(A) The kind and size of all installations and connections with mains shall be specified by the city.
(B) (1) It is unlawful for any person, not expressly authorized by the city, to tap a water distribution main or sewerage collection main.
(2) It is unlawful for any person, other than members of the Fire Department or another person duly authorized by the city, in pursuance of lawful purpose, to open any fire hydrant or attempt to draw water from the same or in any manner interfere therewith. It is also unlawful for any person so authorized to deliver or suffer to be delivered to any other person any hydrant key or wrench, except for the purposes strictly pertaining to their lawful use.
(3) No sewerage (including industrial wastes) shall contain any substance which is deemed by the city to be deleterious to the operation of the sewerage system. If any person discharges any deleterious substances therein, he or she shall be required to discontinue the discharge of the substances into the sewerage system. It is unlawful for any person to, after ten days written notice from the city, continue discharging the deleterious substance into the sewerage system.
(4) (a) It is unlawful for any person to make or maintain a connection, between eave troughs, rain spouts, footing drains or any other conductor used to carry natural precipitation or ground water, and the sewerage system or any part thereof.
(b) Minimum installation requirements for sump pumps in any newly constructed housing or where new footing drains are added to existing housing, or if repair or maintenance is done to an existing system.
1. A new sump pump shall be installed with a minimum size of one and one-half inch of rigid pipe leading out of sump pit to a one and one-fourth inch rubber splice (the splice is necessary for easy removal of pump for repairs). After the rubber splice, a check valve must be installed to eliminate any back flow when pump stops or when pump is removed from pit.
2. The sump pump outflow shall be piped, using a minimum of one and one-fourth inch rigid pipe, underground to either the yard or city storm sewer if available. In no case should pipe cross property lines or be connected to an unauthorized storm water drainage system.
3. A tee with a temporary cap fitting shall be placed immediately outside the housing wall before pipe goes down to below ground level.
(5) It is unlawful for any person to construct, alter or extend any drain or sewer connected or proposed to be connected to the sewerage system, without first having the plans and specifications therefor approved by the city.
(6) It is unlawful to connect a steam exhaust or blow-off with a drain which also connects with the sewerage system.
(7) It is unlawful to connect a drain from a laundry, hotel, restaurant or other public cooking establishment, with the sewerage system, without a grease trap or grated basin.
(8) It is unlawful to drain waste from dyeing clothes, cleaning or other establishments using naphtha, gasoline or other inflammable liquids into the sewerage system. It is unlawful to connect a drain from a butcher shop, rendering establishment, packing house, creamery or other establishment with the sewerage system, without intercepting it with some form of catch-basin or grated basin.
(9) It is unlawful to connect an automobile or other similar wash-rack drain with the sewerage system without providing for a catch-basin approved by the city to prevent entrance of dirt and refuse from the wash-rack.
(10) It is unlawful for any owner, tenant, agent, occupant or other person having charge of any premises to maintain thereon any drain or sewer connected with the sewerage system in a clogged, obstructed, broken or damaged condition.
(11) It is unlawful for any person to discharge or cause or permit to be discharged any sewage or unwholesome matter into any lake or public waters.
(`86 Code, § 3.21)
(`86 Code, § 3.21)
(12) It is unlawful to construct or maintain a cross connection to the city potable water system, as defined by the ICBI (International Building Code) standards.
(13) All unlawful acts, as defined by IBC (International Building Code) are hereby unlawful.
(C) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged into the municipal storm drain system or watercourses any materials, including but not limited to pollutants or waters containing any pollutants that cause or contribute to a violation of applicable water quality standards, other than storm water. The commencement, conduct or continuance of any illegal discharge to the storm drain system is prohibited except as described as follows:
(1) The following discharges are exempt from discharge prohibitions established by this section: water line flushing or other potable water sources, landscape irrigation or lawn watering, diverted stream flows, rising ground water, ground water infiltration to storm drains, uncontaminated pumped ground water, foundation or footing drains (not including active groundwater dewatering systems), crawl space pumps, air conditioning condensation, springs, non-commercial washing of vehicles, natural riparian habitat or wet-land flows, swimming pools (if dechlorinated - typically less than one PPM chlorine), firefighting activities, and any other water source not containing pollutants.
(2) Discharges specified in writing by the city or other authorized enforcement agency as being necessary to protect public health and safety.
(3) Dye testing is an allowable discharge, but requires a 24-hour verbal notification to the city or other authorized enforcement agency prior to the time of the test.
(4) The prohibition shall not apply to any non-storm water discharge permitted under an NPDES permit, waiver, or waste discharge order issued to the discharger and administered under the authority of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, provided that the discharger is in full compliance with all requirements of the permit, waiver, or order and other applicable laws and regulations, and provided that written approval has been granted for any discharge to the storm drain system.
(D) The construction, use, maintenance or continued existence of illicit connections to the storm drain system is prohibited.
(1) This prohibition expressly includes, without limitation, illicit connections made in the past, regardless of whether the connection was permissible under law or practices applicable or prevailing at the time, of connection.
(2) A person is considered to be in violation of this section if the person connects a line conveying sewage to the MS4 or allows such a connection to continue.
(Am. Ord. 1029, passed 5-19-15) Penalty, see § 10.99