No person shall connect or permit to be connected a storm sewer or storm drain to a sanitary sewer, or otherwise allow or permit storm water to enter a sanitary sewer, or continue to have a storm sewer or storm drain connected to a sanitary sewer, or continue to allow or permit storm water to enter a sanitary sewer.
The provisions of this section shall also apply outside the City where sanitary sewers are connected to the sanitary sewer system of the City of St. Albans and/or the Municipal Utility Commission.
Whenever the Municipal Utility Commission has discovered that a customer’s roof drain, downspout, storm sewer or other similar or like facilities conducting surface water have been connected to the Municipal Utility Commission’s sewer system, and such customer has failed to take appropriate action within thirty days of receipt of a demand by the Municipal Utility Commission in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Public Service Commission of the State to eliminate such connection, a surcharge will be imposed upon the customer calculated on the basis of the following formula:
S = A x R x .0006233 x C
S = The surcharge in dollars
A = The area under roof and/or the area of any other water collected surface connected to the sanitary sewer, in square feet.
R = The measured monthly rainfall in inches.
.0006233 = A conversion factor to change inches of rain x square feet of surface to thousands of gallons of water.
C = The MUC’s approved rate per thousand gallons of sewage treated.
The Municipal Utility Commission shall not impose the surcharge unless and until the customer has been notified by certified mail, return receipt requested, or by hand delivery that it has been established by smoke testing, dye testing, or on-site inspection that rain or surface water is being introduced into the sanitary sewer system at the customer’s location, and the customer has not acted within thirty days from the receipt of such notice to divert the water from the sanitary sewer.
Said surcharge shall be calculated and imposed for each month said condition continues to exist. Failure to pay the surcharge and/or correct the situation shall give rise to the possible termination of water service in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Public Service Commission.
The above rates and charges shall be applicable for any owner, tenant, or occupant of each and every lot or parcel of land or building situate within or without the corporate limits of the City and having any connection to the sanitary sewer system of the City.
(Ord. 97-09. Passed 5-5-97.)