(A) Water and sanitary sewer system.
(1) Each lot in all subdivisions within the corporate limits of the Town of Murphy shall be provided, where practicable, with an extension of the municipal water system and sanitary sewer system if such an extension is available. The subdivider may extend the aforementioned system(s) to the subdivision if approved by the Board of Commissioners. Water and sanitary sewer lines, connections, and equipment shall be constructed and financed in accordance with town standards and policies. The subdivider shall bear the cost of water and sewer extensions which benefit the subdivision.
(2) All lots in a subdivision which are not connected to the water and sanitary sewer systems of the Town of Murphy must have a suitable source of water supply and/or wastewater disposal which complies with the regulations of the following agencies as applicable:
(a) Cherokee County Health Department;
(b) N.C. Department of Natural Resources & Community Development Division of Environmental Management, Water Quality Section, Groundwater Section;
(c) N.C. Department of Human Resources, Division of Health Services, Environmental Health Section; and
(d) Other agencies as applicable.
(B) Storm water drainage system. The subdivider shall provide a surface water drainage system constructed to the standards of the N.C. Department of Transportation, as reflected in Handbook for the Design of Highway Surface Drainage Structures, 1973, subject to review by the town consulting engineer.
(1) No surface water shall be channeled or directed into a sanitary sewer.
(2) Where feasible, the subdivider shall connect to an existing storm drainage system.
(3) Where an existing storm drainage system cannot feasibly be extended to the subdivision, a surface drainage system shall be designed to protect the proposed development from water damage.
(4) Surface drainage courses shall have side slopes of at least three feet of horizontal distance for each one foot of vertical distance, and courses shall be of sufficient size to accommodate the drainage area without flooding, and designed to comply with the standards and specifications for erosion control of the North Carolina Sedimentation Pollution Control Act, G.S. Ch. 113A, Art. 4, and the N.C. Administrative Code Title 15, Chapter 4, and any locally adopted erosion and sedimentation control ordinances.
(5) The minimum grade along the bottom of a surface drainage course shall be a vertical fall of at least one foot in each 200 feet of horizontal distance.
(6) Stream banks and channels downstream from any land disturbing activity shall be protected from increased degradation by accelerated erosion caused by increased velocity of runoff from the land disturbing activity in accordance with the N.C. Sedimentation Pollution Control Act, G.S. Ch. 113A, Art. 4, and the North Carolina Administrative Code Title 15, Chapter 4.
(7) Anyone constructing a dam or impoundment within the subdivision must comply with the N.C. Dam Safety Law of 1967, and the N.C. Administrative Code Title 15, Subchapter 2K.
(8) In all areas of special flood hazards, all subdivision proposals shall have adequate drainage provided to reduce exposure to flood damage.
(C) Street lights. All subdivisions in which the size of the smallest lot is less than 40,000 square feet shall have street lights installed throughout the subdivision in accordance with the standards of the Murphy Electric Power Board.
(Ord. passed 9-19-1985; Am. Ord. passed 6-7-2021)
Penalty, see § 152.99