[Adopted 5-22-1967 as Art.
VIII of Ch. 7 of the 1967 Code]
No dry wells, gutters, leaders, air conditioning, refrigeration or pools
of any kind or any similar drainage from any building shall be connected to
the stormwater drainage system of the village.
All cesspools installed for new construction or replacement of existing
cesspools may be of precast concrete steel-reinforced or block construction.
When 250 blocks are used in an installation, the pool shall be nine
feet outside diameter or approximately 18 blocks around the bottom.
A pool shall begin tapering in six feet or approximately nine courses
from the bottom of the pool.
All pools shall be kept two feet above the water table and shall finish
with a minimum of one foot or a maximum of two feet below the finished grade.
The top three courses shall be cemented in place.
The waste pipe from house to pool, with a minimum pitch of 1/4 inch
to the foot, shall connect to the pool a minimum of two feet from the top
of the pool.
Waste lines extending from the house to pools or septic tanks shall
have no bends or sweeps.
When two pools are installed, a grease trap shall also he installed.
The top of a pool shall be three feet in diameter and shall be covered
with a reinforced cement cover.
The Building Inspector shall request two drawings showing the size of
a proposed septic tank and either leaching fields or leaching pools, which
shall be determined by soil conditions and/or groundwater and which shall
be approved or disapproved by him.
The minimum capacity of a septic tank for a two- or three-bedroom house
shall be 700 gallons; for a four-bedroom house, 800 gallons; and for a five-bedroom
house, 950 gallons. The minimum size shall be three feet by six feet and five
feet deep, with four feet to the flow line leaving tank, allowing one foot
for air space.
The size and type of septic tanks for commercial buildings shall be
determined by the floor area and the number of fixtures to be served thereby.
When a septic tank is installed for a commercial building, the width
of the tank shall not exceed 50% of its length.
The Building Inspector shall determine whether or not a baffle shall
be used in a septic tank.
All septic tanks shall have a distribution box of a minimum of two feet
by two feet by two feet deep, with a separate cover with a lifting ring, and
the distribution box shall be built on the opposite end of the tank from the
place where the waste enters. The top of the distribution box shall extend
to the top of the tank.
The waste line from a house to a septic tank shall be iron for the first
four feet from the house, then five-inch transite, and shall have a minimum
pitch of 1/4 inch to the foot.
If leaching fields are to be used for either commercial or residential
buildings, all bog, clay and other foreign matter shall be removed and backfilled
with bank run. Leaching fields shall be laid in a bed of washed gravel which
shall be a minimum of two feet wide and one foot deep with eight inches below
pipe. The leaching field shall be covered with rubberoid or forty-five-pound
cap sheet.
[Adopted 5-22-1967 as Sec.
11-5 of the 1967 Code]
No person shall deposit or allow to run into or remain in any street
or other public place in the village, or deposit or allow to run into any
stream or other body of water within the village, the contents or any part
thereof of any vault, privy, cesspool, cistern or sink; nor shall any owner,
tenant or occupant of any building to which any vault, sink, privy or cesspool
shall pertain or be attached permit the contents of any part thereof to flow
therefrom or to rise within two feet of any part of the top thereof or permit
said contents to become offensive; nor shall any vault, privy, cistern, cesspool
or sink be filled or covered with dirt until it shall have been emptied of
its filthy contents.