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 of Norwich or in any area under
the jurisdiction of said City, any human or animal excrement, garbage,
or objectionable waste.
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural
outlet, within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of
the City, any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where such
discharge is in accordance with requirements of regulatory agencies
having jurisdiction over wastewater discharges into the watercourse.
No property owner, builder, or developer shall
be issued a building permit for a new dwelling or structure requiring
sanitary facilities unless a suitable and approved method of wastewater
disposal, conforming to this chapter, is available. All housing construction
or building development which takes place after this chapter is enacted
shall provide for an approved system of sanitary sewers.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be
unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, cesspool,
septic tank, or other facility intended or used for disposal of wastewater.
The owner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties
used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes,
situated within the City, and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way
in which there is now located or may, in the future, be located a
public sewer within 100 feet (30.5 meters) of the property line, is
hereby required, at the owner's expense, to install suitable sanitary
facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the
proper public sewer, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter
and with any applicable requirements of the City plumbing code, within 90 days after official notice to do so.
The use of the City public sewers shall be strictly limited and restricted, except as provided in §
456-13, to receive and accept the discharge of sewage and other wastes, including industrial wastes, generated on or discharged from real property within the bounds of the service area of the POTW.
At the recommendation of the Superintendent,
who determines that one or more segments of the POTW is exceeding
its hydraulic capacity at any time or any specific purpose of this
chapter is being violated, the City shall have the authority to limit
or deny new connections to the POTW until the conditions leading to
the moratorium are corrected. Such correction may be by:
A. Construction of new facilities.
B. Enlarging existing facilities.
C. Correction
of inflow and infiltration.
D. Cleaning
and repairing of existing facilities.
All requirements, directives, and orders calling
for mandatory use of the sewers, within the service area of the POTW,
for the proper discharge of sewage and other wastes, including industrial
wastes, shall be established and given by the City, NYSDEC, USEPA
and/or other such state or federal agencies which have enforcement
powers.