CHAPTER 2: SEWER USE REGULATIONS
Section
General Provisions
9-2-1 Definitions
9-2-2 Use of public sewers
9-2-3 RESERVED
9-2-4 Sanitary sewers, building sewers, and connections
9-2-5 Prohibited discharges; public sewer use restrictions
9-2-6 Powers and authority of inspectors
9-2-7 Penalties
Sewer Connections
9-2A-1 Permit required
9-2A-2 Application for permit; issuance
9-2A-3 List of fees
9-2A-4 Cost of material and labor borne by permittee
9-2A-5 Unpaid charges; turnoff fee
9-2A-6 Extension of sewer mains; procedure
9-2A-7 Sewer service outside town limits; permit; charges
Sewer Service Charges
9-2B-1 Purpose
9-2B-2 Total annual cost of operation and maintenance
9-2B-3 User’s wastewater contribution percentage
9-2B-4 Surcharge system for users within nonresidential high strength BOD and SS
9-2B-5 User’s wastewater service charge
9-2B-6 Payment of user’s wastewater service charge and penalties
9-2B-7 Review of each user’s service charge
9-2B-8 Sewer usage fees
9-2B-9 Late payment charges
GENERAL PROVISIONS
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD). 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.
BUILDING DRAIN. The part of the lowest 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 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.
COMBINED SEWER. A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
EASEMENT. An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
FLOATABLE OIL. Oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of FLOATABLE FAT if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system.
GARBAGE. The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and serving of foods.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. The wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or business as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
MAY. Is permissive.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration. The CONCENTRATION is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of 7 and a hydrogen ion concentration of 10.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions prevailing in public sewers, with no particles greater than one-half inch (1.27 cm) in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public utility.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer that carries liquid and water carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions together with minor quantities of ground, storm, and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
SEWAGE. The spent water of a community. The preferred term is WASTEWATER. (See definition of WASTEWATER.)
SEWER. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
SHALL. Is mandatory.
SLUG. Any discharge of water or wastewater 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 normal operation and shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
STORM DRAIN. A drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source. Sometimes termed STORM SEWER.
SUPERINTENDENT. The superintendent of wastewater facilities of the town, or his or her authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and referred to as NONFILTERABLE RESIDUE.
UNPOLLUTED WATER. Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
WASTEWATER. The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and stormwater that may be present.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES. The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS. An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with WASTE TREATMENT PLANT or WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT or WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT.
WATERCOURSE. A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water either continuously or intermittently.
(Prior Code, § 9-2-1)
(A) Deposits of garbage, other objectionable waste. It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in an unsanitary manner on public or private property within the town, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the town, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other objectionable waste.
(B) Sewage wastes discharged to natural outlet. It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the town, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the town, any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
(C) Septic tanks or privy vaults. Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any permanent privy, permanent privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of wastewater.
(D) Connection to public sewer when available. The owners of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within the town 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 or combined sewer of the town within 100 feet of the lot property line, is required at the owner’s expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within 30 days after date of official notice to do so.
(Prior Code, § 9-2-2) Penalty, see § 9-2-7
(A) Permit required. No authorized persons shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter, or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Council.
(B) Classes of permits; fees.
(1) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits: for residential and commercial service; and for service to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the owner or his or her agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the town. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information pertinent in the judgment of the Council.
(2) A fee for a sewer permit for residential, commercial, or industrial building shall be paid to the town at the time the application is filed. Said fees for the tap and inspection shall be set by the Town Council by resolution.
(C) Responsibility for costs; indemnify town against loss or damage. All costs and expenses incidental to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owners. The owners shall indemnify the town from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(D) Separate building sewers; exception. A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building; except where one building stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court, yard, or driveway, the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer, but the town does not and will not assume any obligation or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any such single connection aforementioned.
(E) Use of old building sewers. Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the superintendent, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(F) Compliance with building and plumbing codes, other standards. The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of all sanitary sewers, including building sewers, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of pipe, jointing, testing, and backfilling the trench, shall all conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing codes or other applicable rules and regulations of the town. In the absence of suitable code provisions or in amplification thereof, the material and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
(G) Elevation of building drain. Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
(H) Groundwater or surface water runoff. No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, foundation drains, areaway drains, or other sources of surface runoff or ground water to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer unless such connection is approved by the town for purposes of disposal of polluted surface drainage.
(I) Connection of building sewer into public sewer. The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing codes or other applicable rules and regulations of the town, or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight and verified by proper testing. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the town before installation.
(J) Notice to town for inspection and connection. The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the superintendent when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection and testing shall be made under the supervision of a licensed civil engineer at the expense of the applicant.
(K) Restoration of excavations. All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways, and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the town at the applicant’s expense.
(Prior Code, § 9-2-4) (Ord. 2024-01, passed 4-4-2024) Penalty, see § 9-2-7
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