The written permission to construct a house sewer or to make a connection to a public sewer shall specify the permissible use of such house sewer and connection, and such specifications shall be governed by the following requirements:
(a) Sewage, including wastes from water closets, urinals, lavatories, sinks, bathtubs, showers, laundries, cellar floor drains, garage floor drains, bars, soda fountains, cuspidors, refrigerator drips, drinking fountains, stable floor drains and other objectionable wastes, shall be discharged into a sanitary or combined sewer and in no case into a storm water sewer.
(b) Surface water, subsoil drainage, cistern overflow, building foundation drainage, clean water from condensers, waste water from water motors and elevators and any other clean and unobjectionable waste water shall be discharged into a storm water or combined sewer and in no case into a sanitary sewer.
(c) Rain water from roofs shall be discharged upon the ground.
(d) Connection with a cesspool or a privy vault shall not be made into a storm water sewer.
(e) A trap for the interception of grease and oil shall be provided on a connection from a hotel, restaurant, club or institutional kitchen and from a public garage or automobile washing station. Such traps shall be satisfactory to the Service-Safety Director of Public Utilities or his or her authorized agent.
No person shall discharge into a house sewer, or tap a house sewer for the purpose of discharging into it, any waste or drainage water prohibited by the provisions of this section. Any existing connection in violation of the provisions of this section shall be abandoned and removed.
(Ord. 45-2012. Passed 3-6-12.)