(a) Prohibition on Unpolluted Water. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any (unpolluted) surface water, ground water, roof runoff, storm water, subsurface drainage, contaminated cooling water, or unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary sewer. Any existing roof drain connections to sanitary or combined sewers shall be connected into an available storm sewer or shall be disconnected above ground in an appropriate manner approved by the Village. Discharges from roof drains emptying onto the ground surface shall be at least three feet from adjacent property line and shall in no way be directed to flood or otherwise cause damage to adjoining property. The owner of any building(s) situated within the Village is required at his expense to disconnect all existing roof drains from sanitary and combined sewers in accordance with the provisions of this section within 30 days after the day of official notice to do so. Discharge units connecting to the Village Sanitary Sewer or combination sewer shall be free of all storm water. It is prohibited that any new construction of discharge units shall have any storm water connection to roof drains, footer and foundation tiles or any other connection to a sanitary sewer. The Village retains the right to prohibit new taps to the system if said tap would cause the capacity of the system to be exceeded.
(Ord. 95-3. Passed 9-11-00.)
(b) Allowable Discharge of Unpolluted Water. Storm water and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated as acceptable combined sewers or storm sewers or to a natural outlet approved by the Village and other regulatory agencies. In order for an individual to tap into the existing village storm sewer system or for access to a natural outlet approved by the Village or other regulatory agencies, the individual must fill out an application for such tap in with the Zoning Inspector or Village Administrator and pay a tap in fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) prior to tapping into the Village storm water system or a natural outlet approved by the Village or other regulatory agencies.
(1) In the event the developer of a new subdivision is installing a storm water drainage system for the entire subdivision, there shall be an inspection fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for the connection to Village storm water system. The developer shall contact the Village Administrator not less than forty-eight hours prior to the installation and tap-in to the Village storm water system for inspection of the subdivision’s storm water drainage system and/or the tap-in to the Village system.
(2) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. On each subsequent violation, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (Ord. 2000-0-26. Passed 9-11-00.)
(c) Waste Water Discharge.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in an unsanitary manner upon public or private property within the Village of Wakeman, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said Village, any human excrement, garbage, refuse or other objectionable waste.
(2) It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the Village of Wakeman, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said Village, any sanitary sewage, industrial sewage, industrial wastes, or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
(3) 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.
(4) The owner of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purpose, situated within the Village and abutting on any street, alley or right of way in which there is now located or any in the future be located a public sanitary or combined sewer of the Village, is hereby required at his 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 ordinance, within 180 days after date of official notice to do so, provided that a foundation wall of the structure from which sewage originates is two hundred feet of less from the nearest boundary of the right of way within which the sewer is located.
(d) Building Sewer and Connections.
(1) No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter, disturb or tamper with in any manner any public sewer of appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Superintendent. (Ord. 2000-0-32. Passed 10-9-00.)
(2) Permits for connection to the public sewer shall be obtained upon making application to the Superintendent upon forms provided. The application shall be accompanied by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent by the Superintendent. A tap fee of one thousand dollars ($1,000) shall be due and payable at the time application is made.
(Ord. 2001-0-11. Passed 7-9-01.)
(3) All cost and expense incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer from the building to the existing line shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the Village from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(4) A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building, except where on 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 are separate units.
(5) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and tested by the Superintendent, to meet all requirements of this chapter and any such State or Federal law governing same.
(6) The building sewer shall be PVC sewer pipe, ASTM specification (D3034 or 3033 or equal) or other suitable material approved by the Superintendent. Joints shall be tight and waterproof. Any part of the building sewer that is located within 10 feet of a water service pipe or 25 feet of a well shall be constructed of water main equivalent materials.
(7) The size and slope of the building sewer shall be subject to the approval of the Superintendent.
(8) Whenever possible the building sewer shall be bought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. No building sewer shall be laid parallel to or within three feet of any bearing wall, which might thereby be weakened. The depth shall be sufficient to afford protection from frost. The building sewer shall be laid at uniform grade and in straight alignment in so far as possible. Changes in direction shall be made only with properly curved pipe and fittings.
(9) In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer sanitary sewage carried by such drain shall be lifted by approved artificial means and discharged to the building sewer.
(10) All excavations required for the installation of a building sewer shall be open trench work unless otherwise approved by the Superintendent. Pipe laying and backfill shall be performed in accordance with ASTM specifications (C12-19) except that no backfill shall be placed until the work has been inspected.
(11) All joints and connections shall be made watertight.
(12) All applicants for the sewer connection permit shall notify the Superintendent at least 48 hours in advance when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. All connections shall be made under supervision of the Superintendent or his representative.
(13) All excavations for building sewer installations shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard and shall be the sole responsibility of the owner. Streets, sidewalks, parkways and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the Village.
(14) Each and every building connection shall incorporate a watertight septic tank of such size and construction as approved by the Superintendent.
(15) A distance of ten feet from the sewage holding tank is required from any part of any building or structure.
(Ord. 2000-0-32. Passed 10-9-00.)