) FECAL COLIFORM: Shall mean any number of organisms common to the intestinal tract of man and animals, whose presence in sanitary sewage is an indicator of pollution.
(30) FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ACT: See ACT.
(31) FOUNDATION DRAINS: Shall mean subsurface drains laid around the foundation of a building, either within or outside of the building foundation, for the purpose of carrying ground or subsurface water to some point of discharge.
(32) GARBAGE: Shall mean solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(33) GOVERNMENTAL USER: Shall mean any user discharging wastewater from premises utilized by public political units, including Federal, State, County and local units.
(34) GRAB SAMPLE: Shall mean a sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of time.
(35) GREASE AND OIL: Shall refer to a group of substances, including hydrocarbons, fatty acids, soaps, fats, waxes, oils or any other material that is extracted by a solvent from an acidified sample and that is not volatilized during the laboratory test procedures. Greases and oils are defined by the method of their determination in accordance with method 503 A. of Standard Methods.
(36) INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT: Shall mean any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined herein.
(37) INDIRECT DISCHARGE: Shall mean the discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants from any source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1317) into the POTW (including holding tank waste discharged into the system).
(38) INDUSTRIAL USER: Shall mean a source of indirect discharge which does not constitute a "discharge of pollutants" under regulations issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1342).
(39) INDUSTRIAL WASTE: Shall mean any liquid, solid, or gaseous substance or form of energy, or combination thereof, resulting from any process of industrial, commercial, governmental and institutional concerns, manufacturing, business, trade, or research, including the development, recovery, or processing of natural resources, or from sources other than those generating waste defined as "normal domestic sewage" herein.
(40) INDUSTRIAL WASTE PERMIT: Shall mean a formal permit to deposit or discharge industrial waste into any sanitary sewer, as issued by the Authority.
(41) INFLUENT: Shall mean the water, together with any waste that may be present, flowing into a drain, sewer, receptacle or outlet and then to the sewage treatment plant.
(42) INSTITUTIONAL USER: Shall mean any person discharging wastewater from premises serving educational, social or eleemosynary purposes, including, but not limited to, private schools, hospitals, nursing homes, churches, and charitable organizations. (Ord. 6-14. Passed 2-25-14.)
(43) INTERFERENCE: Shall mean a discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, results in either of the following:
A. Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operation, or its sludge processes, use or disposal; or
B. Is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude and duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal.
(Ord. 16-21. Passed 4-27-21.)
(44) MAXIMUM DAILY DISCHARGE LIMITATIONS: Shall mean the highest allowable daily discharge.
(45) NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS: Shall mean any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307 (b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1347) which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
(46) NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT: Shall mean a permit issued by the State of Ohio EPA or U.S. EPA, pursuant to the Clean Water Act, for the purpose of regulating the discharge of sewage, industrial wastes, and other wastes, as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations, 40 CFR Part 125, and under the authority of Section 402 of the Clean Water Act, into navigable waters of the United States.
(47) NATURAL OUTLET: Shall mean any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(48) NEW SOURCE: Shall mean any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is or may be discharge of pollutants, the construction of which is commenced after the publication of the pretreatment standards under Section 307 (c) of the Act, which will be applicable to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section, provided that:
A. The building, structure, facility or installation is constructed at a site at which no other source is located;
B. The building, structure, facility or installation totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at an existing source; and
C. The production or wastewater generating processes of the building, structure, facility or installation are substantially independent of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these are substantially independent, factors such as the extent to which the facility is engaged in the same general type of activity as the existing source should be considered.
(49) NORMAL DOMESTIC SEWAGE: Shall mean wastewater or sewage having an average daily suspended solids concentration of not more than 250 parts per million (mg/l) and an average daily biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) concentration of not more than 250 parts per million (mg/1) and that does not contain any of the characteristics prohibited by Section 921.07.
(50) NPDES PERMIT: See NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMIT.
(51) OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS: Shall mean the current, reasonable and necessary costs of operation and maintenance of the wastewater disposal system, paid or incurred, determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and including replacement costs, but excluding payments of principal and of interest on obligations issued to finance the costs of acquisition and construction of the treatment works. In other terms, it shall mean the costs incurred in the act of keeping all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage in a good state of repair and functioning properly, including the replacement of said facilities when necessary.
