Section
General Provisions
51.001 Definitions
51.002 Protection from damage
51.003 Sewer hookups
Discharge of Industrial Waste
51.015 Prohibited discharges
51.016 Control of admissible wastes
51.017 Measurement of flow
Industrial Discharge Requirements
51.035 General
51.036 Discharge levels
51.037 Pretreatment
51.038 Slug or accidental discharges
51.039 Revocation of permit
51.040 Notification of violation
51.041 Costs of damages
Use of Public Sewers
51.055 Suitable treatment required
51.056 Privies, septic tanks, and cesspools
51.057 Connection required
51.058 Strom water, ground water, and the like
51.059 Prohibited discharges
51.060 Action by city
51.061 Grease, oil, and mud interceptors
51.062 Condition of interceptors
51.063 Control structure
51.064 Sampling
51.065 New connections
51.066 Prohibited acts
Private Sewage Disposal
51.080 Connection
51.081 Approval required
Building Sewers and Connections
51.095 License required
51.096 Permit required
51.097 Costs and expenses; indemnification
51.098 Separate building sewer for every building
51.099 Existing building sewers
51.100 Unused septic tanks, cesspools, and the like
51.101 Rules and regulations
51.102 Elevation
51.103 Prohibited connections
51.104 Construction; approval of materials
51.105 Inspections
51.106 Main and lateral sewer construction
Sewer Service Charge System
51.120 Purpose
51.121 Definitions
51.122 Establishment of sewer service charge system
51.123 Determination of sewer service charges
51.124 Determination of unit costs
51.125 Sewer service charge for normal domestic strength users
51.126 Sewer service charges for user discharging wastes with concentrations greater than normal domestic strength
51.127 Surcharge
51.128 Sewer service fund
51.129 Administration
51.130 Liens
Administration and Enforcement
51.145 Authority of inspectors
GENERAL PROVISIONS
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOD (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20°C expressed in milligrams per liter. Laboratory procedures shall be in accordance with the latest edition of “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.”
BUILDING DRAIN. That part of the lower horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, also called house connection.
COD (CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter, expressed in milligrams per liter, as determined in accordance with standard laboratory procedures, as set out in the latest edition of “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.”
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer originally designated to receive both surface water, runoff, and sewage.
GARBAGE. Solid waste resulting from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage, or sale of meat, fish, fowl, fruit, vegetable, or condemned food.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The solid, liquid, or gaseous wastes resulting from an industrial or manufacturing process, trade, or business, or from the development, recovery, or processing of natural resources.
MAY. MAY is permissive.
NPDES PERMIT (NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMIT). The system for issuing, conditioning, and denying permits for the discharge of pollutants from point sources into the navigable waters, the contiguous zone, and the oceans by the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, Sections 402 and 405.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface groundwater.
NORMAL DOMESTIC STRENGTH WASTES. Wastes which are characterized by 250 mg per liter BOD and 300 mg per liter suspended solids or less.
OTHER WASTES. Garbage, municipal refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, lime, sand, ashes, oil, tar, chemicals, offal, and other substances except sewage and other wastes.
pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PROCESS WATER. Any water used in the manufacturing, preparation, or production of goods, materials, or food. PROCESS WATER is an industrial waste.
PUBLIC SEWER. Any sewer owned or operated by a unit or agency of government.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface, and ground water are not intentionally admitted.
SANITARY WASTE. The liquid and water carried wastes discharged from sanitary plumbing facilities.
SEWAGE or WASTEWATER. The water carried waste products from residences, public buildings, institutions, industrial establishments, or other buildings, including the excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals, together with such ground, surface, and storm waters as may be present.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage, industrial wastes, or other waste liquids.
SEWER SYSTEM. Pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, force mains, and all other devices and appliances appurtenant thereto used for collecting or conducting sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes to a point of ultimate disposal.
SHALL. SHALL is mandatory.
SLUG. Any discharge of water, wastewater, or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration of flows during the normal operation and adversely affects the collection and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
STATE DISPOSAL SYSTEM (SDS) PERMIT. Any permit (including any terms, conditions, and requirements thereof) issued by the MPCA pursuant to M.S. § 115.07, as it may be amended from time to time, for a disposal system as defined by M.S. § 115.01, subdivision 8, as it may be amended from time to time.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN. A sewer which carries storm or surface water and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial waste, other than unpolluted cooling or process water.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids that either float on the surface of are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering or in accordance with the latest edition of “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.”
UNPOLLUTED WATER. Clean water uncontaminated by industrial wastes, other wastes, or any substance which renders such water unclean, noxious, or impure so as to be actually or potentially harmful, detrimental, or injurious to public health, safety, or welfare to domestic, commercial, industrial, or recreational uses, or to livestock, wild animals, birds, fish, or other aquatic life.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES. The structures, equipment, or processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS or TREATMENT WORKS. An arrangement of devices and structures for treatment of wastewater, industrial waste, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous for “wastewater treatment plant,” “waste treatment plant,” “water pollution control plant,” or “sewage treatment plant.”
(Ord. 141, passed 11-6-89)
No person shall maliciously, willfully, or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface, or tamper with any structure, appurtenance, or equipment which is part of the wastewater facilities.
(Ord. 141, passed 11-6-89) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) For the purpose of providing funds to meet the cost of operating and maintaining the sewer system, mains, the sewage disposal plant, and the facilities connected therewith, and to the payment of reasonable requirements for replacement and obsolescence thereof, the city will bill and collect through Utility Billing each lot, parcel of land, building, or premises having any connection with the public sewer systems of said city or otherwise discharging sewage, water, or other liquids directly or indirectly into the public sewer system of the city, sewage service charge payable as hereinafter provided and in the amount determined by the City Council.
(1) To help pay for the reserve capacity of the 1984 sewer improvement, each new sewer hookup will be charged and collected through Utility Billing procedures, $150 for each 5,000 cubic feet of water or portion of water used based on the first quarter usage. In addition, industries contributing effluent stronger than normal residential sewage will be charged in accordance with their design flow, BOD, and SS, as adopted at the time the city can determine the normal water usage of the dwelling or industry. The property owner will receive a statement generated through the Utility Billing Clerk for the amount owed. The connection fee to be set by resolution of City Council.
(2) The city will bill customers for any equipment provided by the city to enable the customer to connect to the sewer systems, which is not otherwise assessed or billed to the customer. The Council may change or modify the amount of the charges set forth above by resolution.
(B) The City Manager shall compute the amount due the city for sewage charges and render a statement thereof, either monthly or quarterly, as directed by the City Council, to the owner or occupant of any premises served, or to both. All amounts due hereunder shall be payable at the office of the City Manager.
(C) Any charges levied by and pursuant to this section and which has been properly billed to the occupant of any premises served, and not paid, may be recovered in a civil action by the city in any court of competent jurisdiction.
(D) The funds received from the collection of the charges or rentals authorized by this section shall be deposited, as collected, in a fund to be known as the Sewer Fund, and shall be disbursed:
(1) To meet the costs of operating and maintaining the sewage disposal plant and facilities.
(2) To be applied to capital charges represented by bonds or certificates of indebtedness.
(3) For the reasonable requirements of replacement and obsolescence.
(Ord. 62, passed 12-4-39; Am. Ord. 74, passed 9-21-53; Am. Ord. 93, passed 3-14-66; Am. Ord. 111, passed 4-12-76; Am. Ord. 119, passed 11-10-80; Am. Ord. 124, passed 3-12-84; Am. Ord. 125, passed 1-14-85; Am. Ord. 133, passed 1-9-89; Am. Ord. 197, passed 1-13-97)
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