[HISTORY: Adopted by the Annual Town Meeting
of the Town of Nantucket 5-8-1990 by Art. 17, approved 9-5-1990. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Solid waste enterprise — See Ch. 42.
Pursuant to Chapter 169 of the Acts of 1965
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and pursuant to this chapter,
the Board of Public Works is to be the Sewer Commissioners responsible
for the maintenance, management, operation, direction, control and
protection of the assets of the sewer enterprise.
The Board of Sewer Commissioners is authorized
to enter into contracts, to expend such sums as may be necessary as
are authorized and appropriated by the Town and to take such action
as may be necessary or advisable to provide the people of Nantucket
with all the sewer uses in accordance with this chapter and with the
laws of the commonwealth.
The Board of Sewer Commissioners is authorized
to lay out, construct, maintain and operate a system or systems of
common sewers and main drains in public or private ways for a part
of the Town as set forth below for the public convenience or the public
health with such connections and other works as may be required for
a system or systems of sewerage or drainage and sewage treatment and
disposal within the sewer districts set forth below. Such works for
sewage treatment and disposal may include any wastewater treatment
facility for treating, neutralizing or stabilizing sewage including
treatment or disposal plants; the necessary intercepting, outfall
and outlet sewers, pumping stations integral to such facilities; and
equipment and appurtenances related to the foregoing. For the purposes
of this chapter the word “sewage” shall mean wastewater
from homes, public buildings, commercial or industrial establishments,
or any combination thereof, and shall include any surface or ground
water that may be present therein. The following systems of common
sewers and main drains are hereby designated:
A.
Town Sewer District is shown on a map entitled "Nantucket
Sewer Districts Town and Siasconset" prepared by the Town of Nantucket
GIS Coordinator, dated April 20, 2010, as may be amended from time
to time. The above referenced map incorporates the original sewer
district map dated March 2004 as approved through Article 56 of the
2004 Annual Town Meeting and all subsequent amendments as may be approved
by Town Meeting from time to time. The Town Sewer District, projected
to have a summer average daily flow capacity of 2,800,000 mgd, is
serviced by the Surfside Wastewater Treatment Facility.
[Amended 10-19-2004 STM by Art. 14, approved 2-22-2005; 4-11-2007 ATM by Art. 43, approved 6-28-2007; 4-5-2010 ATM by Arts.
38, 40, approved 6-17-2010; 4-4-2011 ATM by Art. 47, approved 9-15-2011; 4-2-2013 ATM by Art. 42, approved 7-26-2013]
B.
Siasconset Sewer District: as shown on a map entitled
"Nantucket Sewer Districts Town and Siasconset" prepared by the Town
of Nantucket GIS Coordinator, dated April 20, 2010, as may be amended
from time to time. The above referenced map incorporates the original
sewer district map dated March 2004 as approved through Article 56
of the 2004 Annual Town Meeting and all subsequent amendments as may
be approved by Town Meeting from time to time. The Siasconset Sewer
District, projected to have a summer average daily flow of 220,000
gallons per day, is serviced by the Siasconset Wastewater Treatment
Facility.
[Amended 4-11-2007 ATM by Art. 41, approved 6-28-2007; 4-6-2009 ATM by Art.
53, approved 8-10-2009; 4-5-2010 ATM by Art.
38, approved 6-17-2010; 4-2-2013 ATM by Art. 43, approved 7-26-2013]
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Editor’s Note: Pursuant to Acts of 2008, ch. 396, the
Town adopted this section as a bylaw 4-15-2010 ATM by Art. 31, approved
6-17-2010.