(52) PASSTHROUGH: Shall mean a discharge which exits the POTW into the waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
(53) PERSON: Shall mean any and all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm, society, group, company, municipal or private corporation, partnership, co-partnership, joint stock company, trust, association, institution, enterprise, governmental agency, the State of Ohio, the United States of America or other legal entity, or their representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, and the singular shall include the plural, where indicated by the context.
(54) pH: Shall mean the logarithm, base ten, of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
(55) POLLUTANT: Shall mean the dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, wastewater, garbage, wastewater sludge, munitions, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, commercial, domestic and agricultural waste discharged into water.
(56) PLLUTION: Shall mean the man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological and radiological integrity of water.
(57) POTW: See PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS.
(58) PREMISES: Shall mean any piece of real estate having one or more sewers which may be connected either individually or through a common sewer and directly or indirectly to the wastewater disposal system.
(59) PRETREATMENT: Shall mean the process of reducing the amount of pollutants, eliminating pollutants or altering the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to introducing such pollutants into the Authority's wastewater disposal system. The reduction, elimination or alteration may be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, process changes or other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR, Section 403.6(d), and this chapter.
(60) PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS: Shall mean any substantive or procedural requirements relating to pretreatment, other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial user.
(61) PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE: Shall mean 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 conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
(62) PUBLIC SEWER: Shall mean a sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the Authority on public or private property. It also includes sewers within or outside the Authority boundaries that serve one or more persons and ultimately discharge to the Authority's sanitary sewer system, even though these sewers may not have been constructed with Authority funds.
(63) PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW): Shall mean a treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1292) and shall include all publicly owned (Authority owned) facilities for the collection, treatment and disposal of wastewater.
(64) RECEIVING STREAM: Shall mean the watercourse, stream or body of water receiving the waters finally discharged from the wastewater treatment plant.
(65) REPLACEMENT AND EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT COSTS: Shall mean any expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
(66) SANITARY SEWER AND SEWER: Shall mean a gravity or pressure pipe which carries sewage.
(67) SERVICE DIRECTOR: Shall mean the Director of Public Service of the Village of Minerva, or his or her duly authorized representative, or the Village Administrator if no Director of Public Service.
(68) SEWAGE: Shall mean water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings governmental buildings, industrial establishments and institutions.
(69) SEWAGE SYSTEM AND SEWERAGE WORKS: Shall mean all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage to and through the sewage treatment or disposal works or extensions thereof. This shall not include plumbing inside or in connection with building services or service sewers from a building to the publicly owned sewer connection
(70) SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT: Shall mean an assemblage of devices, structures and equipment for the treatment of sewage and industrial waste.
(71) SEWER SERVICE CHARGE: Shall mean the sum of the users charge, plus the debt retirement charge and any surcharge.
(72) SHALL AND MAY: "Shall" is mandatory, " may" is permissible.
(Ord. 6-14. Passed 2-25-14.)
(73) SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER: Shall mean:
A. Except as provided in paragraph (73)B. hereof, the term significant industrial user includes:
1. All industrial users subject to categorical pretreatment standards; or
2. Any other industrial user that discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of process wastewater to the POTW; or
3. Contributes a process wastestream which makes five percent (5%) or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW treatment plant; or
4. Industrial User has a reasonable potential, in the opinion of the Service Director, to adversely affect the POTW’s operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
B. The Service Director may at any time, on his or her own initiative or in response to a petition received from an industrial user, determine that a noncategorical industrial user is not a significant industrial user if the industrial user has no reasonable potential to adversely affect the POTW's operation or to violate any pretreatment standard or requirement.
(Ord. 16-21. Passed 4-27-21.)
(74) SLUG LOADING OR SLUG DISCHARGE: means any discharge at a flow rate or concentration which could cause a violation of the prohibited discharge standards in Section 921.07 of this ordinance. A slug discharge is any discharge of a nonroutine, episodic nature, including but not limited to an accidental spill or a noncustomary batch discharge which has a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass-through, or in any other way violate the POTW's local limits or permit conditions.
