No person shall connect any pipe with any manhole, lamphole, catch basin, inlet or any public sanitary or storm sewer of the City or deposit anything in any manhole, lamphole, catch basin or street inlet without first obtaining a permit to do so from the City’s Director of Engineering, Planning and Building. Permits for any connection shall be issued only to sewer builders or plumbers licensed by the City. Before a new sanitary sewer connection permit is issued, proof in the form of a deposit receipt for sanitary sewer service as issued by the Warren City Water Department must accompany the application.
(Ord. 10863/96. Passed 1-10-96.)
In addition to the sanitary sewer main fee as described in Section 923.01
there shall be service charges and inspection fees issued and collected by the City Engineering Department office and the fees for the same shall be as follows:
(a) The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that the average amount of water used by a standard single-family residential dwelling amounts to 400 gallons per day. Therefore, service charges shall be determined by using a standard single-family residential dwelling as the basic unit. The service charge for a basic unit shall be three hundred dollars ($300.00) per each 400 gallons of water or part thereof used per day. However regardless of water usage or type of structure, the minimum tap-in and service charge shall be in the amount of three hundred dollars ($300.00). In estimating water used by installations other than single-family residential dwellings, the following Sewage Flow Guide, as established by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, shall be used along with the owner’s or applicant’s detailed specifications and projected activities for such installation.
SEWAGE FLOW GUIDE | ||
Installation | Sewage Flow (gallons per day) | |
Apartments | 250 one-bedroom | |
300 two-bedroom | ||
350 three-bedroom | ||
Assembly halls | 2 per seat | |
Bowling alleys (no food service) | 75 per lane | |
Churches (small) | 3 - 5 per sanctuary seat | |
Churches (large with kitchen) | 5 - 7 per sanctuary seat | |
Country clubs | 50 per member | |
Dance halls | 2 per person | |
Drive-in theaters | 5 per car space | |
Factories (no showers) | 25 per employee | |
Factories (with showers) | 35 per employee | |
Food service operations | ||
Ordinary restaurant (not 24-hour) | 35 per seat | |
24-hour restaurant | 50 per seat | |
Banquet rooms | 5 per seat | |
Restaurant along freeway | 100 per seat | |
Tavern (very little food service) | 35 per seat | |
Curb service (drive-in) | 50 per car space | |
Vending machine restaurants | 100 per seat at | |
Homes in subdivisions | 400 per dwelling | |
Hospitals (no resident personnel) | 300 per bed | |
Institutions (residents) | 100 per person | |
Laundries (coin-operated) | 400 per standard size machine | |
Mobile home parks | 300 per mobile home space | |
Motels | 100 per unit | |
Nursing and rest homes | 150 per patient | |
100 per resident employee | ||
50 per nonresident employee | ||
Office buildings | 20 per employee | |
Recreational vehicle parks and camps | 125 per trailer or tent space | |
Retail store | 20 per employee | |
Schools - elementary | 15 per pupil | |
high and junior high | 20 per pupil | |
Service stations | 1000 first bay or pump island | |
Shopping centers (no food service or laundries) | 0.2 per square foot of floor space | |
Swimming pool (average) | 3 - 5 per swimmer (design load) | |
with hot water shower | 5 - 7 per swimmer (design load) | |
Vacation cottages | 50 per person | |
Youth and recreation camps | 50 per person | |
Calculation shall then be made on the basis of submitted data to be determined by multiplying the estimated amount of gallons of water used per day by three hundred dollars ($300.00) per 400 gallons of water or part thereof, used per day. These fees shall be paid to the Sewer Revenue Fund.
(Ord. 11217/98. Passed 9-23-98.)
(b) In the event the installation is not covered under the Sewage Flow Guide or is not applicable, as determined by the City Engineer, then the service charge shall be determined by multiplying the total number of square feet within the installation, including basement floor areas and excluding the garage floor areas by 0.2 per square foot. This product shall then be multiplied by three hundred dollars ($300.00) per 400 gallons of water or part thereof, used per day. These fees shall be paid to the Sewer Revenue Fund.
(c) In the event the installation that is proposed is to be rebuilt or built on land where an existing building has been razed or moved, there shall be no service charge as long as the installation proposed is comparable to the razed or moved building; that is single-family, commercial or industrial user. However, the permit fee shall remain in effect in accordance with subsection (e) hereof.
(d) In the event the installation proposed is of an industrial type (industrial type being defined as any activity where materials are received at the installation altered by one or more internal operations and then dispatched in the altered form to the City’s sanitary sewer system), no permit shall be issued until the City’s pretreatment program is satisfied in accordance with Chapter 924
and written approval from the Water Pollution Control Superintendent for the same is received by the City Engineer.
(e) In addition to the service charge fee as covered under subsections (a) to (d) hereof, there shall be three classes of inspection permits and fees, as follows:
(1) For residential service, a twenty-five dollar ($25.00) fee.
(2) For commercial service, a fifty-dollar ($50.00) fee.
(3) For industrial service, a seventy-five dollar ($75.00) fee.
These permit fees shall be collected by the City Engineer, to defray the cost of administration and inspection for the same and deposited to the General Fund.
(f) There shall be no service charge required of any applicant for a storm sewer tap-in, however, inspection permit fees as established under subsection (e) hereof, shall remain in effect.
(g) Where a property is affected by an assessment for a proposed or existing sanitary sewer as defined in Section 903.01
, the above service charge and inspection permit fees shall remain in effect for same.
(h) A sanitary sewer connection subsidy program is available for low to moderate income persons who apply for and meet the qualifications as determined by the City Auditor's Office which will be in compliance with CFR Section 8 income standards as amended. The City Auditor is hereby authorized to administer this program through the Sewerage Revenue Fund, as established.
(i) Requests for sewer connections not covered by the provisions herein shall be decided by the Sewer Review Board, which is composed of the Director of Public Service and Safety, the City Engineer and the Director of the Water Pollution Control Department.
(j) All service charges collected by the City Engineer under this section shall be deposited to the Sewerage Revenue Fund.
(Ord. 9865/87. Passed 12-9-87.)