(A) (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the city, or in any area under its jurisdiction, any human or animal excrement, garbage or objectionable waste. All houses, buildings or other properties used for human habitation, employment or recreation shall have suitable sanitary (toilet and sink) facilities.
(2) It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter and the city’s NPDES/SDS permit.
(3) Except as provided in § 52.04, 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 wastewater.
(4) The owner(s) of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes from which wastewater is discharged, and which is situated within the city and adjacent to any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located, or may in the future be located, a public sanitary sewer of the city, shall be required at the owner’s expense to install a suitable service connection to the public sewer in accordance with provisions of this chapter, within six months of the date the public sewer is operational, providing the public sewer is within 150 feet of the boundary of the property generating the wastewater.
(5) In the event an owner shall fail to connect to a public sewer within 30 days of notice given under § 52.03(D), the city may undertake to have toilet and sink facilities installed, and the city shall assess the cost against the benefitted property. The assessment, when levied, shall bear interest at the rate determined by the City Council and shall be certified to the County Auditor and shall be collected and remitted to the city in the same manner as assessments for local improvements. The rights of the city shall be in addition to any remedial or enforcement provisions of this chapter.
(B) (1) Any new connection(s) to the sanitary sewer system shall be prohibited unless sufficient capacity is available in all downstream facilities including, but not limited to capacity for flow, BOD5 and suspended solids, as determined by the Superintendent.
(2) No unauthorized person(s) 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 city.
(3) Applications for permits shall be made in writing by the owner or authorized agent and the person employed to do the work, and shall state the location, name of owner, street address of the building to be connected and how occupied. The permit application shall be accompanied by an application fee as set by the City Council. No person shall extend any private building drain beyond the limits of the building or property for which the service connection permit has been given.
(4) Any person desiring a permit to make a service connection with public sewers shall furnish in writing to the City Council satisfactory evidence that the applicant or person employed to do the work is trained or skilled in the business of sewer installation. All applications shall be referred to the Superintendent for recommendations to the Council. If approved by the Council, the permit shall be issued by the City Clerk/Treasurer upon the filing of a bond as hereinafter provided.
(5) (a) No permit shall be issued to any person until a $500 bond to the city, approved by the Council, is filed with the City Clerk/Treasurer. The bond shall be conditioned that the permittee will indemnify and save harmless the city from all suits, accidents and damage that may arise by reason of any opening in any street, alley or public ground, made by the permittee or by those in the permittee’s employment; and that the permittee will replace and restore the street and alley over the opening to the condition existing prior to installation, adequately guard excavations with barricades and lights, and shall conform in all respects to the rules and regulations of the Council.
(b) In lieu of the bond, a certified check payable to the city may be furnished to be held by the city, provided the necessary indemnification is also provided.
(c) The bond or certified check will be returned to the permittee upon approval of all work by the Superintendent.
(6) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits; one for residential and commercial service and one for service to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or any other information considered pertinent in the judgement of the city. The industry, as a condition of permit authorization, must provide information describing its wastewater constituents, characteristics and type of activity.
(7) All costs and expenses incidental to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner(s). The owner(s) shall indemnify the city from any loss or damage that may be directly or indirectly occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(8) 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 one building sewer. The city does not and will not assume any obligation or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any connection aforementioned.
(9) Old building sewers may not be used in connection with new buildings, except when they are found, on examination and test by the Superintendent or his or her representative, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(10) The size, slopes, alignment and materials of construction of a building sewer, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling of the trench, shall all conform to the requirements of the State Building and Plumbing Code, the Uniform Plumbing Code and applicable rules and regulations of the city.
(11) 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 the building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
(12) No person(s) shall make connection of roof downspouts, foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer or indirectly to the wastewater disposal system.
(13) The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the State Building and Plumbing Code, the Uniform Plumbing Code and applicable rules and regulations of the city. All connections shall be made gastight and watertight, and verified by proper testing to prevent the inclusion of infiltration/inflow. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the city prior to installation.
(14) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the city when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection and inspection shall be made under the supervision of the Superintendent or his or her authorized representative thereof.
(Ord. 10.04, passed 6-28-88; Am. Ord. 98-02, passed 2-10-98) Penalty, see § 10.99