(75) STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC): Shall mean the system that classifies industries pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, 1972, assigning a code (SIC Code) denoting the manufacturing process.
(76) STANDARD METHODS: Shall mean the laboratory procedures set forth in the most recent edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Federation of Sewage and Industrial Wastes Association.
(77) STORM SEWER AND STORM DRAIN: Shall means a public or private sewer or a public ditch which carries storm, surface and ground water drainage from the point of origin to some point of disposal, but excludes sanitary sewage and industrial wastes.
(78) STORM WATER: Shall mean any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting there from.
(79) SUPERINTENDENT: Shall mean the Superintendent of the wastewater treatment system or his or her duly authorized representative.
(80) SURCHARGE: Shall mean the assessment in addition to the service charge which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration values established as representative of normal domestic sewage.
(81) SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS): Shall mean solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension or will settle in, water, sanitary sewage or industrial waste, and which are removable by a laboratory filtration device. Quantitative determination of suspended solids shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.
(82) TOTAL SOLIDS: Shall mean the sum of suspended and dissolved solids.
(83) TOXIC POLLUTANT: Shall mean concentrations of any pollutant or combination of pollutants which, upon exposure to or assimilation into any organism, will cause adverse effects such as cancer, genetic mutations and physiological manifestations, as defined in standards issued pursuant to Section 307(a) of the Act and which are considered priority pollutants by the U.S. EPA.
(84) UPSET: Shall mean an exceptional incident in which an industrial user unintentionally and temporarily is in a state of noncompliance with permit limits and/or the standards set forth herein and in 40 CFR 403.16 due to factors beyond the reasonable control of the industrial user and excluding noncompliance to the extent caused by operational error, improperly designed or inadequate treatment facilities, lack of preventive maintenance, or careless or improper operation thereof.
(85) U.S. EPA: Shall mean the United States Environmental Protection Agency and may also be used, where appropriate, as a designation for the Administrator or other duly authorized official of such agency.
(86) USER: Shall mean any person or property who or which discharges or causes or permits the discharge of wastewater into the wastewater treatment system.
(87) USER CHARGE: Shall mean the charge assessed to users of the sewage system to recover the costs incurred in keeping all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage, in a good state of repair and functioning properly, including the replacement of said facilities when necessary, obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed, the funds used for the retirement of and interest on bonds and/or notes authorized and issued by the Authority to construct sewage system facilities, acquiring all mandated discharge permits, and the cost of rendering bills and collecting sewer service charges.
(88) VOLATILE ORGANIC MATTER: Shall mean the material in the sewage solids transformed to gases or vapors when heated at 500 degrees Centigrade for fifteen to twenty minutes per Standard Methods.
(89) WASTEWATER: Shall mean the liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions, together with any ground water, surface water and storm water that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is discharged into or permitted to enter the POTW.
(90) WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT: See SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT.
(91) WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM See SEWAGE SYSTEM
(92) WATERCOURSE: Shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs, whether continuously or intermittently.
(93) WATERS OF THE STATE Shall mean all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies of accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through, or border upon, the State or any portion thereof.
(Ord. 6-14. Passed 2-25-14.)
(a) No person shall place, deposit or permit to be deposited, in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the Authority, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the Authority, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other matter which is or may become offensive, noxious or dangerous to the public health.
(b) No person shall discharge to the waters of the State, within the area under the jurisdiction of the Authority, any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter, the requirements of the Ohio EPA or the U.S. EPA.
(c) No person shall construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage without first obtaining the required permits from the Authority.
(Ord. 21-94. Passed 6-28-94.)
(Ord. 21-94. Passed 6-28-94.)
The owner of any house, building or property used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purpose, situated within the area under the jurisdiction of the Authority 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 Authority, is hereby required, at his or her expense, to install suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly to the public sanitary sewer, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within ninety days after the date of official notice to do so, provided that such public sewer is within 100 feet of the property line.
(Ord. 21-94. Passed 6-28-94.)
