The following substances shall not be discharged into any public sanitary sewer:
(A) Steam exhaust or blow off;
(B) No persons(s) shall make any connection from roof down spouts, sump pumps, foundation drains, area drains, cistern overflows, swimming pools or other sources of surface runoff or ground water to a building sanitary sewer or indirectly to the city’s sanitary and storm sewer system. Dwellings and other buildings and structures which require a sump pump system to discharge excess water because of the infiltration of water into basements, crawl spaces and the like shall have a permanently installed discharge line which shall not at any time discharge water into the sanitary and storm sewer system. A permanent installation shall be one which provides for year-round discharge capability to either the outside of the dwelling, building or structure, is connected to the city storm sewer or discharges through the curb and gutter to the street. It shall consist of a rigid discharge line, without valving or quick connections for altering the path of discharge, and if connected to the city storm sewer line shall include a check valve:
(1) Every person owning improved real estate in the city shall allow an employee of the city of their designated representative to inspect the buildings to confirm that there is no sump pump or other prohibited discharge into the sanitary and storm sewer system. Any person refusing to allow their property to be inspected within 14 days of the date city employee(s) or their designated representatives are denied admittance to the property shall immediately become subject to the surcharge hereinafter provided for. Any property owner whose property is found in violation of this portion of this chapter shall make the necessary changes to comply with this chapter and shall furnish proof of those changes to the city;
(2) If the city has reason to suspect that an illegal connection may exist in a premises, the property owner will receive written notice to comply with the provisions of this chapter. Should a property certified in compliance with this chapter later be found to have reconnected a roof drain, sump pump or any other form of natural precipitation to the sanitary and storm sewer system, the property owner will be subject to the surchage for all months between the last two inspections;
(3) A surcharge of $100 per month is imposed and added to every sanitary sewer billing mailed on and after September 30, 1997, to each property owner not in compliance with this chapter. The surcharge shall be added every month until the property is in compliance with this chapter. The imposition of the surcharge shall not limit the city’s authority to prosecute the criminal violations, seek an injunction in district court ordering the person to disconnect the nonconforming connection to the sanitary sewer or for the city to correct the violation and certify the costs of connection as an assessment against the property on which the connection is made;
(4) The Council may, by resolution, provide for waivers for hardships from the requirements of this section;
(C) Waste containing any product not allowed by Metropolitan Council Environmental Services;
(D) Refuse from butcher shops, rendering establishments, packing houses and other industrial establishments. Such refuse must be caught by some form of catch basin or grated slop basin;
(E) Refuse, solid or liquid, of any character, quality or nature that will unreasonably interfere with the ordinary treatment processes of any sewage treatment plant used by the city.
(`89 Code, § 160.140) (Am. Ord. 657, passed 12-20-2005) Penalty, see § 10.99