(a) It shall be unlawful to discharge into any natural outlet within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said City, any wastewater or polluted waters.
(b) 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 wastewater without first obtaining the required permits from the City.
(c) No person, firm or corporation shall discharge or cause to be discharged any storm water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, to any sanitary sewer.
(d) It shall be unlawful to discharge into the building sanitary sewer the surface water which collects in basement or foundation excavations. If the building sanitary sewer is complete before the plumbing can be connected thereto, the builder or sewer tapper shall keep the end of the building sanitary sewer tightly closed with a plumber's plug or other watertight plug.
(e) The owner(s) of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within the City 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 City, is hereby required at the owner's expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly to the proper public sewer in accordance with the rules and regulations within 90 days after date of official notice to do so.
(f) No person, firm or corporation shall be permitted to connect to or discharge wastewater to the Oxford, Ohio wastewater system unless it has been determined by the City that there is sufficient capacity in the system to collect, convey and treat the proposed wastewater discharge of such person, firm or corporation.
(g) No user shall ever increase the use of process water or attempt to dilute a discharge as a partial or complete substitute for adequate treatment to achieve compliance with Categorical Pretreatment Standards or any other standard developed by the State or City.
(h) Upon the promulgation of Federal Categorical Pretreatment Standards for a particular industry, the federal standard, if more stringent, shall supersede the limitations imposed under this ordinance. All affected users shall be notified of applicable reporting requirements, reports and compliance dates.
(Ord. 3261. Passed 12-17-13.)