(Ord. 21-94. Passed 6-28-94.)
(a) Where a public sanitary sewer is not available under the provisions of Section 921.04, the building sewer shall be connected to a private sewage disposal system complying with the provisions of this section.
(b) Before commencement of construction of a private sewage disposal system, the owner shall first obtain written permission for such construction signed by the Service Director. The application for such permit shall be made on a form furnished by the Authority, which the applicant shall supplement with any plans, specifications and other information as are deemed necessary by the Service Director. A permit and inspection fee of ten dollars ($10.00) shall be paid to the Clerk at the time the application is filed.
(c) A permit for a private sewage disposal system shall not become effective until the installation is completed to the satisfaction of the Superintendent. He or she shall be allowed to inspect the work at any stage of construction and when the work is ready for final inspection and before any underground portions of the work are covered. The inspection shall be made within forty-eight hours of receipt of notice by the Service Director.
(d) The soil, capacities, location and layout of a private sewage disposal system shall comply with all recommendations of the Ohio EPA and/or the Ohio Department of Health. No permit shall be issued for any private sewage disposal system employing subsurface soil absorption facilities where the area of the lot is less than 15,000 square feet. No septic tank or cesspool shall be permitted to discharge to any public sewer or 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 921.04, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer in compliance with this chapter, and any septic tanks, cesspools and similar private sewage disposal facilities shall be abandoned and filled with sand or other suitable material. The owner shall operate and maintain the private sewage disposal facilities in a sanitary manner at all times, at no expense to the Authority.
(f) No statement contained in this section shall be construed to interfere with any additional requirements that may be imposed by the Ohio EPA, the Ohio Department of Health and/or the local Health District.
(Ord. 21-94. Passed 6-28-94.)
(Ord. 21-94. Passed 6-28-94.)
(a) No unauthorized person shall uncover, make connections with or open into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit therefor from the Service Director.
(b) All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of a building sewer shall be borne by the owner of the building. The owner shall indemnify the Authority for any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer
(c) A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for each residence or building, except that where one building stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court, yard or driveway, the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer, provided a recorded easement for use and maintenance of this sewer is stated on the application, and the method of installation meets the approval of the Service Director.
(d) Old or existing building sewers may be used in connection with new construction only when they are found, on examination and upon testing by the Service Director, to meet all requirements of this chapter. (Ord. 21-94. Passed 6-28-94.)
(e) The building sewer shall be cast iron soil pipe, ASTM Specification A74-42 or equal, PVC ASTM D3034 or F679 or equal, or other suitable material approved by the Service Director. Joints shall be tight and waterproof. Any part of the building sewer that is located within ten feet of a water service pipe shall be constructed of cast soil pipe with leaded joints. Cast iron pipe with leaded joints may be required by the Service Director where the building sewer is exposed to damage by tree roots. If the installation is in fill or in unstable ground, the building material may be accepted if laid on a suitable concrete bed or cradle, as approved by the Service Director. (Ord. 16-21. Passed 4-27-21.)
(f) The size and slope of the building sewer shall be subject to the approval of the Service Director, but in no event shall the diameter be less than four inches. The slope of such four-inch pipe shall not be less than one-eighth inch per foot.
(g) Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. No building sewer shall be laid parallel to or within three feet of any bearing wall which might thereby be weakened. The depth shall be sufficient to afford protection from frost. The building sewer shall be laid at uniform grade and in straight alignment insofar as possible. Changes in direction shall be made only with properly curved pipe and fittings.
(h) In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, wastewater carried by such drain shall be lifted by approved artificial means and discharged to the building sewer.
(i) All excavations required for the installation of a building sewer shall be open trench work unless otherwise approved by the Service Director. Pipe laying and backfill shall be performed in accordance with ASTM Specification C-12-19, except that no backfill shall be placed until the work has been inspected.
(j) All joints and connections shall be made gastight and watertight.
(l) All joints in vitrified clay pipe or between such pipe and metals shall be made with an approved watertight O-ring-type joint.
