(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, permit to be deposited or discharge to any natural outlet within the city or any area under the jurisdiction of the city any sanitary, commercial, industrial or polluted wastewaters except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with this chapter.
(B) Except as herein provided, no person shall construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other wastewater treatment facility intended or used for the treatment and/or disposal of sewage.
(C) No person shall construct, repair, modify or alter a sewer lateral, public sewer, manhole or other sewer system appurtenance without first obtaining a permit from the Superintendent.
(D) No person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface, or tamper with any structure, appurtenance, pipe or equipment which is part of the sewage system.
(E) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any storm water, surface water, ground water, roof run-off, parking lot run-off, cooling water or unpolluted industrial process waters into any sanitary sewer.
(F) The owners of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purpose situated in the city and abutting on any street, alley, right-of-way or easement in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary or combined sewer of the city are hereby required at their own expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities and industrial waste outlets directly with the public sewer in accordance with this chapter within 90 days after the date of official notice to do so, provided that such public sewer is within 300 feet of the property line.
(G) No statement contained in this chapter shall be construed as preventing the city from entering into an agreement between the city and any industrial discharger whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength or character may be accepted by the city for treatment subject to payment for treatment services by the industrial discharger.
(H) The responsibility for maintaining sewers is as follows:
(1) City. The city shall maintain all accepted main sewer pipes, cleanouts, manholes, lift stations, force mains, and wastewater treatment plants.
(2) User. The user shall maintain all sewer pipes, cleanouts, manholes, lift stations and force mains on private property. The user shall also maintain all sewer pipes which serve as laterals originating from private property to their terminus with the main sewer pipe within public right-of-ways and public easements. The lateral includes the “Y” or connection onto the main sewer pipe.
(3) Repairs. The city shall have the power to compel any user, at his or her expense, to repair his or her sewer lateral if, in the opinion of the city, the sewer lateral is broken, collapsed, stopped up, or is causing surface subsidence.
(4) Refusal to repair. If, upon proper written notification from the city, the user refuses to repair his or her sewer lateral, the city shall make the needed repairs with city personnel or private contractors. The cost of these repairs shall be assessed the user.
(I) A separate and independent sanitary sewer lateral shall be provided for each and every building, except present sewer structures in use; and except that where one building stands at the rear of another on the same lot and no sanitary sewer can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court, yard or driveway, the sewer lateral from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole sewer lateral considered as one sewer lateral for the single property.
(J) Old building sanitary sewer laterals may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found on examination and testing by the Superintendent to meet all requirements of new sanitary sewer laterals.
(K) The Superintendent shall develop and submit to the Board of Public Works for approval written construction standards for the construction of sewer laterals, sewer mains, manholes and other appurtenances which are connected to the city sewer system. The Superintendent shall revise the construction standards as appropriate and on a regular basis.
(L) The construction of all sewers, components, systems or private sewers which connect to the city sewer system shall comply with the requirements of the city’s construction standards. The acceptance of the applicability of these standards to all sewers shall be considered part of the terms for the approval of connection to the city sewer system.
(M) A request for acceptance by the city of a sanitary sewer for maintenance shall comply with the procedures set forth in the latest approved version of the “Construction Standards for Sanitary Sewers.”
(Ord. 02-09, passed 5-28-02) Penalty, see § 10.99