(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the city or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any human excrements, garbage or other objectionable waste.
(B) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any sanitary sewer, either directly or indirectly, storm water, surface water, ground water roof run-off, subsurface drainage, cooling water, unpolluted water or unpolluted industrial water.
(C) Storm water, surface water, ground water, roof run-off subsurface drainage, cooling water, unpolluted water or unpolluted industrial process water may be admitted to storm sewers which have adequate capacity for their accommodation. No person shall use such sewers, however, without the specific permission of the City Street Commissioner.
(D) No new connection to sanitary sewers shall be made unless there is capacity available to all downstream sewers, lift stations, force mains and the sewage treatment plant, including capacity for pollutant loadings.
(E) No person shall place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the jurisdiction of theBoard of Works, any wastewater or other polluted waters except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with provisions of this chapter and the NPDES Permit.
(F) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any natural outlet any wastewater or other polluted waters except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with provisions of this chapter and the NPDES Permit.
(G) Except as hereinafter provided, 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 sewage.
(H) The owner 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 a public sanitary or combined sewer toilet facilities therein, shall connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter within 90 days after the date of official notice to do so, provided that the public sewer is within 300 feet of the property line or as provided in the Indiana Code.
(I) It shall be unlawful to introduce inflow sources to any sanitary sewer.
(J) It shall be unlawful to construct new combined sewers.
(K) It shall be required that any new construction which will be tributary to a combined sewer be designed to minimize or delay inflow contribution to the combined sewer.
(L) It shall be required that any new building connection to a combined sewer shall have the inflow/clean water connection separate and distinct from the sanitary waste sewer.
(Ord. 1992- , passed - -1992; Am. Ord. 2005-22, passed 11-15-2005; Am. Ord. 2023-4, passed 5-2-2023)