(2) Cement joints shall be made by packing a closely twisted jute or oakum gasket of suitable size to partly fill the annular space between pipes. The remaining space shall be filled and firmly compacted with mortar composed of one part portland cement and three parts sand. The material shall be mixed dry; only water sufficient to make the mixture workable shall be added. Mortar which has begun to set shall not be used or retempered. Lime, putty or hydrated lime may be substituted to the extent of not more than twenty-five percent of the volume of the Portland cement that may be added.
(3) Only jointing materials and methods that are approved by the Service Director may be used.
(k) The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall be made at the wye branch, if such branch is available at a suitable location. If the public sewer is twelve inches in diameter or less and no properly located wye branch is available in the public sewer, the owner shall, at his or her expense, install a wye branch in the public sewer at the location specified by the Service Director. Where the public sewer is greater than twelve inches in diameter and no properly located wye branch is available, a neat hole may be cut into the public sewer to receive the building sewer, with entry in the downstream direction at an angle of about forty-five degrees. A forty-five degree ell may be used to make such connection with the sewer. The invert of the building sewer at the point of connection shall be at the same or at a higher elevation than the invert of the public sewer. A smooth, neat joint shall be made and the connection made secure and watertight by encasement in concrete. Special fittings may be used for the connection only when approved by the Service Director.
(l) An applicant for a building sewer permit shall notify the Service Director when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Service Director or his or her representative.
(m) All excavations for a building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, driveways, sewers, utilities and other public or private property disturbed in the course of work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the Authority.
(n) All sewer mains shall be laid in accordance with the grade established by the Service Director.
(o) All main sewers shall be provided with manholes, which manholes shall not be more than 375 feet apart. All manhole covers shall be provided with proper holes for ventilation of gases or fumes.
(p) The entrance of the sewer to all manholes shall be at the bottom thereof and no sewer shall be cut into any manhole, whether now established or hereafter constructed, except as above provided.
(q) Foundation drains, roof downspouts, area drains or other sources of surface runoff shall not be connected, either directly or indirectly, to building sewer or public sewer. If any drains are installed carrying surface or subsurface water, they shall be constructed to carry said water to a street or to a natural watercourse.
(Ord. 21-94. Passed 6-28-94.)
(Ord. 21-94. Passed 6-28-94.)
(a) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any storm water, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, uncontaminated cooling water or unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary sewer.
(b) Storm water, surface drainage, subsurface drainage, ground water, roof runoff, uncontaminated cooling water and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated as combined sewers or storm sewers or to a natural outlet approved by the Service Director. Industrial cooling water or unpolluted processed waters may be discharged to a storm sewer or natural outlet in accordance with State and Federal regulations and on approval of the Service Director.
(c) Anyone proposing to discharge any pollutant, including non-contact cooling water, to the waters of the State must submit an NPDES permit application to the Ohio EPA no later than 180 days prior to any discharge.
(d) No person shall be permitted to connect to, or discharge wastewater to, the sewage system, unless it has been determined by the Authority that there is sufficient capacity in the system to collect, convey, and treat the proposed wastewater discharge of such person.
(e) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged, directly or indirectly any pollutant or wastewater which will interfere with the operation or performance of the POTW. These general prohibitions apply to all users of the POTW whether or not the user is subject to National Categorical Pretreatment Standards (40 CFR Part 403) or any other Federal, State or local pretreatment standards or requirements.
(f) No person sha1i discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described substances, materials, waters or wastes into any public sewers:
(1) Any wastewater having a temperature which will inhibit biological activity in the POTW resulting in interference, but in no case wastewater with a temperature at the introduction into the POTW which exceeds 150 degrees Fahrenheit or which causes the temperature of the wastewater at the treatment facility to exceed 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
(2) Any liquids, solids or gases which, by reason of their nature or quantity, are or may be sufficient, either alone or by interaction, to cause fire or explosion, including, but not limited to, waste streams with a closed-cup flashpoint of less than 140 degrees Fahrenheit or sixty degrees Centigrade, using the test method specified in 40 CFR 261.21, or be injurious in any other way to the operation of the POTW.
(3) Any water or wastes containing fats, waxes, free oils, emulsified oils and grease exceeding an average of 100 parts per million or in sufficient amounts to pass through or cause interference in the POTW. Any wastewater containing oil, grease or other ether-soluble matter or containing substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit and 150 degrees Fahrenheit.
(4) Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous solids, liquids or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, to constitute a hazard to humans or animals, to create a public nuisance or to create any hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant.
(5) Any garbage that has not been properly shredded to a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions of the sewer and with no particle greater than one-half inch in any direction. The installation and operation of any garbage grinder with a motor of three-fourths horsepower or larger shall be subject to the approval of the Authority.
(6) Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails, lime slurry, lime residues, chemical residues, paint residues, cannery waste, bulk solids or any other solid or viscous substance capable of causing an obstruction to the flow in the sewers or other interference with proper operation of the sewage works.
(7) Any substance which may cause the POTW's effluent or treatment residues, sludges or scums to be unsuitable for reclamation and reuse or to interfere with the reclamation process. In no case shall a substance discharged to the POTW cause noncompliance with sludge use or disposal criteria, guidelines or regulations developed under Section 405 of the Act, or with any criteria, guidelines or regulations affecting sludge use or disposal developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substance Control Act, the Resource Conservation Recovery Act or State standards applicable to the sludge management method being used.
(8) Any noxious or malodorous liquids, gases or solids which, either singly or by interaction, are capable of creating a public nuisance or hazard to life, or are sufficient to prevent entry into the sewers for their maintenance and repair.
(9) Any waters or wastes containing strong acid iron pickling wastes or concentrated plating solutions, whether neutralized or not.
(10) Any waters or wastes containing substances which may cause the treatment plant to exceed NPDES permit limitations.
(11) Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits established by the Authority in compliance with applicable State or Federal regulations.
(12) Any waters or wastes having a pH of less than 5.5 or in excess of 9.0 or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment or personnel of the sewage system.
(13) Materials which cause excessive discoloration such as, but not limited to, dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions.
(14) Unusual volume of flow or concentration of wastes constituting "slugs," as defined in Section 921.02(74).
(15) Any unpolluted water, including, but not limited to, non-contact cooling water, which is used to dilute process wastewater, or any unpolluted water which is used in any other way as an attempt to dilute a discharge as a partial or complete substitute for adequate treatment, so as to achieve compliance with a pretreatment standard or requirement (40 CFR 403.6(d)), except that such water may be discharged to a sewer which is designated to carry storm water.
(16) Any holding tank discharges or hauled wastes, without prior approval of the Service Director. Any accidental spills or slug discharges to the sewer system should be reported to the Wastewater Superintendent. Such notification should be followed by a written report to the Service Director within five working days describing the materials involved, the cause of the spill or discharge and the preventive measures being taken to correct the cause of such discharge.
(Ord. 21-94. Passed 6-28-94.)
(Ord. 21-94. Passed 6-28-94.)
(17) Detergents, surface-active agents or other pollutants that might cause excessive foaming in the POTW or receiving waters.
(18) Unusual Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) or Total Suspended Solids (TSS) in quantities as to constitute a significant additional load on the POTW.
(19) Wastewater containing pollutants which are not amenable to transport, treatment or reduction in concentration by the POTW and POTW Treatment Plant processes employed, or are amenable to treatment only to such a degree that the POTW Treatment Plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of regulatory agencies having jurisdiction over discharge of effluent to the receiving waters.
(20) Wastewater which, by interaction with other wastewater in the POTW, releases obnoxious gases, forms suspended solids which interfere with the collection system or creates a condition deleterious to structures and treatment processes.
(21) Wastewater causing two readings on an explosion hazard meter at the point of discharge into the POTW, or at any point in the POTW of more than five percent (5%) or any single reading over ten percent (10%) of the lower explosive limit of the meter.
(22) Liquid wastes from chemical toilets, trailers, campers or other recreational vehicles which have been collected or held in tanks or other containers shall not be discharged into the POTW except at locations authorized by the authority to collect such wastes.
(23) Pollutants, substances or wastewater prohibited by this subsection shall not be processed or stored in such a manner that they could be discharged to the POTW. (Ord. 16-21. Passed 4-27-21.)
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